Resurrection raids four nights a week (Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) so last night was a raid night. On the docket was our first go at Mount Hyjal. Checking over at be.imba most of the guild is geared for the first boss or two and we’ve been looking for some sort of pick me up so mixing things up seems like a good idea.
Zoning in to an instance for the first time is one of my favorite parts of this game, so I was pretty stoked to be in MH. Our first attempt of the initial event went very well. We made it through to the seventh of the eight waves before our healing broke down and we wiped. 7 out of 8 on a first attempt without having read the strats is very good and we know we’ll get it next time.
We’re cooking with gas on our next attempt. We are in the 8th wave the tanks are up, the healers have plenty of mana, none of the DPS is down, and the Friendly NPCs are all looking healthy. Then I spike some lag, “I’m lagging guys” goes out over vent and is met with a cacophony of “me too”-s.
Silent moments go by everyone else running in place. Finally, tentatively, I step out of my position. Wandering around fearful that at any moment the server could come back up and I’ll be right in the middle of a pack of mobs, and dead before I can say “oh shit.”
My fears go unfounded as moments turn to minutes. Then realization that the server will not be back anytime spreads through the raid. Once we all get bounced out of the game the crest fallen silence gives way to idle chatter and for some reason the whole group seems to come together on vent. The chat is positive and light and for the first time in recent memory we sound like a team. The raid leader makes a few announcements about cleaning up our kara raids so that they go well and people get their badges. Briefly we discuss who will be available tomorrow to raid.
As people start going their seperate ways I feel content with my guild for the first time in months we seem like a group. Not as important but also nice we seem motivated. Driven to kick the crap out of something new, and maybe get some nice loot for our efforts.
I’m not sure but it might this “server disaster” could be just what we needed to start progressing a boss a week again.
GG Blizz. GG Instance Server.
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April 22, 2008 at 10:45 am
Delos
Ugh, Cait and I have had that happen to us at least 4 times in the previous week. It’s so frustrating if you’re any distance at all into the instance because it disbands your group and resets the instance. Sorry to hear that, but I’m glad to hear it sounds like your guild is melding together well!
April 22, 2008 at 11:53 am
Pookies
My guild is going to try going into MH as well if we can get enough people to sign up … it doesn’t look like our attempts to go into SSC are getting anywhere.
May the WoW gods look favourably upon both of our guilds!!!
April 23, 2008 at 2:56 pm
lifebloomer
Delos- Yeah that can be really tough in a pug as you come back on and get kicked back to the entrance then you stuck trying to remember your teammates names.
Pookies- Good Luck in MH. It’s an intense place to be a healer kind of like The Black Morass I really like it so far.
UPDATE: We did end up dropping Rage Winterchill the next night first attempt (I was a the fire station at the time). Thanks Blizzard!