Awesome leaving-a-group excuses

[Mehrk]

Don't know if I would call it awesome but the most bizarre one that I have heard the most is people having to afk to go to the store. Really.. wtf? The store?

I still remember the first time I heard it.. poor Revved in his crustacean shell armor miserably trying to tank PoV until he decided he needed cigarettes so badly that the group just had to wait 30 minutes for him to run to the store. You know someone is bad when an encounter with them traumatizes you to the point of remembering their armor.. from a decade ago.

[Shinko]

my pool is on fire

[Clark]

I had to use the one "My dogs just ran away" once.

Sucked, but they came back home after 2hrs. Living nightmare for sure.

[Gadwen]

Why bother making excuses, what more does your group need to know other than the fact that you are leaving.

"Gotta go soon" Is all they ever need to hear.

[Swish]

Time for my daily quest to find the internet's best cat gifs, sorry guize [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] /ex

[Elmarnieh]

Originally Posted by senna [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

99% of the time in PUGs I end up hating the exp/puller/healer and wish I hadnt joined so I quit out.

I will no longer play a class I cant solo to 60.

Also to answer one of the questons, I really dont care what your reason for leaving the group is, whether you're burned out or actually have a legit excuse, I dont think its a big deal.

I strongly suggest considering what the common factor in those 99% of PUG groups is in order to determine cause.

[Gadwen]

Originally Posted by senna [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

99% of the time in PUGs I end up hating the exp/puller/healer and wish I hadnt joined so I quit out.

I will no longer play a class I cant solo to 60.

Also to answer one of the questons, I really dont care what your reason for leaving the group is, whether you're burned out or actually have a legit excuse, I dont think its a big deal.

So good at MMOs you gotta play them alone?

[Stinkum]

You gotta love the people like Senna who have 100 contingencies on their willingness to stay in an XP group, and cop the bratty attitude of "I need my experience-rate-per-hour-played to be 100% optimized." That is a surefire way to have a miserable time playing this game and miss the entire point of why we still play.

The fun things I did on this server were things like forming an XP group and crawling all the way through Befallen, even though we all wiped a few times in the process. Or that poorly-assembled four man group of 3 hybrids and Druid healer that somehow managed to hold down Mistmoore Castle entrance, despite shitty gear and the odds against us. Those are the things I remember, not when I soloed Highkeep guards for 30 levels in my Fungi, GFG, and CoF.

[crkhobbit]

Someone once asked our group/guild/raid/whatever if they could go afk for a few minutes because their wife fell off a ladder and there was blood everywhere.

Which I thought was hilariously dumb. If my wife is on the floor bleeding, I'm not even going to waste time typing /q.

So after that, we would try to make up the most ridiculous reasons to afk we could think of. The only that sticks out was "BRB, ninjas attacking my house"

[senna]

Originally Posted by Stinkum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You gotta love the people like Senna who have 100 contingencies on their willingness to stay in an XP group, and cop the bratty attitude of "I need my experience-rate-per-hour-played to be 100% optimized." That is a surefire way to have a miserable time playing this game and miss the entire point of why we still play.

Theres nothing 'bratty' about it, thats a label you're adding on because you're butthurt. Yes I have a limited time to play and I want to maximize my exp rate.

If I'm pissing around with friends in EQ I could care less, but if I'm on to grind and join a PUG group that couldn't fight its way out of a wet paper bag then I'm going to leave.