This is a hobby, a game, that most people play for entertainment or fun. So expecting the game to be entertaining or fun is a reasonable expectation.


One thing is clear to me, this game holds WAY too much weight in some of your lives.

Do you say the same of sports fans who get all pumped up when their team wins or upset if their team loses? People invest a lot of time/money in this particular hobby. I'd be more worried if they WEREN'T expressing strong reactions/emotions about the game. Be it excitement from taming that rare hunter pet or finally getting that uber epic drop you have been farming for to disgust when their favorite toon gets nerfed or the game changes in drastic ways. There's nothing wrong with that.

People who require other people to have fun, are of the weakest of minds.

What makes sense is that strong minded, independent individuals don't like the idea of "other people required" to move from A to B.


I enjoy grouping, when I feel like grouping. Not when someone else thinks I should group.

Savvy?

Were you required to group with 4 other people to subscribe to your account? Buy your box?

No, you were not.

 

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As a previous poster suggested, send the tank or healer a tell to see if they might be queueing again. I tank and if I'm going to queue again I will ask any average to above average players if they would like to queue with me.


What many of the pewpewQQ crowd do not realize is the tank or healer they waited for has been on a massive number of runs where they got blamed for everything that went wrong regardless of who actually screwed up. Due to the facts that they are probably going to get blamed for everything that goes wrong and they will get another random nearly instantly their tolerance for BS is almost non-existant. If you DPS and you know what you are doing, try coordinating the other DPS and critique their play (demand that they assist, CC etc.) with the goal of improving the chance for success. The tank and healer are usually to busy doing their job to notice who sucked, they just know someone screwed up and it was probably one of you non-assisting, non-ccing, cc breaking n00bs that like to blame them for everything. When they just leave and re-queue you are the one who faces the consequences, not them. Be proactive, the other good players will notice.

Do something useful like tank or heal instead of being just another crappy, damage absorbing, no-interrupting dps.


Q times aren't so bad then.

 

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Through on some tank gear last night and did some runs with the guild. Easy and smooth as silk. I think I'll just avoid pugs. After 5+ years I'm still amazed at the general skill level of a pug player trying to run heroics. Making leveling so easy makes for some "interesting" level 85 characters.

So while I have insta-queues now, I won't be using them. PUGs = pain.

 

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Yeah, part of the problem is that while leveling / questing / soloing you only dps. A friend of mine just joined the game, made a druid, and at 68 he hasn't even touched an instance, so despite being the most versatile class in the entire game, he has only soloed in cat form. It didn't make much sense for him to have to collect multiple sets of gear, learn the instances, etc. when he was quickly outleveling everything he was already doing. And the problem is of course that the longer it takes for him to try bear or tree, the harder it will be to learn the ropes, because he will have to face the impatient puggers.

RDF works from 15-85, its his own fault he was too chicken to try tanking or healing at lower levels. I switched my playstyle and use RDF for almost everything and only quest for a change of pace.

You boys really need to get over yourselves and let people play what classes/roles they find fun. Calling someone a "chicken" because they don't want to tank or heal is pure comedy gold. Please keep in mind this is a GAME, meant to be FUN, not a test of courage or nerve. So please, for the love of God, get off your high horses and stop trying to tell people what classes or roles they should play. Unless you are willing to pay their subs, back off and let them play the game in a way that's fun FOR THEM.

 

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