When joining LFR/LFD or picking up PUGs to fill out your raid I think we’ve all had that one player (or several) show up that just aren’t cutting it. They either stand in bad or they facepull mobs while the tank is afk and healers out of mana. Or they simply don’t know how to play their own class and is wearing intellect leather as a Rogue.
This week I think I met the worst one though. He was so bad I could do nothing but laugh. My guildies would tell you… I was laughing on ventrilo for several minutes following the fight where he joined.
The Backstory
We’re trying to do a few Firelands runs for our guild’s Mage so that she can finish up the final bits of her legendary staff. With summer here and Diablo III picking at people’s attention however, we’re often quite short on people and have to pick up some randoms. (To illustrate, I spent the raid switching between three characters; tank/healer/dps depending on what the fight required.)
The night wasn’t going all that well in general. While we weren’t dying on any bosses, we had a couple of wipes or near wipes on trash because people weren’t paying attention. As we were approaching Baleroc our guild’s Priest had to leave and we figured we’d continue with nine people.
Then one of the randoms we’d picked up told us that he had a friend who could join. We figured that ten is better than nine and invited him.
Enter the Paladin of Fail
The friend turned out to be a retribution Paladin, and we explained the Baleroc tactics briefly asking him to be in one of the shard teams. (In hindsight, this was a bad idea.) He didn’t quite understand and so we ended up telling him to just follow the Rogue who was the second part of his shard team.
We start the fight.
Things are going okay at first. Then we notice that the Paladin isn’t taking his turn at the shard – he’s running off together with the Rogue when the Rogue is moving out of range. I watch him for a bit, and realise that he’s not even attacking the boss. The Rogue moves again to take his shard.
Oh my god. The Paladin has actually put /follow on the Rogue.
I am stuck somewhere between disbelief and some sort of crazy hilarity. As the fight continues we ask another guildie to jump in and take the shards instead of the Paladin. We continue to watch the Paladin just /follow the Rogue the entire fight, not even auto-attacking the boss.
While I generally praise people who can follow directions in a raid, this had me in stitches. Surely most people would realise that even if you’re told to follow someone/do something during the fight – you should still attack the boss?
What’s the funniest fail you’ve ever seen?
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Lady Vash’j, working towards our first kill. I as healing lead and chief paladin decided on an order for the use of blessing of freedom. Everyone agrees, we pull and everything is going fine until suddenly the tank can’t move and chaos breaks out. In the aftermath, we check the logs and discover one name missing from the list of the those who used bof.
I ask why and get this in reply…
“What’s blessing of freedom?”
As a direct result of this, I always assume the worst of paladins
But you know.. there are so many blessings to keep track of! Poor Paladins can’t be expected to know them all!
Ah wow. I don’t think I’ve seen anything close to something like this lol. Thanks for the amazing story though – pretty sure I’ll be giggling about this all day now
I’m still chuckling about it myself when I think about it
on FL Rags:
Pug boomkin was told, make sure you dps your add quickly so it doesn’t reach the hammer….I run past them on the way to my add area and they are /flail so I turn around once i’ve moonfired my add to slow it (not bad for a healer right?) and they are still /flail and two adds have hit the hammer. >.< we called it right there on the spot.
For some reason this gives me the mental image of a big boomchicken just standing there flapping its wings while the adds run past it *lol*
That is so endearing, I’d just give the poor guy a hug. Wow. Haha, thanks for the laugh.
Yes, it was quite amazing *lol*
Heya Saga,
Yep, having healed many a pug and things like this happen a lot. I admit, I make mistakes all the time, and luckily sometimes it’s just blatantly obvious when a person won’t be able make it happen. It’s not fun to be in those situations at all but they can be entertaining when retelling the story
Oh my, I couldn’t stop giggling. I think there are so many funny fails that have to be taken in context of the raid itself (like you have to be there to appreciate it) that it never seems as funny when you talk about it.
Like the hunter who disengaged off the Lich King’s platform
The tank who pulled and forgot he was in holy spec and gear and had to heal himself, try to tank and live off misdirects… well it didn’t last long but the effort itself is funny!
The rogue who, one night, on every attempt on Rag ran INTO the hammer in adds phase and died… HOW can you not see that big sulfuron hammer.. GO AROUND!!!