Funny Task Force Story

So it's Saturday and I decide that my Dominator needs a few more levels (Only two more levels until 50 IO sets) and a fun way to get these would be to do a Task Force. I decided I don't want to put the work into putting together the right team for Imperius, so Lady Grey it is.

Now since my character is 45, after getting together a team I pass the star off to a 50, a Scrapper whom I picked up after advertising in broadcast. The 50 Scrapper also invited one of his buddies to round off the team to 8.

So the Scrappers immediately begin rushing ahead of the team without waiting for anyone. Okay fine enough, some people play like that, this isn't a Master attempt and as long as they can handle their own, they can go as nuts as they like. Then I notice that they aren't killing the entire mobs before moving on (we aren't doing a speed run) they are leaving the boss and lieutenants alive then rushing to the next spawn. This leaves my dominator in a pinch when I get locked down by two Rikti bosses.

I suggest that if they want to run ahead, that's fine, but they should clean up any mob they aggro before moving on.

The Scrapper I handed the star off to tells me; "That isn't my job."
The Scrappers other scrapper friend then tells me; "Less qq more pew pew" (I don't even know what this means)

I find myself longing for the kick button. I'm actually rather tempted to quit right there (I should have it would have saved me about 2 hours of annoyance). But since things are going fast enough and their odd playstyle isn't really getting anyone killed but me once or twice, I let it go in the hopes of getting a few levels.

Now several of the players haven't done this before, so I'm giving advice as we go. "Try not to free Penny until the Rikti are clear of the room. Clockwork will ambush us here, try to stay together, deal with Famine before war" ect ect. For this Other Scrapper continues with his "Less qq more pew pew" statement several times, I guess because he doesn't like being told what to do. He goes on ignore and things are acceptable in the TF for a while.

Then we come to the Hamidon mission. And this is a pretty hard encounter for people who don't know how to do it. So I give lots of instructions as we go (Please attack my target, everyone move in, everyout out and regroup, switch targets ect ect). There are alot of deaths as we go, and the mission takes awhile. There is some playful banter as we go, the team Leader says at one point he's going to kick me if he dies one more time. I didn't think anything of it at the time. A joke goes around not too, since we won't be able to complete the mission without my dom holding the Green Mitsos.

Mission completely, that was hard but we finally did it! Now onto the last...hey why aren't I on the team anymore? Did I leave the War Zone...no...still here..that means....oh the team leader kicked me.

He kicked me from the TF I organized, that I willingly gave him the star for, that I coached through the mini-Hamidon raid. He tells me in broadcast that I shouldn't tell people what to do and he knows how to play the game. I try to explain there are some people who haven't done this before and needed the guidance. Then I get told that though I've played longer he'll always be better than I am.

on the plus side, half of the team sympathy quit right there and then, great bunch of players that they were. I REALLY made the wrong choice of who to give the star to. But I did get my two levels out of the experience atleast.

Just needed to get some of my frustrations out there on this one. In the future, I'm going to be much more careful about who I invite to a PUG TF.

I never hand star to someone I don't know. This is pretty much why.

edit: Well, of course, there's also the fact that I almost never team with people I don't know. So that helps a lot. Sometimes friends invite (or request to invite) their friends or invite (or request to invite) puggles to our teams, though, so it's not TOTALLY unheard of.

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All I have to say about this scrapper is:

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Better than you are?

It's not PvP, it's cooperative PvE. Someone didn't even know what game they were playing.

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Wow. What a lousy scrapper.

Lovely. Some people are just complainers really. In case you care the phrease "Less qq more pew pew" basically means "stop complaining, focus on fighting".

You probably should have asked for the star back after he invited his buddy.

But yeah there are some real idiots out there and that sucks that you had to deal with that. Good to hear that some of the guys had the decency to drop with you even after going through half of the TF.

I am somewhat confused as to what the scrapper thought he was doing. Why would any scrapper pass up an opportunity to take down bosses and lts? Isn't that, like, the point of our existence?
Seriously, what was that approach about?

What a jerk. And what an incompetent Scrapper. When i'm playing a Scrapper my whole goal is to find the biggest, nastiest or most dangerous to the rest of the team enemy in the spawn and take it down. Repeat until no enemies are left.

Look at the plus side: by kicking you and having half the team quit he virtually guaranteed he couldn't finish the TF.

Jake, if you want to try again i'd be willing to join and help. Though i think it would have to be on Champion, Infinity, Freedom, Victory or Virtue. i might have another 45+ or two on other servers, but i'd have to double check.

Thanks for the offer Schis but it's really not hard for me to put together a TF on Virtue, so honestly, I'm not crying about the experience too much. I'm really amazed anyone would show that much lack of etiquette.

I just wanted to state again how cool the rest of the team were to support me, I wish I could remember their names beyond Lord Voltaic on Virtue so I could sing their praises.

This was on Virtue? I've played with that guy. He's a 'tard and kicked me off his team because I wasn't doing everything the martinet dictated. I wasn't sad to go because he clearly had no idea how to play so I was getting fed up and started saying things like, "Less yapping, more Scrapping!"

This is someone you need to 1-star and write a note on. That way you can ensure that you, and your friends, can avoid him in the future.

Only if your email is coded in BASIC.

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Jake, by my own admission, my sense of humor is a bit off, but that was not a funny story. It is a good cautionary tale though.

I rarely play a tanker, and I rarely team. As a scrapper, I refuse to take taunt.

Yes I know it's useful, but to be honest, it is ony useful in a team, and only marginally so. I can't use it to pull effectively while soloing, so it becomes a wasted power.

On the other hand, despite the fact that I solo alot, both my brutes and tanks take taunt.

Just FYI the venerable and o-so-hilarious Rude Tells thread is thattaway------>

This woulda made a great addition, too bad you posted it here instead!