A Hunter's Story

You know that bug where you could let the LK go first in HoR, and then follow behind him? Yeah, fixed now. He’ll just do his massive AoE spell and wipe the group. I know from experience, lol (thank you patch day…). But that was only part of what I was going to write about today… Had some real winners last night…

So I figured I’d gear up my healer a little more, so I’m doing randoms with him. Wind up in The Nexus and think ‘cool, 7 badges’. Right after I zone in, I see the tank only has 1700 health. A little confused how he’d be starting the dungeon that way, but w/e. I figure I’ll be nice and just heal him up real quick before buffing and all. So I start healing him, and get him up to 67% before he goes out of LoS. A little annoying, but hey, it happens. He might not have been paying attention to see I was healing him, or he just got a little too far. But I was wrong – he was already pulling the first trash.

Really? I mean come on. He wasn’t even starting the dungeon at full health. Plus, I was in the middle of healing him back up. I mean, it worked out fine because I was able to heal him back up the rest of the way, and buff, but still. That’s just plain rude in my mind. He then proceeded to chain-pull the entire dungeon. As in – before the group we’re working on is down, pulling the next group. And he did the infamous idiot tank move on Commander Kolurg where he tried tanking him in the middle where he starts. You know, he does have a fear. And if you tank him there, he WILL fear someone into the next group. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that NOT happen unless you tank him away from that spot, over in a safe corner. Yet we got through it anyway. And of course before CDR Kolurg’s body hits the ground, he’s already pulling the next group. So we get through Telestra and then through Anomalus, then he drops party.

Wtf?

So he’s a jerk for starting before any form of a buff is cast or being at full health, he chain pulls the whole thing, does a crappy job of tanking bosses, downs 3 of them and then just leaves party? Jerk! I mean seriously, at the speed we were going, it only would’ve been another few minutes and we’d have finished the dungeon. Even a ‘oh crap, gtg’ would have been nicer, even if it was a lie since he apparently wanted exactly 3 badges as quick as he could get. Geeze I hate jerks like that.

So, next dungeon, it’s on to HoR. And actually, the dungeon after was HoR too, and it was the pretty much same exact situation, so I’ll just explain them together, lol. In short, first part fine, LK not fine. I got some good practice with my brez. I don’t like locks that try to tank that first part (he did much better when I asked that he let the tank do the tanking). I don’t like tanks that tell hunters to MD them or tell druids to give GotW. I mean seriously, people in general know to do it, so give them the benefit of the doubt first off – let them prove you wrong. And if you don’t have a buff, and the person who can give it has no mana and is sitting down drinking… Be patient!!! Maybe they just healed everyone up after a wipe, have no mana, were drinking, and were waiting until the whole group was in range before casting a group buff. Oh, and if you enter a dungeon and it’s halfway done, and your first comment is about your shock about how a druid healed the first part? You can go die in hell. If you really think that a class can’t do something, and they just proved they did? CONGRATULATE them. Don’t make a condescending comment that makes them want to drop party and let you find a new player. Also, if the group wipes because the healer can’t heal themselves while half of the mobs are attacking them… It’s probably the tank’s fault. Just dumping group after the first wipe (well, second. first one was when we discovered the LK was fixed) when we wiped because half the mobs were hitting the healer… Yeah, kinda rude. Oh, and by the way, for any tanks out there reading this. In HoR, please have everyone kill the witch doctors first – they AoE damage the group real bad. And aside from the obvious ‘keep threat on the mobs’, please turn the dang Abominations. They puke in front of them, doing 10k dmg, and the rest of the group is not geared to mitigate that. And I still can’t believe I got in HoR twice, and that it was back to back, and that the dungeon went the exact same way both times with different people. In fact, in both groups the dps was fine. They were all nice, and willing to give it a couple tries. It was just the tanks that were jerks who were incapable of tanking the LK run.

So then it was on to OK. They wanted to do the achievement on Nadox. I’ve done it before, and I really don’t care to do it again – particularly with a PuG. But there were 3 guys from the same guild in the group so I figure I’ll be nice and tell them how to do it and see if we can get it. Had to explain it, because their first idea was “let’s just not kill the adds and take him down”. Yeah, he goes immune – only way to do it is with 2 tanks, and to separate him and the mobs so he doesn’t get the immune debuff. But they listened, so I figured I’d at least give it a shot or two. First try? Mobs hitting me = I can’t heal myself or the tanks well. No prob, now they understand. Well, they understood but still weren’t able to do it. Oy. Oh well, at least they figured we should just go on, so we killed him the normal way. And then wiped twice on trash. Ugh.

Seriously, what was up with my luck last night? I was looking for a few quick dungeons for some fast badges. Wound up with jerks and bad groups. I just wanted some badges! Please people. Play nice. It’s ok if we wipe. It’s ok to wait an extra second or two and start at full health. It’s ok to say “hi!” at the beginning. Most people (I hope) pop into LFG hoping for nice people, so be nice – it’s ok to not be a jerk. And it’s also ok if I get even a smidgen of good luck next time I want to do a couple quick easy dungeons!

Sooooo, I apologize. I totally meant to post this fix ages ago, but tbh, I’ve been busy and I keep forgetting. Was on a business trip for 3 days last week, over the course of 5 weeks I have 5 major events, traveling this coming weekend (National Toboggan Championships!!! Our team hs to defend the title! Oh crap, can’t link to the blog post about it from last year because apparently I didn’t post one… Hmm, may have to post that this week so you know what I’m talking about, lol.), and so on. Anyway:

If anyone still has the bug, try the fix outlined above. If you don’t have the bug, don’t use Call Stabled Pet while in a cross-server dungeon. Good luck, and game on!