PUGS - The Good and the Bad.

The GOOD about PUG’s.
1. Meet some interesting people.
2. Meet some good players. Ahh future guildies.
3. Meet players that know a lot and help everyone.
4. Unexpected outcomes. Beating Hell’s Precipice with only 4 people.
5. It’s easy to leave the group. This one’s not going to make it anyway.
6. There’s always room for a monk. 6/8 GLF two monks and we go. Invite self.
7. Good Tanks. Lead, call, adsorb and pound.
8. Meet winners. GJ team. Nice work. Anyone want to do this mission too? Cool.

The BAD about PUG’s.
1. Meet some interesting people.
2. Meet some poor players. More for my ignore list.
3. Meet players that think they know a lot and help everyone die.
4. Unexpected outcomes. What? A 55 and a Smiting monk both in my group. We’re dead.
5. People that leave the group. Now we are not going to make it.
6. There’s never room for the monk ego. 4/8 Sorry no room. The monk’s ego takes 4 slots.
7. Bad Tanks. Run, run, aggro every red dot I see. C’mon heal me monk.
8. Meet Whiners. OMG you noob. !@#$%&* This is the worst group I’ve ever seen.


PUG. You gotta admit it’s just a fun word.

Congratulations, you're the one millionth person to make a clever topic about PUGs

By this do you mean finding monks..? Because if you mean finding groups as a monk is difficult..well..maybe you shouldn't advertise as a smiter primary.

The dependance (or illusioned need) of monks in every pug makes finding groups twice as hard..Everyone who has sat in a mission town for hours (yes hours) for one or two monks, otherwise a full group, knows finding monks is a huge bitch.

Touche.

Another bad thing about PUGs, they don't want us Mesmers! [/cries]

Most just don't understand the power of a good mesmer. It's really kinda sad. When I played my mesmer i usually formed the group and that seemed to help.

Nah, Could be Assasin, your a step higher up as to getting a party / alt choice before I get picked
But Rit is still above both us as alt choices for most groups.

I'm not up2date. What is/are PUG(s) ?

Another plus for PUGs: Your teammates might be using new skill combinations that you hadn't thought of before. This can be a good thing if it's effective and helps you win the mission, but if it's not effective, that person is probably going to end up with 60% DP before you can say "noob".

EDIT: PUG stands for "pick-up group," as in a group you form in a town/outpost/mission through spamming LFG in towns. It's the opposite of a guild group.

Congratulations, you're the ten millionth person to complain about a topic and give it a free bump at the same time. ;p

I rarely PUG, guild groups are too ftw. Even henches are better than PUGs 90% of the time. Sad but true.

There is 1 bad thing about PUGS. This sorta thing happens.

Please edit out names before posting pictures. -Swampgirl

The first Crystalline Sword i've ever seen drop, and some thieving little shit steals it.

Please tell me why i should edit out the name of someone who has just stolen my Crysalline Sword?

Heh..I didn't know what it meant for a long long time...

Pick
up
Group.

Not sure what the real reasons are but afaik, if GWG allowed people to post the names of scammers, legitimate players could be harmed.

Some guy could just show up and tell everyone that Don Zardeone killed his dog and stole all his money. Then everyone would get in-game, spam the hell out of the "scammer" and then they'd think they did a good deed while in reality, Don didn't do anything.

How can we be sure you didn't fake it all?

Sucks, I know...

on topic: yeah pugs are poopie

I've got slightly better things to do with my time than fake images. Thieving little shits like this one are another matter. If your desperate to know how the rest of it went. I added her to Friends, messaged her on a different character. Barely 2 seconds later she 'went offline' again.

Don Zardeone got it in one.

Back on topic please.

why are we talking about those dogs? oops but seriously pick up groups do give ya headaches.
Yes I do think henchmen are better most of the time...success- and time-wise..
I suppose plenty of ppl could have saved those lost hours for whatever they could have done instead of them spamming LFG or GLF monks

thats one of the reason why I might have deleted my poor mesmer lol

PUG's....just saying PUG gives me the shivers....Lerroys, smiting monks that say they are healers, 55 monks running around in fow, leechers, oh god the list goes on...

Pff, I've PUG'ed all my charas through the game and without pain, don't really have any nightmare stories either. :d

I suppose Euro server > Yankee server when it comes to PUG quality

1) Its against rules
2) Theres no reason why we need to know who did it.

oh noooooes not the rulez!

Ok just joking.

But yes there are rules, we cover names up to prevent "Witch Hunts" against people like this.

I always do missions with PUGS. Just a few days ago I joined a group in the Ring of Fire just to help out a fellow guildy. We failed miserably, because our group did not lure carefully, and simply rushed in towards the seals expecting our hench-healers to be able to handle that. But I did not find it a bad experience.

In fact, not at all. It's nice to teach some of the more inexperienced players how to do missions you've already done like a zillion times... and if the pug fails the mission, not a problem at all. It's the fun that counts. We had some very interesting battles. The lack of experience in the group made the trip so much more challenging. To me, pug's are always more fun than henchies. Sure there's the occasional whiner or bot, but most of my experiences with pugs are good.