I try so hard not to get in it with people.

Sometimes it's just impossible, though.  If someone wins loot that's better for you than for them, yeah, that sucks.  It's irritating.  It happens.  But when people bitch about someone having the AUDACITY to roll on loot that THEY won ANYWAY.... that's where I draw the line.

Example:

[Necklace of the Half Assed Lame Loot] drops.  Necklace has stamina and resilience on it.  It appears to be free roll basically, as while I'm on my mage, I have the option to roll need on it.  I don't, because I plan on doing pve mostly on this mage.  However, the rogue in the group decides to roll for it, along with the tank.

Now, the rolls play out, the tank wins.  Good for tank.  But suddenly, managing to win the loot in the first place is NOT ENOUGH.


How dare that rogue even try to take this loot from me, he wonders. I'm the tank! I'm the most important person in this group! I I I, ME ME ME!


Rage coursing through the paladin's veins like fire, he brings his right hand from the mouse and firmly plants it at the base of his keyboard.  Anger pours forth from his fingertips in the form of questions, subtle demands to know why the rogue even thought for a moment that rolling on that [Necklace of the Half Assed Lame Loot] would be o.k.

In comes me, the popular social networking website known as Bookface to be a jackass.  I ask why it's an issue, and for sir paladin to just continue on so we can finish.

No, this cannot be!  He cries out, staring at his computer with horror and rage. Someone with common sense!? How could this happen!? 


A flurry of fingers later, he's already come up with a response.  Something along the lines of, "i was talking to (rogue), not bookface." and "not putting your nose into matters that arent yours is a good life lesson"

Here, the irritability cursed upon me by the presence of my womanly cycle escape and I quickly snap back something like, "Shutting your trap and tanking is a good one for you too. :)"

Because the smiley face at the end makes it ok. I'm so smart.

Tanking Paladin becomes enraged!

Face red and all sorts of goo and bodily fluids pouring forth from him, he manages another attempt at hurting my ego.

"out dpsing the tank would be too but i dont see you doing that"

Zing!

And you know what?  It would have worked, had the tank not been a paladin.  If it had been a warrior saying,

"Out dpsing the tank would be too, but I don't see you doing that,"

I would have felt a little insulted.  But alas, he was a pally tank, and I was a lazy mage.

Shammy leaves, possibly because of childhood memories of their parents fighting.

Pally feels his ego starting to deflate.

Pally uses LINK DAMAGE DONE CHARTS.

It's not very effective...

Yes, that's right. He's linking Damage Done (Not DPS) for a trash mob in Underbog.

Sure, he beats me in Damage done.  But look.  DPS, his complaint about me, is completely nullified, out of his own doing.  My DPS for that trash mob was 858.  His was 825.

I'll admit, I didn't even read it when he posted it.  Just looking back through the chat box is enough for me.

WAIT! WAIT!  Paladin cries out, frustration setting in. You can't talk to me that way, I AM THE TANK. I AM THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON EVER! His mind is aflame with fifty different comebacks, whirling around, just out of reach.

It continues on, he insists that he's not trying to start a fight with anyone.  I tell him to just drop it and get over himself.  A pure gem of ,"get over yourself bitch" pops out, a few more words are said, and eventually the last boss is downed and it's all over.

Sigh.

I do admit, that I pretty much provoked the whole situation.  I didn't mean it in a "HA Now I'm going to screw up your day and make you fight with me!" way.  It was more of a, "Are you seriously complaining about loot, even though you won it?" way.  People!

/Picard Facepalm

Herald Volazj Damage Done meter in
Heroic Old Kingdom today... 

So I did a random with fiancee Bulkham today on my pally.  He tanked, and I ret-pally'd it up.  We got H.OK today, which made me cringe at the load screen.  We got a fairly interesting/disappointing group today.

The Warrior, as seen to the left on this Damage meter from Herald Volazj fight, was more than enough to make me cry on the inside.  Yes, I do know that the Herald Volazj fight is kind of broken up into awkward pieces, which is why everyone's dps is low overall.

Mr. Warrior was specced into his Protection tree, complete with tanking gear, but had queued up as DPS.  He never broke 1k dps.  Overall for the entire instance he did 11.1% of the damage, with an average of 913 DPS with his 3297 gs.

The Shammy and the Priest were a bit better, but not by much.  The shammy had a 1085 DPS average overall for the instance. He had a 4128 GS and did 9.9% of the damage overall.  The only thing I can complain about was that they kept blasting the mobs away from the tank and melee dps, which was a pain in the ass.

The priest was healing, so I can't whine about that.  He told me he was healing in PVP gear, but looking at his armory page now, I don't think he was.  He had a 5400 gear score, and seemed to have little trouble keeping us up, so that's no big deal.

Why do these people plague me so?

I understand people may be fresh 80s.  I get it, I've been there, several times in fact. But if you've got >4000 GS, you should be pulling more than 9.9% of the damage in the instance, and if you're a DPS, you should not be specced as a Tank.  I thought that these were pretty simple ideas, but clearly I was mistaken.

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Dear Group-Droppers,

I understand that you probably don't like Halls of Reflection.  I also understand that you might be nervous that we won't make it, even though we had a more than acceptable healer (she even had a Kingslayer title).  What I don't understand is why you had to drop group.  Moreso, I don't get why you didn't at least attempt to give us a reason why before dropping group.  After you left, the healer left too.  Then the other DPS, saying "Well, I guess that's it."  You left me alone in Halls of Reflection, Group-Dropping Tank.  You... you left me. /sniffle

Listen.  Since the LFD feature was brought to us, dungeons have been colder than they used to be.  Yelling at people that were always from your realm for standing in the stuff on the ground has been replaced by a solemn silence, with random outbursts of " YOU SUCK YOUR BAD " and random group dropping. At least you'd see the people hearthing out on your own server.  And that has the word "hearth" in it.  Before the LFD feature, group dropping could even be considered... a warm experience. But now... People just vanish.  For no reason. With no warning.  What is coming to the world! (of warcraft)

Here's where I can help you out here, Mr. Group Dropper. Check out these awesome tips to keep from coming across as a complete douche bag in random dungeons.

1. Break the ice! Say hello to your group.  It's not hard, and if you don't want to talk for the rest of the instance, you don't have to -- and you don't come across as a jerk for never saying anything.

2. Say you're sorry!  If you made a mistake, wiped the group, or somehow found a way to mess up a dungeon run, apologize for it.  It's only human to mess up, and sometimes people need a reminder that it's actually another person behind the dancing gnome with the naked bug going on.

3. Don't point fingers!  After a wipe people may be irritated or embarrassed that they died, especially if they're already deep into end-game raiding and should have known better.  If someone else caused the wipe, don't exacerbate the situation.  It's only going to make it worse.  E-tensions will rise, nerds will rage, and someone will end up either being vote-kicked or leaving out of their own volition -- and it may not even someone who was involved.

4. Play your class, not theirs.  Yeah, this may be your alt that you're on, but when the tank's the same class as your main, and isn't pulling the same way you do, it doesn't give you the authority to jump in and tell him how to play.  If he asks for your advice, then sure, go for it. But don't jump on his back because he plays differently than you do on your main (unless he's missing Righteous Fury or something, but even then, whisper him to remind him).

5. Warlocks need Kings, not Might... Watch your buffs, make sure you give them to the right people!

6. Be understanding.  You don't know the people in the group, so you don't know what's going on in real life for them.  They could have a mental disability.  They could have kids pulling at their arms while they're pulling mobs.  They could be having a real emergency at their house.  Try to understand if someone messes up, or has to leave because of something going on at home.

7. Let people know when you're leaving.  Like I stated above, it's horribly annoying when people just drop group for no reason, with no explanation whatsoever.  At least let us know you're leaving, so we don't have to try and get through the boss we just pulled without a healer.

8. Give thanks or say good-bye.  It's common courtesy to do so, and it's not like it's gonna kill you. Tons of people do it anyway. C'monnn, don't you wanna be cool?

So, there's the list, Mr. Group-Dropper.  I hope it made sense to you.

Regards,
Levielle, the Paladin from the group you dropped earlier tonight.