Dickhead of the Week

I recently hit 80 and, having spent the requisite length of time saving for epic flying, acquiring crafted epics and grinding rep with the Sons of Fucking Holdir, have started making tentative steps towards raiding.

My guild is basically a casual leveling guild, but we’ve got some 80s (80% of them Death Knights, make of that what you will) and one of my fellow renegades from the Scourge has started trying to get pickups together for the introductory raids.

We did Obsidian Sanctum yesterday, and it went quite well – we downed Sartharion on our second attempt, and I was only killed by Void Zones once.

The pickup started with somebody asking how many drakes we were leaving up, and I replied that since I had never actually so much as been in a raid group before, I’d rather we didn’t leave any up thank you very much.

Everybody was completely stunned.

It seems to be utterly contrary to pickup group etiquette to admit that you haven’t (a) done the raid before and (b) found it far too easy. Nobody is willing to ask if anybody needs – shock horror – to have the fights explained to them because nobody is going to admit not knowing anyway.

Today we tried to PuG Naxx, which is where I met the Dickhead of the week.

I don’t normally name characters I complain about on this blog, because it’s unfair, but I will say that the guy’s name was a variant on the word “Elite” which I think is indicative. People with the word “elite” in their name are extraordinarily likely to be dickheads (newsflash guys, elitism <> merit, hereditary aristocracy is elitist, it doesn’t mean the nobility have rigorous selection procedures).

When I asked who had done the instance before, TDotW replied by asking “is that a real question?”

I assured him that it was, at which point he laughed and, by way of an answer, linked an achievement.

The Undying perhaps? Or The Dedicated Few. Or maybe he could have just pointed to his Twilight Vanquisher title or linked Glory of the Raider

No, Dickhead of the Week linked The Fall of Naxxaramas.

Wow. I stand in awe of the fact that you have done the instance before.

I think he just thought that nobody should be PuGging something unless they’d already run it. To which I can only say this:

How much must you fucking suck at this game if you won’t run a raid unless it’s with people who have already done it. Is your DPS so shit that you need the entire raid to be in tier gear to compensate? Do you understand so little about the fights that you can’t explain them to other people? Do you only want to raid if it boils down to free loot for you?

I got kicked from that particular pickup because – after waiting by the summoning stone for a fucking hour – I disconnected and they replaced me. They apparently wiped on the first boss, and the group collapsed. Later I got a tell from TDotW simply saying “Spec ap hit crit”.

What I did not do was reply saying “fuck you, if you were as hardcore as you think you are, you wouldn’t be in LFG” but I really should have done.