Hound pug horror, or 'how to have fun, not'

[MrWizard]

logged on yesterday. Have not played much in months. Decided to join any raids, saw a hound up.

I was first to join. Guy asked if I was intim, I said yes, no problems. He was doing it on norm.
We got a group together fairly quickly.

Leader kept asking for intim. Kept asking others for intim. Kept the lfm for intim. By the end we had 4 intims. And he still kept asking if we were hate or intims. I think there was a language barrier there.

We finally gather at the start..and I do mean gather...not a soul moved until we were all there. I will not say getting there was a record time, but it was fun. As soon as we get there, leader says 'share'. He is on timer.

Doh. So he switches to another toon and comes back in group. By now, since first joining, it has been a veryyy verryyy long time. Since we took a while to get here, the front definitely has reset and so has some other areas.

At this point the leader decides we are doing hard...I get some ship buffs to get my intim to 74.

The leader coming back is a rogue now. He cannot come back alone and the front areas have reset. So, lets all go back real quick and clear (since it was not so fast the first time with all of us).... nope, just 3 go back.

Takes us a while, we get to the beholder room, 3 beholders, 9 renders. Rogue, fighter, fighter, and a healer... ugly battle. Not a single soul of those other 8 people would come from the entrance of the hound to speed this up. Not one.

I die in the room and lose my ship buffs.

I don't bail often, but when a large part of the group is that lame to not speed this up and just stand there, well, this means hound will go bad. I said, good luck and left.

A while later I get a tell from the leader saying I was a newb and he finished hound on hard in 4 minutes...ha ha..

I said, too bad you took an hour and a half to start it though. 4 minutes on hard, wow, great job. Proud of you.


I do not feel bad about bailing except for the 2 others who came back to join me and the rogue/leader to get back to the dungeon. To the rest of you lazy b-tards, I feel no remorse. Just lame.


/ rant off


wonderful experience for a quick one day come back....ahhh, how I missed pugging the hound with no voice chat people.

[Srozbun]

Welcome back Cannon. I saw you yesterday in our reaver run (that one also wasn't the smoothest but at least it was fun

Hope your other raids went well. Hound can be....brutal in a pug.

[Ironforge_Clan]

Yes welcome back Cannon.

As for PUGs just ask Pentamas about a recent shroud run we shared. It still amazes me how people can take so long in that raid. Also to give credit where credit is due it would have failed and/or taken another 30 minutes if Pent was there pushing along and healing!

[MrWizard]

thanks guys, unfortunately, not back. Just did a visit. Once every month/3 weeks. Sub up in a few. Sigh.

My emails to customer support got nowhere, nor did my letter to fernando..so it is a last hurrah til febuary.

ill look for you guys though if I come back in a few weeks to play a few raids./

[LordPiglet]

snip..
I said, too bad you took an hour and a half to start it though. 4 minutes on hard, wow, great job. Proud of you.

There's a "That's what she said" joke in there


However, I don't blame you one bit for leaving. There's a point that it takes away from enjoyment and you have to move on.

[Nezichiend]

I never knew you needed more than 4 people to clear that room...

[AltheaSteelrain]

hi cannon!~ XD

I was in that raid and I was laughing at the leader )

Well we did finished but you didn't missed anything spectacular except the melees piking in the middle looking at the flenser hitting the puppies while I was typing "get aggro" while finishing to buff/heal the dogs )

And thanks for letting me in the Elite VoD! XD

Looking forward in pugging with you in the future

[bartosy]

The leader sounds like a guy i know , does exactly the same thing
you described. HoX can be pretty brutal, personally would never do
it on hard/elite in a pug just give me my +1 and i'm a happy camper
with my +5 bastardsword of vertigo +4.

[werk]

...when a large part of the group is that lame to not speed this up and just stand there,

I have seen very little except this in my recent coal chamber runs. Out of 8 runs I don't think there was ever a point when there was more than 1 other person with me after the air-jet rune was turned on.


It's a sorry state of play at the moment.