Prior to the pug system I admittedly would pull the network cord from my computer when a pug seemed that it would take double or more the time of a regular group or worse unlikely to make it.  Though there are times that people were assholes and really did not deserve what can some times be the saving grace of a mysterious d/c.

But the pug system offers an almost emotional detached experience.  Its not like pugging with people from the same server as you.   Especially since so far the pug system does not allow for cross server raids.  Rarely if ever do I meet a lot of the same people. It was not like the group system before where you would always bump into someone on your server, and perhaps they would like you. I tend to wonder if that could be a problem for the development in future raids.  As most of the leads to my raids  have come from grouping with people on my server.  The random pug system is great in getting groups for 5 man regular and heroic instances, but could be a problem in the future for raiding.

Yesterday Larus’s daily pug  the Nexus was one of those things where I was practically grinding the ends of my teeth down.  One of the worst parts was Anomalus, for some bizarre reason no one was killing the rifts.  Not exactly sure but I think that the tank can also work on taking outs those pesky rifts.   Upon running  finale killing the boss a hunter in the group ran off the edge and died.    This is a detail to keep in mind.  Finale after the hunter died twice from trying to get back to us, he finale listen to me and waited at Keristasza.   The biggest problem was the highest dps was 2.2 k (I run a mod called recount) everyone else was between 900 to 1400 dps.   Who was the highest dps?  The tank.  One of the dps was an enhance shammy, unfortunately seemed to do a lot of range attacks, though I guess that was better then she decided to melee(well she looked like a she but perhaps it was a he).   Because she would often not wait for the tank to get aggro and for some odd reason died in seconds.  From Anomalus to Ormorok the Tree-Shaper the hunter was not dpsing.  Sadly he has performed more damage then the shaman between this stretch where you would have figured that she would have caught up and exceeded the hunter in dps.  Clearly this was not the case as the hunter still had a long lead on her dps.
I am not sure why I stayed so long, especially since I could have re-queued for another instance quickly.  Only thing that gets a random instance faster is a tank.  But its certain I would have done with another instance or two if I had left an re-queued in the time it took this group to clear.  Perhaps I was not really aware how poorly things went til the 4th boss when I happen to look at the dps meter.  Clearly the tank had been looking at the dps meter as well as he pointed out that he was the highest in dps.. /facepalm.

Currently I am running Bankous at one random pug a day, unfortunately I started this at level 72, I wish I had waited because one of the very clear benefits of doing one random pug a day is the two triumph emblems.  I am hoping that the same system is available in the expansion.  Though clearly I am planning to try and get Verdin to 85 when the next expansion comes out in one sitting.  But  extra emblems to prepare for the next expansion raiding. I am half wondering if the 10% experience will work from level 80 – 85 on the heirloom gear.  I guess only way to find out other then to kill two mobs of the same level in the next exp.