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Tool of the Day: BratTank

In the mornings, I listen to Q107 with John Derringer and the gang and am usually in tears somewhere between Oshawa and Ajax from laughing so hard. This morning, John announced that he was no longer going to do the “Tool of the Day” because his heart just wasn’t in it – as he got older, he had less to be angry about.

Since I’m still young and full of rage, I figured, why not do it myself for a WoW-centric audience? So, Mr. Derringer, I salute you – thanks for the morning laughs and the inspiration.

And everybody who reads Troll Bouquet knows that I have way, way more than enough material to fuel the fire, right? If you don’t, well, damn, pay attention.

Last night was my first time healing as Taashti, Disc Priest of the Sexy Tail, and I did a damned good job of it if I do say so m’self (yaaay bubbles!). In one of the final pulls of Mana Tombs, the tank did not pull back and folk kept getting feared into other groups, so it was a wipe. Up to this point the tank had been whining incessantly about his bad luck with greed rolls, then was capslocking over getting feared and finally, as I was running back, he wanted to be rezzed.

“Well,” said I, as I waggled my ghostly – yet ample – spacegoat butt in the vague direction of the instance, “since I’m dead and running, you better run yer arse back, too.” This was complete with the razzy-face and everything!

In true Melodrama Queen form, the tank flipped, stating that if I wasn’t going to rez him he would leave, and oh wouldn’t that be just tragic? Losing him, wouldn’t it be such a horrible, horrible thing? We would be so devestated, and would have to wait forever for a new tank! The horrors!

Well, that kicked in my Fite Response (which has been enhanced by irritated spine and hip joints and tight back muscles), and I responded in the affirmative: If I run, you run, and by the time I actually find the freaking instance you’ll be inside and alive anyway. He dropped group, the remaining two DPS reiterated that the tank was a brat, I found the instance entrance and we re-queued. A new tank and DPS were found less than five minutes later, I rezzed the poor, lost Warlock (Note To Pugs: “I can’t find my way back in!” guarantees a rez when the healer can get to you. “Rez me”, however, does not) and we finished off the instance with a much more intelligent tank.

You, BratTank-Whose-Name-I-Don’t-Remember, are the first Tool of the Day for Troll Bouquet.

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2 Comments

By Marillawen, February 11, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

Awww…sometimes tanks are just that stupid. Keep going!
By Anea, February 11, 2010 @ 6:01 pm

Bah, I hate people that pull that!

I had a DPS DK in my group last night in Pit of Saron – we were having a tough time on Garfrost and we wiped three times. On the third run back, I didn’t bother to look at the portraits because up until now, everyone had run back together. However, when I zoned in and waited for the DK to show up so I could buff before we rode over, I saw he was still dead.

I frowned, and as we rode over, he was still dead, not released. I told him that he’d better be running back – he said nothing.

Then the new DPS shaman decided to be “helpful” and rez him. I almost lost it.

I said nothing, since it would only create drama, but DPS shaman, you undermined the healer when she was trying to enforce the “we all wipe we all run” rule. Yes, I know it would have been faster, but if I rezzed him now, I rewarded him for laziness and he would expect further rezzes if we wiped again.

I am more than happy to rez you if you are lost or if you need to afk for kids or some such IRL aggro. If you are not an ass during the previous attempts, I’ll not mind so much.

*cough* Sorry to take over comments!