Worst Wipes… just 3

Ratshag tagged me ages ago about 5 worst wipes. Well I have wracked my brain and I can only think of three. I am not saying I don’t wipe… they are just typical… like body pulls, agro more than we anticipated, etc.

But I did come up with three that are worth talking about…

1)       Look before you jump

In my mid fifties…Two Pallies, Rogue, Hunter, and I are in Blackrock Depths, we are above Lord Incendius killing all the dark iron dwarves above. The group is going to drop down and take out the fire elementals and kill Lord Incendius. Well that was the plan.

Pallies jump down, Rogue jumps down, and I dismiss my minion and jump down, and the Hunter follows me.

Can anyone see where this is going?

[Pallie] Where your pet go?

[Hunter] She jumped.

[Pallie] No she didn’t.

…

Oh no!

Sure enough I swing my camera to the right and here comes the hunter pet… and look she brought friends. About a dozen and half mobs, isn’t that sweet, they brought half dozen really big guys... and just to make this challenging they mob up Lord Incendius.

I will never forget that image on my screen, of all the mobs barreling down on our little party.

My thought?

“Did I put a put a Soulstone on a Pallie. Did I? DID I. OMG DID I?” *sigh* “I did.” *splat… admires the ceiling of the instance*

2)       Don’t stand under the cloud!  

This wipe was guild changing. The wipe, or should say wipes, changed players. We all know that being level 70 does not mean you are ready for end game. It is only the start. We knew this but needed it smacked into our faces a bit.

Enter into The Steamvault and the boss Hydromancer Thespia. This is our first go at her. We wipe, and wipe, and wipe some more. Frustration settles in. We have to go back and think what needs to improve. Well that was most of our thoughts…

My Rogue learned he needed to STOP relying on the Warlock to look stuff up for him and take responsibility for his character. I pointed him in the direction of Shadowpanther.net and Doomilias. With talent changes and a gear list he had goals. My Rogue has now taken it much farther.

My Tank has become a great tank. I know it was rough in the beginning. I think she had the most to work on. Because she had to change her play style the most. I thought the mindset of DPS Tank to I-am-the-badest-meanest-thing-in-here Tank was a tough one. I loved her for it, she worked so hard and at every step it showed.

My Healadin changed talent trees from a Tankadin to Healadin after this run. He had done the Healadin role before. It was now end game gear chasing. He is great at that… He can do PuGs and everything. I admire him for it.

Me? I had to work on my CC. All of it. Stop forgetting my own utility. Keep thinking about Banish, Fear, Seduce, and even Enslave Demon… the group leader may forget something I can do, so I need to remind them of the skill. And practice!!!

Our fifth? We lost him. He switched classes and worked on that one.

We did some soul searching on what we wanted from the game. This event felt like it put our guild at a stand still for two months. But that is not true at all. If it NEVER happened we would have still been at a stand still. Because of this wipe, great things like this and this have happened.

3)       Dead Twinks in Stormwind.

WSG weekend… Aurum was grouped with about seven of her friends. There are typically long queue times for Alliance but on WSG weekends that can be vastly reduced.

To the wipe…

On said weekends, members of the Silverwing Sentinels station themselves around the towns. So we were queued in front of the Stormwind fountain. After about a fifteen minute game… we didn’t know something was going on back home… Stormwind was being attacked by Horde…

I would like to say that I love the Horde on our server. They have put together successful raids on every city and it makes me smile. But this time I was shocked…

You just had eight flagged level 19s pop back into Stormwind.

My normal routine is to run straight for the mailbox… it is the only thing that saved me.

My raid health bars all went blank.

We were just in WSG with only two deaths and my team was dead on the streets of Stormwind.

I was shocked confused and then laughed my head off as “WTF happened!” conversations ensued. Good times.

Those were my wipes of noteworthiness.

/bye

One last thing….No. The time I started the “Time for Fun” boss with Naltog in Shadow Labs doesn’t count … because we didn’t wipe!! =P