PuG Life

PuG was once a dirty word. To some it still is.

Not to me, not anymore. I've come to love the pug. I've talked about why before, but to sum it up :

1) The game is a little easier
2) the players are a little better
3) the current design of the game encourages experienced players to revisit old content and spread their goodness around

I was talking to guildies last night and they still felt pick up groups were something to be avoided. I tried to convince them otherwise but with little success. In the minds of many, pug's cannot be redeemed.

But you have to give it to Blizzard -- they're really trying to redeem the pug : witness the 3.3 achievements :

• Looking for More - Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 10 random players total.
• Looking for Many - Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 50 random players total.
• Looking for Multitudes - Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 100 random players total.