So I was working on my druid the other day. I queued up for a Blood Furnace to get the two quests knocked out. The group ended up being myself (feral), Death Knight Tank, Priest Healer, a Mage, and a Hunter. As soon as we zoned in, the Hunter remarked “finally!, a Death Knight Tank that knows what he’s doing.” I’m not really sure what the Hunter was referring to, maybe it was the fact that he was using a two-hander instead of trying to tank DW with crappy gear. I, on the other hand, smelled the foul odor of a DeathN00b

The guy’s gear was so-so. He had a mix of tanking and dps blues and greens. His spec was a mess. Aside from the obligatory 5 points for the top tanking talents, he had some points in unholy, and most in frost. He actually uses a little death grip on the pulls, and does a decent job taunting the stragglers.

All is well until we pull up to the area right outside the room of the first boss. He proceeds to pull the entire room; a room that would normally be broken up into 3 separate pulls. The priest heals his heart out, I jump out of cat form and start throwing on hots and heals. Eventually, he just dies because he doesn’t have the avoidance or mitigation to hold them all. The group wipes, and I get blamed for not shadow melding >< . The Hunter then warned him against pulling so many. To which the Death Knight responds “ok sorry”.

We pull into the boss’s room. The Death Knight is a good boy for two pulls before sliding back into his old ways. The Hunter then warns him again to stop pulling half the room. The Death Knight responds back this time with “used to a different kind of heal; sorry”. Now in my mind, the only kind of healer that could heal a piss-poor geared Death Knight Tank through an entire room of mobs are his 80 friends that have decided to go slumming in Blood Furnace because they feel bad for him. It wasn’t the healer’s fault, it was him. He had both the main healer, and myself trying to keep his sorry backside alive.

Following this little exchange, he decided to drop group and the dungeon run quickly disintegrated. I only got one of my two quests done.

Loot Whores

Another disturbing trend I’ve been noticing in my heroic runs is that always seems to be a person in the group that just stands there when final loot is being rolled on. They wait until everyone else has left the group to roll on stuff because once you leave, you forfeit loot rolls. I saw a similar situation like this on my 2 out of 3 heroic runs last night.

I would hazard a guess that most people just click greed greed greed, and then don’t stop to notice if the loot was actually rolled on before making a quick exit to start the next run. I’m not a fan of douchbags that use dirty tactics such as this for their personal gain.

That’s all for this post, keep on raiding and hopefully we’ll see 3.3.3 pretty soon here.

I had hoped that by now we were past the whole deathnoob trend. I was unfortunately surprised by a pug individual, from another server, that I partied with on a random dungeon run. I was leveling my warlock and got queued up for an AN run.

His aggro performance was poor, but worst of all, he kept dying against trash. We had wiped twice before the first boss (there isn’t really that much trash before the first boss in AN). He also wiped us once with his ghoul (on aggressive).

His gear was pitiful, but it’s not like he could or should have a bunch of epics at 74. Worst of all, his spec was a mess. He was pretty much full unholy dps. I don’t think I saw him pop IBF or AMS the entire time. I wanted to smack the guy after the second wipe.

My feelings were confirmed when after we wiped on the second boss, he accused me of being lazy by not soulstoning him (forcing him to walk back obviously). To which me and the resto shammy both responded back that I had indeed stoned the Shammy instead. He questioned my choice by saying that because he was having trouble staying up, I should stone him instead.

I pointed out that once he’s down he loses aggro on all the mobs he’s tanking anyways. To which he responded “but no, I have Death Grip”.

Now consider such obvious fallacies as calling me lazy because he’s too lazy to walk back. I tried to suggest better ways of doing things, and I’m at least happy to have made it through the dungeon, but this guy is a shining example of how not to play a DK.