Pick Up Horror Stories

[Smithiy]

I know we all have some, but it just astounds me how dumb some of the players i group with are.

The other day i was playing on my hunter and i got a group to do an ST instance. The mage I grouped with was simply amazing, and everything he did was exponentialy retarded. At level 60, he didnt know he was suposed to sheep adds. Once we told him to start sheeping, he would sheep the mob we were attacking, sheep the sapped mob, and break his own sheep with AoE almost every time. He would get people killed by pulling mobs when everyone was low on mana, and when the paly told him he was an awful mage and threatened to kick him out of the group if he kept screwing up, he simply said "I bet i do more damage than you".

It just amazes me that in WoW, someone can level their way to 60 and still be so awful.

[Kasonic]

While doing a billion Strat runs for Crimson Felt Hat, I ran into one warrior in a raid who never, ever Sundered, and had aggro probably half the time I did. When I suggested it to him he told me 'it's not good aggro.'

[Arbitrary]

I've got to watch two Paladins argue who has to heal a couple times. That is always fun. Had a Shaman roll need on a 2 hander that was no upgrade for him but something I actually needed because he needed the money. We all have tons of need/greed ninja loot things. That one just stands out in my mind the most as he tried to explain to me why he was going to vender the massive upgrade to me.

Because my main is a Warlock I often have people who don't bother to even try to get to an instance. "Ok guys, I don't mind summoning but at least two of you have to get here." Sometimes no one comes. Not one other person.

Had one Paladin as the last man standing in a wipe (a shock, I know) who, after he died, immediately burned the Soul Stone I had on him and reaggroed the fuckton of shit that had just killed him. Had a few other people make judgement calls on whether or not to SS and wipe the party instead of just waiting.

I was grouped with this one Druid who spent 100% of the time as a cat and always attacked Seduced mobs. The second something had little floating hearts he would break off from whatever else he was fighting, break my mez, and start offtanking as a cat. When I started bitching he told me that it was too late because he was already attacking, and that I should tell him if I'm casting spells. When a simple skill like assisting the tank is too complicated for someone then it is time to go.

I don't get burned by pick up groups quite as badly because I can always go off and solo, get into a BG, etc. The lack of forced grouping makes it easy to bail on a group, which I have no problem doing if it is clear that we are doomed.

One Paladin wanted to know I had more HP than he did. That scared me alot.

[Jubee]

Strat seems to attract the tards.

A rogue guildie needed some Orbs for a crusader and talked me into doing live-side Strat. He picked up 3 random people from Orgrimmar and off we went. Now with a group consisting of a MC geared War & Rogue and full blue Hunter, Shammy & Priest - I thought it was going to be a cake-walk. We stayed pretty quiet and just did our own thing without trying to socialize much. Chat-room groups are for EQ! Anyway, the mobs died, but SLOW. The hunter had a bad habit of pulling adds and we even wound up wiping twice. We finally make it to the end and hearth out. After getting back to Orgrimmar, the rogue spams the damage meter. I did - with a sword and shield, in defensive, with barely enough rage to keep sunders on - more damage than the hunter and shammy combined. When I asked what the hell they were doing to score such low numbers - the shammy literally said "stfu u hav purpls n we got blus."

We all make jokes about the b.net crowd and their spelling/grammar/intelligence, but I didn't think they actually got that bad.

[Iannis]

While finally getting around to finishing manastone HQ a week or so back, the group I was camping Weavemaster with had a froglok in the group who bragged about his level 60 epic armored hunter in WoW and began /shouting obscenities in a variety of caps and uncaps and apparently going down the emotes methodically from page 1 to page 13. Every time a placeholder spawned he screamed FUCK SOE.

Maybe it was Sean incognito.

[chu]

I was in a group with an obviously twinked crit warrior who couldn't speak english, had no idea what aggro meant and kept referring to our priest as the 'mage'.

[Zippygoose]

Me and a buddy of mine were doing a SM run back in the day. A 40 warrior and 40 paladin were with us who we didn't really know.

Things were going great, we finally get to the church (pardon me for not remembering any of the mob names, it was some time ago). So we clear out the entire place and are just about to agro the last boss (a pally I think, at least he drops some nice pally stuff) when the warrior (who was the group leader) drops us from the group right before the initial charge, /says to us, thanks for the lewtz u guyz r nubz!

The "you're about to be booted out of the instance" timer starts going because we are no longer grouped, and it wasn't enough time for me to attempt training the entire courtyard on them. 10 minutes later they are spamming us with the loots.

I win.

[frott]

One time I joined this pick up group, walked away with a repair bill...

...and AIDS.

[Zippygoose]

dammit frott wins.

[Arbitrary]

Man, you give frott AIDS one time and he won't ever let you live it down.

[Froofy-D]

Approximately 3 out of 5 PUG Shamans "forgot to buy ankhs".

[Zinke]

Zulah.

[riot]

My worst grouping experiences were actually with Horde, rather than playing Alliance.

Shaman's are the worst culprits. People think grouping with Paladins are bad? Try Shamans.

[Duppin]

Originally Posted by Zinke

Zulah.

Those of you who aren't on Hyjal don't realize it, but Zinke just won this thread.

[Phoenix]

Worst ever? Few days ago was doing a UBRS run at get to the rookery, well some lvl58 decides that they want to do the event. Somehow the dumbass didnt notice the first 20 drakes he spawns, so he continues to the father flame and loots it. By the time he loots it there are 50 or drakes flying around with dragonkin guys running around spawning even more. Ofcourse we wipe due to 200 drakes all flying around and 10 hatchers. And ofcourse all the eggs respawn, even after you trigger them or they are spawned by the hatchers. Somehow after 3 tries we manage to kill them all, and all the dumbass says is "sorry i didnt know".

Othershit that is common in PUGs;

Shitty rogues. Every time I see a rogue outdamaged by a warlock/paladin/hunter I wanna bitch slap them and then kick them from the group.

Stupid ass warriors. Omg i didnt know under caused aggro!

Mages/warlocks who dont know how to sheep/seduce.

Paladins who dont heal.

Heres a pick up the dumbass who pulled a actual leroy.