Played Warcraft for many hours yesterday, currently have 4 characters on Crushridge server... and I play thru them all, to maximize my 'rested' experience. I'll go into details on them sometime, but today's post has to do with my Prot Warrior Nikail.
Level 39 1/2 (yeah, the 1/2 matters!) and I'm sitting in Org insta-queing to keep my rested exp and to be able to get my level 40 abilities and new mount. The awesome thing about the 'Looking For Group' (LFG) tool for tanks is, you get a spot in about 5 seconds. The bad part is, well, its a Pug, so you are never sure of the group you get. The perfect group for me when tanking is Mage, Warlock, Hunter for DPS and Pally for heals... I hate Melee DPS, especially Rogues.
So I get drafted into this group for Scarlet Monastery (what ever the last part is called), got Hunter and Mage plus a priest for heals... and a Rogue. SM is a pretty straight forward tanking experience, and good for training as there are casters that you have to run at and silence or they will blow you away at range. Throughout the run, this rogue is running ahead of the group in stealth, then sapping an opponent and soloing it, while the rest of us deal with everything else. What he isn't realizing is, when he starts his attack routine against that guy, his stealth goes away, and he gets charged by nearby goons... which means the healer has to take time from me and heal him, which at one point did lead to a wipe. No problem, i figure, i don't mind a wipe every now and then, and if you end up with a crappy group, it makes you better.
So we get back in, and go to the Cathedral, where on a lower end group, you kite guys out the front door and tank them there... well, Rogue of course goes in, saps, and draws aggro, and eventually he dies, because i'm dealing with all the extra adds he's pulled, and healer decides to just keep the tank up. Rogue starts bitching, saying healer is pathetic and he shouldn't have died, and I say it was because he runs ahead and draws aggro. Then he says to me 'No, I sapped one and attacked the other, Dumbass'.
At which point I said "Ok, i've had enough. Sorry everyone, but the rogue has cost you your tank", and I left the group. No tolerance for that, especially as the tank. First of all, my job is much harder than yours... I have to watch all of you, keep you from getting threat, make sure healer has mana to heal me... so calling me names is never allowed. Second, if i quit the group, I'll be in another group in 5 seconds... you will wait 15 minutes at least.
So, I left, which I very rarely do, and ended up in Uldaman with a fantastic group! In and out, they followed my lead and didn't pull from me. I'll likely play a bit today, I wanna get Nikail to 40 and get the new mount out of the way.
Going to the store for beer!
The Angry Man
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