Asheras wrote on Feb 10
th, 2011 at 9:41am:
Anybody know who Excavating Machine is on Khyber? Unguilded level 20 fighter. Runs a fair amount of epics. Has a short temper, tends to not attack the same targets as the rest of the melees. Seems to be allergic to the mobs with the multiple blue bands around them. Claims he has alts in "top guilds".
I just experienced this guy yesterday. Went like this: he has lfm up, Bargain of Blood on epic, him and a rogue in there. Lfm says "bob epic don't be gimp have over 400hp". I'm on Washing, WF TR Wiz. Thinking 400hp is a weird request in the lfm, I figure perhaps he was running the whole quest, with optionals. So I send him a tell, asking if he's doing the short version, which he is. Then I click the lfm, and he asks me, if I'm a gimp.
Now, people throw around the word gimp a lot, and it's all good fun, so I say I'm one of the bigger gimps, but people seem to find it endearing, and take me in anyway. He asks me if I have over 400hp. I have 385, and while I am not a master character planner, it usually gets me by - certainly for epic bob. But I tell him I do, figuring he would never be the wiser. So he takes me in.
In the group, the rogue and him are discussing how many gimps are around, how often they turn down people with low hp or no fort. I figure meh well.
4th player joining, is a 20 cleric. Excavating starts the show, saying we can get going now. 4 manning BoB is not at all unheard of, but it still looked a little fishy. 2 more people join, while I run through Searing Heights. At the quest, the cleric says she'll get shipbuffs, and get out there. Excavating does not approve!
"Only gimps need shipbuffs" and more of the same stuff, until he directly asks the cleric to leave. Joking about people being gimp is all fun, but I didn't really care to be part of this, so I tele out and drop group too. 2 min later, the rogue sends me a tell, saying they got rid of him, and invites me and the cleric, back in. And we complete.
I hadn't heard of the guy before, but his behavior in that case landed him on a few people's shitlists.