(silly) I think I'm really good at raidingFollow

Its normal Tyr, you must take the game more serious than teacake and I do! :) I play the game for fun, and sure as heck I chuckle at other people's stupidity and n00bness. I hope most people laugh at me too!

Lest anyone think I'm cavalier about 24 people's time and repair bills, let me say that I sympathize with them too. I was mortified, I assure you. (In fact, I took it a lot harder than they did.) But if I can't laugh at my own stupidity, it's really not fair for me to laugh at other people's. Which, I'm not about to stop doing that.




It's nifty that you yourself have never made a stupid mistake that resulted in something like this, but no matter how good you are, odds are not in your favor of it never happening. When it does, I hope you'll be able to laugh about it. If I was your guildmate, I sure would.


Edited, Aug 11th 2008 2:42pm by teacake

Sheeped himself? That's a classic. LOL.

Even funnier than mages nuking ourselves to death on a spell reflect, which I've done more than once. Trinket + AP + PoM Pyro + spell reflect = Ouch. Scorched robe, crispy Gnome.

Wasn't me, I swear! But I'm glad to know that now y'all will be wondering, every time you see someone do something stupid, if it's me. I iz in ur instance, wiping ur group.

My main is a priest now and I was playing her (I hardly ever take the druid out anymore, poor thing).

BTW, I have changed my Autorun key.




I understand. Like I said, I was pretty abashed. But my guild is definitely more the cheering and laughing type. It's a good fit for me. I dunno if they'd cheer if someone did that on one of their "real" raids (I think they're in TK now) but TBH, probably.

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 4:47pm by teacake

Oh, teacake.

If you weren't married, with children and old enough to be my m... big sister, you'd have my heart. Instead, please have my salty tears of laughter.

Ps. Was it Poldaran who had a "pull" named after him? I can't remember.

Edited, Aug 12th 2008 12:56am by Mazra

LOL. Aunt, maybe. But if it's any consolation, I am married to, well, not a Dane, but a man of Danish ancestry anyhow, and I've got a Danish surname. :)

That is swift ^^ :) I'm gonna have to remember that for the next time I do that. Haven't in a while, so I'm probably due.

Yea...we've all done this.

In reference to Tyrandor's comment I think that there is a line where sometimes its okay to be pissed off about a wipe. And the other side is that some wipes you just have to laugh.

It doesn't matter if its progression or farm status.

My guild has had Hydross on farm for months now, we stop by to kill him and Lurker so we can clear the way to Vashj after a Hyjal run where we were working on Azgalor and doing awesome for our first night of attempts.

Shammy drops Searing Totem by accident and we wipe. Vent was filled with laughter and light hearted mocking.

Then there has been other times like on our first Leotheras attempts where people weren't playing their best. We got him to 8% and wiped, okay it was like our 4th try on him. We didn't get him below 50% for the rest of the night and people got angry about it, rightly so.

If you are in a hardcore raid guild I would agree that wipes like an accidental auto run shouldn't happen and are reason to be annoyed.

But when a wipe is an accident and not incompetence its fine to laugh at it. A good idea even, cause when you laugh at it most people don't take it as hard.

There are exceptions of course.

Our Guild Master is a holy priest and every main Kara run she dies at least 12 times. It's gotten so bad that the warlock has started to soulstone me because out of the two of us, I'm more likely to live long enough to see the boss. It is now a guild term that when the healer dies during a trash pull (and not even a trash pull gone wrong) it is called "doing a Deria". Because of her amazing ability to die horribly in the first 2 minutes of a boss fight I have main healed Curator, Maiden, Attunmen, and two of the Opera events. All with about 1300 +heal. It's almost enough to give me a stroke sometimes.

Though the current winner for stupid and pointless deaths has to go to our raid leader, an elemental shaman. We were fighting the consortium looking guys when in vent we hear "Hey! I'm tanking!" Then the RL goes down before me or Deria can get a heal off. I raise him, while the tank (somehow being possessed by god knows what) pulls. The RL only has about 2k hp at this point since I had to start healing the tank. Once more we hear, "Hey! I'm tanking!" followed immediately by "Wow...I'm dead again..."

There's a sizable difference between '******** up' because you misjudged or miscalculated something (Especially on a new encounter, that's the learning process) and ******** up because of incompetence/doing something stupid.

Oh, don't get me wrong. We all have brainfarts. We all ***** up from time to time. And it can causes a lot of laughter. I remember one of our Warlock drowning on Lurker... guess he never heard of unending breath?

Heck, once I took an announced 5 minutes afk, in the room right before Teron Gorefiend. Since he's on farm, the raid leader figured they'd 24 man him. First construct target? Me. Despite being outside the room. As the kids say, GG.

On one of our early RoS attempt, I was the first in the kick rotation and my finger slipped and I hit S&D instead of kick... which started my GCD and made me miss the kick. That was pretty awesome, the 'rogue captain' ******** up what he was berating his rogues for ******** up because a retarded monkey could do it. Instant karma.

I'm not 'perfect'.

But there's a point where it stops being funny and becomes irritating. Teacake (Bless her little heart) has an almost weekly column of gooberness (Even coined a term for it >_>). We have had people over the years who were 'constant ***** ups'... they aren't with the guild anymore. But we're good guys, we try to help. We talk to the ***** ups. We give him/her tips. Sometime, they pick up and improve... sometime, they don't. It takes a considerable level of frustration to set in before we ask someone to leave... but at some point, you have to if you want to keep progressing (and lower your blood pressure).



Actually, wipes are part of raiding, and they are part of the learning experience of a boss. It is foolish to think you'll always walk in and 1 shot a boss. A wipe is a waste of time when you don't learn anything from it.

In the example I gave, this was the 7th attempt of the night on that given boss, the paladin forgetting to use BoP and causing a wipe, forcing re-rez and re-buff didn't make us learn anything :P.



See, that's the kind of thing I couldn't tolerate.

Dying from time to time to a genuine bonehead mistake or being a bit of a slow learner on new content are something... but being a bad player is a totally different story.

I think most people who've run with me would actually classify me as a pretty good healer, but posting about the times I did everything right is hardly entertaining. I'm inexperienced. I'm learning. And I tend toward the nervous. But I take advice, and I don't make the same mistake twice.

That is full of win, lol

The Red Shirt idea wins this thread. We can stop talking now.

And Tyr, yea I agree completely. As for it being the 7th attempt of the night, its entirely possible that people were getting worn down and tired. If that was the case I could forgive it, if they were just being an idiot then yea I would be pissed too.