The patch went online this week, so I’ve started to pug random dungeons for badges and achievements. Just as I was expecting earlier, the LFG tool is a great way to bring happiness to my playing time. Sure, some players are jerks, but there are also a lot of good players around.
The first day of the patch we’ve completed Occulus without any problems at all. Everyone in the group knew what they were supposed to be doing, there were no wipes, no “guys how do I damage with the dragon”, the only time someone died was at the last moments of Eregos fight, when they accidentally ate an orb explosion. A clean, fast run.
Some people are strange though. Or maybe strange is not really a good word for it. Today I went into heroic Pit of Saron to do some dpsing and get used to arms spec which I’ll use this evening in our raid. We wipe at the Forgemaster, lose a dps, then lose a tank, then a healer. Fear not, because here comes the LFG tool to the rescue! We get another pair of players – one deathknight tank, one druid healer. The tank inspects the druid and starts whining about how he’s not going to do this with this “crappy” druid.
So I check out the druid. First thing I see is that he has the Battlemaster title. Inspecting closer shows some random selection of heroics epics with some pvp parts, and a pvp resto spec. Usually neither of that is a good sign, but together with Battlemaster… Who cares. It’s one of the hardest titles to get in the game. Which means the druid should at least know what he’s doing.
Vote kick the whining deathknight, get back in tank spec and gear, grab another random DPSer, and off we go. Finished everything without any problems. Sure, there were a few deaths and a few moments when the group was close to dying, but nothing too unusual.
All in all, I like the LFG tool. Sure, sometimes it gets some jerks in my groups, and signing as a tank obviously reduces the waiting time by a lot as opposed to signing as a dps, but it’s an awesome thing anyway. Other parts of the patch are very cool as well – yesterday I was leveling my little paladin banker and the improvements to the zone map and the quest tracker are very helpful, even though I did these quests several times already. Even the Equipment Manager has been updated – it now shows which items belong to what set (making one little addon to do that no longer necessary), and it also shows which parts of the set you’re missing rather than showing a cryptic message like before.
And then there are the instances, which really deserve a post of their own.
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