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sailor · 06-02-2005, 12:17 PM

GAHHH!! My first experience with being ninja looted!

We were running BFD. The leader of the group, a 34 shaman, started to insist that the staff that drops off one of the bosses was his. Me and another guy (the only other member of the group that knew what he was doing) insisted that no, it wasnt his to claim, but that if he wanted it, he could roll on it just like anyone else who could use it. He continued to insist that because he was higher level than me (Im a 28 priest), it was his, and I couldnt roll on it, even though its a priest staff (rod of the sleepwalker, +11 int +10 spir). We continued to insist that it was up for the roll. At this point, Im seriously thinking hes either gonna boot me from the group or change it to master looter just before the kill. He doesnt do this though, he just continues to bitch. We finally get him to agree on loot rules--if its bind on pickup and you can use it, roll, and the winner gets it: the standard fare. So at this point everyone in the group knows very well what the loot rules are, as we spent more time setting them than killing things. We get to the boss--first, while we are still killing the goons that surround him so we have an easier shot at him, he just runs up to him and aggros him. So now we have a serious fight on our hands. We barely survive and kill the dude, and then, the goddamn WARRIOR rolls on and wins the staff! The shaman starts screaming and yelling, cursing everyone up and down as the only other sane guy in the group and myself ask the warrior why he rolled. He doesnt answer. Then, he and the shaman run to the torches and activate them all, flooding the room with somewhere in the vicinity of 50 creeps. Of course, we all wipe. If you havent run BFD, you activate these torches one at a time and kill each wave successively. I know these two guys knew this and had run it before, because they were both talking about how many times they had run it.

Me and the other good dude took the spirit healer and immediately dropped from the group and hearthed home. He had a 60 and went to put out a blacklist. I also got to put out my first blacklist.

Bah, Im venting at this point, sorry. Im still pissed off. I should have dropped the group early. I almost did, realizing early on that most of the group was either very childish or an idiot, but decided to go for it anyways, which I now regret. You live and learn, right?

Let me vent about the group too. There were 5 of us--me (28 priest), the bad warrior, a good warrior, the shaman, and another priest. Not the best group, but we are all rather high for the instance, so no biggie. First, it takes us forever to get started. Half the group is just running around Ashenvale looking for HKs, and wont come to run the instance until after about 15 minutes of prodding. Then, we get in the instance, and the only ones that know how to play worth a damn are me and the good warrior. The bad warrior cant hold his aggro for shit, the shaman, well, you know about that, not to mention that he liked to just run up and aggro things while we still had our hands full, and the other priest couldnt fathom that using psychic scream in an instance is bad because it aggros other creeps. And he used it when he wasnt even in trouble or getting beat on. Not to mention he didnt know the difference between bind on pickup and bind on equip, and we had to explain it to him after he rolled on and won a BoP blue *mail* chestpiece. After that, he still had to ask if he could wear something everytime there was a roll.

06-02-2005, 12:17 PM	#731 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	GAHHH!! My first experience with being ninja looted! We were running BFD. The leader of the group, a 34 shaman, started to insist that the staff that drops off one of the bosses was his. Me and another guy (the only other member of the group that knew what he was doing) insisted that no, it wasnt his to claim, but that if he wanted it, he could roll on it just like anyone else who could use it. He continued to insist that because he was higher level than me (Im a 28 priest), it was his, and I couldnt roll on it, even though its a priest staff (rod of the sleepwalker, +11 int +10 spir). We continued to insist that it was up for the roll. At this point, Im seriously thinking hes either gonna boot me from the group or change it to master looter just before the kill. He doesnt do this though, he just continues to bitch. We finally get him to agree on loot rules--if its bind on pickup and you can use it, roll, and the winner gets it: the standard fare. So at this point everyone in the group knows very well what the loot rules are, as we spent more time setting them than killing things. We get to the boss--first, while we are still killing the goons that surround him so we have an easier shot at him, he just runs up to him and aggros him. So now we have a serious fight on our hands. We barely survive and kill the dude, and then, the goddamn WARRIOR rolls on and wins the staff! The shaman starts screaming and yelling, cursing everyone up and down as the only other sane guy in the group and myself ask the warrior why he rolled. He doesnt answer. Then, he and the shaman run to the torches and activate them all, flooding the room with somewhere in the vicinity of 50 creeps. Of course, we all wipe. If you havent run BFD, you activate these torches one at a time and kill each wave successively. I know these two guys knew this and had run it before, because they were both talking about how many times they had run it. Me and the other good dude took the spirit healer and immediately dropped from the group and hearthed home. He had a 60 and went to put out a blacklist. I also got to put out my first blacklist. Bah, Im venting at this point, sorry. Im still pissed off. I should have dropped the group early. I almost did, realizing early on that most of the group was either very childish or an idiot, but decided to go for it anyways, which I now regret. You live and learn, right? Let me vent about the group too. There were 5 of us--me (28 priest), the bad warrior, a good warrior, the shaman, and another priest. Not the best group, but we are all rather high for the instance, so no biggie. First, it takes us forever to get started. Half the group is just running around Ashenvale looking for HKs, and wont come to run the instance until after about 15 minutes of prodding. Then, we get in the instance, and the only ones that know how to play worth a damn are me and the good warrior. The bad warrior cant hold his aggro for shit, the shaman, well, you know about that, not to mention that he liked to just run up and aggro things while we still had our hands full, and the other priest couldnt fathom that using psychic scream in an instance is bad because it aggros other creeps. And he used it when he wasnt even in trouble or getting beat on. Not to mention he didnt know the difference between bind on pickup and bind on equip, and we had to explain it to him after he rolled on and won a BoP blue mail chestpiece. After that, he still had to ask if he could wear something everytime there was a roll. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato Last edited by sailor; 06-02-2005 at 12:25 PM..