I used to play the WoWs. It was super stressful sometimes. Posted without edit or explanation for the people who remember.
Heal Arr
Do we need to have a refresher on how to do the Onyxia encounter? I’ve pretty much stopped going to Ony because it’s a crap shoot if I’m going to take durability on what should be a 20 min loot farm and it always seems to be amature night but against my better judgement I went tonight after the AQ40 drubbing. I died during the trash because I got healing agro when we pulled two Warders at the same time. I should have hearthed right there as should the rest of the raid but ever optimistic we forged boldly ahead.
First round. Fight! We get whelps right off the bat. That’s never a good sign. Fortunately they managed to die quickly so we could get to the business of the dragon. I have been to few raids where I have seen her drop so slowly. I guess I don’t really care because at this point even in full FR I regen enough mana that I can cast heal rank 2 practically forever. I would like to point out that FR is advised for this fight. I cannot believe the amount of damage people were taking from the Warders’ blast waves so I had at least hoped that everyone was wearing dps gear. I guess we were all wearing our pirate costumes or something. At long last we get to phase two and about 1/3rd of the raid gets incinerated by the deep breath. Turns out those pirate costumes are flamable. This may have been a blessing in disguise however, because it meant that she only had to chew through another 1/3rd of the raid to get to the MT on the hate list for phase three. So there we are 2/3rds of the raid dead, me and two paladins healing and a few people doing damage. Over the nine minutes that phase three lasted I used inner focus three times, three major mana potions and a freaking soul stone. The only person I was healing during this portion of this fight was Arr and I was using every freaking trick in the book. I do not need to hear five people in TS, none of which is the raid leader, telling me to heal Arr every time he takes damage. I know what I am doing. Seriously, there is nothing more aggrivating as a healer than to have people yelling for heals. It’s even more egregious that another healer was the worst offender. Arr finally died when I was out of mana, feared and I then could not get my last inner focus Gheal off in time.
The second verse was much the same as the first complete with me using another damned soul stone, and more mana potions and inner foci. This time we got a Warder to go with the whelps during the pull too.
Finally, when I zoned back in to collect my corpse I was summoned in combat to Ony. The one thing that went right tonight was that my hearthstone finished casting before her flame breath did. All told I probably blew 30g on what should have been a profitable venture.
I have issues with other stupid crap I saw going on or was victim to during this travesty but this is already over long and my bridges burn brightly as is.
I have a few of questions.
1) How do you people afford this?
2) Do you believe that Arr is healing himself?
3) What did you think I was doing instead of healing Arr?
4) Why has this guild not been able to execute the phase three transition in this fight correctly for the last three months? (Last week after we killed Nefarian we went to Ony and got about half the raid dead during the transition. In contrast we lost three people during Nef.)
5) What is the most powerful paladin blessing? Here’s a hint: It’s not kings.
I’m sick of this. We just waltz in there and get our asses handed to us and everyone seems fine with it (with a few notable exceptions, thanks for calling the raid Entity /bow). Oh we shouldn’t let it get us down that we suck. We’ll come back another time and get her. Now let’s spend a half an hour talking about dkp in an instance that is so much harder than Onyxia that we are not fit to disgrace its floor with our corpses. How is this fun?
It was pointed out to me that this could be the solution to our dkp problem. If we just never kill anything ever again we don’t have to worry about who gets what first or second or neverth or how unfair it is that some people get loot before others. No one who was there tonight deserves anything other than scorn myself included for wasting everyones time by attempting to save the run but ultimately only prolonging it.
So now it’s an hour after bedtime and all I’ve done is flame the board which is futile at best. I expect to see some hate up ins tomorrow when, groggy and sleepy-eyed I open this thread instead of working. I’m sure I’ve mispelled something or put an accent in the wrong place and clearly that is more important than our collective ineptitude. Feel free to troll the discussion to your heart’s content.
What say you?
Posted on: 2006/10/31 1:06
