I ran Underbog the other day with some guild-mates. The funny thing is that I'm possibly one of the least experienced at instances within the guild. A lot of them run through stuff all the time, where as I've spent a lot of time just solo questing and farming. My pet-use and trapping experience mostly comes from common sense and my using skills to take on groups while questing (or during PvP). And I would have thought that raid symbols were easy to follow... Evidently not.
I pull the blue symbol mob away from the fight to my trap, pet off-tank the X symboled one and dps the skull. The mage goes ape-sh*t with damage and ends up getting aggro but instead of calling for help or running over to the tank, he backs up as fast as he can, towards me, pauses and starts blowing out AoE's that break my trap!
After working to bottle up the situation, the tank, boomkin druid and I drop the mobs... The mage dies and the priest narrowly avoids death. After we're settled, I politely make a note to say that traps can't be AoE'd near because they break - and the priest comes back by saying that it's my fault and I shouldn't have put my trap near the mage! O.o
I explain that the mage backed up to my trap and we move on. I get the blue symbol mob to my trap and send in the pet to the X. Bam! Boomkin shoots my trap like a redneck who's out hunting. He then starts shooting at the X being off-tanked by my pet so I figure it was an accident. I have my traps CD ok, so I drop another and focus on the dps target.... Bam! Green magical **** hits my trap again and the boomkin starts blasting with wild abandon.
***** it, he's a moonkin, he can handle some beating. I let him take the aggro and I concentrate on my job. Eventually the smoke clears and someone asks me where my trapping was. I explain that it was accidently shot (I don't want to accuse Mr. Boom Boom of purposefully sabotaging our run). But the druid argues and claims he was shooting at the unmarked target, to keep it covered. Unmarked? So, I point out the blue marker that clearly symbolises "Freeze this *****".
Boom Boom shrugs it off and accepts this without rudeness, which is ok by me if it was a mistake on one occasion. Until the tank politely (although warningly) tells me that I should practice my trapping and keep on top of it, or groups won't let me in because I might make it unsafe for them. ><
I... Hfhg... The trap is an inanimate object. It doesn't tell the difference between friendly fire, accidents or idiocy. The scary thing is that the priest also has a 70 hunter alt and was giving me "advice" about how to practice trapping!
Yes, many hunters are huntards and should probably die. But maybe everyone should roll a hunter at some point - so they at least understand the mechanics and abilities of the class. Or even just the dynamic of group work.