Jerk Alert

[BlueBard]

If you run into a spines scrapper on Freedom by the moniker of Porcupine Pickle, avoid the guy like the plague.

He was dumb enough to aggro an entire room full of Council, get himself killed, and then insult me repeatedly for not having a heal power he assumed I ought to have.  (I was a Rad/Electric Defender)  This was after I'd rezzed him after he'd gotten himself whacked by a crowd of Tsoo in front of the mission door and again inside.  I declined to rez him the third time.  Even after I'd been kicked off the team (I was about to quit anyway, so no loss there), he continued to insult me by tell until I ignored him.

He apparently repeated his performance for the other defender on the team, who sent me a tell right after that complaining what a jerk he was and that they too had to put him on ignore.  The other defender, by the way, who did have a heal power.

[Uncle Yuan]

I am always amazed when people like that get so worked up in a game.  It's supposed to be fun.  If you're getting that overwrought at a game you really need to resort your priorities.

[Verfall]

Scrappers + Freedom = Idiots

Just assume that equation every time you see one, and occasionally you might possibly be surprised. I wouldn't count on it though.

Replace scrappers with stalkers villainside.

[Kommando]

As a scrapper, you have to be careful with aggro.  I usually try and be smart and let the tank gather before I bust.  Sometimes it doesn't work so well.  Though aggroing an entire room is just stupid.  If you have a group with good controllers then a scrapper can tank, but never rely on it.  Usually if I am in a group and the scrapper or blaster are playing Captain Aggro, then at some point I call "GF aggro" and descretely log to another character.  I've also learned the joys of /ignore and /gignore.

[Reepicheep]

Ugh, those scrappers.

Had that the other day for the first half of posi. The good thing was, he had slow loading times and we would run through half the mish as quick as possible before he arrived ("Aww, you missed it again? Sorry, mate") but from then on, it would be hell. He would go while everyone else was resting, so we were normally at half health (him too, at times) when he decided to pull a group of vahzs. We had no tank, so recovery was normally next to impossible. He too complained that the healer wasn't healing him and would drop SK at every group, rendering him totally useless to us.

Although, it was worth it for one time when a group was waiting for us up an elavator. One of our members was lucky enough to be five minutes ahead of the rest (we were just coming back from a team wipe... guess who's fault?) and proceeded up the elavators and died. We must have been talking about it in detail for about three minutes, saying at many points, "don't go up", when our jerky scrapper asks "I wonder how he died?" and goes up.

We didn't rez him. We kicked him. The second half of Posi was two hours shorter than the first half.

[GhostMachine]

Sounds like a fire\fire tanker I grouped with once. Emphasis on the `once'.

What do you call a pure fire tanker in a group fighting +4 level Crey (including PPs) who constantly charges groups of mobs after being told not to do so, only to faceplant then whine that he's not getting healing support when, in fact, the healer is having to concentrate on trying to keep him alive rather than watch out for the entire group, because the rest of the group has sense enough to stay back and let him run to his death?

[Ephemeris]

Sounds like a fire\fire tanker I grouped with once. Emphasis on the `once'.

What do you call a pure fire tanker in a group fighting +4 level Crey (including PPs) who constantly charges groups of mobs after being told not to do so, only to faceplant then whine that he's not getting healing support when, in fact, the healer is having to concentrate on trying to keep him alive rather than watch out for the entire group, because the rest of the group has sense enough to stay back and let him run to his death?

A victim of a team that ditched him?  :P

[GhostMachine]

Sounds like a fire\fire tanker I grouped with once. Emphasis on the `once'.

What do you call a pure fire tanker in a group fighting +4 level Crey (including PPs) who constantly charges groups of mobs after being told not to do so, only to faceplant then whine that he's not getting healing support when, in fact, the healer is having to concentrate on trying to keep him alive rather than watch out for the entire group, because the rest of the group has sense enough to stay back and let him run to his death?

A victim of a team that ditched him?  :P

lol

It was a lab map mission, we only had one healer (and not one of the ATs that is best at it), and were fighting Crey, including PPs, that were +4 levels to almost the entire group (including him). In other words, a situation where you'd want good pulling, not some idiot who keeps charging the mobs when told not to. We caught him a lie once because at one point the group's leader asked him why he wasn't taunting and he claimed that he had been. If he had been taunting, then we would have had mobs coming to us, not him going to them, and that NEVER happened.

If I remember correctly, he left after the fourth time he faceplanted, whining about not getting any healing support, when he clearly had been but wasn't listening to the group telling him not to charge in. We were staying just inside maximum blast range of the mobs whenever he started charging them, and there was no way he was using the Taunt power. (Probably had Taunt SOs slotted in the powers that would accept them....)

Easily the worst Tanker I've ever grouped with.

My theory is that he was either powerlevelled or running someone else's character, because there's no way he got to 40+ normally the way he was playing.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

If you've a problem with one of my scrapper toons, BB, you could at least do me the courtesy of PMing me instead of airing my dirty laundry for the entire community to read.  Porcupine Pickle is one of my finest toons, and I'll not have you malign him without submitting to a duel.  Pistols at fifty paces...tomorrow...dawn...

:P

Unfortunately, this has largely been my (admittedly limited, due to lack of free time--or working DSL connection at the moment, for that matter :banghead:--) experience with scrappers.  'Tis one of the reasons I'm off pickup groups altogether. With as little leisure time as I have these days, I'd rather not spend it in the company of intolerable fools.  :(

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

[Kommando]

Sometimes its easier to to deal with when playing healer.  I had one tanker charge off all the time, and end up face planted.  And I'm like "Okay, I need everyone in a group to stick close so I can do my job.  By everyone I mean Skippy the Damage Sponge."  In cases like that, its actually easier to deal with smaller groups, unless of course the perp goes off and aggroes an entire room, in which case if I'm not face planted I'm out the door.  In any case I am learning that there are two types of debt.  The regular sort which happens once in a while, and PUG Debt, which is a signal to leave the PUG (well unless it was a fluke which does happen, and the odd good PUG does happen).

I am learning from Rain and Mikey to have toons for solo play, and save the team toons for decent teams.

[Stopman]

You can't heal stupidity.

[Reepicheep]

You can't heal stupidity.

*sighs*

Nurse, cancel MikeB7's operation for me, and take him off medication. He's a goner.

[GhostMachine]

You can't heal stupidity.

Or, as Ron White put it, "you can't fix stupid".

[Viking]

The jerkiest player I ever saw was when I joined a PUG villain-side.  A Corruptor named Dear Jebus.  (Not really Dear Jebus, since I can't type the actual name without triggering the filter, but he actually named his character after the Son of God under Christian dogma, complete with costume.)  Who had obscenity-laced battle cries.  With spelling errors.

Aside from the bad taste involved, said Corruptor (with Energy Blasts as his primary) dashed into groups of enemies with all of the restraint of a kid on Christmas Day hopped up on sugary cereal, chocolate, and coffee.  He outright ignored the rest of the team telling him to stop charging into every battle.  He would spastically insist that we defeat mobs related to Side Quests, despite the fact that we weren't even running a Mayhem mission.

When we finally completed the mission, said Corruptor was kicked from the team.  He repeatedly asked in Local chat why he had been kicked.  When that didn't work, he switched to tells.  When that apparently didn't work either, he switched to Broadcast.  With more obscenities.

"WHY THE *@&#^! DID YOU KICK ME YOU @$$H073S?!?!?"

He swiftly became the target of derision for just about anyone else who cared to post on Broadcast.

[Kommando]

You can't heal stupidity.

*sighs*

Nurse, cancel MikeB7's operation for me, and take him off medication. He's a goner.

I think you misunderstood, Rain and Mikey helped me figure out decent builds for solo play.  Mikey is probably the numero uno person I have ever teamed with.

[Camma]

there was this one terrible tank...what was her name.....Ms. Knockback....no...Ms. Outback......hmmm????

[ow_tiobe_sb]

there was this one terrible tank...what was her name.....Ms. Knockback....no...Ms. Outback......hmmm????

Ms. Outhouse?  No, she's a FF/DB defender whose user also plays Dingleberry Dog, a DM/rad defender, and Final Push, a SA/FM tanker.

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Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

[El Condor]

Ms. Outhouse?  No, she's a FF/DB defender whose user also plays Dingleberry Dog, a DM/rad defender, and Final Push, a SA/FM tanker.

And you call ME bad?  :rolleyes:

EC

[ThePrelate]

I like Kitties!