Asking to play with decent or at least not-douchebaggy doods in WoW is like asking for fire to not be hot, I realize, but good grief people can be such jerks over the smallest things.

I’m bumming around as Phil to get him gear so that old man, too, can go raid. Unfortunately, with Boss once again out of the picture and bro often going AFK to watch TV (I swear, I am this close to getting him a Slingbox and one of those MIMO monitors so he doesn’t have to go AFK or leave the TV on and turn the volume up hella loud), I’m left having to use LFD, and 9 times out of 10 it ends up with a little more of my soul withering away because people are so mean.

“Cry moar,” right? Maybe. I’ve finally ditched all of Phil’s Bloodthirsty gear (that would otherwise be useful except for the PVP stats), and I’ve respecced and reforged to pile on as much spirit as possible and use the right flasks/food buffs so he’s not having to chug after every group… and I’d like to think I know how to play a Holy Priest, on top of all that.

Now, I’m not like Boss in that I have a slightly higher tolerance for stupid tanks (or at least, tolerant enough where it’s a better use of my time to try to heal through boneheaded moments rather than bitch about bad tanks in guild chat), but even I have limits. I do what I can, but when I go OOM because Mr. Dumbhead Tank can’t be bothered to let me drink before charging into that next mob, then gets all pissed off because despite all good efforts I can’t heal him in time… yeah, it kinda stings a bit. :( But I’d rather not pick a fight with someone I’m not likely to see again, so in the worst cases I end up quietly dropping from the group. Maybe in a way I’m also denying Mr. Dumbhead Tank the pleasure of ragekicking me, so that offsets things a bit.

I could just pimp myself out locally… but that would mean using Trade/LFG Chat which, of course, is just… no. It seems all the potential nice people are all guilded up and out of sight. It’s kind of sad, really. Even though Shattered Knights is so small that it has issues filling 5-man runs, I can’t think about dropping it just so I can find not-jerks that I can consistently group with… you must remember that WoW is often the only way I can talk to bro because he’s a dork who doesn’t answer his phone or emails. It’s also too bad that boss and bro hate people so much that they won’t consider recruiting. I was lucky to even convince Pigeon to roll alts on Draenor.

Worst case… well, this is why I have Koyoshial on Khadgar (Blood Elf Mage, basically Kopii Yoshi). Still too small to raid (lv 75) but she IS in a raiding guild and so far the doods there have been pretty nice. Ah…

On the upside: Phil got a hat and staff upgrade. Granted, the staff is a caster DPS weapon but 1) this is why we have Reforging and 2) it should otherwise hold him until I either get the Heroic Soul Releaser or something from ZA/ZG. :P

Presuming, of course, that I get a group that doesn’t either fall apart or ragekick me first. People are wonderful like that, aren’t they?