(12-17-2014, 04:06 PM)Ryoko Wrote: As a healer, I see some horrifying things that most people wouldn't even notice. However, despite the potatoes and assholes I've come across in this game, it's been pretty tame compared the the endless nightmare that was PuGing in WoW. There were some people in WoW so terrible that I still remember them years later.
Alas, World of Warcraft. There I played god as the healer, and refused to tank pulls as a tank (just like Madda. High five!)
Last night I had a group when I was leveling my White Mage which were very, very nice and friendly, even chatty, but the tank was a tweensy bit squishy and the summoner was... pretty clueless, but always open to suggestions, so that made up for it! (Except in the last boss fight.)
So we were doing Brayflox normal, and the entire dungeon I had been really gently and kindly (if I may say so myself) reminding folks in general to avoid breaking sleeps if they can, as well as attack what the tank is attacking. Last boss. Summoner keeps standing in the death beam, tank keeps dragging the boss through poison and healing him. We really don't have the DPS to finish him off with one dead and the tank dragging him through poison or even standing in it himself. It -always- ended with myself and the fantastic dragoon being the last alive, struggling to make it count before wiping entirely. After the second wipe, the Summoner starts realising she shouldn't stand in the death beam ... and instead lets her pet die repeatedly in poison. This wouldn't be much of an issue if she hadn't spent the entire fight summoning her pet which kept dying only to be summoned again into poison to die again. My struggle was pretty real. She may as well have been dead because she wasn't helping us any.
I gently asked her to not summon the pet if it died and continue DPSing. Well, she stood in poison for a good minute and a half, and eventually I decided I -needed- to focus the tank and she died. Always ended with the dragoon and myself. When we resurrected and ran back, we noticed the summoner was AFK, and so... vote dismissed her as AFK. We then had a level 40-something black mage come in and -wreck- the boss. It was fantastic. That dragoon was such a champ, too, so I gave her a commendation at the end. She deserved it so badly.