Weekly Strike Target Horror Stories

not really related to an AT.

but...alright, so I'm a fortunata...spent a lot of time on my build which is complete, aside from needing to replace a few sets with some purples for extra bonuses.


So I'm fighting...blah blah, I go off and kill the other mob real fast then return.

get yelled at by the tank for that.

Blaster dies, I use vengeance on him.....Team leader yells at me for using it without him telling me to.

kept getting yelled at thoughout the TF....

It eventually got to the point, where out of anger, I was like

"Look buddy...I know you're the leader, but the attitude is not neccesary, aside from your tank, I'm probably the most durable thing on this team, and probably one of your stronger players....I don't run off unless I know I can handle it.

on top of that, if you want to keep yelling at me for HELPING you guys, I can just as easily drop my toggles, kill myself, and then quit, making you fail the requirements of your master-of run. Do you want that? me neither...so how about we finish this TF and go on our merry ways."


dunno if I sounded too harsh...but I put that person on block and I will never have to be on a team with them again.

Got one from a LGTF run, and I'll admit right off a little more questioning may have nipped it in the bud. So I'm on my Ice/Traps Corrupter and the team mix seems reasonable although we have only one melee, a tanker.

We are discussing difficulty and agreeing this will be a shard run when the tanker chimes in that he wants +2s. In my head I'm thinking "..wha.. why? Oh well it's an easy TF, so why not?" We set it to +2 without arguing over it. Forgetting that while many of us had, in fact, played together before this was still an untested PUG.

While in general it being +2 was a slowdown and many deaths happened with regularity, it wasn't until Hami that it went REALLY wrong...

Now as I said, many of us were earning debt badge credit already so we knew Hami would be more challenging than normal. In fact 2 of us alted out and emailed in EoEs (Yes I was one of them.) Although not until a teamwipe or 2. So we have by now gone through the whole recital of which Mitos are vulnerable to what a few times. We gather, set a target, pop the EoEs and charge a yellow, except for the tanker. He is off trudging slowly toward a green. We took down that yellow but wiped before we could take a 2nd. Tanker then complains that his shields aren't doing anything. I swear over the internet I could just HEAR 6 other facepalms happening. So we repeated to him that Hami damage will indeedy render him about as squishy as the rest of us.

So his response? He goes off and hides behind a rock and stops talking to us for the remainder of the mish. With 4 yellows still up we have lost our melee. Oh yeah, fun times..

Now eventually we take Hami down, but you can imagine the carnage. We lose a Defender due to time, as we are over 2 hours into this by now. And my fiancee, who laughs when I die (unrelated story) is complaining her sides are hurting every time my Cor leads the charge at a yellow with only ghost slaying ax as a melee attack. But we DO get through it.

Now as we enter the final mish it seems we are at the 4 hour mark and it unanimously converts to a speed run. Thanked everyone upon completion and logged for about 3 hours of sleep before work, to tired to even use playernotes to 1-star that tank..

Hmm so again I'm the horror.

Ordered a pizza. 10 minutes later, see an Apex forming, and join. Forget that Apex is the one TF you pretty much cannot go AFK for two minutes to retrieve said pizza. Naturally, pizza dude shows up at the exact moment we enter BM phase 2. I apologize, park myself in a corner of the map, and run for it. It looks like this is going to take 30 seconds, but it turns out pizza dude forgot my beverages in his car. He must have seen the urgency in my face, because he runs back to the car, gets the drinks, and I meet him halfway down the driveway. When I race back in, I see...

...I'm still alive in my little corner, and BM is at 1/4th health. That team was flawless. Finished in 26 minutes, despite my best attempt to derrail things.