I have 2 RAF alts that I got to 61 and just kind of left them there a long time ago. I am now using the Dungeon Finder to burn off rest XP and level them a bit. Most of my group have been good and things go smooth. Not all of them go so well.
Mid 60s I ran into the issue where all the tanks queue up for is Mana Tombs and a few of them just bail after the first boss does not drop the item they want. That frustrates me when people abuse the system like that.
I just got out of a group where there was this interesting hunter. We did a hand full of pulls and the healer bailed. Things were fairly smooth so I think he just had to go. We tried to re queue, but this hunter kept canceling. After the 4 time, he said “no Mana”. Once he was at full mana, he selected a role when we queued. He realized his mistake in thinking it was the ready check when I pointed it out to him. He also asked if there was anyone that healed mana. I made him a stack of water. I was unable to make the fruit he needed for his pet though and that did disappoint him. This guy was a raf slave that got handed a mid level char. His gear was a good 10-20 levels behind his level for most slots.
I decided the runs go the smoothest when I run my frost mage with improved blizzard. Every pull is an aoe fest and Blizzard dominates the stuff I am running. Even when I do pull off the tank the slow effect allows the tank to get them back easily. When the tank can’t get it back, I start another Blizzard in front of the mob and they die before they get to me.
I tried to aoe as fire but I didn’t like to be that close to the mobs. The mobs can kill me before I know I even have agro. With blizzard, I stand at max range and have room to land 2 more blizzards before a mob can attack me.

that hunter episode is pretty hilarious. i don’t recall having encountered anyone that oblivious to how the game/their class works, but i think it would be more entertaining than the typical noob who is just frustratingly inept. it reminds me of the girlfriends of guild members who try to get in to WoW and gives me flashbacks to vanilla WoW when some one tries to wrap his head around how to help some one asking for a healthstone, or the pally who honestly forgets that she can heal herself and then realizes the spells aren’t even on her bars.
Comment by Wodinn — February 24, 2010 @ 7:24 am
I have a “mana plz” status message now due to a Warlock in a PUG. He was mid 50′s, and besides the massive pet-fails he performed, when he ran out of mana, all he would say was “mana plz” over and over. If we asked him a question, we got NO response. Only “mana plz”. Couldn’t even get him to drink after giving him water. …needless to say, he didn’t finish that run with us.
Comment by Jenna — February 28, 2010 @ 1:59 pm