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Mind you, I don't f up. I'm not crying about someone yelling at me. I'm simply venting my frustration (after recently coming back to the game) about ahole tanks that are the best players in the game, the best tanks, the best healers, and the best dps'rs in the game while everyone else is the worst of each. WTF is wrong with these people that make them so self entitled?
There is a silver lining to my clouds of gloom, however. Today another DB tank rage quit on the group, queue'd again, and got us  Oh man I was full of joy ^_^ first time that has ever happened!
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I personally feel that about 1 in 5 players in this game are pricks, another 1 in 5 are incompetent or just do not care and 5 out of 5 believe that they are awesome at this game and everyone else is the problem.
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Lol I got one of those kinda tanks last night in stonecore heroic.Went and pulled 2 of the giants and 2 packs of flayers we wiped and he left group.
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_Kewk_ posted:
Mind you, I don't f up. I'm not crying about someone yelling at me. I'm simply venting my frustration (after recently coming back to the game) about ahole tanks that are the best players in the game, the best tanks, the best healers, and the best dps'rs in the game while everyone else is the worst of each. WTF is wrong with these people that make them so self entitled?
There is a silver lining to my clouds of gloom, however. Today another DB tank rage quit on the group, queue'd again, and got us Oh man I was full of joy ^_^ first time that has ever happened!
WotLK
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WotLK
Are you implying it was worse then? I greatly disagree. I'd much rather deal with the pally invasion of WotLK than the DB's of today.
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_Kewk_ posted:
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WotLK
Are you implying it was worse then? I greatly disagree. I'd much rather deal with the pally invasion of WotLK than the DB's of today.
You say that as if paladins were a bad thing. 
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Quazimortal posted:
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WotLK
Are you implying it was worse then? I greatly disagree. I'd much rather deal with the pally invasion of WotLK than the DB's of today.
You say that as if paladins were a bad thing.
Nah bro... http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/the-scryers/Facerolladin/simple representing WotLK faceroller right there  my mighty tank ^_^
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I'm saying that WotLK handed out self entitlement like it was a part of the expansion's content.
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Hell yeah! Facerollers unite!
I miss Wrath Ret spec, it was so fun. Nowadays I'm rockin' two holy specs.
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Bad players are most likely immature players. Immature players are the most likely to be young players. Young players are the most likely to be impatient players. Impatient players are most likely to want quick queues, which means they are most likely to be tanks. It still makes the a minority of the players but are more represented in the tank class.
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FDY all up in my thread dropping knowledge like what!
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FDY all up in my thread dropping knowledge like what!
I know, wth. This was supposed to be a nice thread to complain about those jerks, and he comes in here and spouts off all that junk to ruin it. geez. we gotta get this back on topic!
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Those tanks deserve first pick over all loot too. Just be happy that they let you group with them.
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I just want to take a moment to thank Kewk for the compliment. It really means alot to me and my fellow pug random Ahole tankers and clearly something that was long overdue. I play all 4 tank classes at 85, do the random heroics, pug raids and so on. But Kewk is right and that makes me an Aholex4. Or as I like to think of it, King Ahole.
It's true there are people out there that play this game alot more, have better stuff, never lag, use more effective macros or know the really arcane strategies that take years to master to defeat the ruthless WoW AI better then I do. But it's nice to know that people, especially people that "don't f up" realize I am still at least 4x better then they are because I tank.
Yeah, $hit happens, it happens pretty often actually in a pug random, in fact I would almost say I really couldn't take credit for it when it does happen as much as a really ambitious and truly dedicated Ahole like myself should. Now I've been called an Ahole before, even a flaming Ahole, almost affectionately as "that drunk Ahole" and many other colorful varieties of Ahole, but even I sometimes worried if I was really making the difference in peoples lives that I knew I could. Today, I feel like I am finally earning the recognition I deserve.
"King of the WoW tank Aholes" is really something to be proud of and definately a step up for me and my career goals. So thank you Kewk. Thank you so very much. I hope I can live up to the title and frustate even more perfectly entitled strangers in their quest to get valor tokens and improve their GS.
I also agree compleletly with Kewk's second point. If I foolishly rage quit a group before I could get a chance to earn the kicking I know I deserve, then go grab another Jack Daniels to refocus on what's really important about this game, and finally come back 10 minutes later only to rejoin the same random group that hasn't moved 1 inch from where I left them- they really did prove that all they needed was a less Ahole and more sober tank to succeed. But maybe this group of Aholes are ready to listen to the King of the Aholes.
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_Kewk_ posted:
Mind you, I don't f up. I'm not crying about someone yelling at me. I'm simply venting my frustration (after recently coming back to the game) about ahole tanks that are the best players in the game, the best tanks, the best healers, and the best dps'rs in the game while everyone else is the worst of each. WTF is wrong with these people that make them so self entitled?
There is a silver lining to my clouds of gloom, however. Today another DB tank rage quit on the group, queue'd again, and got us Oh man I was full of joy ^_^ first time that has ever happened!
I used to love it when that happened. Like "welcome back LOL"
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I'm saying that WotLK handed out self entitlement like it was a part of the expansion's content.
This. I don't know if you're trolling with this or not, but I agree with the post.
This game peaked with the BC expansion, and jumped the shark with WOTLK.
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Arcilite_I posted:
I'm saying that WotLK handed out self entitlement like it was a part of the expansion's content.
This. I don't know if you're trolling with this or not, but I agree with the post.
This game peaked with the BC expansion, and jumped the shark with WOTLK.
Meant it 100%. WotLK ruined my experience in WoW, Cata pissed on the ruination.
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Meant it 100%. WotLK ruined my experience in WoW, Cata pissed on the ruination.
Sure thing. In past posts, you said a lot of times that WotLK was great, and now you say the opposite, but you aren't trolling.
 
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If you weren't such a moron and could read in context you would see that I'm talking about the change in the community during WotLK.
Cata's content, on the other hand, yeah.
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I'm talking about the change in the community during WotLK.
Cata's content, on the other hand, yeah.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, but I see the (further) decline of the playerbase directly linked to their entitlement which is a product of the content and how it was "delivered" and the accessibility to it. I do not see these issues as separate.
For the record and not necessarily germane to this post, and you will agree if you remember my posts, I have always maintained from very near the beginning of this game that imo, the worst "feature" of the game was the (lack of) "community".
The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
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Cawlin posted:
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I'm talking about the change in the community during WotLK.
Cata's content, on the other hand, yeah.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, but I see the (further) decline of the playerbase directly linked to their entitlement which is a product of the content and how it was "delivered" and the accessibility to it. I do not see these issues as separate.
For the record and not necessarily germane to this post, and you will agree if you remember my posts, I have always maintained from very near the beginning of this game that imo, the worst "feature" of the game was the (lack of) "community".
The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
You say you don't understand what I mean, then you explain exactly what I mean 
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Arcilite_I posted:
Cawlin posted:
Arcilite_I posted:
I'm talking about the change in the community during WotLK.
Cata's content, on the other hand, yeah.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, but I see the (further) decline of the playerbase directly linked to their entitlement which is a product of the content and how it was "delivered" and the accessibility to it. I do not see these issues as separate.
For the record and not necessarily germane to this post, and you will agree if you remember my posts, I have always maintained from very near the beginning of this game that imo, the worst "feature" of the game was the (lack of) "community".
The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
You say you don't understand what I mean, then you explain exactly what I mean
Well I said I wasn't sure exactly what you meant, then proceeded to state my opinion, which I thought (but wasn't sure) was your opinion too.
This is one of the ways I handle meetings and negotiations at work, sorry, came through in my posting!
Either way, the point is, that I now am sure what you meant lol.
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The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
But you have to find a balance between cheat codes on, easy and country club, brutal, "make you homeless from playing too much WoW" difficult cause then you would have a "niche" game. And niche games don't become even a fraction as successful as WoW is/was. BC was getting away from the country club feel of Classic but it still had a ways to go. WOTLK was a little over the top but very close to being great in content and accessibility.
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Bremen_Gaheris posted:
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The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
But you have to find a balance between cheat codes on, easy and country club, brutal, "make you homeless from playing too much WoW" difficult cause then you would have a "niche" game. And niche games don't become even a fraction as successful as WoW is/was. BC was getting away from the country club feel of Classic but it still had a ways to go. WOTLK was a little over the top but very close to being great in content and accessibility.
Just my 2 cents.
Yep, there certainly is a large amount of subjectivity on where in the continuum of "brutal" and "cakewalk" is appropriate the game should be. While I appreciate your opinion on the matter, I'm sure that my own opinion on where the game should have been is a little closer to where it was in BC than you feel it should have been, but so be it I suppose.
The game is a joke now imo.
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I vote kick out more tanks than I do DPS. There are a lot of A-hole tanks. It is getting to the point where I've decided that I want to be the A-hole. This way I won't have to deal with them. I'm starting my tanking career
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The game is a joke now imo.
Totally agree. I played WoW for almost 5 years and I bought the expac and couldn't stomach it more than 2 weeks before I just quit and canceled. I logged in one more time to clear mail in case they fixed the game and I returned one day.
*** Cata is ridiculously jacked up for sure. Leveling 80-85 is a snoozefest and way too fast. Random dungeoning was ruined as of when I played last due to being 100% dependent on others for your success. Raids are cheese easy if you are playing with your guild of friends you can keep accountable but PUGs are impossible.
***Note: This is my opinion formed from 2 weeks post-release and some stuff I have read since. I don't play the game currently so this might not be 100% accurate to how the game runs now.
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Bremen_Gaheris posted:
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The game is a joke now imo.
Totally agree. I played WoW for almost 5 years and I bought the expac and couldn't stomach it more than 2 weeks before I just quit and canceled. I logged in one more time to clear mail in case they fixed the game and I returned one day.
*** Cata is ridiculously jacked up for sure. Leveling 80-85 is a snoozefest and way too fast. Random dungeoning was ruined as of when I played last due to being 100% dependent on others for your success. Raids are cheese easy if you are playing with your guild of friends you can keep accountable but PUGs are impossible.
***Note: This is my opinion formed from 2 weeks post-release and some stuff I have read since. I don't play the game currently so this might not be 100% accurate to how the game runs now.
According to blizzard, at least 600,000 other people shared your opinion too
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I'm simply venting my frustration (after recently coming back to the game) about ahole tanks that are the best players in the game, the best tanks, the best healers, and the best dps'rs in the game while everyone else is the worst of each. WTF is wrong with these people that make them so self entitled?
You are on the wrong forums if you are looking for the answer.. havent you noticed everyone here is the best at everything as well? 
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Cawlin posted:
Arcilite_I posted:
I'm talking about the change in the community during WotLK.
Cata's content, on the other hand, yeah.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, but I see the (further) decline of the playerbase directly linked to their entitlement which is a product of the content and how it was "delivered" and the accessibility to it. I do not see these issues as separate.
For the record and not necessarily germane to this post, and you will agree if you remember my posts, I have always maintained from very near the beginning of this game that imo, the worst "feature" of the game was the (lack of) "community".
The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
I would agree, except AC blows this notion slam out of the water, as reward/content was available to all and was everywhere, and the community was one of the best ever seen in an MMO...
Competing against players for a trickle of rewards once a week is what makes WOW's community what it is. That, and not having to recover a corpse. (recovering bodies was one thing everyone helped with in AC, because everyone knew what it meant to lose a body) There were strong bonds formed when someone spent an hour or more helping you recover from some 300-dot-on-the-radar hellhole, risking their own items as well, and when that person sent you a message asking for help with a recovery, you dropped what you were doing and went, no questions asked...
WOW has....loot drama?
There is no comparison.
The community reflects the structure of the game, and WOW and its "me me me" community are a perfect fit for each other...and that has nothing to do with access to content in Wrath vs any other expansion. If anything, Wrath was a TINY step in the right direction for a flourishing, decent community.
Summary:
AC: Access to all content for everyone. Access to any gear for everyone. Result: Best community to date.
WOW: opposite in every way.
Imagine that.
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AC didn't have loot drama? I seem to remember this armor called Nexus Armor that was nothing but drama >_< Just say'n. I TOTALLY miss AC
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I can't even imagine how current MMO players would handle the old AC loot system, especially tinkering. 9/10 tinks, imbues, random major placement/type...they'd probably just drop dead from the sheer level of rage it would produce in them.
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AC is easily the superior game... granted I only played the 14-day trial. The reason I play WoW is because my friends play WoW.
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Rofl, your average WoW player today would be completely and utterly lost in AC. There is so much content, it isn't even close.
Loot system was by far the best ever created.
Holy trinity, pft please, you take what you have and just go, mage, archer, UA, og, you just go in and own the place.
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Rofl, your average WoW player today would be completely and utterly lost in AC. There is so much content, it isn't even close.
Loot system was by far the best ever created.
Holy trinity, pft please, you take what you have and just go, mage, archer, UA, og, you just go in and own the place.
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Yah, Gaerlan...His sword would reach 3 squares...so the ranged had to stand way back behind the wall of 3 
His sword also did all 3 imbue damage types at once(AR, CB, and CS), plus triple strike...
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You can still play AC. Whenever I start thinking nostalgic about AC, I just remember buff cycles. I had a "gimp" char because I got so sick and tired of it.
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buff cycles are automated with macros now..
and while grinding mobs, there are "continuous buff cycles", which throw out a buff or two every couple of minutes..
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Imagine... a World of Tanks!!
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, but I see the (further) decline of the playerbase directly linked to their entitlement which is a product of the content and how it was "delivered" and the accessibility to it. I do not see these issues as separate.
For the record and not necessarily germane to this post, and you will agree if you remember my posts, I have always maintained from very near the beginning of this game that imo, the worst "feature" of the game was the (lack of) "community".
The way I see it: easier access to content/reward = more entitled playerbase = more screaming for easier content = repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
I would agree, except AC blows this notion slam out of the water, as reward/content was available to all and was everywhere, and the community was one of the best ever seen in an MMO...
Competing against players for a trickle of rewards once a week is what makes WOW's community what it is. That, and not having to recover a corpse. (recovering bodies was one thing everyone helped with in AC, because everyone knew what it meant to lose a body) There were strong bonds formed when someone spent an hour or more helping you recover from some 300-dot-on-the-radar hellhole, risking their own items as well, and when that person sent you a message asking for help with a recovery, you dropped what you were doing and went, no questions asked...
WOW has....loot drama?
There is no comparison.
The community reflects the structure of the game, and WOW and its "me me me" community are a perfect fit for each other...and that has nothing to do with access to content in Wrath vs any other expansion. If anything, Wrath was a TINY step in the right direction for a flourishing, decent community.
Summary:
AC: Access to all content for everyone. Access to any gear for everyone. Result: Best community to date.
WOW: opposite in every way.
Imagine that.
There are a couple things about this post.
For starters, AC population and WoW population aren't really comparable. You know where I'm going with that so I won't harp on it but success as a measure of population and income is not comparable between the games.
That said though, yes AC was around at a different time than WoW and had a different (not just smaller) playerbase. The playerbase of AC probably enjoyed the challenges of AC that weren't gear related. WoW's challenges are ALL gear related. Further, the "old school" MMO mentality is present in the community of games like AC and DAOC too. Both of those player base populations were so different as to make comparison to WoW very difficult to do.
Again, I see your point and agree with it, but want to emphasize that WoW's challenge is all about obtaining gear. If you water that challenge down, there's not much left and the whole "entitlement" mentality rears its ugly head. Combine that with the larger player base and the huge portion of wow's playerbase that are "instant gratification NAO!" types vs. the somewhat different mentality of MMO players in years prior and the comparisons fall apart further.
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Funny that you mentioned it, because I have been in several groups lately where tanks they just left the group right in the middle of the fights.
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I can't recall a game that had less consequence for being a complete douche. The consequence has only dropped over the past couple expansions... and not surprisingly the douchebaggery has increased. Between cross server dungeons, paid name changes, server transfers, and a general lack of punishment for exploitive behavior (afk Battlegrounders I am looking at you)... being a douch will generally result in a larger personal return than someone who thinks they are doing the right thing.
I don't think it's the gameplay mechanics at all... it's the lack of consequence. Tanks just have the shortest queues (lower consequence) so you see it with them a lot more often. DPS may have had to have waited 20 minutes to get in that dungeon... the tank got in the second they felt like it. Take 100 people where only 5 are douches and eventually the 5 douches will be the only ones playing/talking. That's pretty much WoW pugs in a nutshell IMHO.
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I can't recall a game that had less consequence for being a complete douche. The consequence has only dropped over the past couple expansions... and not surprisingly the douchebaggery has increased. Between cross server dungeons, paid name changes, server transfers, and a general lack of punishment for exploitive behavior (afk Battlegrounders I am looking at you)... being a douch will generally result in a larger personal return than someone who thinks they are doing the right thing.
I don't think it's the gameplay mechanics at all... it's the lack of consequence. Tanks just have the shortest queues (lower consequence) so you see it with them a lot more often. DPS may have had to have waited 20 minutes to get in that dungeon... the tank got in the second they felt like it. Take 100 people where only 5 are douches and eventually the 5 douches will be the only ones playing/talking. That's pretty much WoW pugs in a nutshell IMHO.
Bingo.
No takes responsibility for their actions, and those actions have no consequences, hence you hacve rampant douchery.
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Oh yes, AC1 was so perfect, nobody was a "douchebag" there...
Wait... macroers totally ruining quest dungeons, people fighting for spawns and jumping queues on patch day on the new mobs, scamming in trading...
Yeah, the AC1 community was nice, but not that nice. It had it's load of selfish <censored> too.
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Jerks going around killing people cuz they thought they were macroers with Vigilante cavalierism. It was the worst. Who was is that did that? Oh yea, you.
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Jerks going around killing people cuz they thought they were macroers with Vigilante cavalierism. It was the worst. Who was is that did that? Oh yea, you.
Peo, you are THE last poster on this board to call anyone else a jerk. . .
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There, there, it will be okay, Buttercup. I am sure, you are one of the few who can cast stones.
Oh wait.
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Jerks going around killing people cuz they thought they were macroers with Vigilante cavalierism. It was the worst. Who was is that did that? Oh yea, you.
Peo, you are THE last poster on this board to call anyone else a jerk. . .
Jerk. Now I am last! Where is my prize?
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Jerks going around killing people cuz they thought they were macroers with Vigilante cavalierism. It was the worst. Who was is that did that? Oh yea, you.
Peo, you are THE last poster on this board to call anyone else a jerk. . .
Jerk. Now I am last! Where is my prize?
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I have to agree with the OP ... but it's not just the tank with the attitude, these days. It's all those players who are pissy that the game's content and much of its gear was previously available to generally everyone - regardless of guild DKP status in WOTLK. Now all those uber players are right there praising Ghostcrawler and defending the increased difficulty that Cataclysm dungeons initially brought to the playerbase. You're damned right the dungeons are hard, loser. Don't stand in the fire, idiot! You've got to earn those points now, noob ... go fetch me a Honey Mead, you non-qual!
Well, Ghostcrawler ... you and your merry men have only yourselves to blame for what you've done to the Community since atoning for your "sins" in WOTLK with Cataclysm. If you think the schism between casual and hardcore players was an issue before, you ain't seen nothing yet. Many of those numbers you enjoyed on the balance sheet last expansion will just not be there this time around, thanks to your skewing expectations for both the hardcore and casual players.
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The best thing about tanks is whenever they screw up .. its the hunters fault.
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The best thing about tanks is whenever they screw up .. its the hunters fault.
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The best thing about tanks is whenever they screw up .. its the hunters fault.
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The best thing about tanks is whenever they screw up .. its the hunters fault.
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Although....Ahole tank piping in. Was in Lost City, did a pull then both the hunter and lock pet go after a set of mobs way far away, some freak thing. I just ask if they were tab targetting? Was mostly curious how the assist thing worked since I haven't been on my hunter. Didn't call them stupid or bitch at them or anything. The hunter goes on a rant about the new "assist" thing, takes it all personally, pulls three more sets of trash and the boss, MDs them to me, and leaves the group. We clean up his mess and kill the boss with just the four of us.
Then he spends the next 20 minutes sending me tells "How was that wipe? You #$%@^$!" I put him on /ignore. He gets an alt, I put him on /ignore. He logs another alt, I log off, get my other tank and finish the dungeon.
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Today I was doing some heroics on my lock got in a team with 3 melee and healer was pally tank,dk,and a fury warrior in Halls,Well that first pull can be nasty if fools arent assisting and or no cc.Anyways ofc the melle go flying in all 3 of em ondiff targets the priest just couldn't keep up and was a wipe the tank spent the next 5 mins telling the priest how bad they sucked I mean it was brutal I felt sorry for the healer amazingly the poor person just took it and didn't leave group.I finally got sick of hearing it and asked em to drop it the healer still stayed I finally got so sick of hearing it I left the group.
I will say the priest had alot more tempermant than I did if that had been me on my priest I would have let them make there next big pull and left team unreal how bad some people behave in here and berate people just trying to have fun and play the game if they aren't reading recount and being perfect people wanna tell them how much they suck.
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Then he spends the next 20 minutes sending me tells "How was that wipe? You #$%@^$!" I put him on /ignore. He gets an alt, I put him on /ignore. He logs another alt, I log off, get my other tank and finish the dungeon.
If this is true, that guy would have earned at least a few days without WoW if you had reported him. I know I would have (for harassment).
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I kinda disagree, I am the biggest ahole in the game and I play a hunter.
At least according to all the fail tanks I get into a group with, controlling my aggro, Misdirecting to the tank, FD when we potentially wipe and rezing everyone with Mass Rez, easily beating most people in DPS without pulling aggro. I am a totally bad player. CC'ing 2 mobs in a pull at the same time, I am TERRIBAD! It is especially cool when I get called out by a dps for being bad cuz he broke the trap with AoE....when I have taken the least damage in the group, done the most damage and doubled damage done of the guy who is calling me out.
So really *I* am the biggest ahole in the game.
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Noone in random PUGs "have the real power." Everyone is replaceable. DPS get replaced in seconds, healers in seconds and tanks within 30 seconds to a couple minutes.
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The_Korrigan posted:
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Then he spends the next 20 minutes sending me tells "How was that wipe? You #$%@^$!" I put him on /ignore. He gets an alt, I put him on /ignore. He logs another alt, I log off, get my other tank and finish the dungeon.
If this is true, that guy would have earned at least a few days without WoW if you had reported him. I know I would have (for harassment).
I thought about that after I switched toons.
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