![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
We killed a bug last night.
Sep. 7th, 2006 08:10 amAfter breezing our way through AQ and Nefarian earlier this week, we decided to try our hand at another of the bosses who has PWND us to date. We were pretty sure that we had a good strategy for him, but we couldn't seem to get Anub'Rekhan below about 78%.
While most of that was our own doing, we did have some frustratingly bad luck in our earlier efforts. We had spontaneous resets, raid-wiping lag spikes - if you can think of something in the game that can glitch, it glitched on us at least once in our attempts. On our first try last night we took him down to 64 percent health, and as one of the raid members gushed, "If we'd had another rogue or two with us, that would easily have been 45 percent!" The raid leader swapped out a couple of healers for additional rogues, and (after an epically bad attempt, followed by a botched pull) we got him down to 45 percent before we wiped.
( Obviously we got him on the next take or you wouldn't be reading this now. )
Still WoW related, but humourous.
Awhile back (early spring) one of my co-workers was asking me about the game. He enquired about the system requirements, and wanted to know if his two kids could play at the same time using the same account. I gave him all the info he needed, and he's never mentioned it again -- until yesterday.
He was on his way outside for a smoke while I was heading home yesterday, and as we were waiting for the elevator he turned to me and said, "So, are you still playing World of Warcraft?"
"Yes," I replied tentatively. His tone of voice had implied that it was a loaded question, so I was curious to see what he was leading up to. Apparently he just needed to vent. His two kids had taken to the game with a passion - as has his wife now too. His kids had seen perhaps 10 hours of actual daylight over the course of the summer. He griped about how his daughter already has two level 60s, and another at level 52. His son isn't far behind.
"And they're always whining at us to buy them more gold!"
"What? No! Tell them to earn it like honest people do."
"Well, we got them some for their birthdays, but they spent that and now they keep raiding my wife's coffers."
Kids - oy! I'd gank 'em if they were on my server to teach them a lesson (he mentioned that they're playing alliance).
While most of that was our own doing, we did have some frustratingly bad luck in our earlier efforts. We had spontaneous resets, raid-wiping lag spikes - if you can think of something in the game that can glitch, it glitched on us at least once in our attempts. On our first try last night we took him down to 64 percent health, and as one of the raid members gushed, "If we'd had another rogue or two with us, that would easily have been 45 percent!" The raid leader swapped out a couple of healers for additional rogues, and (after an epically bad attempt, followed by a botched pull) we got him down to 45 percent before we wiped.
( Obviously we got him on the next take or you wouldn't be reading this now. )
Still WoW related, but humourous.
Awhile back (early spring) one of my co-workers was asking me about the game. He enquired about the system requirements, and wanted to know if his two kids could play at the same time using the same account. I gave him all the info he needed, and he's never mentioned it again -- until yesterday.
He was on his way outside for a smoke while I was heading home yesterday, and as we were waiting for the elevator he turned to me and said, "So, are you still playing World of Warcraft?"
"Yes," I replied tentatively. His tone of voice had implied that it was a loaded question, so I was curious to see what he was leading up to. Apparently he just needed to vent. His two kids had taken to the game with a passion - as has his wife now too. His kids had seen perhaps 10 hours of actual daylight over the course of the summer. He griped about how his daughter already has two level 60s, and another at level 52. His son isn't far behind.
"And they're always whining at us to buy them more gold!"
"What? No! Tell them to earn it like honest people do."
"Well, we got them some for their birthdays, but they spent that and now they keep raiding my wife's coffers."
Kids - oy! I'd gank 'em if they were on my server to teach them a lesson (he mentioned that they're playing alliance).
