Zaishen PuG Rant List

This. I usually have good experiences with pugs, but sometimes it's just bad. What some teams lack is just a good leader. If you feel your pug is failing and you know the dungeon/mission/etc. very well, then go on and guide them (while still showing respect). If you see someone doing something wrong, just tell him and he will learn. Today's Zaishens were just terrible for me, so I tried to take over and make things right (and it worked).

What I'm trying to say is : a highly skilled player is just as useless as a clueless player if he can't guide him and teach him how to play.

except nightfall didn't come out until 2006.

I generally have good to tolerable experiences in PUGs. I've managed to roll through some of the hardest areas of the game with a PUG. However, every 4th or 5th time I end up in a group of morons, generally consisting of one or more of the following:

1. Warrior with tormented shield (every time) who runs off to aggro every group of enemies, despite not having any tank-ish skills.
2. Guy who brings along a lvl 5-7 pet in HM and won't stop rezing it every 5 seconds.
3. Person who refuses to ping build then complains when it turns out someone who did is stepping on their toes. (even better if its a SOS rit!)
4. MM necro who stands way too close to the action. (Oh god, Minions everywhere!)
5. Leader who forgets to leave space in the party for monks/healers ("Ok let's all just bring a self-heal, guys!"
6. Impatient monk who quits if the party's not immediately ready to leave upon his joining.
7. For dungeons: Guy who ragequits as soon as the party wipes, regardless of the situation.

Any one of those is sure to ruin your PUG experience.

I totally agree.
Last night I did a HM Zbounty with a pug.
I noticed from the first minute, the group I was in was terrible at communicating with each other. No discussing about what route to take, no target calling... in fact, no one saying a word almost.

After a few wipes inside the dungeon, I got rather furious.
I didn't ragequit, I didn't yell... but I started calling targets in the order that I deemed necessary to kill.

The problem with being a leader I think, is some people (by the looks of it "most", when in a bad party), don't dare to take responsibility. But if a party is already failing in the first five minutes... it cannot get any more worse if you try.

If you have basic knowledge about the game: target calling, pulling and agroing, conditions and some awareness of your enviroment then don't be afraid to be a leader if you see no one else moving a finger to try and make the best of it.

I wasn't that good of a leader though. (or maybe one that took it upon himself to late), cause afterwards I realized... 2 had two healers, but not one of them was prot.
And that in HM...

But atleast I tried. (where one just d/c'ed and took he easy way out) And in the end it worked out to.

Now i suddenly want to pick up my main monk again and go for another round of effortless zaishen pug completing with her.

You shouldn't give a player any flag for forgetting to set Dunkoro to avoid combat. It's a completely understandable mistake. Every single time I do Moddok Crevice there's always someone who reminds the one using Dunkoro to set him to avoid combat.

Using EVAS as a snare... LOL.

Moddock Crevice is actually easy. Next one is gloom in HM that will probably be done by dwg teams while other will fail big time. No problem for me to tank gloom in hm but the main question is will I do it? While doing zm/zb with pugs I notice that pugs tends to bring heavy aggro breaker spells or ebon assasin that for me as a tank will be a big problem in gloom. Since the dwg era I it started to be almost imposible to do foundry/gloom the old ways.
I really wait to see how people will use cons in gloom and die at first group of mobs :)) .
I end up bringing my father to gw (he is not even a decent player) but he listen, I set up his heroes and usually there are no problems.

Regarding Moddock Crevice, as far as I know you can kill the corsairs, ignoring Dunkoro second suggestion and still get bonus.

Rage quit is funny, it's even funnier when it happenes when you have only 1-2 groups left to kill and you see how 5 of them just leave, you remain in 3 no healer no res and you do it .

Also the problems with ele damage in HM is not cause of ele, it's cause atm ele damage in HM is one of the worst posible .

I think the whole "skillfulness" matter is blown out of proportion. I don't see such a huge difference in player skill in PvE that should warrant complaining. It's not like any task in the game is so difficult that only a group of hard pros can complete it.

I'm thankful enough to have already earned my Legendary Guardian, so my regular pugging days are over. These days I only tend to bother with the easier/faster ZMs/ZBs so it's pretty much impossible to hit a pug that can't do it.

Imperial Sanctum the other day for example was actually quite interesting with many people bringing some random builds to just blunder their way to victory.

I love this one. And especially when they don't believe me when I say that a dead pet always gets XP, even when it's outside radar range.

That's pretty much exactly what I do as well.

Yesterday was one of the worst z-missions in quite a while now though, as far as PUGs are concerned. Probably because it involved more than jsut brainless killing ..

I think you enjoy getting into these parties and whining because you can easily h/h all of the zb/zm except a few

To ad to your list of things that can ruin a pug.

8. Monk who leaves if he/she is the only monk in the party, even tho there is for example a resto rit. Sure in some of the harder areas, two monks is prefered, but for easier missions, or for the esier bounties (where the boss is in an explorable area) using other professions for healing works just as well.
9. Random player starting to rant about another teammates build half way through the mission/dungeon even tho said build was pinged and accepted befor you started.
10. Ppl who absolutely have to open every chest in the area, and, instead of asking if we can clear extra mobs for chests, simply runs away on their own, pulling tons of mobs, setting off popups etc etc just to get to the chest, or to uncover hidden treasures with LoD.
11. And ofc the ever to hated leechers/AFK'ers who thinks they can get a free run through the dungeon while they stand behind at the entrance pretending to be AFK.
12. The folks who happily go AFK in mid combat without saying anything.
13. Beggers who want the rest of the group to hand him/her good weapons that drops from mobs/chests/bosses because said person "needs it more" than the person who actually got it. And ofc wont shut up about it even tho told no several times.
14. Ppl who seem to have a good skillbar, but once you start the dungeon/mission, only uses one or two skills, or simply auto attacks in hopes of getting carried around without having to do much at all.
15. Ppl who dont know what their skills do, with the result of using them completely wrong. (Yes i can understand some ppl have a hard time with english, or wutever language they use in gw, but it can still ruin a pug.)
16. Ppl who dont seem to know how to use the chat, at all, and wont reply what so ever when the rest of the team tries to talk to the person, or dont even react when their name is called.
17. Ppl who rush even tho the healers says they cant keep up with the pressure, and then said person rants like a mother when the team wipes.
18. Ppl who claims they know exactly what to do and knows which way to go, even tho it turns out they dont have a bloody clue.
19. Ppl who joins a group with the intention to leave once they've got the items they wanted/killed the boss they needed, even tho that wasnt the end of the dungeon. This includes ppl who joins a pug even tho they know from the start that they wont have time to finish it, and then ends up leaving half way through.
Example: Group is made for a full DoA clear, everyone seem to be aware that its a full run, and everyone agrees to it. However, this day, the ZB is the stygian lords. The group starts, its going fairly good, but once the stygian lords are down, one or more players leave, cause that was all they needed to complete the ZB, leaving the rest of the team with maybe lots of wasted time, wasted consets/other consumables and no choice but to start over again finding new ppl.
20. Ppl who absolutely have to pick on others, no matter what its about, if maybe the character has ugly hair, ugly armor, ugly weapons, or the choice of profession.
21. Ppl tho intentionally wipe the team for pure fun. This includes runners/ppl who invites survivors to the team, and then intentionally gets them killed just for the fun of seeing someones hard work be wasted.

If you don't like pugs or think most pugs are terrible, why join one, then come here and bullet list why they are bad? Everyone has their opinion about the quality of pugs. When most of the time is spent with H/H, very few will know what to do in a pug. You can micro, or not, your H/H team, where with pugs, you will hope they will do the right thing.

With pugs, you get what you get. Look for bad in a group, you will find it. No reason to tell everyone how bad they were. Look for the good, and you have a good/great time, and no one will probably hear about it.

"Guild Wars Nightfall is the third campaign of Guild Wars, released on October 27, 2006"

Cool time machine bro.

You'll probably make the excuse that you typoed that instead of 2006, but HM wasn't released till 2007, so there'd still be reason to do it beyond that even if it weren't for the Zquest, which this whole thread is about.

The snide one-liner thing doesn't really work when you expose yourself as a total moron, fyi.

Terrible builds. Although I haven't played in awhile, I respect people's innovation to an extent, as I too look beyond meta builds. However, players should never use their creativity as an excuse for a subpar build.

I've seen #1 with dervish/sin. I don't mind if you're melee and want to outsource all self-support for a full offense bar, but if you die I don't blame the PUG monk.

#5 I cannot believe how many times this happens. I'll add: leader accepting random anyones when your party lacks [wanted role], and there's one LFG.

#6 is nostalgia to me. My oldest PUG memories are of hoping no one in the party upsets them because I couldn't do the missions on my own.

http://mikeofwffguild.blogspot.com

You have to dig back in the archives a bit, but there's pretty much a whole thread on this blog about annoyingly terrible things I discovered whilst pugging things.

I'm not saying I can H/H *everything* and that my word is gospel, but I am a capable player and had to have somewhere to vent frustration. I pugged my 10 guardians BECAUSE my guild was dead and because the good teams could get stuff done so much easier.

Just about everyone can H/h the entire game now. You can at the very least, 2 humans and heroes everything for certain unless you are utterly clueless.

Every 5 posts is someone saying "this is why I h/h everything".

Which makes me wonder, why you even open a forum post about PuGs unless you are Devona's chosen Prophet. Sent to this world to preach the ways of playing a multi-player game completely by yourself 100% of the time.



Let me reiterate, nearing the game's 6th anniversary, 4 years of HM, and 2 years of Zaishen quests....you actually find that 90% of the people you PuG with are pretty good 90% of the time.

Whenever you PuG you get 2 derps who aren't that good, but the rest pulls the group through.

This thread is for that special moment, when you get 4-6 people in the PuG who are hopelessly ill-equipped and clueless.

I really don't see a point in making a thread to complain about pugs...