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Epic “I gotta go” excuses

Tonight we have a 25 man ICC raid going on. The only rogue talks a great deal and says things like “if this goes bad I’m chopping off all your balls”. I say that’s ok some of us have no balls so go ahead. And this is in vent so it’s clear I am missing some balls.

I also notice that when people leave a raid they don’t just say “sorry I gotta go”. There is always some epic drawn out excuse that I could really care less about. You gotta go, that’s fine. Tonight we got “my wife just got back from the hospital where her dad is dying of cancer so I have to go coddle her”. And whether that story is true or not “I need to go” is more than enough. Yes, I’m a bitch, this is not news.

I did get a new weapon though, Frozen Bonespike. I prefer the maces because it waggles on my draenei ass which I think is cute but upgrade is an upgrade.

We do fine until Putricide then wipe that up 3 times in a row because of mistakes like not dpsing the slimes, getting hit by the orange slime, etc. But it’s late and I need to get to bed so no big deal.

Lame “I’m out” excuses

Tonight I was invited to a 25 man continuation my mage ran last week, only we had 5 mages and were lacking healers, so I offered to switch to my priest.

It was supposed to start at 7:00pm but we didn’t get going to 9.  We did get down Sindragosa though, but not Lich King after maybe 3 attempts.  What I find interesting is the amount of people that leave a raid with no excuse, or an absurdly lame one like “well guys, I’m just going to leave now so you have plenty of time to find a replacement”.  Oh ok thanks for doing us that favor of leaving.  We also had a shaman healer doing something like 5% of the healing, which I believe Nilvana (Maice) said “was like 2 heals”.  I did discover that Power Word Barrier works well for the initial Infest assuming all the range is standing in it, which most were.  Without another disc priest helping to bubble though, repeatedly bubbling 25 people is out of the question.  We only got to the Relentless Winter part where the Raging Spirits quickly ripped everyone apart.  I did get invited back next week just for LK, so maybe I can get the title on at least one character.

I then ran WG with Rexe again, and although we’ve been losing more and more, and lose the one I ran before this, we won this time.  I have noticed however that the Horde are coming to the fort early and killing all our NPCs and guns, therefore ranking up enough to swarm us with vehicles.  People seem to ignore the warnings about the fort being attacked if they have no vehicles up though, which is not good.  They also do that with all the NPCs fighting at the bridges as well. I hope we wise up to this and not lose so much.

Ruby Sanctum

…getting that out of my system I run two WG’s today with my mage friend who is ever grateful for the heals. I grab an updated xperl and try it out on a random BG, which was Strand of the Ancients, only we get spawn-camped by the horde and I die as soon as I rez. I am not pleased.

Ran WG again and 3 minute in the Horde had the outer west wall down and was working on the inner. There was nearly no alliance in the fort so I correctly predict tha we will “lose it fast” and we did 2 minutes later. In defiance I fly through their fort and take the portal to Dal. If I’m on my mage I’ll lay down a ice nova “fart” on my way out but on the priest getting Death gripped would be an embarrassing way to leave so I just get out instead.

I was supposed to have a Ruby Sanctum (RS) run on my mage tonight, only the raid leader was not on so I suppose that is off. I ran yet another WG and we crumble under the assault of like 10 vehicles coming in wave after wave into the fortress and lose it again. I’m not really clear on where they are getting all the rankings to built sieges so quickly. Maybe it’s part of tenacity? We’ve been spread too thin lately, yet some how the horde is able to take Sunken, at least one Workshop, Broken Temple, and harass us at towers, as well as have 16 vehicles driving along at a time. Perhaps we’re just outnumbered?

I am hoping for a not so pro ICC group and I catch a guild run as me as the only outsider. We do well up until Blood Princes were we wipe repeatedly, mostly failing on Keleseth. First the warlock tries to tank it, then the mage. It just doesn’t work out, and I know first hand how hard it is to gather the orbs, while keeping aggro on Keleseth, while avoiding being melee’d to death by him, WHILE avoiding Vortexes and such. It’s really hard. The druid then posts his healing stats, and he has indeed quite outhealed me. He also has 75% overhealing. I’ve found posting recount stats, when no one has asked, to be quite poor form. Even if you don’t say it, it’s like ‘wow look at how I am outdoing you’.

We go to Dreamwalker instead and wipe twice. At the last attempt we have an epic death where Blazing Skeletons spawning one after another, and we all go down after about 9 spammed Lay Wastes in a row. I think the healing just wasn’t enough on the dragon there. I was chain throwing greater heals when I could and it wasn’t enough. Oh well, I was hoping for a not very hard core group as I mentioned just to get my Ashen Verdict rep up.

I meant to die like that

Logged in and waited 5 minutes for a random only to have it be Oculus again and locked up straight away.  Had to end task out then got CoS.  That was ok but the hunter went “afk” just before we entered the inn and just stayed that way until the last boss, which he also missed because he was so far behind in the instance.  I thanked him sarcastically after the loot rolled especially since he won at least one item he had no hand in earning. Jerk.

I then got picked up in an ICC 10 raid. I had to reload my Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) and Healbot, and reconfigure my stupid Quartz casting bar once again.  We wiped several times just on Gunship, though I had a bit of fun since I was asked to go to the other boat to heal the warrior on a failed glitch attempt.

I was mid-dying right there, but it looks sort of funny huh?  We ended up having to do that on regular, which is failsauce.

I also am not sure what my shields absorbed before but it’s clearly less now.  That or my xperl isn’t working right.  I put on a shield and it’s ripped down almost the same instant.  Not liking that.  We get down Rotface and I win Choker of Filthy Diamonds, to replace a DPS necklace I was still wearing.

I put up Power Word Barrier (PW B) in the bug room just before Professor Putricide and it gets torn down almost instantly. I sure hope that gets tweaked.

With no vent, we wipe quickly on Putricide. However on the second try we get him down and 6 people get the achievement, so that explains some of our trouble. I had previously given notice that I had to go after this one, and they call it a night.  All in all getting that far with no vent is still pretty good.

Blood Queen Lana’thel

I had put up like 63 Dragonfin Angelfish on the AH and unfortunately they all came back to me after not selling.  I must remember to do stacks next time.  I am unable to buy Northern Spices still and feeling bad for Rayzo, I go buy 20 of them and mail him a /comfort package of 20 Blackened Dragonfin.

When I get in later Maice, on Nilvana, gets me in a 25 man ICC.  We run flawless through Blood Princes and I’m embarrassed to say that today I got my 25 man Plagueworks achievement. I didn’t realize I was in so many fail groups for so long.

During Lana’thel however, things go poorly when people have trouble biting other people and we die repeatedly because mind controlled players are not a good thing.  On the third wipe we get her down to 200k and still fail it.

I am not the least bit angry though to be honest, because I hate the biting part.  It’s bad enough finding a person in 10 man but in 25 it’s next to impossible.  I purposely do next to no dps at the start so I don’t get bitten first.  I hate the biting part.  On the 4th try I manage my bite fine though and earn The Crimson Hall 25 player achievement.

We go on to get Dreamwalker and clear the trash up to Sindragosa, then call it.  The raid leader notes that he would like to keep the same group together and will only invite the non fail people.  I get an invite shortly after that and I’m happy.

During the run I notice that I didn’t other setting hardly any arcane glyphs, and Nilvana makes me one.  The arcane glyphs are still fairly limited, and the rotation has changed next to not changed at all. Frost and fire are still more fun.