Last night was good but rough. We got off to a late start, between a couple peeps getting smacked with real life and other events we didn't get running until about half an hour after the raid was scheduled. When we got running though, we one shot the first boss Imperial Vizier Zor'lock! (It sounds more impressive when you give his name and title) The pull was good and smooth, everybody did their job, and we cheered his demise.
I was happy in particular, because while my heals on my priest weren't spectacular... they were decent and I kept up for the most part.
Little did I know Zor'lock was giggling as he died, for he knew what was going to happen next.
We got beat down like hookers at a pimp convention. O.k., it wasn't really that bad.
The first pull actually went great, Blade Lord Ta'yak didn't seem any more difficult then normal, heals and dps were in place nicely, we got to the wind tunnel phase, most of us made it to the end, but when the winds shifted, we didn't swap quickly enough and he had about 3% life left when he enraged and destroyed the two tanks who were left standing.
Not feeling too discouraged I complimented peeps on the feel of the pull and called for us to get back into the fray.
Now, we have a running joke that Ghostcrawler Greg Street has bugged our vent. When things start to go strange and wonky, we normally make comments about, "Man, Ghostcrawler must be listening in and playing with us tonight." "Or crap, shut it, Ghostcrawler can here you! Do you want him to screw with the boss?" Yes folks, Ghostcrawler is our raids Boogey man.
And if this was the case, man someone pissed in his cheerio's yesterday, because after that first pull, we had healers getting one shot even when everyone was stacked on the arrow. You would throw a heal on a tank, see he was topped off, throw a heal on a dps, and realized in that split second the tank had been destroyed. We had people get trapped behind balconies and tornadoes so they couldn't get to us when marked with an arrow. In short, Murphy showed up and gave us a first hand demonstration on how his law works.
To be honest, this was not how I wanted the night to go. We had someone who has raided with us off and on for years, who may be quitting Wow for good when his time is up. With that in mind, I wanted to march through a dungeon on squashed bugs, and give him a great high to end on, if this is the last time he ever raids with us.
Instead we got the 3 stooges meet Abbot and Castello celebrity death match style.
Here is the thing to remember though... wiping is not a bad thing. It can be at times, but if every boss in this game went down quickly with little or no work, there would be no reason to raid. If we didn't have nights where things went wrong, we wouldn't enjoy those nights when things click right into place and we rock through some encounters we have formally had a hard time with.
The one thing I didn't hear last night, swearing, raider's giving up, and malcontent.
I did get something shiny and new that I loved.... Squeeky toy aggro! It was amazingly funny because raider A. had a dog who was fighting with a squeeky toy. When the sound went through vent, raider B. was getting attacked by a dog who got excited when it heard the squeeking. I now want to whisper raider A. on occasion, and say... "Alright, quickly, I think raider B is falling asleep, squeek that toy and squeek it now! Mwha ha ha ha ha" I digress though....
We were a team, and we were a team working on a fight that was beating us. Now, part of that might be because we are rebuilding things, getting the feel for newer members of the team, along with people who have returned after a while out of game. This may be the way of it.
So we wipe, we wipe so we can appreciate the kill later.
Lag.
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I <3 you...
I <3 you too man
Just wanted to remind you we started late waiting for a dog to poo. Our raid had really gone to the dogs.
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