More random dungeon adventures, involving two consecutive runs that couldn’t have been more different:
My less-lame boomkin randomed into H Halls of Reflection. I panicked. Everyone else in the run had way better gear than I did, and this is a tough heroic. I decided to stick it out, hoping I wouldn’t suck bad enough to ruin the gauntlet at the end. The first part goes well, I’m a helpful lil’ thunderchicken, using assist and removing poison and all that good stuff. We kill Falric and then Marwyn, and off the latter drops Orca Hunter’s Harpoon. I go whoa, since I’m still using an item lvl 200 staff from the Argent Tournament vendors (the burning-kitty-headed staff, if you’ve seen it). Everyone rolls to disenchant, and I’m typing out, “um, I think I could use that for my feral spec.” The tank is halfway up the hall to the next encounter and types, “then go ahead and need.” Whee! I slapped a +30 stamina gem in there. I told my husband and like any good started-as-a-hunter player, replied, “That would be a good hunter weapon.” (Automatic response from the crowd, “You always say that!”) Very professional run, no assumptions about what we’re doing from the tank (comment to hide out of LOS on the left wing at the start, comment to hide out at the beginning of the gauntlet), and we got the achievement for finishing the gauntlet in a short time at the end. I turned out a respectable-for-my-gear DPS, and no mean comments from people who aren’t taking that into account.
Anyway, awesome! Now the lowest-level items I have for my feral set are my two trinkets (Black Heart and Darkmoon Card: Greatness (Agi), lvl 200), the Platinum Mesh Cloak at 213, and my 219 boots from HToC, Treads of Dismal Fortune.
Next run: Drak’Theron Keep. Ho-hum dungeon for people our level. We have a tank warrior, DPS warrior, healer pally, DPS priest (shadow), and me. We get through the first boss and on our way up to the spider room, the tank says, “Oh, you know what’s great? I don’t have any druid buffs. Or priest buffs.” I tell him that he does on my screen, and he says “oh yeah, now I see them.” But he’s right, we don’t have priest buffs. He says twice in group “fort” and then sends a tell, apparently, because the priest - named “Iolpriest” with a starting I so that in the non-serif game font it looks like “lolpriest” as in LOL - says “don’t send me tells for fort, I don’t buff it.” :smack: We’re at the entry to Novos’ room, and the tank says, “I’m not moving if I don’t get Fort.” Someone starts the event and we start killing adds. Finally I check my bag - the tank has joined us by this time - and I have a Fortitude scroll from my Scribe. I right click it and type “druid fort ftw.” Then the shadow priest starts “claiming” (yeah right) that he never trained it because it’s too expensive. Meanwhile, during the kills on the way to King Whatever the dino and the trolls/undead after, the tank is claiming that the DPS warrior is drawing too much aggro and “wants to tank”, then backs off at one point and won’t tank for a second, to try to make his point. Shadow priest claims his TPS is the worst he’s seen and that’s why the DPS warrior ends up tanking. More bitching back and forth. Pally and I are quiet. Finally right before the last boss I pipe up with, “Christ, this is the whiniest group I’ve ever been in.” People shut up until the kill is done, where the tank tells everyone to f-off “except the druid, he’s cool.”
:smack:
You know, I really didn’t care by the end who, if anyone, was “right,” because they were annoying me so much.
Oh, and last night I went on an all-guild HPoS run as boomkin with my husband (healing pally), a frost DK tank, a DPS DK, and a mage. The tank had huge problems staying up during the later fights, especially the ramp leading up towards Tyrannus, the tunnel, and the Tyrannus fight itself. My husband said sure, his pally healer isn’t the best, but he knows how to heal (having a shaman healer main), and in those fights he spent most of his time just spamming heals on the tank and even then he’d get killed by burst damage. We wiped 2-3 times on the ramp, once in the tunnel, and once on Tyrannus - right at the start as he got both the boss debuff and the Hoarfrost from the dragon. We only got through the tunnel on the second run because I was dropping HoTs on the tank, and ditto with the second Tyrannus attempt, but add HoTs on the mage who kept standing too near frost puddles and generally getting beat up. I had been leading the DPS in the group, but fell to second place after playing pretend healer. I’m pretty sure this was the tank’s issue but I know nothing about DK tanking.
