Jerking the PuG

As a healer recently returned to the game almost solely due to the awesomeness of the new LFG tool - I freely admit that since I play with my partner and our mutual friend, who are the Amazing Tank and PewPew Deeps, our groups are devoid of the main pitfalls of most PuGs.

However, there are a few worthy mentions.

For instance, a group we joined after first boss of AN was dead. Two DPS remained, so the tank and healer (and one dps) had obviously given up. We quickly saw why, as the two dps left, a dk and mage, did well under 2k dps, the arcane mage as low as 1.2k... I was pulling that on my mage at lvl 70! My overgeared self, friend (tank) and partner (dps) decided we might as well carry them. We've got one solid dpser, I can heal most anything and the tank is awesome, so why not? They might actually use some of the gear.

We start the encounter for the second boss, and since the dps is low the boss comes running up. Now the Death Knight decides that running right into him (and a swarm of mini mobs) is not only a good idea, but AoE'ing him and continuing this constantly despite various yells to stop is even better. With his self heals and the sadly uncontrollable jump of PoM, and feral druid crit heals, he stayed up as long as the tank did until we all died. We release, run in, vote to kick the DK, and proceed to try again. Except the mage is still lying there dead.

"Rez" comes the demand. My eyebrows rise... being newly dinged and not knowing how to play your class very well in heroics is one thing. Running in after a wipe is just plain common courtesy and *not related to Gear Score at all*.

I reply "Everyone else ran in, just release and run."

"I had to let dogs out" comes the excuse.

We still haven't replaced the DK and are waiting around. It's AN, it takes 30 seconds to run back in.

"There's plenty of time, just release and run."

And this is where he really starts complaining. Apparently we aren't even half decent people, not handing him a res. My wonderful tanky friend, the paladin, replies that we are evil people and we're not resing him because we'd rather just kill the boss than annoy it for 30 minutes. The mage's contribution is minimal which was his idea of an easy ride but also means he's totally superfluous to our efforts. He still lies there, bitching at us in /p as we get in a new DK, one that isn't an idiot, who runs in to us, we buff and just start the encounter.

When it's clear that we really are going to let him lie there, and have engaged the boss himself, he releases and runs in, jumping down just in time for the last half of the fight.

Now, a lot of people would just whine at me for being stubborn about the rez. And if he'd been either a decent player or just a decent person, I'd have ressed him without any fuss. But a bad attitude from a bad player in bad gear makes me a prickly healer, and that's not elitism, it's just what you get for being lazy and rude.