Praetorium AFKers

[ArmaDragkun]

Seriously? Why even bother?

I get it. We all get it, it's boring if you've run it several hundred times or more but still it's both stupid and arrogant to believe you're so important that 7 other people should have to run it without you because you're far too "busy" to help. Stupid because there will always be people like me who will call you out for being afk and then get you kicked from the group. Enjoy the queue as dps again.

It's always dps players too. Never had another tank or any healer go afk.

[Vahlnir]

I don't see it often but it does happen. And yeah, it's usually a dps. They aren't as front in center as healers and tanks are.

[Sauteed]

While I agree it's bogus someone queues in, I don't believe they went afk to read the forums..
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[SherlottaEryut]

Yeah but sometimes they get creative with it… like they put themselves in combat so you’re unable to kick them.

I’m the same though, I’m not afraid to call people out or initiate a vote kick.

[ArmaDragkun]

While I agree it's bogus someone queues in, I don't believe they went afk to read the forums..
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Yeah I know I'm just a grumpy shite who wants to rant

[DrWho2010]

well the tanks and healers usually can't go afk because the enemy mobs will kill all the dps lol

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's always dps players too. Never had another tank or any healer go afk.

I was in a run once where both healers decided to AFK through it.

Fun fact, unless both tanks are fresh 50s in artifact gear, you don't need healers for much in Prae.

Doesn't make it any less obnoxious, though.

[Breakbeat]

I honestly don't care what other people are doing in my 95th Prae run. If someone's lame enough to AFK, then fine.

Since I remain front-and-center (except during cutscenes), I know that each encounter will be cleared by me pushing three buttons for twenty or thirty seconds.

Honestly my ego isn't so big that I would get 'upset' because I am 'carrying' someone. It's petty. I'm not there to teach anyone a lesson. I'm not there to place blame and call out people. My "carry" results in one extra push of '3' and two extra pushes of '1'.

I don't play the blame game in life, unless the blame is needed, e.g., someone afk-ing in a premade ultimate raid group.

If someone wants to afk in Prae, it's literally not worth my time or emotion to care. I ain't no Elon Musk where I make eleventy-million dollars an hour. One minute of my time, especially when I'm playing a video game, isn't worth a damn thing.

'But, but, Billy, someone needs to teach them a lesson!"

Yeah, so you either speak to the person, or initiate a kick. Coming here to soapbox over random crap that shouldn't even upset you is very petty. If something like this sets you off, how are you going to cope with the real world, when you have to go out and get a job, and immediately realize that some people do more work, and some people do less work - for the same pay? Whoa... that's gonna set you off something spectacular if you can't even carry someone in Prae and ignore it.

[Sauteed]

Yeah I know I'm just a grumpy shite who wants to rant

Same

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[Velnora]

They could always not tie rewards to it.