Yashima Plays

The other day I went back to another really random heroic with 4 unknown players. I ended up in Azjol Nerub which I was relieved to see, since the last few groups I had been in were pure guild groups – despite LFG – and I had heard nightmare stories from others once again (h The healer who didn’t heal 2 dpsers in the final fight of Halls of Stone, let them die and left the group after the fight, letting them run back in … and my all time favorite the over equipped tanks posting dps meters )

Since I am pretty much beyond worries for Azjol Nerub having been there enough times already I was sure I would be getting my marks without anybody insulting me, my playstyle or my equipment.

Everyone got in, the mage placed a table (thx!) and we started. The fights on the first boss were harder to heal than I remembered – lots of poison. But nobody died, I didn’t have aggro. The dps DK pops the “25 Dungeon & Raid emblems” achievement. I congratulate him, rest of group follow suit and he confesses he only turned 80 that morning at 4 a.m.. A friendly bantering about not sleeping, working and holidays kept us busy while we made our way to the second boss, which we downed just as nicely as the first one.

All of a sudden we are standing in front of final boss. The fight took some time. We were quite slow – guessing low dps? – but I managed to keep everyone alive. Boss goes down. I thank everyone for the nice group, the others do the same and I leave.

I am guessing that most of these players were equipped much worse than my guildmates or myself or whatever I am used to. I had to heal a lot more than most heroics I run. It was fun, however the instance not being so trivial for me! We may have been a bit slower than some other runs, yet we still made it in about 20 minutes without much of a problem.

My point is: maybe these people were still needing some items from the heroics they run and they were not totally facerolling the instance and maybe we took a couple minutes longer than some overequipped group but they were nice and courteous and were not making disparaging remarks about each other or their equipment. I have much more fun when I am not continously made to feel bad … I actually had more fun healing with a little bit of a challenge! I enjoyed the thought of being able to get my marks and actually help others.

I read so many posts and comments about people being elitist and commenting on the terrible gear of others and how much DPS they do or don’t do and generally being asshats. Does it really have to be that way? After all the title given out for pugging is called “the Patient” … so maybe it would be nice if more people would live up to that title they often wear while they are everything but …