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beckyh2112) wrote2010-07-08 02:55 pm
beckyh2112) wrote2010-07-08 02:55 pm
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Raids are Tedious
Last night, contrary to doing what was sensible, I attended a live-event raid. Logged on Maliar, my level 50 enchanter, for the first time in forever. Someday I'll get around to upgrading her gear to accommodate all the various cool new things she's picked up since the last time I did her gear. Still, she's a force to be reckoned with even without a perfect template.
For this live-event, we had a dev running the battlegroup and a dev playing one of the demon overlords intent on invading Hibernia. Kazimran was the demon's name, and he'd snark at and with us. That was pretty much the saving grace of the event.
The event itself was just tedious. Go here with the battlegroup, kill a bunch of high-red and high-purple mobs until the mini-boss spawns, have Kazimran periodically drop AE insta-death on a section of the raid, kill the million+ hit point mini-boss. Wash, rinse, repeat three times.
Then for the final boss, Arnak resummoned all three mini-bosses again. Who we had to kill first before we could take down the final boss. While the final boss was also running around and DD+snaring us. Frustrating.
So there's this swirl of tanks following the particular mini-boss we're pounding, this swirl of mages, archers, and healers trying to find a place to stand and do their jobs without the mini-bosses or Arnak curbstomping us, and a whole lot of rezzes going down. It reached the point where I was up and down so often I didn't even bother re-summoning my pet.
[Theloving] Maliar, please stop dying.
[Maliar] I'll try.
Maliar was just killed by a Large Demonic Spark!
[Maliar] ...
[Theloving] ...
[Maliar] WELL THEN.
When we finally defeated Arnak, however, I got a cool new title. Plus the battlegroup had a lot of loot to roll for. However, I logged out before rolling for loot because I've already got four staves of which I only use one. (Epic staff, champion staff, dragonslayer staff, and I use my artifact staff.)
Still, this made my night:
[Maliar] You know what this event needs? Vuvuzuelas.
[Kazimran] That idea is too evil for even me to contemplate, Maliar.
For this live-event, we had a dev running the battlegroup and a dev playing one of the demon overlords intent on invading Hibernia. Kazimran was the demon's name, and he'd snark at and with us. That was pretty much the saving grace of the event.
The event itself was just tedious. Go here with the battlegroup, kill a bunch of high-red and high-purple mobs until the mini-boss spawns, have Kazimran periodically drop AE insta-death on a section of the raid, kill the million+ hit point mini-boss. Wash, rinse, repeat three times.
Then for the final boss, Arnak resummoned all three mini-bosses again. Who we had to kill first before we could take down the final boss. While the final boss was also running around and DD+snaring us. Frustrating.
So there's this swirl of tanks following the particular mini-boss we're pounding, this swirl of mages, archers, and healers trying to find a place to stand and do their jobs without the mini-bosses or Arnak curbstomping us, and a whole lot of rezzes going down. It reached the point where I was up and down so often I didn't even bother re-summoning my pet.
[Theloving] Maliar, please stop dying.
[Maliar] I'll try.
Maliar was just killed by a Large Demonic Spark!
[Maliar] ...
[Theloving] ...
[Maliar] WELL THEN.
When we finally defeated Arnak, however, I got a cool new title. Plus the battlegroup had a lot of loot to roll for. However, I logged out before rolling for loot because I've already got four staves of which I only use one. (Epic staff, champion staff, dragonslayer staff, and I use my artifact staff.)
Still, this made my night:
[Maliar] You know what this event needs? Vuvuzuelas.
[Kazimran] That idea is too evil for even me to contemplate, Maliar.
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