So I was hanging around Dalaran the other day - I had just done the cooking and fishing dailies, and was doing that thing where I run around aimlessly, or rifle through my bank aimlessly, or really do anything aimlessly, as I contemplate what I'll do next in game. When I see in gchat:
[Guild] [Belgar]: Oh well this'll be fun.... two priests in this raid, and only two other healers.
Lightbulb: 25 man pug on Razuvious. Four healers in the raid, and two are priests, both of which will be needed for MCing. And so I think, ohey, I haven't been in Naxx in a while. MAYBE THIS WILL BE FUN.
To [Belgar]: I can come in and heal for that fight, if you need a healer
[Belgar]: seriously?
To [Belgar]: yeah sure, why not =D
And so I get invited and summoned. We do Raz without a hitch, I get some compliments from a priest healer who came in just behind me on the meters, all is well. It's awesome - I'm throwing heals *everywhere*, and boy, is it nice to not worry about mana for once. (Note: our ten man team tried killing Steelbreaker last on Iron Council last Thursday, and I have to watch my mana like a HAWK. There's just no pause in healing - I'm using every single GCD I have and wishing they clocked faster. And this is with my Idol of Awakening AND Spark of Hope AND my two piece T7.5 bonus equipped. AND an Innervate. AND a mana pot. AND spirit food for the regen. Damn. That's a lotta ands. So it was really nice to not have the stress of wondering if we'll wipe because I'm bone dry on mana. We got him down to 12%... sooo close. Ok, I'm tangenting. Back to the pug.)
They're doing loot when suddenly I realize Belgar is pulling trash (he was MTing), so I run my little tree legs over and heal him. I also realize that I'm probably in this for the long haul, so I best get comfy. =D So we move along, and I'm having a blast. I don't even need anything from here, because I'm pretty decked out in Ulda gear for the most part along with other BiS items from this very instance, but who cares? I haven't been in Naxx in months, and I don't have anything else to do. We're pulling really quickly, split up on Noth, get Noth down, and the Forethought Talisman drops. Yummy! I already have it, so I don't need it, but I'm interested to see who will win the roll. I'm hoping one of the trees, because it would be an upgrade for both of them, it looks like (I actually don't think either of them rolled, but that's besides the point).
Lolimapugger rolls 43 (1-100)
Hahametoo rolls 41 (1-100)
[Raid] [Averna]: grats, lolimapugger!
[Raid] [Ipugtoo]: yea man, grats
[Raid] [Lolimapugger]: thanks :D
Hahametoo receives Forethought Talisman.
[Raid] [Lolimapugger]: wait, what?
Here were the excuses that the raid leader gave:
1. Hahametoo needs it more.
2. Lolimapugger came into the pug later than Hahametoo.
3. It's just a piece of gear.
4. It's not even a good trinket.
o.O
1. If loot rules were based on who "needs loot more", then you should have wowarmoried every single pugger that graced your group. You should then have compared their gear (every slot, mind you) to every possible drop in the Naxx run, running some kind of mathematical algorithm to determine what loot would benefit them the most, as compared to other people in the group, based on 1. how much of an upgrade it would be, 2. how likely they are to have it drop for them again, 3. their playstyle and how the piece of gear will correspond to it, 4. for how long they will use it before getting another upgrade, and 5. how much they will appreciate getting said loot.
If you haven't done all of that, then you can't use argument number one, kthx.
2. Lolimapugger came in before I did, and I had been there for at least 2 bosses. He came in with the assumption that he would have a shot at gear. Otherwise, why else would he have joined? Do you think he joined just to be nice? (I mean, yes, I understand that in MY case, it wasn't for gear, it was just for fun, but you can't assume that about puggers). Also, Lolimapugger was willing to come into the instance and be locked to it with it half done, and was willing to stick it out. He won the roll, he should win the gear.
3. If you use the argument "it's just a piece of gear", then why wouldn't you just give it to the highest roller? It's just a piece of gear, after all.
4. It is the highest spell power trinket in Naxx, and it's best in slot for most healers in that tier of gear.
Grrrrr.
Next wing: Aboms. We all get ready for Patchwerk, and the raid leader gives us healing assignments (which, by the way, were total crap. Why have trees healing one target when we can roll hots on two or even three?), and then says this:
IF U LET UR TANK DIE ITS UR FUCKING FAULT
Way to boost healer morale, buddy boy. Don't swear at me. It's degrading for both of us. Also, stop yelling at me. I read just as well if it's not in caps. Is it all-caps day? No. So stop.
Patch comes over, he sits there, we wait for an ok to pull, he sits there, we wait, he sits there, we wait, he sits there, we wait, he starts walking away, we wait, we wait some more, and then some tank runs over INTO THE SLIME and throws something at it, and suddenly -
"Patchwerk want to play!"
Sigh.
So we have no prehots on the tanks (and three of our four healers are trees), and the tank is starting with like 15% health. *Awesome.* Through some stroke of pure and hilarious luck, we made it through the pull. However, because it takes us a good 10+ seconds to get all our hots running on the tanks, and we had no holy paladins, and because some of the ret paladins judging light were almost outhealing the other trees, Belgar goes down FAST, but I get a perfectly timed battle rez on him. Seriously guys, it was sexy, sexy stuff. Patch had taken out a few dps, but once Bel was up, we got back into the swing of it.
Until Patch enraged.
At like 6%.
So we wipe it and run back in. And I notice that one by one, people are dropping out of our group. Not just one or two, but like, six. And with no warning! Ugh. I don't mind if you have to leave a pug - I don't even care if it's because we wiped (although that is pretty frustrating) - but I DO care when you leave without a "ok guys gotta go." Just a simple sentence. Maybe even throw a sorry in there, too! I know, I'm asking too much.
[Raid] [Averna]: bah, we're losing people
[Raid] [Ileadraidslol]: yeah i know
[Raid] [Ileadraidslol]: i'm kicking people below 2500
[Raid] [Averna]: .....
[Raid] [Averna]: do you have replacements?
[Raid] [Ileadraidslol]: in the process of getting them
Well then.
No warning to anyone in there. They were just cut off. Suddenly they get that "You are not in this instance's group. You will be teleported to the nearest graveyard in 56 seconds." That's just so sad to me - does anyone else imagine this when they think about it? (No? Ok, maybe I'm the only one. >.> ) No thought of, maybe we could do this if we pulled it right and didn't have 4 dps go down in the first 20 seconds. No thought of the fact that his replacements could be even worse than this original crew. No thought of, maybe that undergeared warlock who's putting out 2450 dps *isn't* going to leave a Mutating Injection in the raid on Grobb, but that ret paladin who's putting out 2650 *is*.
Note that Ileadraidslol's DPS on my meters was 2417.
I was SO close to saying "So, you gonna kick yourself?"
I know that people deal with this stuff all the time - it's no big deal, right? It's just so frustrating to me. Maybe it's because I rarely pug anything, so I'm still an innocent nub and think that everyone will be rainbows and puppies and hand out candy at the end of raids. Guys - JUST FYI - there is no candy at the end of pug runs. =(
Some other highlights of the run:
- I tanked Lady Blaumeux. You know how she does Unyielding Pain when no one is near her or has aggro? Yeah. That started, and I totally ran over and hit her with my barky arms. It was AWESOME.
- I tanked the two adds on KT for a good 20 seconds. AND my Barkskin was down! Spam heals FTW! Also, add-tank ftl =(
- A druid brezzed Ileadraidslol on KT, only to have him rez right into a shadow volley. I giggled. Then when my brez was up, I rezzed him again, and said in vent, "You might want to take this at, you know, a *good* time this time around." Bwuahahaha.
- The Torch of Holy Fire dropped. Why couldn't this have dropped like, 4 months ago?!?!
All in all, I really did have a good time, for a number of reasons - one, there were quite a few Ascended members in the raid by the time we did Sapph and KT, and it was fun being able to talk about the pug in gchat with each other. Two, it was awesome not having to worry about my mana, and three, I TANKED STUFF, RAWR!
I'm thinking I should do, say, one pug a week. Builds character, you know?
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