Most of us, if not all of us, who run group finder content, have met them. Thoroughly mindblowingly awesome uber leet guys (or gals) that leave you completely speechless, staring in disbelief at their performance, thinking to yourself "I am so not worthy of grouping with this person ever again in my life". Fortunately, there is an in-game tool to achieve this and I am sure that, like me, many people have a list of these rare gems on a tab near the who, guild, and friends list.

 

Not everyone has this precious gift. Luckily, there are ways to artificially achieve similar results by mimicking the superstars. So how can you apear more awesome than you really are?

 

Chapter one: Playing it cool

 

First you need a correct frame of mind. When you shuttle into an instance after getting a pop, do not say anything. After all, you are not there to chit-chat, but to get stuff done, right? All those hellos are a way for insecure people to ease tension. You are not tense, you are awesome!

 

 

 

You may have met people who right at the start say something along the lines of "never done this one before". Clearly they are afraid that they may screw up because of lacking knowledge. You don't need to bother with that, even if you have no memory of the place you just shuttled into, your awesomeness will give you strength to overcome anything and everything the game can possibly throw at you.

 

 

It should be said that a wipe may happen when you are winging it, or indeed at any point of any run you may get accused of screwing up something. But surely because you are awesome and therefore it cannot be your fault, you should deny any accusations suggesting otherwise. In fact, it must be someone else's fault and only you can show the others who the guilty party is.

 

 

 

If you decided to grace the peasants by allowing them to get queue pop sooner by queueing as tank or healer even though you are specced and gear for dpsing, you need to ease their little minds by assuring them that you are entirely awesome and that you can do it like this.

 

 

 

In case your gear is well below recomended level for the content, some clueless heathen may question your decision to undertake the endeavor in your current clothing. They should be forgiven for they know not the amount of sheer skill you are bringing to the table. Be kind to the small-minded and provide a few words of comfort.

 

 

 

If there is a bonus boss availible in the instance, as the most awesome person in the group it is your solemn duty to decide whether or not the bonus will be pursued.

 

 

 

Chapter two: Watch this!

 

While clearing trash, which, let's be honest, is totally beneath you, as the greatest player in the group you should dictate tempo and route taken. If you are the tank it will even be expected of you, but if you're not, this responsibility still needs to be handled by a professional and since you are awesome, it has to be you.

 

CC is cheesing, real men take all the mobs at once and mow them down with their high numbers flying left, right, and center.

 

 

 

The packs are usually mix of mobs of different strength. Supposedly there are two "schools" of combat, one says the weakest go first, the other say the strongest do, which is of course utter nonsense. As the most competent person in the group, you should look for the strongest adversary and go tackle it first while the less fortunate players mop up the rest.

 

 

 

After the fight, in the unlikely event of you losing some HP, the healer will cater to your needs so you don't have to stop on the way to next pack.

 

 

 

If you are dpsing and the tank is taking his sweet time, no doubt mustering what little courage he can scrape, you should show him how it's done.

 

 

 

Special attention should be given to knockbacks, if you have one, you have a unique opportunity to demonstrate your awesomeness to players and mobs alike!

 

 

 

Everyone loves shortcuts. But the ignorant rabble you get paired with probably knows nothing about them. Once again you should be an example and lead on. However, some reprimanding should be dispensed if someone proves to be incompetent of following you and pulls the easily skippable mobs.

 

 

In case you use stealth CC in an awesome capacity that will enable you to skip otherwise unskippable, some peasants will get overconfident and move too close to still awake mobs or outright attack. After you dispatch the pack, you need to set them straight.

 

 

 

Chapter three: The whole point

 

Bosses are a mild annoyance due to the various wannabe mechanics that could threaten less awesome people than you. Time for you to keep shining brightly in the face of pretended adversity!

 

You know those pesky markers? It's a cheap trick to make you move instead of doing super high damage/ super awesome healing, don't fall for it. Sometimes there are no markers, just over the top animation, same idea.

 

 

In case of a bug or a glitch when you do take damage from some crap on the floor, the healer will compensate for this. Unless the healer is useless. In which case he needs to be informed of this fact.

 

 

 

Loot time! As we already established, you are the one carrying all the others throught the content none of them would be able to survive otherwise. "Need" and "Greed" are pointless labels that will only confuse their true meaning.

 

 

 

If this was the last boss, many people usually say something along the lines of "thanks for the run/group". This is, of course, aimed at you. You have two ways to deal with this. Either by being modest or embracing the reward of your awesomeness.

 

 

 

 

Bonus round!

These are just little things that can contribute to how awesome you appear

 

 

 

Since I do not consider myself to be an awesome player by any stretch of the imagination, this list is by no means comprehensive. I have, however, met a lot of these elite uber people on well over a hundred different characters. Some left impressions so deep I have remembered their legacy names and whenever I see that name with the same guild tag, I recognize that character as being played by a super awesome being. Then again, I, as many simple peasants, am quite easily impressed and award awesomeness recognition badges for as little as 10 or 20 awesome points. You may have to try harder to impress more skilled players.

 

So go out there and fake it 'till you make it!

This is pretty funny. Bravo! Edited November 19, 2013 by DarthStinson

How to be awesome? Queue as tank with actually tank gear, tank stance and use your taunt and people will start to worship your name,

How to be awesome? Queue as tank with actually tank gear, tank stance and use your taunt and people will start to worship your name,

no no.

Haha great thread, BIoware needs to implement this as achievements and special titles. So many uber elitist peeps need more recognition. Edited November 19, 2013 by Scyphon_

Those achievement titles made me laugh and will probably come to mind when I inevitably once again witness the awesomeness firsthand. Nice work! My favourites were:

 

"My credentials are in order": +10 awesome points for assuring the frightful that your previous experience with the content on other characters and innate skill is enough to compensate for your modest gear

 

"Sit down!!": +5 awesome points for starting fight by knocking mobs on their asses with Force Wave/Overload as shadow/assassin tank

Bookmarked this to share with everyone I meet. Bravo, sir.

How to be awesome? Queue as tank with actually tank gear, tank stance and use your taunt and people will start to worship your name,

 

Wrong-thought detected! Wrong-thought detected!

 

Get the straight-jacket boys, we got a live one here!

 

(Good thread OP, will definitely read again Please post, people, the "Weird People in GF" thread is now approaching 140 pages, so we've got some catching up to do.)

Great read OP, thank you!

 

CC is cheesing, real men take all the mobs at once and mow them down with their high numbers flying left, right, and center.

 

 

 

What? No +1 awesome points if it's broken with a single target attack? I'm a bit hurt now.

Edited November 19, 2013 by KittyCheshire

How to be awesome? Queue as tank with actually tank gear, tank stance and use your taunt and people will start to worship your name,

 

Never ever open up with a taunt. What's the matter with you?

Edited November 20, 2013 by slafko

Never ever open up with a taunt. What's the matter with you?

 

Um...he never, ever once said to open with taunt. He said to use it.

Well, the TC is quite wrong in alot of those awesome bits, if you don't know what to do, you get kicked out after being told to figure it out before finding another group.

 

You have to know everything prior to getting into a group or you suck, not my rules, its just the rules that the GF groupers have forced on everyone, such as being pressured into space barring through all the conversations regardless if you have seen it before or not, they just say 'i don't give a s*it, skip it or leave'....so i just avoid the Groupfinder unless i am with a full group of guildies, then we go through it, otherwise its 'stick to solo-play to avoid the morons'.

Haha, this is a great thread. It's almost like this was written about some awesome people that I have known through the years of MMO pugs.

Um...he never, ever once said to open with taunt. He said to use it.

 

I've seen way too many tanks use it as opener so I'm taking the advice with a grain of salt.

I'm so gonna say you're welcome at the end of the next GF flashpoint i do :D:D

I'm so gonna say you're welcome at the end of the next GF flashpoint i do :D:D

 

I had someoone saying "you're welcome" when we finished the Oricon heroic yesterday. O.O

 

Anyway, great thread. ^^ Made me laugh.

Reminds me of what an typical MARAUDER does. (There was a thread about it, I don't have the link to it anymore, though.)