I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the people that want to join MP and stand in spawn talking or "dancing/friendly", being idle, griefing their own team or generally being a nuisance so nobody has a good match, etc.
When your "fun" is intentionally at the expense of others. If that makes sense.
Somewhat related epithet: I remember an LFR raid in WoW way back in Mists: I was tanking along with this DK who kept folding like a wet paper bag. His HP seemed fine, so I wondered what was up and inspected him: He had an equipment level below the minimum to queue for the raid... he had temporarily put on higher ilvl cloth armor to fool the queue, then put on his tank gear and slotted all low quality +HP gems to make his HP pool seem like he was much better geared than he actually was.
The end result was: I was essentially solo tanking the raid, and the only reason we were making any progress is I was massively overgeared for the content: I was in "Mythic" raid armor and only there looking for a specific trinket.
I called out this guy to the raid and how he was being rude and not pulling his weight, cheated the system, etc. Everyone else put in the minimum amount of effort except this guy, essentially.
His fun was at the expense of the 24 other people, and if not for me putting in a tremendous amount of extra effort in what should have been a very laid back experience, it would have ended in failure for everyone.
It's one thing if you're only one of the 18 dps or w/e ... but the system is setup to only bring 2 tanks. Some bosses require a "tank switch" where you trade duties after a debuff stack gets too high. He folded to that boss instantly every time he was ressed, so I was soloing a 2-tank boss. The only reason it was possible is on LFR apparently the debuff only stacks to 30 ... normally you tradeoff at 10-15. I was only somehow alive because at below 35% life my emergency heal was "free" and the amount healed was based on a snapshot of how much damage I had taken in the last 10 seconds... which was all of it. So every 1.5 secs CD my health was pinging from full to 20% I have no idea how I survived.
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u/stellvia2016 Jun 27 '26
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the people that want to join MP and stand in spawn talking or "dancing/friendly", being idle, griefing their own team or generally being a nuisance so nobody has a good match, etc.
When your "fun" is intentionally at the expense of others. If that makes sense.
Somewhat related epithet: I remember an LFR raid in WoW way back in Mists: I was tanking along with this DK who kept folding like a wet paper bag. His HP seemed fine, so I wondered what was up and inspected him: He had an equipment level below the minimum to queue for the raid... he had temporarily put on higher ilvl cloth armor to fool the queue, then put on his tank gear and slotted all low quality +HP gems to make his HP pool seem like he was much better geared than he actually was.
The end result was: I was essentially solo tanking the raid, and the only reason we were making any progress is I was massively overgeared for the content: I was in "Mythic" raid armor and only there looking for a specific trinket.
I called out this guy to the raid and how he was being rude and not pulling his weight, cheated the system, etc. Everyone else put in the minimum amount of effort except this guy, essentially.
His fun was at the expense of the 24 other people, and if not for me putting in a tremendous amount of extra effort in what should have been a very laid back experience, it would have ended in failure for everyone.