Anyone notice a deterioration in Shroud PUGs lately?

[Astraghal]

Just had a mostly guild shroud where Grease and Dispels were spammed. Wonder if this will get a comment from any of the PUGgers in there? (Was still a 1-rounder, had a LOT of deaths in part 5 after someone who won't be named dropped a Globe of Invulnerability on Harry, resulting in everyone losing Fireshield, Haste, Resist Fire and FoM).

I thought we did quite well, in spite of ourselve's.

[Alorissa]

Ran a shroud last night that went as well as any I've run lately. Mobs were even "Epic Warded" and had the accompanying lag.. 1 round part 4. No bard.

then again, I Joined a shroud yesterday(On the same character, so you know the outcome) where it was mostly a "Guild Run" and they were relatively new. it was the first shroud run for some of them even.

They warned me ahead of time, but hey, I figured what the hell....

Portal DPS was terrible. But they followed a good leader and we got through part 1 with little incident. Part 2 got a little scary. I was on my L17 Sorc and managed to get the aggro of both the earth ele and the Kobold. Wound up just taking both of them down while the rest of the group worked on Orc and Cat.

We got that part done first try.

Part 3 went as smooth as can be expected for a group that had probably 5 or 6 people that never played Lights out before. No wall. got it done with 4 chests.

we wiped in Part 4. We pretty much all expected it and had fun getting killed.

Moral of the story, its all about attitude. we were ALL shroud newbs at one point. expecting newer players to have all the gear and skill of 3+ year players is not realistic. If you cant deal with that, be more selective in your LFM's or dont join random shroud pugs.

BTW.... +1 "The Light Wardens" for a Fun spectacular failure. You folks will be up to speed on the shroud in no time for sure.

Yeah I remember that day very well. We are still talking and laughing about it. +1 to you for putting up with us