a) It's really really long, which means I need to put it under a cut, which Blogspot doesn't seem to support unless you tinker with it, which I can't do, and Sir isn't online at the moment.
b) It's not quite done, needs some tinkering, and mostly a fresh set of eyes that, frankly, I just don't have at this time of night. (It's 2:30 in the morning over here. *faceplant*)
So to tide you over, here's something I said I wasn't here for: a PuG rant. Well, a not-quite-PuG rantlet, really, but still.
I'm talking about the bane of every healing and/or tanking class (and the double bane of druids and pallies, I suspect): random PuG requests. There you are, out and about, questing (okay, I was fishing in this instance, but usually we're out questing), and there's a whisper asking if you want to come heal/tank an instance. And that's if you're lucky, and you do't get the ones who open by asking what spec you are. The first kind, I politely decline. The second kind always get the same response: "Why do you ask?"
I know damn well why they ask. I'm just also well-trained in stubborning people into at being at least vaguely polite to me. Half the time, the result is silence, which is fine by me. The other half, I at least get a question/explanation out of them, at which point I politely decline, and they can go pester the next healing class.
This one, however ...
On the one hand, at least he said hello, and asked a question, rather than just throwing "spec?" at me. On the other hand, apparently in seven words, I apparently revealed myself to be ... well, whatever kind of person they wouldn't want to have in their group.And in, er, a lot more words, he revealed himself to be the kind of person I'm not grouping with.
Remember, kids: if you're so desperate for a healer you're whispering people who aren't even in LFG, don't start out by asking for their spec (but don't assume they're healspecced either!), and graciously take no for an answer, because behind that priest may be a long time DPSer who is taking advantage of the fact that they can now pick and chose their PuGs.
Great Blog! I'm a resto Druid that dinged 80 a week and a half ago. This weekend I received a random tell from a dps that needed heals for heroic UK. I told him that I had just dinged and my bonus healing was only 1120 or so in tree form. Fine, he said, we are desperate (should have been a clue right there, I guess).
ReplyDeleteNo one is at the stone, so I take that 5 1/2 minute flight to Vengeance Landing. Then it's the long flight with my non-epic flight form.
I get to the stone and meet with everyone, and the tank says "who invited this guy?" (in reference to me). The dps says that he did. The tank then tells everyone to check out my equipment ( http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Winterhoof&n=Schnitzel) and he tells me "l2p noob, you aren't ready for heroics." Of course I get booted right after that. All after an unsolicited tell and 10 minutes of flying. At least the dps was nice enough to apologize.