Guess we all get horrible team mates sometime...
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Acyl,
Posted on: 2009-06-15 04:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Anyone else got any interesting stories to share about bad team mates?
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Dear god, yes. Most of them involve idiot players that think they know the game being complete idiots. The most recent slew I remember have been Scrappers and Tankers.
I got an Invuln Tanker that had slotted Tough but didn't take Temp Invulnerability or Unyielding. When I asked him why he took Tough, he responded by saying that Tough is better than Temp Invuln. I then pointed out that Temp Invuln is actually lower end cost and twice the resist. He told me I was wrong, even after I linked him both powers (because refusing to admit you're wrong, even in the face of absolute evidence is evidence that you're right!). As to his lack of Unyielding, he responded that Invincibility would keep him safe because he wouldn't get hit by mez effects thanks to the +def. When he spent half of a Freakshow mission complaining about being stunned, I told him that that's what Unyielding is for. He still believed that Invincibility was good enough.
Another badTank was an Ice/*. For the first, he had Energy Absorption but pretty much never used it (after 2 missions, I told him it was actually good, he told me it wasn't even on his bar). He didn't have either of his taunt auras, refused to use the only armor toggle he actually took (Frozen Armor), and actually used Hibernate mid AV fight, shedding aggro and killing half the group. A number of times I had to actually remind him to turn Wet Ice back on after it dropped mid fight because he wasn't paying attention to his blue bar.
Another annoyance of mine was a */Regen scrapper that didn't take Quick Recovery but took Stamina and then complained about his endurance consumption. Of course, when I asked why he hadn't taken Quick Recovery, he said that */Regen didn't have it (thinking it was Accelerated Metabolism). When I finally got him to realize it did, he claimed that Stamina was better, which is why everyone took it. When I linked it, he then claimed that it was better because his enhanced Stamina gave 48% +recovery and the linked (and thusly unenhanced) Quick Recovery only gave 30%. I immediately facepalmed.
I am constantly amazed by the number of people that think they know the game, think they've got an awesome build, and think that they performing better than anyone else in the universe (much less, the team) but, constantly show a complete lack of knowledge or skill where the game is actually concerned. They're primarily AE farm babies who are stepping out of AP for the first time upon getting the invite from me ("How do I get to Brickstown/Founder's Falls/Peregrine Island?"), but I've met a few that actually play normally but are complete idiots where actual game knowledge is concerned.
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. My horror story used to be a brute who just simply would not wait for the team when they needed to rest.
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That's funny my brute's horror story is a team that 1) wants to rest after every group 2) thinks that he cares whether they choose to follow him or not. I quot a team last night, because the leader seemed committed to just standing around long enough for my fury to drop after every group. If I got fed up and jumped into the next spawn, he would invariably go for a different one to show that he was "in charge". I didn't care (see #2) but his whining about it made me crazy.
That said, there is nothing I dread more than someone saying "I'm not getting xp" once you start a tf. When I was working on TF Commander with my main, it got so bad that I would only invite people that had to exemp down. At least if they were n00bs, we'd get it out of the way as soon as the TF started. I don't know how many times I'd have lowbies drop out of the tf halfway through a posi because they hit the level cap.
Another pet peeve of mine , which i saw a couple times on the ITF, is people that would "dc" on the first mission, and miraculously restore connectivity just in time to get a reward.
So, picture this. Level 50 team, full eight players.
One was a stone tank.
A little while into the first mission, we realised something...really strange was going on.
Stone tank in Granite, right? He teleports into the mob. Taunts.
...starts taking damage.
Faceplants.
And asks for rez.
This happened a couple of times. I mean, let's be clear, he didn't die immediately - but he did get whittled down, and he did definitely faceplant. I didn't say anything, hell, nobody said anything really. But I was completely bewildered. This is a Level 50 stone tank. In Granite.
Eventually, the team leader quietly requested that I take the alpha instead. So I started going in first. Even then, the tank managed to die once that way, just by picking up my leftover aggro.
I was on my IO'd brute...but a Stone tank in Granite should still be WAY more durable than me.
What really amazes me...is that nobody on the team challenged the guy about this. We were all very polite. I guess it was too awkward.
When I told a friend about this, he suggested the guy was PL'd, and had probably heard that Granite was zomgawesome - but...didn't, uh, realise that you still need to slot it. I can only assume the tank didn't have any defense or resistance enhancements in Granite at all, even though he was running it all the time.
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I only tend to team with friends, so I don't run into a lot of PuGs anymore, although I used to.
My most recent irritating event was on an MA mission, believe it or not. I know... you're all shocked.
Anyhow, it's not what you think... allow me to elucidate.
I was doing solo missions on my scrapper (mid-20's at the time) and I get a /tell asking me if I want to join a "Non-farm MA team for some missions?". Sure, sounds good... So we gather in AP and we stand around for a minute waiting for the team to form up and the Star-Wielder says something like; "After we do this one, please make sure you rate it." or something like that. It should have twigged me...
This, as it turns out, was a true connoisseur of these things...
So, we get into the mission and fight the first spawn. As we finish up I start moving on to the next one, as I'm the only melee character in the group and therefore relegated to tanking duty. Now, I suffer from scrapper-lock from time to time, I even suffer from blaster-lock occasionally when I really get my mojo going, but I'm not terrible about it. So, anyway, I hop along to the second or third mob and I'm fighting away and I notice I'm alone... So I check the chat box... nothing there. I continue fighting, trying to hang on until my team can join me and there they are, just in the nick of time. We finish the mob and I start to move on, but this time I'm looking behind me and as it turns out one of the other four team members is sorta following along behind me but the others, including the team lead is standing still, turning slowly in place.
Now, bear in mind, this is on a map tileset that anyone who's played the game has seen a thousand times. It's the burned out office set, like the one you play in the Frostfire missions, only sans the ice. I'm sure you all know the one I'm talking about.
So as I'm approachign the next mob... slowly... the lead says in /team "Don't go right to the next mob, I want to see and appreciate everything and read all the clues."
Uhh... okay, y'know... fine... but I found myself wondering how many clues and things he could possibly have to read after fighting only four spawns and no glowies. Anyway, it's not my mission which means that there might be something that he got for a clue that we didn't see. But up until now I've been alone at every spawn for the first few seconds, almost like these guys are literally struggling to keep up with me. I'm not moving very fast... it's not like I've got SS on and am whipping around the map, I'm taking my time according to what I know to be a good, efficient albeit slightly cautious pace... as you do, y'know?
So, at this point I start really paying attention to what the team is doing and it becomes evident to me that it's not just that he wants to read all the clues, he literally doesn't "... want to miss anything. I want to enjoy the content".
Buh?!
Alright, fair enough... but this guy didn't just want to "enjoy the content", he wanted to stop for thirty seconds after every single spawn and turn slowly in place and enjoy his surroundings. I watched him... he would stop over every body (presumabley staring down at them to read the description, they were custom mobs... but there's only three kinds of mobs in a custom group, and once he'd read the minion, LT and boss descriptions there's really not much more to see. Know what I'm sayin', hombre?), he'd check every corner, he'd stop every fight to check his clues in case he missed one... it went on and on. It took us twenty minutes to clear out the first floor of the map because he insisted on making the rest of the team wait so that he could inspect a map that he'd seen a thousand times before.
This dude was RPing, and forcing the rest of the team to wait for him while he did it.
So, I made my apologies and quit the team. I'm all for enjoying content, but if you're going to be that hard-nosed about it then the least you can do is do it solo so you're not forcing it down other people's throat. At least with an MA team I know what I'm getting into.
There's nothing more irritating than getting caught on a team with a nazi RPer.
To top it all off, he also happened to be one of the most innefectual dark/dark defenders I've ever seen.
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To top it all off, he also happened to be one of the most innefectual dark/dark defenders I've ever seen.
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Maybe his version of a Dark/Dark defender is making sure he knows his surroundings 
I've only grouped with a few people so far but what I've found is that once I hit 40, all the lowbies that see me think its my obligation to give them a free ride for however many levels they are too lazy to play themselves.
The other day one guy sat there for like 30 mins whispering to me: can you help me get to 14? I need to get to 14 help me? Will you help me get to 14? Why aren't you answering me will you help me get to 14? etc
The other day I mal'd to someone who claimed they wanted help on a Mayhem. Well the mayhem was like 8 or so and frankly pre 20 is a pita and I hate reverting to those lvls. At any rate the guy goes afk, I die mid fight. After being teleported to a cell I break my way out and defeat all the guards, meanwhile the guy invites someone else to team to finish the mission and didn't even bother helping me get back out to help with the mission. I quit on the spot.
When I was lvl 24, some lowbie asked me to help with a mission. After travelling across the zone to the mission, once we get in they promply say, gtg see ya... and log... thx for wasting my time.
These aren't overly bad but examples of why I solo.
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That's funny my brute's horror story is a team that 1) wants to rest after every group 2) thinks that he cares whether they choose to follow him or not. I quot a team last night, because the leader seemed committed to just standing around long enough for my fury to drop after every group. If I got fed up and jumped into the next spawn, he would invariably go for a different one to show that he was "in charge". I didn't care (see #2) but his whining about it made me crazy.
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That's perfectly fine if you can handle it. But this group was below level 20 and he was face planting repeatedly. We weren't stopping repeatedly either, but when multiple members are almost dead, you need to stop for a second. The only healing we had was me using medicine as a traps mastermind. I got a large amount of debt trying to keep him alive and he also wasn't the ONLY brute on the team. My best friend was playing on the team as his brute.
He even a few times ran on to the next group of enemies before we were done with what we were fighting. I'm not talking about a few stragglers here either, it was like half the group was still left. This guy just absolutely refused to stop regardless of the situation because "He could take it!". If you're face planting repeatedly, no you can't. He eventually quit in a huff blaming me for him dieing repeatedly in his coalition chat and the irony was another team member was in the coalition and got him kicked from his SG.
After that we continued on like nothing happened and had no further problems.
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there is nothing I dread more than someone saying "I'm not getting xp" once you start a tf. When I was working on TF Commander with my main, it got so bad that I would only invite people that had to exemp down. At least if they were n00bs, we'd get it out of the way as soon as the TF started. I don't know how many times I'd have lowbies drop out of the tf halfway through a posi because they hit the level cap.
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Oh lord, I'm having flashbacks. I once recruited an entire team by pasting a canned message into tells and broadcast. The canned message said the level range for the task force and ADDED "if above 30 you will be exemplared and not receive exp, but will get inf and merits and the badge."
One of the players who joined followed me, for some reason, as I zoned through several zones posting my broadcast invitation. My text said where to gather, but this person followed me anyway. That means she SAW me spam this message over and over-- she was exposed to it quite a lot.
TF started and she said, "Wait a minute, I'm not getting exp!" I explained again about exemplaring...
and she came back with all-caps, "THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS TELL ME BEFORE WE START!!!" Several of us told her, quite nicely, that it had been in the invitation, and I invited her to scroll back through chat and look it up herself, but she was furious. After sputtering for a few moments, she then typed something about people always abusing her and rage-quit.
She had joined with her significant other (whom she left in the lurch by quitting) and even he wasn't able to calm her down, and he wasn't getting exp either.
I know people like to get exp, but....geeze. Everybody was being nice to her, too.
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Ugh, I met a guy who, for reasons too long to go into, decided he had something to prove. He invited me to a Task Force the next night, using a second account, then "revealed" that it was him again, ha ha! I decided to stay and ignore the jabs. As soon as the TF started, he DCed, and I assumed he'd quit after "making his point," but he appeared for the last mission and got credit. God only knows what he thought he was proving about his skill as a player by not playing.
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My horror story used to be a brute who just simply would not wait for the team when they needed to rest.
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Hay i do this but on the other hand i can handle all them and a lot of times run on my own because my brute doesn't like other people attacking my prey!!! 
But I guess if he is a sucky brute then i understand.
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Bad Team Bingo
We could use some better square material
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Okay, that's the flat-out funniest thing I've read this week! Now I'm having even more serious flashbacks (and abusing the "make new card" function).
If we are to die, let us die like men. -- Patrick Cleburne
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Bad Team Bingo
We could use some better square material
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How about "Pool powers before AT powers".
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and she came back with all-caps, "THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS TELL ME BEFORE WE START!!!" Several of us told her, quite nicely, that it had been in the invitation, and I invited her to scroll back through chat and look it up herself, but she was furious. After sputtering for a few moments, she then typed something about people always abusing her and rage-quit.
She had joined with her significant other (whom she left in the lurch by quitting) and even he wasn't able to calm her down, and he wasn't getting exp either.
I know people like to get exp, but....geeze. Everybody was being nice to her, too.
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This is giving me flashbacks to the customers I had to deal with as a cashier.
Yes we all run into the "BAD" player eventually. My latest involved a number of them I joined an 8 man team doing some radio missions and everything was going pretty well. Then the leader and two others announced they were logging. About half the time when that occurs the entire team busts up but on this occasion the new "leader" was happy to continue and since a 5 man team earns more XP, etc. than soloing I stuck around.
Well the first mission we get is the Safeguard in Talos. Now keep in mind I said TALOS that's 31-36 level territory so you sort of assume at that point that players have at least some clue how to play their characters and the game. We enter the mission and head for the bank and don't do a bad job of handling the lieutenant and minions up front. I head toward the vault and what I expect to be a boss considering the team size and sure enough I find him. I was playing a scrapper so I move in and start to attack and for a while I am holding my own. The problem was his sidekick was a Tsoo Sorceror and as fast as I was dealing damage he was healing the Boss.
Now I am starting to watch my health drop and start to wonder why. I check my mini map and discover there is only one other member of the team still in the bank and that player is still up by the front door. Everyone else had exited the bank... apparently completely unaware there even was a vault at the back of the bank or a signature villain to defeat.
Finally I run out of blues and greens and the Boss faceplants me. I head to the hospital and discover the entire team waiting at the Arachnos flyer on top of the hill. I rush over there and by some miracle we do actually manage to stop the villains from escaping.
When we got back out I did what I should have done earlier and checked my team mates. One player had a 3 month Vet badge and the rest had none at all. Also every single one of them had a lot of badges from running AE missions and absolutely nothing else. Normally I do check things like that just to see if I am on a rookie team or one with a lot of Vets but we'd done so well as an 8 man team I never thought to look when we dropped to 5. I had hooked up with a team full of AE ex-farmers that had never done a bank mission before in their lives and got to work on my debt badge a little thanks to it. Of course I did what any sane Vet would do.. I QUIT the team and found another one.
It was partly my own fault of course.. If I'd checked I could have guided them a bit and things might not have gone so bad. I tend to use both hands when I play, one to attack and one to move, so I don't chat much inside missions especially not when I have a boss staring me in the face so I didn't have the opportunity to yell for help more than once while I was battlng that boss. And I should have looked to see where everyone was before I tackled the boss... BUT at level 30 and up I am not used to having to do that and frankly at level 30 I shouldn't have to do that. At level 5 a player can head to Kings Row and 3 radio missions later be doing their first Safeguard so these glorious 30+ AE PL Farmers don't have the same knowledge and skills as a 5-9 level in KR?
I still accept invites to PUGs but I make sure and check everyone to see just exactly who I am teaming with and YES I have quit a team or two when all I saw was AE badges.
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My worst story i don't remember any more so I'll tell you my second worst story.
This all stated when i joined a pug with my friend. We did really good for a few mission then we invited a tank and a blaster. Now the tank didn't well tank and the blaster thought he was a tank. So we had a tank who never used Argo skills at all and waited for every one else to jump in and start killing then he would come in but still he sucked so bad and he died like a million times. Then we had our blaster, the one and only blaster tank i know of. He jumped into any mob that there was thinking that he could take them all out. He was always suprised that he died and i kept telling him to stop jumping into a mob and that he should wait till the tank, who never did any thing, did something. This also made me have to tell the tank to do something and just like the blaster he didn't listen either. The worst part of all this was they didn't bring wakis and always wanted us to give them wakis. At one point we said screw it and we didn't give them any wakis or anything. Soon the tank became semi good and didn't die every single time but still the blaster managed to get back up and kill him self again. After we finished that mission, with about 5 team wipes, almost all of our team quit. My friend and I did the same thing. Now just to tell you this was before of the time of AE so they were just bad at the game as simple as that.
Now if only i could remember my worst story... all i remember is the team want me, as a scraper, to tank and other stupid things like that. 
As much as I enjoy reading threads like this, I always do so with some trepidation. I've recently decided to play more PuGs and even form up teams when I can't find one to join.
I've been doing this mostly with lowbie villains, since I've got a ton of alts and I'm dreadfully bored with killing snakes all by my lonesome.
So, what I fear is that I'll someday read this thread or one like it and recognize that I'm the bad player. I try not to be a bad player, but I'm only a six month vet, so I've got lots to learn. Though I probably know Mercy pretty well by now, what with all the times I've repeated both Kalinda and Burke arcs.
Here's what I try to do:
- Determine if the team members are RPers or not. If not, then just go on and play. If so, then enjoy a little RP.
- When team members are new, though I never remember to check their badges. I just get that sense by the questions they ask. I try to help them, but if I truly do not know the answer, I'll defer to a senior member on the team, if there is one. Failing that, I suggest Paragon Wiki.
- If there's a senior vet on the team, I'll offer or pass on the star. I had to do this once for a Mayhem missions, since I'm not very good at those. Never know whether to head straight for the bank or make mayhem or find side missions.
- I try to lead, but I need more work at it. Too often, I think I try to poll the team members, which either results in "whatever is fine" or no answers at all.
- I'll do things like suggest that the Brute takes point, but I don't want to come off like i'm telling someone how to play.
- Often, I'll charge in and take the alpha when it seems like everyone else is hanging back. This does results in more than a few faceplants on my part.
- I don't compete for point position. If another player is also taking point because we're both playing Brutes or we both just feel like it, then I'll defer to the other player. This does result in us getting split up sometimes and I'll run towards the other point man, only to pass him as he's running towards me. This usually happens in caves.
- Finally, I'm a member of a good SG with regular teaming nights. I do what I can to learn from them, though many of them are multi-year vets, so they work together without needing to communicate each step. I try to ask questions, but am often too caught up in combat to remember.
Well, I play on Virtue, under a ton of alts. I'm hoping that none of you ever have a bad exeprience with any of them and if you do, then I hope I'm self-aware enough to take your advice in the spirit in which it's given and not be a jerk about it.
BTW: I also learn a lot of "what not to do" from threads like this one. Thanks!
Yesterday I started running level 16 radios in Steel with my Dark/Dark scrapper. Shortly into my first mission, I get an invite to run radios in Skyway. I agree and exit my mission.
I get to Skyway and it is a level 17 mission against Tsoo, cranked to difficulty three (rugged?). There is at least one level 14 and, I think, one level 13 on the team. It did not go swimmingly to say the least. We eventually cleared it, but it was the longest radio mission I've ever run. After that though was when the fun really began.
Three members of the team of seven quit after the Tsoo radio, and the team leader, who is level 14 asks if we can help him complete 2 of his missions now. One is Rescue Percy Winkly and one is Rescue the Fortune Teller. We get to the Percy Winkly mission, which is level 13, set to heroic. I'm level 17 now, and I just start burning through the mission to find Percy. The leader on the other hand, runs to the portals room and starts aggroing Behemoths and screaming for us to help him.
The other three of us (all lvl 16 or 17 I think - he was lvl 14)follow him from portal to portal disabling them and clearing the Behemoths. When we finish the last portal he asks why the mission isn't over. I tell him we have to rescue Percy and he responds, "So we didn't have to fight those demons?" *headslap*
I lead him to Percy and the mission finishes. He immediately sets the mission for the Fortuneteller in PP, and as weary of him as I am, I keep telling myself he's new and doesn't understand, and plus, I don't have the Spelunker badge on this toon yet.
One more member of the team drops, so it's down to three of us. The Fortuneteller mission is lvl 14, so I use my mission teleporter and get into the mission while the others are doing whatever in Steel Canyon. I clear probably 80% of the mission by myself while the leader is looking for more members. I knew I was "robbing" him of exp, but I purposely left the high level mobs including the one around thr Fortuneteller so the others would get the badge and some exp.
Finally another member joins the team, and the leader asks what I'm doing in my SG base - lol - when are they going to fix that bug? I tell him I'm in the mission clearing out the riff-raff. The other four join me we fight the last few mobs and rescue the Fortuneteller. The leader tries to lead her out using superspeed, so I just hang back until he loses her and then I pick her up and fight the ambushes until he and the others come back to help. We exit, everyone gets the badge, the two other original members immediately drop, and I wish him luck and drop too.
God bless new players, this game certainly needs a steady stream of them, I just wish they'd realize that they are probably playing with vets who know more about the game mechanics and the actual content than they do, and they would ask questions rather than running neadlong into disaster, or demanding that people follow their uninformed orders just because they are holding the star.
ETA: If the person in question reads this thread, please don't feel bad. I know you're learning, and even though my post is full of snark, I really don't hold anything against you. There are far worse kinds of players than over-anxious newbies, it's just that over-anxious newbies are sometimes humorously aggravating to deal with.
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This dude was RPing, and forcing the rest of the team to wait for him while he did it.
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Actually, by itself, that's not really roleplaying. It was annoying for sure, but not really roleplaying. Hmmmm, I wonder if he played my arc. Whoever did pointed out that one of my custom minion characters was missing a bio. LOL
I have lots of horror stories. Some of which I'm the cause of too.
There was the Terra Volta respec trial with the Stone tank. Partly into the series of missions, I noticed that I never saw any armor on her. She had all of the attacks she could take, and Tough Skin. Nothing else from the primary. I think she wanted to be a stone hammer scrapper.
Then there was one Skyraider respec trial where the team makeup looked like we should be able to do it. Except as we're clearing out the rooms to try to find the key to the reactor room, I finally realize that it's taking a LOT longer to defeat mobs than it really should. A quick scan of everyone's info revealed that the blaster had ALL of the travel powers. 
Fly, Superspeed, Teleport, and Superjump. That's eight power choices. After level six, he just concentrated on getting the travel powers. With only those beginning attacks, he wasn't putting out any damage. The team broke up when everyone realized that we weren't going to be able to do it. I didn't mind too much. I felt bad for others who were looking forward to it. I still got a lot of exp and influence, and it's not like I needed the respec. But it would've been nice to finish.
I've made my own boneheaded mistakes, but I at least learn and don't repeat them continually. Like when I was playing my blaster a lot and switched over to my mastermind for a change of pace. We enter the mission, and I run into the first spawn to do an Aim+Buildup+Inferno..... on my mastermind. 
And getting so wrapped up in the combat, I forget to turn off Hurricane. Oops. I'm really not one of those stormies, honest!
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So, picture this. Level 50 team, full eight players.
One was a stone tank.
A little while into the first mission, we realised something...really strange was going on.
Stone tank in Granite, right? He teleports into the mob. Taunts.
...starts taking damage.
Faceplants.
And asks for rez.
This happened a couple of times. I mean, let's be clear, he didn't die immediately - but he did get whittled down, and he did definitely faceplant. I didn't say anything, hell, nobody said anything really. But I was completely bewildered. This is a Level 50 stone tank. In Granite.
Eventually, the team leader quietly requested that I take the alpha instead. So I started going in first. Even then, the tank managed to die once that way, just by picking up my leftover aggro.
I was on my IO'd brute...but a Stone tank in Granite should still be WAY more durable than me.
What really amazes me...is that nobody on the team challenged the guy about this. We were all very polite. I guess it was too awkward.
When I told a friend about this, he suggested the guy was PL'd, and had probably heard that Granite was zomgawesome - but...didn't, uh, realise that you still need to slot it. I can only assume the tank didn't have any defense or resistance enhancements in Granite at all, even though he was running it all the time.
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I was on a horrible pug over the weekend. Much faceplanting and teamwipes I was irritated (too much stress for too little reward) and couldn't quit the team fast enough when I read the following comment from the level 42 Warshade.
"Wut r enhancements?"
I've seen a lot of Kheldian n00bs lately. The worst is when they have the impression that this game is entirely linear, and that if you could roll a kheld , you certainly wouldn't be playing anything else. They'll then use this as their trump card when arguing incredibly stupid points. "Trust me when I tell you that enhancements aren't that important thanks to auto-sk. Afterall, one of us is playing an epic archetype and one of us isn't , so I think it's clear who knows what they're talking about"
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I was on a horrible pug over the weekend. Much faceplanting and teamwipes I was irritated (too much stress for too little reward) and couldn't quit the team fast enough when I read the following comment from the level 42 Warshade.
"Wut r enhancements?"
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LOL
I wonder if he was piled 
Weekend Warriors
These folks that are normally Kids who think they know it all, Adults who have no farking clue, & your general morons.
Usually they are PL'd, thanks to AE, as I've stated before, without AE, they would been weeded out by time they hit 40s, let alone 50. Do to look new shiny over there!
Now summer is here, expect much more of it, 100x more of it.
JJ
I delete more 50s, then you'll ever have.
http://www.pandora.com/people/jjdemon
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I was on a horrible pug over the weekend. Much faceplanting and teamwipes I was irritated (too much stress for too little reward) and couldn't quit the team fast enough when I read the following comment from the level 42 Warshade.
"Wut r enhancements?"
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LOL
I wonder if he was piled
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He was either an AE farm baby or an Ebay Account user. I hate both types, especially when they think that, just because they've got another character on their account that's a 50 that you don't. Makes me laugh to bring up my entire stable and put them in their place.
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This dude was RPing, and forcing the rest of the team to wait for him while he did it.
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Actually, by itself, that's not really roleplaying. It was annoying for sure, but not really roleplaying. Hmmmm, I wonder if he played my arc. Whoever did pointed out that one of my custom minion characters was missing a bio. LOL
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I know RPing when I see it. It's not just that he stopped and wanted to stare at the walls after every mob, he wanted to "chat" about the clues and speculate on the situation. I suppose I should have mentioned that...
Brother of Markus
The Lord of Fire and Pain
The Legendary Living Hellfire
Fight my brute!
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there is nothing I dread more than someone saying "I'm not getting xp" once you start a tf. When I was working on TF Commander with my main, it got so bad that I would only invite people that had to exemp down. At least if they were n00bs, we'd get it out of the way as soon as the TF started. I don't know how many times I'd have lowbies drop out of the tf halfway through a posi because they hit the level cap.
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Oh lord, I'm having flashbacks. I once recruited an entire team by pasting a canned message into tells and broadcast. The canned message said the level range for the task force and ADDED "if above 30 you will be exemplared and not receive exp, but will get inf and merits and the badge."
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Around i10 I accepted an invitation to a Cavern Trial. Now I had done that one twice before, both successes, admitedly one was with less than 30seconds left. Anyways I join up and the team leader let's everyone know that they will be exemped if over the maximum level. No big surprise. or so you'd think.
Once the Trial is started our tank starts complaining that most of his powers are greyed out.....and i start to get a bad feeling about how this one will end. We fight our way through the caverns, with the tank complaining the entire way about not warning him concerning the exemption. We've got no ghoster so have to fight through to the obelisks. After numerous tries of coordination between the team about what to click on and when, the tank finally quits.
I've done that trial a few more times after that, and to this day it's the only time I failed it, and the first time I wished we had something like the player notes we have now.
Inspite of how long I've played. I've done a pretty good job of avoiding horribly bad players. Maybe it's cause I tend to stick to friends and SG members. My horror story used to be a brute who just simply would not wait for the team when they needed to rest. Well Saturday someone topped him.
I was running a Positron task force and a fire/thermal controller joined us. Aside from him our entire team consisted of tanks and scrappers. I kind of had a bad feeling at the very beginning when he didn't understand the concept of EXing. He was bragging about his fire imps when he joined and even though someone pointed out to him that he wouldn't have them during the TF, he still got confused once things started and he didn't have access to all his powers.
A little into the first mission he comments on "Um guys, I'm not getting any exp.". We had to explain that to him and why anyone would bother doing it. He also proceeded to start most of the fights with an AoE before anyone else attacked the enemies, causing himself to face plant a lot. I tell him to let the melees to attack first. Since well there were plenty of us. His response is "They're only aggroing on me because of my fireshield". A fireshield that I think I recall him putting on me maybe twice...
We hit the first CoT mission and suddenly everyone starts dieing like crazy. It is at this point that I realize he's not used his healing aura a single time so far. Not even when HE is about to die. I ask another team mate just to make sure, before saying to the guy "Why aren't you using your heal?" to which he responded that he forgot.
He face plants a few more times, still not using his heal at all. A couple of the team mates poke fun at him saying things like "You going after that debt badge? You're doing a pretty good job.". Suddenly he says "gtg cya" and starts logging off. I of course kicked him before he logged so he wouldn't screw us over. I probably would have kicked him before the end anyhow and the very next mission we started steam rolling things with him gone.
I can only assume this guy was PLed and was far too reliant on his fire imps to know anything about the rest of his powers. I've read other peoples horror stories about bad players but this just really made me wish we had a facepalm emote.
Anyone else got any interesting stories to share about bad team mates?