So there I was, last night, home from work and looking to bang out a quick random and get my Emblem of Frost fix before I went out for the night. I queued up and of course the “Your dungeon is ready” dialogue popped immediately (the joys of tanking). I went in and was happy to see the loading screen for Gundrak. One of the quicker ones, and five emblems to boot. In fact, Cold-Comfort calculated the place to have the shortest time-to-emblem ratio.

Anyway, I had high hopes for the place. We all zone in and I look at my grid to see one of the squares was colored green which denoted that person was in a vehicle. A Kor’kron Suppression Turret, apparently, which means he was doing the Assault by Air daily. “I’ll be there in a bit” he says.

Rather than wait for this considerate person, Flipmattic of Nazjatar, I just pulled the first pack and was off to the races. Thankfully, Flipmattic was able to join us in time to roll need on the wand that dropped off the first boss. When someone pointed out that he had a 219 epic wand, he replied “sorry auto-need lol”. Whatever that means.

At this point all signs were strongly pointing to the guy being a ninja, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt that it was an accident and kept going. Second boss down and he didn’t roll need, which at the time reassured me that the previous incident was an accident. It occurs to me in hindsight, though, that he probably couldn’t roll need on whatever the item was, or else he would have.

Third boss down and some cloth items drops and you know that he needed it. At this point the obvious had manifested itself. Everyone just said “lol” in party chat and I scrolled up to Flipmattic’s earlier “auto-need” defense so I could right click on his name and ignore him (and thus never deal with him again). The 15 minutes had yet to elapse, so we couldn’t kick him.

Eck drops and so does his loot. But it was nothing he could ninja, so it went to DE.

Once we got to the last boss and downed him, Flipmattic quickly needed the orb and the other item he could grab, won both, and immediately dropped group.

Indeed.

So, here’s to you, Flipmattic of Nazjatar. With your 2.2k dps in 5/5 232, unenchanted, ungemmed tier 9. Congrats at mastering the art of being a parasite.

Let’s do something about it

With the advent of cross-server instances and the eventual Battle.net upgrades, Blizzard should look into instituting a system like Xbox’s Reputation system. Every WoW player would have five stars and at the end of the instance you could go to a tab on the Dungeon Finder tool and grade the people you just ran with on a scale of 1-5 stars.

There’d be safeguards in place (like if someone was constantly rating people one star and only one star, their contributions would be excluded from the averages) to prevent griefing.

Then when queueing up for a dungeon, the system would first try to match you with people that had the same reputation with you. Considerate, five star folks would only be matched with other five stars (if none available then they get four star people in their group). Contrawise, all the one star ninjaing, gogogo-ing, dropping-during-a-wave-of-mobs-ing jerks would be stuck with others of their ilk.

Sounds like utopia. It’d probably never work.

In the end, it was just a heroic

And I don’t feel that aggrieved over the loss of two dream shards and an orb. I don’t care about the loot; I just care that this little punk is going to keep queueing up and keep pulling this crap on other dungeons. It’s be nice if there was some form of redress against such blatant douchebaggery.

In the meantime, if you’re in the Shadowburn group and get in a random with this guy, just drop group (since we can’t kick right off the bat). Don’t give Flipmattic the satisfaction of carrying him to the end.