Ok, we’ve all raided and gotten the phat loot. It’s all fun and games most of the time but there’s also a steep learning curve to it which most of us take the hard way. I’ve learned a bit about raiding in my time but it hasn’t always been peaches and roses and I must say I’ve caused a bit of wiping in my time, right there along with downright noobish mistakes.

I’ve been in a rather good raiding guild which achieved rather good progress and they even managed to get attuned to MH the fair way before the attunement nerf. This is on a server where progress was something that happened to other people (that’s the way on RP servers sometimes). Unfortunately it disbanded sometime this fall and their members left for other more-or-less “hardcore” guilds.

So along with Wiping with Anarya and some of the less-than-professional things I’ve done.

Void Reaver

So my very first time in a raid and the guild master is busily explaining all the tactics and I’m hiding there behind the rest of the crowd.

GM: “Blah-blah, heavy mobility fight, you will see a rather LARGE orb heading your way at a slow speed and DBM will announce that the Orb is on you. You don’t need to be a real genius to move away from it. No ranged DPS/healer should take any damage during this fight and no healer with heal anyone ranged. In this fight, no-one should die. Right, ready?”
Pulling!
Void Reaver has been engaged!
…15 seconds later…
Anarya has died.
GM: “Combat ress Anarya!”
…20 seconds later…
Anarya has died.
GM: “…”
Needless to say, it was a wipe eventually. Other people died as well (but I was first).

Second try, a FULL MINUTE this time into the fight: Anarya has died. I was already making myself very small and inconspicous over there. We didn’t kill him that night but the officers learned their lesson that I needed to be explicitly told to move away from the orbs. A few nights later I was scared out of my wits when someone hollered on Ventrilo: “ANARYA RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!” I was already out of the orbs range that time but the holler was scary anyway.

Gruul’s Lair

Easy fight, no problems whatsoever at any time. Except Anarya noobwiping on a farming run. I usually have this boulder I like to hug while I’m DPSing Gruul and there’s usually nobody around in range for Shatter. Except this one time when I was a bit careless and, after being tossed high into the air before the Gronn Lord’s Grasp I decided to blink my way back to the boulder. Unfortunately for me I decided to be smart and blink in mid-air so that I would halt by flying route and fall close to my spot.

Result: the little blonde mage is daintily flying through the air towards the tanking spot and decides to blink. Unfortunately I blink the wrong way since my camera was turned towards the center of the room and I land right beside Gruul. In a moment of panic I decide to run in a totally random direction and, 5 seconds later when I’m immobilized I’m positioned evenly beetween the tanks and the melee DPS who are all frantically typing words of praise for me:

“OMG NO!” “Oh shit!” “Get out of here!” “What the hell are you doing here, Anarya?!?”

Shatter– 15k points of damage and I singlehandedly kill 10 raid members. Cheers for me!

[to be continued]