Queued up on my druid… got Oculus of all places. Cool, she still needs to ride a green drake for the experienced drake rider – [and I'm not going to ask for the voids in a pug]. As a tank and as a healer, I’ve helped numerous people – guildie and non, get this achievement. It’s a small thing that can make someone’s day. So I do what I expect pugs to do – and ask in party if anyone minds me getting the green drake as it’s the last one I need for the achievement. No one objects and we begin. We down the first boss without incident, I snag my green drake and move to the middle platform. In the middle of the second pull, the healer asks
“y u got gren drak?”
I reply that as I said earlier it was the last one I needed for the experienced drake rider achievement and I really would like to get that done if possible.
“When?”
“Earlier in party.”
“Where?”
“In party chat”
*silence*
I do notice that I stop getting heals from aoe damage. Okay, cool. I have cooldowns as a kitty and I can heal myself if need be. The healer does actually heal me on the bosses…. I guess my 6-7k boss fight dps was important since the two locks in party were doing 1300 each, but who knows?
We fly through the instance – get to the last boss, get up there and begin. Since the healer insisted on staying on a green drake, I figured I’d keep the damage debuff up on the boss and let her handle her forte – the healing. Well, mid fight she stops healing anyone but herself – so I start healing. She’s sitting off the the side firing the poison at the boss – that’s it. Boss goes down handily as everyone obviously knows what to do. We land and loot… just in time to see the healer diving into a group of whelps and dying… to try and kill me apparently. I looted the chest and dropped group so fast – ended up in Dalaran with 200 health left.
Seriously, what was the point? I wasn’t asking for anything extraordinary, and no one else had issue with it. I’ve swapped with someone who needed the green or red a number of times in oculus – since I get that all the time as a random and as long as they asked nicely, was more than happy to do it.
Your expecting a level of maturity from this player base that simply isn’t there.
People are petty enough in real life, give em an anonymous situation and their character flaws/traits get magnified 10 fold.
I was just sitting there after hitting Dalaran after the healer tried to kill meh, mouth open thinking “are you stupid?” I know it’s not the nicest thought, but yeah… it was there.
On the other hand, people fear what they don’t understand. By forcing the healer into a role unfamiliar to them (from their perspective at least) it’s quite possible that they were significantly agitated and chose to take it out on you. I know when I first started healing at 80, I only knew how to do one part of every encounter, and being forced to change my role was significantly nerve-wracking.
True. I would have expected a healer with an average ilevel of 270 to be well aware of how things worked, but even so, they could have simply said something.
What I find amazing is that the healer didn’t just settle for having two green drakes. I know that’s what you ended up doing, but it seems they weren’t all too happy about it. Having two green drakes doesn’t really make things more difficult. Sure maybe a time stop less, but you have more healing if you get in a pinch…
I don’t know – some people just seem to get upset about the strangest of things.
Yeah, sometimes people get wacky about it. The other day I was running with a friend and I asked him if he wanted me on green or bronze and he got offended, thinking I wanted to heal *instead* of him when I was just offering him the choice of back-up healing or extra dps. Some people like 2 greens, others like 1, but hardly anyone realizes that their favored way isn’t the only way it can be done.
That’s so bizarre. I’m actually impressed that they tried so hard to kill you.
I told someone to get off the green drake – if they wanted me to heal on a Oculos run recently, they didn’t mention anything about needing an achievement, instead the same person then got a red drake without checking with the tank, body pulled the 2nd boss, and afk’d for the drake fight – imagine if he had been the healer. Someone on a green drake that doesnt know what they are doing can wipe the raid. I’m ok with it, if someone asks, but my next question is – do you know what you are doing? The amount of times I’ve seen healers heal other people to own death is not funny.
and Pugs reading party chat.. never…