Not entirely sure if this should be labeled part 2... but "Wiley" is at it again.
Now he has decided that his DK will no longer be his main character, but his Tank/DPS Paladin.
Oooooook... it's happend from time to time, but I notice it more with 2-3 "certain" people in the guild.. most likely for a manners issue, instead of a *real* emergency issue.
To quote another blog I read;
/headdesk
/headdesk
/headdesk
/headdesk
/headdesk
I look and we have 3 Pallys in raid... I can count two aura's runnin... I switch mine, ok no duplicate, one of our other 2 pallies switches his on and off... bingo! I know who it is... recalcitrant little bitch.
If I didn't have to deal with telling the paladin in a raid to turn on ANY FUCKING AURA BESIDES CRUSADER.... well it might have been a better day.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Karma Fail
So karma came and bit me in the ass, sorta.
This all started before the winter break of raiding. I was especially drunk during one of our raids (not falling over, but well buzzed) and one of our loyal healers was sending me tells that they were considering quitting the guild altogether if they were assigned to heal "Wiley" again.
To give some backround on "Wiley" he is a tank, or supposed to be. As a DK you can have two spec's, tank and DPS. He had been "tanking" for our raids using Unholy spec, and this was a hge point of angst among the healers in the healing channel. None of us understood how he thought Unholy was a decent tanking spec, he couldn't hold aggro, he ran out of hit points faster than we could heal him, and overall the sitution was a mess. Even our leadership had noticed his fail tanking ability and I had at least one conversation in which one of our main tanks, not only cussed about him but highly adminished is tanking skills (or lack thereof).
I've looked through the spec he had at the time, and it just made me shudder to think that "Wiley" thought this was an acceptable tanking spec. On top of that, one of our top healers threatening to quit the guild, and my drunken state, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
Without remorse I told him very, very bluntly (I seem to have missed school the day they taught tact) that we all thought he was a moron for tanking in Unholy spec. It made "Wiley" harder to heal, he didn't generate threat as well as any of our other tanks, and just seemed silly.
I got hubby involved by telling him that I said this to "Wiley" and he flew off the handle at my exact wording, he said we'd be lucky if this didn't blow up in my face. He proceeded to play good-cop to my bad-cop and tried to diffuse the situation.
Meanwhile "Wiley" tells me why he thinks Unholy is an acceptable tanking spec........
Wait for it....
Wait for it....
"Bone Shield"
That statement made me want to cry and put my head through the desk.
I then, with slightly more tact, I proceed to try and relay the benefits of Frost spec, while admitting that none of the healers (or leadership apparently) had the balls to say anything to his face sooner (a valid question of his).
So here is where Karma decided to bite me in the ass.
I logged in one Saturday recently, focused on doing my daily for frost badges before doing our RL running around. I get in within a very short timeframe (healers FTW), and I get HHoR... yay.
Now I've done this successfully a few times and this was pre mini-nerf. With a druid tank and DPS that seemed kitted out, we proceeded. The tank decided to alcove tank, having done this a few times both ways I have to say I prefer non-alcove tanking, as it's slightly less stressful on the healer. I set my mind to this being a difficult one, and have my fingers ever ready to cast Hand of no-aggro, bubble and pull all my tricks out.
Even with all of this we wipe. Why? The DPS over aggroed before the tank had everything focused on him, I healed the DPS, and had nasty things proceed to chew on my face. I get called out in group for just "standing there doing nothing" and retort that if things hadn't been munching on my face, interrupting and fearing me that I might have been able to heal. I threw in the assmunch directive to the person who called me out..... who happened to be the tank.
We settle down after recouping and me saying that it might be nice if you approached the situation nicely instead of accusing the healer of twiddling their thumbs, and yes he got me back in the name calling dept, and I did let it slide since I started it.
We go again and wipe for the same reason again... I say in group "*sigh* stunned" within 30 seconds I was groupless while still heading back to my corpse.
I had suffered a votekick all because the DPS couldn't wait two or three seconds before going balls to the wall.
Needless to say I was pissed. I didn't run my daily for a week fearing another HHoR.
I also appologized to "Wiley" for how hard I broke it to him when I helped him kill Hogger on an alt.
I'm not so fond of the PUG system now.
This all started before the winter break of raiding. I was especially drunk during one of our raids (not falling over, but well buzzed) and one of our loyal healers was sending me tells that they were considering quitting the guild altogether if they were assigned to heal "Wiley" again.
To give some backround on "Wiley" he is a tank, or supposed to be. As a DK you can have two spec's, tank and DPS. He had been "tanking" for our raids using Unholy spec, and this was a hge point of angst among the healers in the healing channel. None of us understood how he thought Unholy was a decent tanking spec, he couldn't hold aggro, he ran out of hit points faster than we could heal him, and overall the sitution was a mess. Even our leadership had noticed his fail tanking ability and I had at least one conversation in which one of our main tanks, not only cussed about him but highly adminished is tanking skills (or lack thereof).
I've looked through the spec he had at the time, and it just made me shudder to think that "Wiley" thought this was an acceptable tanking spec. On top of that, one of our top healers threatening to quit the guild, and my drunken state, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
Without remorse I told him very, very bluntly (I seem to have missed school the day they taught tact) that we all thought he was a moron for tanking in Unholy spec. It made "Wiley" harder to heal, he didn't generate threat as well as any of our other tanks, and just seemed silly.
I got hubby involved by telling him that I said this to "Wiley" and he flew off the handle at my exact wording, he said we'd be lucky if this didn't blow up in my face. He proceeded to play good-cop to my bad-cop and tried to diffuse the situation.
Meanwhile "Wiley" tells me why he thinks Unholy is an acceptable tanking spec........
Wait for it....
Wait for it....
"Bone Shield"
That statement made me want to cry and put my head through the desk.
I then, with slightly more tact, I proceed to try and relay the benefits of Frost spec, while admitting that none of the healers (or leadership apparently) had the balls to say anything to his face sooner (a valid question of his).
So here is where Karma decided to bite me in the ass.
I logged in one Saturday recently, focused on doing my daily for frost badges before doing our RL running around. I get in within a very short timeframe (healers FTW), and I get HHoR... yay.
Now I've done this successfully a few times and this was pre mini-nerf. With a druid tank and DPS that seemed kitted out, we proceeded. The tank decided to alcove tank, having done this a few times both ways I have to say I prefer non-alcove tanking, as it's slightly less stressful on the healer. I set my mind to this being a difficult one, and have my fingers ever ready to cast Hand of no-aggro, bubble and pull all my tricks out.
Even with all of this we wipe. Why? The DPS over aggroed before the tank had everything focused on him, I healed the DPS, and had nasty things proceed to chew on my face. I get called out in group for just "standing there doing nothing" and retort that if things hadn't been munching on my face, interrupting and fearing me that I might have been able to heal. I threw in the assmunch directive to the person who called me out..... who happened to be the tank.
We settle down after recouping and me saying that it might be nice if you approached the situation nicely instead of accusing the healer of twiddling their thumbs, and yes he got me back in the name calling dept, and I did let it slide since I started it.
We go again and wipe for the same reason again... I say in group "*sigh* stunned" within 30 seconds I was groupless while still heading back to my corpse.
I had suffered a votekick all because the DPS couldn't wait two or three seconds before going balls to the wall.
Needless to say I was pissed. I didn't run my daily for a week fearing another HHoR.
I also appologized to "Wiley" for how hard I broke it to him when I helped him kill Hogger on an alt.
I'm not so fond of the PUG system now.
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