The first was a shaman, he dropped his totems, but was chatting away in Trade chat bagging us out as nubs for taking him – and him not having to do anything for the free badges.. he got kicked just before Attuman.

The second one was following after Curator (Curator is getting such a dirty name on this blog), and we realised when we had a near wipe on the trash after… no incoming heals from 1/3 of our healers.

Semi-afking, when you have multiple monitors/boxes is OK… at least you can see and react… I have accidentally been caught out (not afking, but missing the start of fights) when Alt-tabbed to read strats etc.

I was chocked when I first understood that a raid collegue had several pc:s going on as well as a TV screen. He can watch a football game and do some theorycrafting researches on his other screen, write in forums and raid at the same time. And he still tops the dmg charts….

Ordinary mediocre players like me just can’t go AFK even if we wanted to.

When a pug is fail, and you just do a fake DC, not only is there a risk that the pug doesn’t realise how fail it is, the chances are one of your mage bretheren will be called in to replace you, leading to a chain-fail which can go on for hours.

Do us all a favor. Tell them they suck. Tell them why. Be polite but firm, explain that since the group is destined to fail you are going to cut and run early, and suggest they either a) do the same or b) get a clue.

After this you are likely to need the /ignore command, but know that you have saved not only hours of your own time, but potentially hours of many many other people’s time as well, which adds up to a whole lot of.. err time

BTW, I have a bit of free fire love coming your way.. but you will have to sweat a little, till Friday

@ isheepthings
Sneaky.. and here I was making up a post on something I couldn’t do, and you come out and admit doing something similar.. Of course if I was being honest, there have been a couple of “My Guild has just called me off for a BLT run” or “Damn my non-existent dog is caught in the non-existent insinkerator” moments with bad pugs.

@ Kriz: I fear if I joked about something like that, I would accidentally do it… and of course you know my real opinion on DC’ers.

@ Pugnacious: Damn I wish I could say that it was me doing research, but unfortunately this all came from my overactive and perverse imagination.
Of course on a positive note, I expect I will have lots of links for you to track down and report soon.

Can’t wait to find it syndicated on all sorts of hax sites

They be getting sneakier.. but your right, they do exactly what you say and its alot harder to notice/catch… Ribbing them in raid chat doesn’t encourage them to participate more ect ect.. its like public transport – you can moan all you want about them but in the end you have to put up with it ( esp with price of petrol atm.. )
But a warning to those Afkers.. if you get reported enough blizzard will take your gear off you. How lol would that be – all that non effort put into points you don’t deserve to lose your gear. T

You try to trick your group into pressing alt-f4.

“Hey guys, wanna know how to loot twice the normal amount of gold? hold alt, then press F4 while you loot the body!”

“That doesn’t work!”

“Sure it does!”

“I don’t believe you!”

“Ok fine, watch me”

*Krizzlybear has left the party

and don’t return.

I even made a macro once that typed it all out.

Wow I can’t loot…anybody else?
*crickets*
sever crash?
oh there we go…all good
no wait…
yay lets all keep running in circles
ok so no i typed that 30 seconds ago and it just showed up

and then i’d alt-f4. it’ll all spam at once and give the appearance of an honest connection problem…Only used it in baaaaaaaaaaaad pugs though. I guess cause I didn’t have the “big balls of fire” to just say you guys suck i’m out.