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wipe.
we got her! we got her! we... oops. wipe.
yay! die bitch!
... and that's the 30,000 ft overview of our evening. Our guild has downed Onyxia before, but there have been some significant personnel changes since then. The raid leader raised a good point when he said (paraphrased here), "This was a significant kill for us. I know we've downed her before, but it's been months. Obviously most of us have beaten her with other guilds and other toons, but often we were just tagging along with people who had her on farm status. It was important for us to learn our own strategy."
I'm starting to feel good about this raid group that's coming together (and I sincerely hope that we can hold together after Burning Crusade). It's taken a bit of work with all the re-training of tanks and other turnover, but we're starting to gel and work well together. We finally cracked Sulfuron again too after adopting a slightly different strategy suggested by one of our newer members.
On a side note (rant), what ever happened to good manners? At what point does it seem reasonable and polite to simply stand up and unannouncedly wander away from your keyboard moments before we're about to pull the main boss? I know that emergencies, and unexpected events sometimes crop up, but one would think that a person could show at least a modicum of consideration and say something in text of voice chat. Leaving 39 other people standing around with their thumbs up their asses because they don't know if or when you are coming back (and they can't leave you there because you'll end up drawing the trash mobs onto us when they re-spawn) is ignorant and rude. As you can probably tell from my rant, it's one of my pet peeves in the game.
We ended up booting him from the raid after giving him 3-4 minutes to respond to our repeated voice and text prompts. He didn't grouse about it later, so I suspect he knew why he got punted.
wipe.
we got her! we got her! we... oops. wipe.
yay! die bitch!
... and that's the 30,000 ft overview of our evening. Our guild has downed Onyxia before, but there have been some significant personnel changes since then. The raid leader raised a good point when he said (paraphrased here), "This was a significant kill for us. I know we've downed her before, but it's been months. Obviously most of us have beaten her with other guilds and other toons, but often we were just tagging along with people who had her on farm status. It was important for us to learn our own strategy."
I'm starting to feel good about this raid group that's coming together (and I sincerely hope that we can hold together after Burning Crusade). It's taken a bit of work with all the re-training of tanks and other turnover, but we're starting to gel and work well together. We finally cracked Sulfuron again too after adopting a slightly different strategy suggested by one of our newer members.
On a side note (rant), what ever happened to good manners? At what point does it seem reasonable and polite to simply stand up and unannouncedly wander away from your keyboard moments before we're about to pull the main boss? I know that emergencies, and unexpected events sometimes crop up, but one would think that a person could show at least a modicum of consideration and say something in text of voice chat. Leaving 39 other people standing around with their thumbs up their asses because they don't know if or when you are coming back (and they can't leave you there because you'll end up drawing the trash mobs onto us when they re-spawn) is ignorant and rude. As you can probably tell from my rant, it's one of my pet peeves in the game.
We ended up booting him from the raid after giving him 3-4 minutes to respond to our repeated voice and text prompts. He didn't grouse about it later, so I suspect he knew why he got punted.
I hear ya
Date: 2006-12-05 03:28 pm (UTC)However! 99% of the time...its people watching TV or going to take a leak at a totally inopportune time.
-Mav
Re: I hear ya
Date: 2006-12-05 04:06 pm (UTC)Ah - while it was (pretty obviously I think) Eso who I had in mind when I wrote this little rant, I can't really fault him in this case. Having a father with health issues of his own, I can sympathize.
On the other hand, the rant still stands. I'll admit that most of this angst built up in a former guild (where it was not unusual for people to tab out/tune out/wander off to floss the dog), and - subjectively - it seems to be a much rarer occurrence in our current guild. It's still no less irritating.
Is it just a game? Yes.
Should RL concerns trump it? Yes.
Are there social mores which dictate that you might want to let a group of people who have given implicit trust in your reliability some kind of warning when you're going to be temporarily afk? Yes, barring emergency (e.g., family medical crisis, house on fire, ninjas bursting into the room, etc).
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Re: I hear ya
Date: 2006-12-06 01:25 am (UTC)