Tuesday Stuff

I've been itching to post. Really i have.

1. The average wait time for LFD PUGS has not grown in length, but has grown to wear me down. Some days i just want to log on and do a random pug, then log off. That's all i want to do. but sitting there in front of the computer with the average wait time at 19 minutes doesnt help. as many of you know, that number is dynamic. and in 19 minutes that number can change to 25 minutes, or 1 second. it all depends on some force i cant understand. but its wearing on me and i feel my patience diminishing. fishing daily? forget it. cooking daily? nope. so there's no "buffer" in there to help with the wait. and if i alt-tab out to do something, i may miss my queue. bad all over isnt it?

2. Once i get into groups. there's a 50% chance someone will drop and a 75% that a second person will drop after the first person drops. there is a 92% chance that the first two people are either a healer or a tank. there is, after the first drop, a 75% chance that the group will fail before the first pull. these numbers are made up. but that's how i feel about the success of a group, especially in normal Old Kingdom.

3. jerkfaces galore. in all instances. in all places. everyone thinks they're in ilevel245 gear running heroics (that require about ilevel185 to even enter, and will not drop anything above 200 anyway) and thinks that a bunch of level 75s can breeze right through gundrak. right. dont forget you're not in purples. quit acting like everyone's overgeared. we're not. you're not being carried anymore so pull some fucking weight, will ya? thanks. if not, i can just drop group. i dont have to deal with this.

so with the 20 minute wait times, the high chance that groups will fail after that, plus the willingness for me to drop group and log on somewhere else just to chat or farm the baron's mount, i find that LDF PUGS are just not worth the effort. they arent. i've been doing less and less. maybe its because i am running as a dps now and much of the success of a group isnt entirely due to my leadership. i am just a dps. i feel a little powerless. maybe even hopeless as to the lack of direction or lead i can give to a group. heck, sometimes i still want to go back to tanking. but not right now.