Monday, September 7, 2009

There are reasons...


Tried to do a run if Heroic Nexus before daily reset occured. Was a total failure.

Was invited by a feral druid who did state she only had 20k hp. She ended up with 24k+ buffed. While I feel that's enough for a heroic a DK named Walshy was questioning her ability to tank. On a few occasions there were aggro issues. The healer who shared the same guild tag as the druid was new to heroics (Grats on badge achievement) and I feel did well on healing. Still she bought the farm once due to a pre-heal that pulled two mobs before the druid could tag em.

We get up to the second to last boss... hoping to be able to clear the instance before the daily reset. Druid goes down and we wipe with one treant remaining. The four at once was too much damage for the druid to take on at once. Walshy bails on the party. From that point the druid apologizes and then much to my frustration leaves the party. We could have finished. Even at the loss of a new daily we could have killed 1 trash mob, 4 man'd the boss and attempted the final boss.

I understand this may have been the first time in Nexus for the druid. We all have to start at some point. She was pulling mobs that are skip-able. I don't mind extra trash pulls but when one is racing against the clock you skip what you can. However the druid should have informed the others in the group that she was new, inexperienced and could have used some advice on how to pull the instance. It's really bad when you form a group for the daily heroic, 50 minutes before the daily reset, and it is a novice run. This is where communication is key.

Players now are spoiled. They only want a tank with 33k+ and Ulduar gear. They don't want CC and it is a lost art form. Doing Durnholde with Ron I was totally high on the power of hunter crowd control. The fact that I could trap, sleep and hold my own on a 4 mob elite pull rekindled my love of crowd control

To Aese, the paladin that did repentance on some of the mobs, good job. You did an excellent job of easing the burden of the healer and tank during the encounter.

To the druid that lead the group. Please understand that as a group leader you have a responsibility to communicate to the others what will be occurring on a run. Bad communication leads to bad runs and is one of the most irritating reasons why most players demand an achievement to be earned before they run with anyone. As you said, Live and Learn. I pray you do.

I'm not upset that it may have been a novice run. I'm upset you abandoned the group.

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