Idiots

The problem with playing WoW again is that it reminds just how full of idiots the world is. I mean, I know it's full of idiots, but WoW likes to shove that fact in my face. Some of them even manage to subtly hide the fact so that you give them second chances and the benefit of the doubt. Those ones are the worst.

Exhibit A:

Warrior joins our party as a tank. As soon as he joins, he says 'I'm not a tank by the way. We don't need a tank.' (grammar fixed by yours truly, of course). Now, to me, that statement could mean one of two things. One - he actually knows what he's talking about and is used to iron-manning instances. I approve of this scenario. It signals fun times. Or two - he's a fucking idiot.

My gut instinct says number two. Especially as this is a PuG and you don't just jump into iron-manning with people you don't know as there's bound to be idiots. Like this guy. Ahem.

First few trash mobs go okay. Then we jump down to the next part (Gnomeregan, by the way) as the warrior's all 'OMGZ I NOES A SHORTCUT' (grammar messed up by yours truly, to emphasise stupidity). Fair enough, we usually jump down here anyway. Except the warrior misses the giant cog thing you're meant to land on, and instead lands on a mob. Okay, it's just one mob. The rest of us jump down to deal with it. More patrol into us. Tank not being a tank, he ignores 'em. Other people ignore 'em too. They all gang up on the healer. That's me. Ow. Fine, I heal myself AND the warrior for a while figuring he can take these guys off me once the one he's fighting dies. No dice, because when that one dies he decides to pull the boss. I'm still fending off two mobs and trying to heal him as well. I'm failing quite badly. I don't have very many panic spells at my little level and the only one I have will make things worse in this room (fear) so I just try to heal us both until we all fall over and die.

Then the warrior screams 'OMGS Y NO HEALZ U NOOB'. I explain that I can't heal whilst being beat in the face, and a tank would have been quite helpful in that situation. He laughs at me.

I leave the party. Now I have a deserter debuff thanks to that idiot.


More exhibits will come as they happen. My memory sucks too badly to give you a good account of any of the other hundreds of millions that have happened already, unfortunately.