Feb 14

Man I really hate PUGs. Well, late me try that again: I hate most PUGs. I’ve been in PUGged instances that went better than most guild runs. Those folks are now on my friends list. But I’ve been in PUGs that really sucked, too. Like my most recent Stockades run…

I was playing around in SW on my hunter when I saw the call go out: “LF1M healer for Stocks.” Except without capital letters. And no punctuation. And actually I think “healer” and “Stocks” were spelled wrong. Anyway.

I had a level 23 druid with a healing “set” (just some low level stuff with +int and +spi instead of my +stam and +agil I was in at the time). So I whisper, and they accepted. I logged, hearthed, grabbed my heaing stuff and headed in.

Immediately, it became aparrent the tank couldn’t hold aggro against more than one mob. Luckily, the DPS focused on one mob, so that was okay, but I was pulling aggro with rejuvenation, the most threat-friendly spell I knew. Then, we we got to the boss, the hunter wanted his pet to tank it. Why? We have a warrior. He can tank it. I think.

So anyway, we finally make it through the instance, the tank barely waiting for the mana classes, the hunter insisting on tanking every major boss, and the shaman barely casting a spell at all. And when we get to the end–get this–the tank says “good group,” and everyone agrees!

This is why I have NotesUNeed. They go on it, I go about my way. But man I hate PUGs…

Related posts:

1. Two Pugs Enter: Stupidity vs. Ignorance
2. A Day of (Mostly) Good PuGs
3. Why Can’t I Decide?
4. My Decision about Outland
5. Moving Forward