Comments on: Looking for players in all the wrong places

By: Dechion

Dechion — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:00:26 +0000

Hmmmm, never thought much about pugs. I suppose that is becaude I first leveled a hunter to 70 and got tired of not getting the time of day. Hunters have such a bad rep for being a$$hats that can’t play I couldn’t find a group outside of my guild. Even had trouble pug runs as a member of a raiding guild.
Then again I recently finished leveling a priest to 70 on a different server, I am already guilded but I think I will try a pug or 3 and see if I can add to my friends list. Hopefully a holy priest can find a group a bit easier.

lastly Nicely done on the site, followed a link here from world of matticus.

By: Hexapuma

Hexapuma — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:06:58 +0000

Great post! It almost felt you were writing the article directly to me =)

By: Magpie

Magpie — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:49:29 +0000

Every once in a long while, after a guild is absolutely torn to shreds, they may resort to trade chat. You can find good people there (we’ve found a few) but you’re just as likely to get the total awful ones as well.

It’s a crapshoot, our guild uses it some just because our server is so tiny, and members are tough to find. However, anyone recruited that way is getting a long interview to see what kind of person they are, and possibly a heroic run. :)

Everyone gets interviewed naturally, just… they get longer ones…

By: Sedna

Sedna — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:14:14 +0000

I linkhopped over here from Ratshag’s place- wanted to compliment you on this piece. Really nicely done! I kind of came from the opposite side of the issue on this one- was in a guild I really enjoyed last summer, when I PUGed Shadow Labs with a couple of random folks. Two of em were from the same guild and really impressed me- solid players who had a great attitude (during what was a long and frustrating run) and were obviously having a blast. When my guild imploded in the fall, I remembered those two guys, looked up their guild website, and applied. It’s one of the best group of people I’ve ever met. (And if you’re Horde-side on Trollbane, look up Nuclear Launch Detected; we have chili made from Gruul.)
And BigRed: true- all of this is apparent if you think about it, but it never hurts to restate the obvious now and again. That’s how advice columnists earn their money.

By: Ratshag

Ratshag — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:09:44 +0000

@BigRed-

Gots to respectfully disagrees. If a person’s first few pugs all turn out to be with time-wasting morons, it’s pretty easy to get discouraged and stop doing them. Got nothing to do with common sense or intelligence. Which be why it’s needed fer peoples like BBBBBBB to point out the why you should keep on keeping on.

Is dang fine article, imo. Entertainings, too.

By: BigRed

BigRed — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:07:42 +0000

Oi,

I enjoy your writing a lot, and I know the adage about common sense being rather uncommon

but

shouldn’t all of what you wrote here rather apparent for the smarter WOWler? I’ve never understood the PUG-fear that seems to infect many players, and word-of-mouth always works best, in RL as well as in WOW…

By: Kikidas

Kikidas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:42:30 +0000

I love PuG’s. Some of my BEST FRIENDS (insert girly squeal here) came from PuG’s.

1: Sometimes you can find cool people in PuG’s and have exactly what you described happen to you.
2: Sometimes you find someone of the same class better than you and you can get pointers.
3: Sometimes you’re out DPSing everyone by 20% and you get a little self-esteem boost (oh yeah, I’m hot, that’s right)
4: Sometimes you crack a joke in /p and suddenly you’ve got your new best friend cracking jokes back at you in /t. (Give me my hand back!)
5: Sometimes, you find someone of the same class worse than you are and you can GIVE pointers.

<3 PuG’s.

By: Lennie

Lennie — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:28:24 +0000

As usual you approached a timely topic for me. I am still undecided about continuing with a raiding guild, because frankly I am not that good at it, and I made stupid mistakes. You are correct that it boils down to the fear of the instance. I am the solitary quester and I like pvp and battlegrounds. But I would also like to have the fun of raiding with a like minded group of individuals and it is hard to find. You are also right about the bar being higher with people that you know. Now I am finding solace in alts, but your blog gave me something to think about. Thanks.

By: Rohan

Rohan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:25:01 +0000

This post was superb. Very well done.

By: Irv

Irv — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:13:30 +0000

<3 wind nice post btw