Something strange happened to me yesterday

pod88kk

Something strange happened to me yesterday. I queued to do a random Vet dungeon for the XP again and I got VSCP....with PUGS(220-340CP). Now usually my style of play is to leave and do DLC with friends only, yesterday however I figured Hey, why not give it a go'.

So we got to the first boss and it was a wipe, when we rezzed the tank apologised saying it was his first time in here and didn't know the mechs. I huffed and went to leave group but ended up doing a ready check instead. It was a sign, I had to stay and get this sucker done. So I explained the mechs and we got it done first attempt, 'Good job, everyone' emotes were going off left right and centre. Turns out the healer and other dd hadn't done it on vet either or know the mechs. I continued to do explain the mechs for all the bosses and we breezed through them. We wiped a few times on the last boss but ultimately got it done.

Anyway the strange things that happened to me was I got a warm, fuzzy feeling after helping people.....happiness that i hadn't felt in a long time.

Moral of the story, we all started out not knowing mechs once, take time to give back to the community and help someone like others have helped you.

Stay safe

bearbelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBak_2X3Do&feature=emb_logo

Raudgrani

I tend to do this often, or at least as I go random in DLC dungeons. But only if they are not a complete "non compatible" group, then I don't. I mean the obvious, weird weapon choices and such (S&B/2H or S&B/Bow on DD and such). If they are seemingly legit at a first glance, I try to give it a go. My damage is generally high enough to compensate if someone else is doing a bit worse, it doesn't really matter much of the time, it takes more time and that's all most of the time.

But Scalecaller - wow, that's huge! The last boss makes a "pug run" very hard, as it is quite tricky to get the mechanics in order - even if you kind of know it. Same with the dwemer junk in Frostvault. it takes a few runs before you get the hang of the "running around" bit itself, even if you know what to do.

Last time I did this, was in vet Moongrave Fane. Ok, we died a LOT, but they were following my advice, and we made it through. I don't think any those guys had done a lot of vet DLC's at all (like, any - perhaps except the oldest ones). What made me do it was one guy saying already when we started "This is gonna end badly", I was like "The **** it will, we are gonna smash it!" and they probably though I was sarcastic and went like "LOL" in text chat.

But by short precise text instructions, I explained every time we died. Should have done it BEFORE we died, but if you don't - people will know even better WHY it's important to do this and that. ;-)

Coatmagic

Husband does this on a regular basis with those harder vet dungeons. With a few exceptions of actual dps checks where he will always wait til that check before telling people (if they need telling) why they won't be able to finish etc.

There are a lot of 'newbs' that are only new to this game, not mmos. In my experience, these folks know the ropes and even though things are a bit different, more is the same than not.

Sounds like you got lucky with these lil ones

Good on you for not bailing on them!