I know that if you’ve been reading my blog your probably thinking, “Wow! This guy is like the greatest Warcraft player ever!” And while that is mostly true, even someone full to bursting with finger lickin awesomeness such as myself makes the occasional mistake. Today I will share one of those with you.
Last summer we had finished Gruul’s Lair and started in on Serpentshrine Cavern. Like a lot of guilds we skipped over Hydross and did Lurker first. There were a couple of wipes while people were learning that spout has more in common with a riot police water cannon than a water pistol. And a few more while the squishies learned that standing in front of an add with a cleave that hits for OMFGALLYOURHEALTH, is unwise.
Now despite playing a shaman I had never used the water walking/breathing spells much because I’m too lazy to keep track of reagents, but fish oil drops off everything in there so by the second week I had a lot of it and started water walking if we wiped and had to run back. So we wipe, run back, rebuff, fish him out and I start dpsing. 45 seconds later, spout starts, I call it out and back up off the platform.
See where this is going?
But I don’t sink. Now maybe if I had used the water walking spell more often I would have realized what was wrong and clicked the buff off, but it never crossed my mind. Instead my solution to my Jesus impression was to jump up and down, in the misguided belief that the extra force would plunge me through the seemingly sold water. Then Spout hit….
Moral of the story: No matter how good you are, at some point you’ll fuck up in a hilarious manner and the 24 assholes you raid with will never, ever, ever let you forget it.
16 responses so far ↓
1 lethalnl // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:11 am
ah lurker….i remember my first and only death on that boss with regards to spout…
i got stuck against the frigging torch #&%@
good memory’s to that first retard check
2 Gaiwyn // Sep 22, 2008 at 7:41 am
>.>
Been there before. Mind you, it wasn’t 25-man raid leading, merely Aran in Kharazan, but hey, who hasn’t caused the explosion after repeatedly telling people not to move…?
I sympathise with you as a raid leader. It’s been a while for me, but maybe one day I will do it again. Calm under pressure; that’s me in a nutshell. XD
Gaiwyn of Proudmoore
3 BigFail // Sep 22, 2008 at 9:43 am
that sounds very familiar
Found your link on mmo champion and I must admit that I really really love your blog. I´m a Raid leader myself and I know what ya feeling. sometimes you just wanna rip off their balls because they are making you nuts
Keep up the good work and stay angry!
4 seejay // Sep 22, 2008 at 10:16 am
Our guild leader face pulled the fourth boss in ZA last night (lynx), while we were still clearing the trash around it. Bye bye bear.
No one got angry, we did laugh though. We’ll know better next time about huge-ass aggro radius on the damn thing.
5 Magistania // Sep 22, 2008 at 11:03 am
sounds very familiar
must admit I love ya blog, keep up the good work and stay angry!
6 Frueh // Sep 22, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I gave people water walking for fun. Never knew what hit ‘em.
7 Tykyra // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:37 pm
My cat tried to tank Gruul once.
We were getting buffed up and ready to run in to start him up and my cat decided she’d jump up on my desk where my mouse is and stand on it. She put her paw directly on the mouse wheel and put pressure on it which made me start to move forward. Needless to say, I pulled Gruul because of it and wiped the raid. To this day there are members of who still remember Woofus and the wipe she caused.
8 Timos // Sep 22, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Haha, I can so see myself doing that, even trying to jump up in the vain hope that this would plunge me into the water.
Ahh, the temptation to cast Water Walking on a raid mate must be high.
9 admin // Sep 22, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I try, but they always click it off in time!
10 nordor // Sep 22, 2008 at 10:48 pm
whats even better was when one of the shammies GAVE him water walking during the fight.
11 Omektiklan // Sep 22, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Nothing like the shot heard round Karazhan. Sitting outside of Maiden’s room while buffing, I misclicked to target her and shot her. And no one else in the raid was using a gun. A little hard to play off that someone else did it. Needless to say, I wiped the raid and have been hearing about it for a year or so.
12 Theramador // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:15 am
Oh man, have I been there. Waterwalking still catches me offguard from time to time. Oh well, it happens
13 Jonny // Sep 25, 2008 at 3:19 pm
One of these days I actually want a shammy to water walk on me so I can bubble and see how far he launches me.
14 Lovecraft // Sep 30, 2008 at 6:42 am
Lol, I got stuck on the torches on the end of that platform once and kill with spout.
At least you didn’t pull Golemagg from up top the hill where the crest is in MC
15 Kotomi // Oct 3, 2008 at 11:11 pm
“Frueh // Sep 22, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I gave people water walking for fun. Never knew what hit ‘em.”
^— This. Full of win. I however have made the mistake myself as well… Damn he shoots you far
16 Jov // Oct 6, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Bored healer + tab-target wanding = “No, I have no idea why we got those adds, maybe it’s a bug.”
Ahh, the days before WWS.
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