perfectly describes my biggest pet peeve.

really?
raiding since BC with the same group so you should automatically just be able to log in once a week with gear that isnt even ready for Ulduar?
really?
jeez im SOOO glad you think that those engineer’s googles look cool… it makes me even happier to know that your 2.5 DPS with your gear makes you moderately skilled at your class….

especially when the mage that didnt get invited can do 5

and we have enrage timer issues on Anub.

but glad you came… so you can interupt the GM/RL’s instructions and call out “heroism” whenever the fuck YOU feel like it.

asshat.

/endrant

2.Yelling at players on vent/nerdrage.

3.Almost anything said anymore in Trade chat

4.High level players grabbing low level mining or herb nodes from my lowbie alt, or any player taking mining/herbing nodes while im fighting a mob on top of it.

5.Players not eating after fights, expecting me, as a healer, to sit and get mana, heal them, then sit again and get mana. This blows my mind. Food is cheap.

I’ll be nice about it once; maybe he spazzed. That happens to me sometimes, I hit the wrong one of the three identical icons I have for misdirect and MD my pet instead of my tank. We finish the fight and I apologize for it, and it’s done… But more than once, it’s not a mistake anymore, it’s being stupid.

The thing I hate most in the World…of Warcraft: The fact that Trade chat has turned into the Barrens/dimwit channel. It’s impossible to actually try and buy or sell anything, because of all the idiots who think it’s their private channel, chattering about how they did this, how their guild did that, spamming ‘beep beep i’m a jeep’ macros, chuck norris ‘jokes’ that weren’t funny the first time 20 years ago and have gotten less funny since then, etc.

Another is ‘lf 50,000+ dps for Wailing Caverns, must link achievement and have better gear than Arthas’, and you find out that they’re all in green crap and expecting you to carry them.

Hunters who can’t control their pets have always been a pet peeve. No, it’s not fun if your pet runs off and chews on the next pull while we’re still killing this one. (Although the time a pet pulled the entire audience in Opera was hilarious.)

Raid leads who spend 20 minutes discussing a boss strat. Damn it, my overpriced flask and hard-fished food are ticking off and we could have had at least two solid attempts during that time. If you can’t explain a strat in 5 minutes, people aren’t going to pull it off anyway.

Loot – People who roll greed when there is an enchanter in the party. People who roll need on BoE gear and then don’t equip it. People who roll against mainspec for offspec without saying anything in advance. Raiders who try to roll/bid on wildly inappropriate gear.

Anyone who stands in the fire. One day I might just let you die.

This leaves us looking for three DPS, there are alot of good players in our guild, but there are always those you learn to avoid. Most of them Hunters funnily enough, now I’ve raided on a Hunter. I did BT and Sunwell back when it was actually a challenge, and I pride myself on my knowledge of all the classes I’ve played. There are two said Hunters that I hadn’t actually tanked for before, I knew they weren’t the most.. intelligent players in the game, but this one really takes the cake. Tanking Violet Hold Heroic when we get a portal with the multiple mobs. Before I’ve even hit them, one of these Hunters fires off a Multishot, I’ve now got 3 running at him, and 1 running at the healer. I manage to grab them all and he doesn’t have the nouse to understand what he did wrong. I simply state “You do that again, deal with them yourself”. Which I thought was fairly reasonable, it was his response that infuriated me. You know what it was?! “100% in control”!

Add a Misdirection in there, problem solved, but nooooo.

THIS. This times 100.

I’m generally a pretty chilled guy about game stuff. I’m there to have fun with other people. I want to do the best job I can in a group and I want to bring my part, so I take that seriously. I don’t take loot seriously because it’s just pixels, as long as it goes to somebody who can use it, all good. I don’t mind wiping as long as everyone isn’t repeating the same mistakes. I’m all good.

But do something asshatted and then tell me “relax, it’s just a game” and I will utterly lose it with you.

Yes, it is just a game, but it is also our free time — free time which we wish to spend enjoyably. Being denied some loot on a fair roll, unnecessary corpse runs and repair bills are a few of the things that detract from our enjoyment of the game.

People who are ALWAYS poor. Too poor to repair. Too poor to buy flasks. Too poor to do anything and are constantly begging for money to raid. BUT you know they’ve been online all day pvping, levelling alts, whatever and haven’t done a single daily quest/trade skill/whatever.

People who lecture others on performance – bonus points when they’re either failing themselves and/or WORSE than the person they’re lecturing

You’ve had a mage table (actually 2 because someone ALWAYS forgets to click it), everyone has 80 mana biscuits. You wipe. Everyone runs back, buffs, eats drinks. Except the melee/tanks who sit there on half health waiting to heal. They HAVE MANA BISCUITS! EAT DAMN IT! The healers are getting their mana back/buffing!

You have a raid planned. It’s been planned all week. They signed for it – a week ago. But when you’re all waiting in ulduar they’re STILL in Ironforge with the HS on cooldown. And there are 10 squillion horde at the summoning stone.

Related – you’re going to an instance/raid etc. All ready to go – except one person who suddenly decides to do 10 arenas, check the mail on 50 characters on 17 servers, do a Vault of Achavon and compose a sonnet to his night elf’s eyes – and, oh you’re waiting for me? YES!

Or when you KNOW a boss bugs if you use death savers. Like Leviathan. Or Hodir. You know he does. You’ve seen it 100 times. But they STILL DI/Vanish/Feign Death/Shadow Meld. WHYYYYYY WHYYYYY?!

people who demand fish feasts. Our guild brings fish feasts to most high level raids because most people can’t be arsed (the best folks don’t use them anyway because they’re rarely the best buff). This is generous – don’t DEMAND them if we’re alt farming! ESPECIALLY if you don’t fish!

People who only think of themselves in group composition! “Put that resto shaman in my group, I need the hit!” Uh, and the 4 healers in that group like the mana tide.

METER ADDICTS! Sure they’ve dispelled/decursed nothing, done NO crowd control and REFUSED to move out of fire/away from orbs/kill adds, but they’re high on the meters! GAH!

PURPLIX BLINDNESS! It’s a higher item level than they need. Sure they’re a holy priest and it’s a neck decked out in mp5 and crit rating, and sure there’s a resto shaman and a holydin also needing on it – but it has a higher item level! THEY MUST HAVE IT!

CC breakers! Seriously most of us learned NOT to use aoe/splash damage around the cc when we were in DEADMINES but noooo every time you hear “oh, I shouldn’t use living bomb/consecrate/heartstrike then?” AFTER the wipe of course. AAAAAAAAAARGH

Personal announcements on vent that we don’t need – especially if you’re speaking over the raid leader when he’s saying things like “Warlock,. help on the adds please.” No, instead we here “I’m dead!” (yes we can see) “damn lag’s bad” (yes we know)

Screaming “heal me” in a raid. Heal you? Really? Well oh my god, see, I’m a resto shaman and have been healing for years now, but damn, I never knew you wanted me to HEAL. Thanks, I never would have known. We know. We can see the green bars. We know you need healing. If we’re NOT healing you there’s a damn good reason for it (oomness, tank dying, we’re getting to you or you’re doing something stupid like NOT MOVE the WHOLE damn hodir fight and we’re letting you DIE rather than waste any more mana on you)

Oh oh oh, another healer gripe – and hunters are the main offender here – why why why why WHY do you ALWAYS try to be as far away from everyone else as possible? You’re NEVER in range. EVER. And don’t run away when you have Incinerate flesh!!!

Suicide locks!!! Locks who lifetap regardless of their health or situation – Tympanic Tantrum, Frozen Blows, Anub Rekhan’s frost dot, Incinerate flesh. They don’t care

People who have 10 million alts but as soon as one is geared they switch to the next one so you can NEVER progress and all the loot you’ve already worked on to get them is now wasted

People who insist on spamming “alternate tactics” even while the raid leader is explaining. EVEN on a boss that is so farmed we don’t have to explain tactics.

Drama and figure pointing – on this I’m glad I’m GM and RL. People want drama and want to blame people? KICK from raid & guild. We don’t need that crap.

Negativity. One wipe and that’s it, the world is over! A raid has to be cancelled because 3 people are on holiday? WOE the guild is dying etc etc. Seriously, some perspective please?

Hmmm… I think i need a therapist now