Jul 14

My small, casual guild does Kara on Friday nights–assuming we have the people. For a small guild like ours, this is a genuine concern. If we’re very close, we’ll try to PuG a person or two in to fill our ranks, first asking friends of the guild, then moving on to *gulp* total strangers.

This past Friday, we had the “pleasure” to group with a holy paladin named Garence. I put “pleasure” in quotes because it was not a pleasure at all. If you don’t read any further, know this: I recommend never, ever grouping with him (Shadowsong US).

Garence was the only non-guild member on the run. Now, if it had been me in his position, I would have set back and followed the direction of the raid and guild leaders, even if I was more well geared. Being a guest in an otherwise all guild run, I would have been happy to let them lead, even if I didn’t agree to all their methods.

Oh, no. Can’t have that. From the get-go, Garence was loud and obnoxious, telling various members what to do, telling the main tank and I when to pull (even when my healer is out of mana). He consistently put Blessing of Salvation on me, until after the third time I told him to quit. He then put Blessing of Light on me, which was great and helpful, especially considering my healer was a druid. /sarcasm

The main tank, my healer, and a DPS were three good friends of mine who live together. They had some strange connectivity issues that night, and every time we pulled Moroes they would all three lag out. The second time this happened, Garence said “wtf guys” (except it wasn’t spelled right). Finally tired of this guy, I told him that “you need to chill out.” About that same time, the raid leader removes him from the raid. Aparrently he isn’t quite as patient as I.

Much cheering takes place in guild chat. Garence thinks I’m the one that removed him, and whispers me apologizing and saying he’ll cool off and he want’s back in. The raid leader says no. He goes on to say that he’ll just not leave the instance; someone threatens to call a GM, and he rightly says that they can’t do anything.

I decide to look up the guy’s guild master and have a chat with him. He happens to be online, and I type the following (after introducing myself): “Just wanted to let you know we have had a serious issue with a member of your guild, who would not leave our raid when we asked him to leave due to his behavior.”

His answer? “well our guild is pretty much dead so its really not my problem anymore”

So finally the guy either leaves or the raid decides to boot him or whatever happens. Then I get a whisper from Garence again, typed verbatim: “i understand my friend was kicked? he is at my house and let him play. why was he kicked”

“His behavior was unacceptable. He was a guest in our raid and would not chill out. Another member of our rade made the decision to kick him and he refused to leave the instance. I spoke to his Guild Master and he doesn’t seem to care Either.

“You should take better care of your account.”

/ignore

So now the guy is (most likely) lying to me to get back in the raid? I think not. Later, I received mail from Garence, according to the icon on my minimap, but I never received it, likely because he was on ignore.

So, there is why I recommend you don’t group with him. On a related note, we pulled Moroes six to seven times, and every time my friends would lag out. We ended up calling it a night and blaming it on Garence.

Related posts:

1. New Stuff in Kara
2. The Slightly Deeper End of the Big Kids’ Pool
3. Sartharion the Onyx Guardian Down
4. PUGs
5. Why Gearing for Naxx Matters to Me