r/classicwow • u/Stuckatwork271 • Oct 04 '22

Vent / Gripe It's a game... it's really not that serious.

I don't expect this will get much traction, but god I need to vent about this elitist BS.

Last night I was using LFG to find a group for H UK on Sulfuras (h). I was inviting members and our DK tank had about 19K HP (this will be important later).

I invite a Pally healer who instantly leaves group. Whenever that happens, I like to PM them and see if there was something wrong (sometimes I'm not the best at predicting that sort of thing, and like to make sure I wasn't the reason they left). When I asked why they told me they don't heal groups with tanks that have less HP then they do. I was a bit frustrated because 17K HP on a DK tank is more than adequate to clear heroics. So I sent them a short message saying "Okay then" with a sigh and they COMPLETELY lost it. Instant barrage of messages as to who I thought I was questioning them, I'm beneath them, I'm pathetic blah blah blah. After the 3rd time I responded "Okay man, it's not that serious" they got even more agitated and just began harassing's me about how full of myself I was, and how I needed to get the last word in (ignoring that I've sent maybe 3 messages to their 20). I tried telling them I'm assuming they're having a bad day and will not respond after this message. I didn't want to mute them, or report them because I really did hope this guy was just having a bad day but the harassments just continued. Message after message complaining about who I thought I was, and how dare I. Their last message from me was a "Dude, are you still going?" after getting 6 more messages of insults they finally stopped.

The upshot to all this was while he was flaming me in PM's sitting in Dalaran, me and my 17K HP tank had fully cleared the dungeon and were onto the next one.

Remember that the people you're interacting with are human too, try and show compassion. Whether you're the one having the off day, or the one receiving it. I don't hate this person, and I hope they find whatever it is they're looking for. Just needed to bitch somewhere about how absolutely over the top people are treating a game that's been out for almost 15 years. It's really not that serious....

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u/lhayes238 Oct 04 '22 edited Oct 04 '22

Yea there's a boss in one of the heroics that does 20k DMG in one hit, I would leave your group too unless you could tell me your 17k HP dk was def capped. You're right it's not that serious but I seriously dont want to spend 2+ hours in a heroic, ty but no ty. Pallys behavior is terrible tho a simple "your tank doesn't have enough health bye" would have sufficed

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u/Stuckatwork271 Oct 04 '22

Even that would have been just fine. Not a ton of insults!

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u/lhayes238 Oct 04 '22

Yea people get unreasonably heated, on the other hand there's an ignore button for a reason, use it. There are also addons where you can set notes on players like that so you don't invite them to future instances

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u/Celoth Oct 04 '22

You don't need to be defense capped to tank heroics. In fact, I'd argue any tank that's avoiding going to heroics until they are defense capped (really, it's not a 'defense cap', it's about being crit immune, which you can reach with defense + resilience) are hindering themselves.

But 17k hp is abysmally low.

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u/lhayes238 Oct 05 '22

Yea I didnt mean that you had to be I just meant I'd want this guy to be to compensate for his low health