Jan 24, 2008

raid report: acting like idiots

We were supposed to off Lurker last night, but after an hour and a half of failed attempts, it became clear that certain members of our raid weren't fucking paying attention and wiping us repeatedly.

As I mentioned before, theres a treshold of where if 5 people die, you might as well wipe the raid. In addition, we dont have the people to field the Paladins and Mages for the encounter, so if one of them dies, its practically game over.

I personally wasnt causing wipes and was actually focusing on killing the adds rather than killing the boss himself. The fight is supposed to be long, you can't really speed things up by cranking out your top DPS rotation on him and then start DPSing adds with low mana. I only died intentionally suiciding myself when it was apparent a wipe was going to happen the entire night. And after the 2nd wipe, I got myself a glass of wine and the entire experience was a lot more fun.

The major problems: 2 fold, one, people still dying due to spout. The fact that we still have to call it out over TS is a problem: its pretty obvious he is going to do it and there are plenty of raid warnings for it. Second, our rogues need to stop doing stupid shit on melee adds. The first attempt a rogue got killed by a cleave (DPSing a cleaving add from the front!). He then died again for the SAME REASON after getting battle rezzed. And to top it off he wasnt the only rogues making the same dumb mistakes, sometimes they would just break CC before a tank even threw a single sunder on the target, sometimes several of them would die from a single cleave.

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