You're Doing It Wrong.

Last night, while using the /LFG mechanism on my 29 priest, I happened to join a RFK group.

This group was composed of myself, and two hunters - one was level 23, and the other was level 34.  I told them I'd stick around if they could fill the group quickly, but they suggested we could 3-man it.

Recently, I completed a 3-man run of BFD when I was of appropriate level for BFD.  That group consisted of myself and two warriors - both of which I could tell were played by kids under 14 (gee, thanks Blizzard internal Voice Chat).  To my surprise, both of these guys had at least some clue what they were doing, and were both able to follow my suggestions on how to survive all the encounters with just the 3 of us.  It was an enjoyable experience, and I got to make myself feel good as a healer keeping these two guys alive the whole time.

So, I figure this group with 2 hunters wouldn't be so bad - I actually saw it as an opportunity to challenge myself.  As I always say, the best way to learn your class is to run PUG's.  You never know how good you can be until you have to deal with a real 'oh-shit' moment... and PUG's give the best opportunity for that.

Now, I know there is a nasty stereotype out there with regard to Hunters, and boy did these two guys reinforce that stereotype :(  We had hunter pets pulling extra mobs all the time.  There were only two pets, but they both seemed to pull extra mob packs.

To make matters worse, these two guys were pulling like they do out in the outdoor world - they would target a mob, and send in their pet.  I had to explain that they should NOT do that; they should fire a shot to get the mobs to come to us, THEN activate their pets once the mobs are far away from any un-pulled other mob packs.  I've never understood what is so hard to understand about this concept - if you've already cleared a nice safe spot, pull mobs to it.

Somehow, amazingly, I was able to keep these two guys alive through almost every bad pull.  At one boss, the low level hunter went down, but I was able to tank the boss while the other hunter shot at him... at least, I think the other hunter was shooting him...  I dotted it and just shield/renew/flash healed myself until I was out of mana, then I pulled some more mana out of my ass and kept going.  (Blood elf priests have lots of places to look for extra mana hehehe)

I ended up having to abandon the group because I was getting to close to 30, and I haven't finished my run in BG's with this priest.  It was an interesting experience though.