Holy. Freaking. Crap.
Dec. 9th, 2011 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firebyrdI love WoW. Really, I do. But the people? One of my guildies today stated, "A person is smart. People are stupid," and boy, there are way too many people in the WoW populace that fit that. I just got to encounter some of the dregs.
So last week, a new patch came out with some new dungeons. Super freaking easy short dungeons. Dungeons that take like 15-20 minutes to complete start to finish. I've gone from not even getting my main character capped out on valor points for the week to getting multiple characters valor capped within days just because it takes so little time or effort. The last set of heroic dungeons are harder with the gear we have today than these new ones are. Despite that, the WoW community continues to prove me wrong every time I think I've seen the very worst it can provide. I might really have hit the bottom here, though, because I don't see how this fail can ever be topped.
I swapped to my bear to tank to get a Call to Arms satchel. Well of Eternity pops up. Healer notes he's not been in there before and we get going with me sprinkling in explanations here and there. It seems like things are taking a while to go down, but my time sense is screwy at the best of times and I'm not normally looking at it from a tanking perspective, so I attributed it to just doing something different. Then we get to the first boss. We down him slowly. I don't remember what the dps was, but I was the top, and with an arcane mage in the group and the buffs given, I do remember thinking, "WTF?" Still, we move on.
We get to the second "boss," more explanations, and then we start the fight. It goes on. And on. And on. I'm tanking as best I can while staying out of crap, interrupting Azshara's mind control, and so on, when I realize...there are a lot of mages up. Not just alive, but active. Even as I make this realization, the last one goes active and I have four of them on me at once. If you had asked me before today, I would have sworn up and down that a mechanic of the fight is that only two of the mages are active at a time, with more activating as you kill them. Nope, it's time based apparently. Everyone's health is dropping dangerously low from multiple mages doing their massive aoe and the healer goes down. I knew there wasn't much hope, but I attempt to brez and we all die in the process. Now I look at the dps. Arcane mage 6k. Elemental shaman 6k. The third dps, a warrior, was no treasure at 9k, but I still felt trepidation when he fled without a word.
We get a replacement in, a frost DK, and start up again. I had already asked the dps to step it up, but I tried to do my max dps possible, even going after some of the hands. Wasn't enough. We ended up with four mages active at the same time again. Everyone but me and the DK go down and with popping a bunch of cooldowns, including a healing potion and my herbalism heal, we somehow manage to pull it off. Still, when I look, the mage and shaman were still both doing in the 6-7k range. I judge the shaman is slightly worse and initiate a vote to kick, but the mage is the shaman's guildie and the DK refuses to kick. "It's easy to only do 6k dps when you're dead," he says in party chat. I noted the reason they had died was because their dps was so low and we had in fact wiped to the fight previously due to it. He brushed me off, though, and we continued.
I figured there was only one boss left and it's virtually impossible to wipe on him, so decided to stick it out through one attempt. Hahahahahahahahaha. Very, very funny. The healer had shown a tendency to stand in crap through the whole instance and he went down pretty fast to Fel Fire. I manage to brez him without dying and we kept going. Tyrande eventually became overwhelmed, but despite my explanation before the fight and yelling in party chat during it, no one went after the debilitators. The healer stood in fire again and died and so did the mage and shaman right as I was downing the second debilitator and bringing Tyrande back into play. Varo'than was almost dead as well and the DK and I were able to down him. I told the dead to run back in and went and started hitting on Mannoroth. The DK ended up dying somehow and ran back in as well, but I was there by my lonesome for a long, long time.
Finally they got back. Mannoroth was still at 90-something million health. And it continued to barely budge even with them there. A second set of debilitators spawned, another time-based surprise. I went to kill them, yelling at the dps to help, but instead of doing so, everyone died again. I honestly have no idea how I survived. Either I built up some sort of huge savage defense shield that combined with leader of the pack procs to keep me up or I was bugged, but my health was hardly budging anymore than Mannoroth's was. Eventually the idiots all trundled their way back in. During all of this, the DK started noting in party chat that the dps was stupidly low and that I had in fact been right. Honestly, if I hadn't seen the spells flying from the mage and shaman, I'd have thought they weren't doing anything. Rather than just worrying about gathering up the adds, which is what the tank is supposed to be doing on the fight, I told them to stack on me and I went and sat by Mannoroth so that I could get some dps in on him. All but the DK ignored me. So whatever, I let Tyrande kill whatever attacked them and just took out what ran towards me and hit on Mannoroth.
I thought we were saved when Illidan transformed us. Surely it can't take that long once we get there? Oh yes. Yes it can. The fight still dragged. And dragged. And dragged. The mage finally hits hero. The DK somehow manages to die again, but hey, my battlerez was back, so I just brought him back up myself. I don't know how, but we finally got to 26 million or so and Mannoroth did his thing and the encounter ended.
How long did it take? My recount states the fight went from 05:37:13 to 06:01:08. Twenty-four freaking minutes. I could have done almost two other instances in the time it took to kill the boss. The Lick King would have enraged. Civilizations collapsed and stars went nova during that time. It's entirely possible that I'm going to wake up tomorrow to find that my kids have grown up and moved out in the time it took to finish the damn fight.
I daresay that I'm automatically going to win all pissing and moaning contests about who's been in the worst group ever from now on.
So last week, a new patch came out with some new dungeons. Super freaking easy short dungeons. Dungeons that take like 15-20 minutes to complete start to finish. I've gone from not even getting my main character capped out on valor points for the week to getting multiple characters valor capped within days just because it takes so little time or effort. The last set of heroic dungeons are harder with the gear we have today than these new ones are. Despite that, the WoW community continues to prove me wrong every time I think I've seen the very worst it can provide. I might really have hit the bottom here, though, because I don't see how this fail can ever be topped.
I swapped to my bear to tank to get a Call to Arms satchel. Well of Eternity pops up. Healer notes he's not been in there before and we get going with me sprinkling in explanations here and there. It seems like things are taking a while to go down, but my time sense is screwy at the best of times and I'm not normally looking at it from a tanking perspective, so I attributed it to just doing something different. Then we get to the first boss. We down him slowly. I don't remember what the dps was, but I was the top, and with an arcane mage in the group and the buffs given, I do remember thinking, "WTF?" Still, we move on.
We get to the second "boss," more explanations, and then we start the fight. It goes on. And on. And on. I'm tanking as best I can while staying out of crap, interrupting Azshara's mind control, and so on, when I realize...there are a lot of mages up. Not just alive, but active. Even as I make this realization, the last one goes active and I have four of them on me at once. If you had asked me before today, I would have sworn up and down that a mechanic of the fight is that only two of the mages are active at a time, with more activating as you kill them. Nope, it's time based apparently. Everyone's health is dropping dangerously low from multiple mages doing their massive aoe and the healer goes down. I knew there wasn't much hope, but I attempt to brez and we all die in the process. Now I look at the dps. Arcane mage 6k. Elemental shaman 6k. The third dps, a warrior, was no treasure at 9k, but I still felt trepidation when he fled without a word.
We get a replacement in, a frost DK, and start up again. I had already asked the dps to step it up, but I tried to do my max dps possible, even going after some of the hands. Wasn't enough. We ended up with four mages active at the same time again. Everyone but me and the DK go down and with popping a bunch of cooldowns, including a healing potion and my herbalism heal, we somehow manage to pull it off. Still, when I look, the mage and shaman were still both doing in the 6-7k range. I judge the shaman is slightly worse and initiate a vote to kick, but the mage is the shaman's guildie and the DK refuses to kick. "It's easy to only do 6k dps when you're dead," he says in party chat. I noted the reason they had died was because their dps was so low and we had in fact wiped to the fight previously due to it. He brushed me off, though, and we continued.
I figured there was only one boss left and it's virtually impossible to wipe on him, so decided to stick it out through one attempt. Hahahahahahahahaha. Very, very funny. The healer had shown a tendency to stand in crap through the whole instance and he went down pretty fast to Fel Fire. I manage to brez him without dying and we kept going. Tyrande eventually became overwhelmed, but despite my explanation before the fight and yelling in party chat during it, no one went after the debilitators. The healer stood in fire again and died and so did the mage and shaman right as I was downing the second debilitator and bringing Tyrande back into play. Varo'than was almost dead as well and the DK and I were able to down him. I told the dead to run back in and went and started hitting on Mannoroth. The DK ended up dying somehow and ran back in as well, but I was there by my lonesome for a long, long time.
Finally they got back. Mannoroth was still at 90-something million health. And it continued to barely budge even with them there. A second set of debilitators spawned, another time-based surprise. I went to kill them, yelling at the dps to help, but instead of doing so, everyone died again. I honestly have no idea how I survived. Either I built up some sort of huge savage defense shield that combined with leader of the pack procs to keep me up or I was bugged, but my health was hardly budging anymore than Mannoroth's was. Eventually the idiots all trundled their way back in. During all of this, the DK started noting in party chat that the dps was stupidly low and that I had in fact been right. Honestly, if I hadn't seen the spells flying from the mage and shaman, I'd have thought they weren't doing anything. Rather than just worrying about gathering up the adds, which is what the tank is supposed to be doing on the fight, I told them to stack on me and I went and sat by Mannoroth so that I could get some dps in on him. All but the DK ignored me. So whatever, I let Tyrande kill whatever attacked them and just took out what ran towards me and hit on Mannoroth.
I thought we were saved when Illidan transformed us. Surely it can't take that long once we get there? Oh yes. Yes it can. The fight still dragged. And dragged. And dragged. The mage finally hits hero. The DK somehow manages to die again, but hey, my battlerez was back, so I just brought him back up myself. I don't know how, but we finally got to 26 million or so and Mannoroth did his thing and the encounter ended.
How long did it take? My recount states the fight went from 05:37:13 to 06:01:08. Twenty-four freaking minutes. I could have done almost two other instances in the time it took to kill the boss. The Lick King would have enraged. Civilizations collapsed and stars went nova during that time. It's entirely possible that I'm going to wake up tomorrow to find that my kids have grown up and moved out in the time it took to finish the damn fight.
I daresay that I'm automatically going to win all pissing and moaning contests about who's been in the worst group ever from now on.
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Date: 2011-12-10 09:49 pm (UTC)