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I stopped 5-boxing a month or 2 ago. When I was pugging with my discipline priest, I never had any trouble to heal in heroics with 1300 spellpower. You only need more spellpower when 2 or more people in the PUG are retarded like: "ZOMG I have 3k attack power, look at me pulling aggro" or "Oh! shiny puddle on the floor, let's stand in it!" or "I know I wear cloth, but I bet I can pull those 4 elite mobs!"
DPS can be undergeared, but tanks cannot. Tanks come up with the strangest reasons to why they are able to run a heroic or OT in a raid with only 510 defense. Luckily I have a protection warrior, so I can easily refute them.
Also, people often lie about their specs. Unlucky for them, I always check their gear before inviting them to the group.
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The whole reason I boxed was PUG's,childish bickering over who got what and endless waiting around and and bad mannered,greedy players did it for me.
The OP points are true for 80% of my PUG experiences.
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I've done a few PUGs for OS and Vault.
I've only had one really bad 25x OS where we couldn't get a good tank that could hold aggro and it all dropped out leaving me tied to a failed instance.
I seem to have a better time of it when my friends are running the PUGs ( not so much a true PUG I guess )
I got tied to a failed 10x Naxx from my guild so I guess it happens there too.
I almost never PUG a 5x heroic... it's not worth it.
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if i were to pug, i'd check the characters to see if they're from the same guild. usually, this helps out a lot as many guilds have great players and only need maybe one or two folks to fill in the gaps. however, if there was abuse like what you were getting, i'd drop group and work on something else. there's nothing you can do about idiots who measure your value based on your gear besides let them be.
what baffles me is that they'd be making fun of the healer... i mean even undergeared healing is much much better than no healing at all. which is also what i said to my other pug last night who wanted help with an outland instance. i got on my feral druid (80) and told them that hey, if they want heals, i can heal. but if they dont want me, good luck waiting another hour to find a healer (i was helping out a friend in the group). i ended up going and got annoyed at them (all DKs, would you believe it?). instead of dropping group like i could have, i told them to let me tank, w/o healing. we breezed through that no problem. i think it was sethikk halls. one guy kept dying, people got their gear, etc. but it was still rediculous to me how if somoene who can heal was willing to heal, why would they even ask for qualifications? some healing is better than no healing at all.
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I've played WoW since... December 2004, I think. The total number of times I have been in a PuG is... two? Maybe three times.
I started playing WoW when my friends did, and we grew our own guild made up of RL friends and family and people we'd get to know in-game, and their friends and family, etc. I don't like PuGs, for me the fun of MMORPGs is from playing with a group of people I know and just having a good time no matter how things go. No worries about loot, no worries about who screwed up, just playing and having fun. My friends moved on to WAR and I don't play it, and so multiboxing is the only thing keeping me in WoW, in part because it's fun, in part because I don't have to worry about PuGs.
Some PuGs are awesome, but so many of them have one or two (or more) people who are just asshats. So I don't bother, and I don't miss it.
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In my experience, PuG Raids (esp. OS and VoA) seem to be OK (no major issues).
PuG Groups = :cursing:
Cheers
