Tales from the Dungeon Finder
Monday, January 18th, 2010You meet all kinds.
Since they released the Dungeon Finder tool, I’ve been taking advantage of it like a {insert off-colour reference}. Most notably, with my Paladin. No, not that one… my OTHER paladin. She hit 20 and spec’d prot just in time for the Dungeon Finder, and has leveled almost exclusively using it.
It’s amazing the kind of people you run into in these old world, low level dungeon runs. While I know it can’t be true, it feels like 90% of the people I group with have never played the game before. Kaeira just hit level 30, and rather than expatiating upon each adventure in its own post, I’ve collected the tales of the last 10 levels and condensed them all here into one for your enjoyment.
These are mostly paraphrased as I rarely think to take screenshots of these things. But you’ll get the general idea, minus most of the bad grammar.
Also, I would like to mention how sad I am that so many of these are Hunters. :(
Deadmines:
My very first foray into my Dungeon Finder journey:
Hunter: “I’m new to this game. How do I get on my mount?”
Me: “That’s not a mount. That’s your pet.”
Hunter: “Ohhh.”
Shadowfang Keep:
You know that room with Commander Spingvale which can be dangerous for pulling the entire room? Not to mention, many of those mobs like to silence. While I’m carefully trying to pull groups of 1 or 2, the hunter gets too close, aggroes the entire room (including the boss) and causes a wipe. She then says: ”I’m gonna be lazy. Rez me when you get back lol.” and does just that – waits til we run back to res her.
In the same run, just before Fenrir (a bit more than halfway through the instance), the warlock says, “Gotta go to work guys, I’m going to put myself on follow for the rest of the dungeon. Bye!” I sure am thankful for the “Vote to Kick” feature.
Blackfathom Deeps:
I think a quick recount is all that’s really needed to tell you the story about this Hunter.
No wait, that’s not all that’s needed. He also asked if we would wait so he could tame one of the demons.
During the same run, the prot paladin forgot to put Righteous Fury up after a wipe until reminded by someone at the next boss. (oops, that was me…)
The really sad thing? Remember the bad hunter? He still came in second for DPS (just behind me, the tank).
Stormwind Stockades:
I actually got into an instance as DPS instead of tank! While I was still spec’d prot, I managed to nonetheless beat out the rest of the dps… including a hunter two levels above me.
Gnomeragan:
I ran Gnomer about a dozen times. The worst story is from the one time is from the only time I disliked someone enough to actually leave group myself. I got brought in part way through the instance, as the first tank had left… and I soon found out why. This rogue wanted to tank it – one of those “I know how to do this better than you” types. After he continued to pull mobs while we still hadn’t killed the ones we were on, I finally told the group that if they didn’t need a tank, I’d leave and let the rogue do it. When the rogue said he could handle it, I left. I wonder if they ever made it the rest of the way!
My best story from Gnomer is when I’d finally run it enough times to actually know my way around. I never ever wanted to know my way around that wretched place! Anyway, why was it the best? Because the Dungeon Finder set us up with this group, and it actually went very smoothly:
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