FAQ
04-09-2014, 05:24 PM
Because I'm bad at this game. There, I said it!
Don't get me wrong, I love this game, I have been playing for almost 4 years, and yet, I'm still not good at it. Sometimes I get lucky streaks, and that's when I decide to PUG, and it all goes FUBAR (well not always, but many times).
The reason that made me post this was because as soon as I logged on today, I got a tell from a player asking for help running Undermine. I don't know if he was a new player or not, but he was not a TR. I was feeling kind of uber at the moment on my WF sorc blowing stuff up, so I decide to help out. He was level 17, which meant no BB, but I didn't really care.
He asked if I could do traps. I said no, but that we didn't need to. I said I would "show him a way" because I imagined he was talking about the minefield.
So we get to the minefield, I blow up the initial mines to the corner, I cast jump on us both and we're off. Well, I bet you already figured this out, but I fall, and die, shamefully. I fall, not on a long jump, but on a silly little hop.
Actually, we all die there, but he dies after he crosses the minefield. I think he used a rez cake on me and we're off again.
Boulder time. I say: "I'm gonna pull the boulder". I cast hast and displacement, run off past trash and trigger the boulder and start running back. I get hit with a Cyclonic Blast and am on my back as the boulder squashes me to death...
This is a recurring case with me. Here are some examples:
- Fvs life running Brothers of the Forge (just as it came out): leader says to do it on EN, I say: "We can do it on EH, it's easy" (cause I had just soloed on EH). Result: I got gangbanged by those little scorpions and died.
- Monk life and The Pit on elite BB: I say I can do the furnace rooms (having soloed this every life...). Result: I get melted by acid jets
- Also monk life and Crucible swim: I say "I can do the swim, I have improved evasion and high reflexes". Result: blades slice me when I try to swim into the room
- Wizard life: VON5 and someone falls in the lava. I say I can jump down, grab stone and cast DDoor. Result: DDoor fizzles on first try. Lava ends up killing me.
- Sorc life running VON4: To save time I say I can cast DDoor. Result: Locked out of quest
- Fighter life Running hard Shroud for mats: I finish puzzle fast and go help break crystals to get into pool room. Result: I break the wrong frikkin crystals and loose underwater chests!!! (and no, not my first shroud).
I swear, in PUGs I feel like Bad Luck Brian (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-luck-brian). Maybe that could be my Forum Title. Bad Luck PUG Brian...
TL;DR: I don't PUG much because I suck (in groups) and would rather spare people from my bad luck.
Just needed to get that off my chest. Thx
Don't get me wrong, I love this game, I have been playing for almost 4 years, and yet, I'm still not good at it. Sometimes I get lucky streaks, and that's when I decide to PUG, and it all goes FUBAR (well not always, but many times).
The reason that made me post this was because as soon as I logged on today, I got a tell from a player asking for help running Undermine. I don't know if he was a new player or not, but he was not a TR. I was feeling kind of uber at the moment on my WF sorc blowing stuff up, so I decide to help out. He was level 17, which meant no BB, but I didn't really care.
He asked if I could do traps. I said no, but that we didn't need to. I said I would "show him a way" because I imagined he was talking about the minefield.
So we get to the minefield, I blow up the initial mines to the corner, I cast jump on us both and we're off. Well, I bet you already figured this out, but I fall, and die, shamefully. I fall, not on a long jump, but on a silly little hop.
Actually, we all die there, but he dies after he crosses the minefield. I think he used a rez cake on me and we're off again.
Boulder time. I say: "I'm gonna pull the boulder". I cast hast and displacement, run off past trash and trigger the boulder and start running back. I get hit with a Cyclonic Blast and am on my back as the boulder squashes me to death...
This is a recurring case with me. Here are some examples:
- Fvs life running Brothers of the Forge (just as it came out): leader says to do it on EN, I say: "We can do it on EH, it's easy" (cause I had just soloed on EH). Result: I got gangbanged by those little scorpions and died.
- Monk life and The Pit on elite BB: I say I can do the furnace rooms (having soloed this every life...). Result: I get melted by acid jets
- Also monk life and Crucible swim: I say "I can do the swim, I have improved evasion and high reflexes". Result: blades slice me when I try to swim into the room
- Wizard life: VON5 and someone falls in the lava. I say I can jump down, grab stone and cast DDoor. Result: DDoor fizzles on first try. Lava ends up killing me.
- Sorc life running VON4: To save time I say I can cast DDoor. Result: Locked out of quest
- Fighter life Running hard Shroud for mats: I finish puzzle fast and go help break crystals to get into pool room. Result: I break the wrong frikkin crystals and loose underwater chests!!! (and no, not my first shroud).
I swear, in PUGs I feel like Bad Luck Brian (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-luck-brian). Maybe that could be my Forum Title. Bad Luck PUG Brian...
TL;DR: I don't PUG much because I suck (in groups) and would rather spare people from my bad luck.
Just needed to get that off my chest. Thx