Going in Friday our raid was 6/7 in Firelands.
After a grueling weekend, we’re still 6/7. It was one of those weekends. Everything that can go wrong, did.
First sign of trouble was Log being out both nights, and Ado and Fahlala out Saturday. Missing a tank and two dps is never fun. But I figured we could get at least 6/7 Friday night.
Second sign: Thursday night my computer was showing signs of a virus. I started downloading antivirus tools and working.
Third sign: Slice let us know he’d be late. Hopefully not too late but we were looking at 9 manning at least the trash. Oh well, we could do that.
My computer got worse and worse but I hoped it had stabilized and had a backup plan before raid time. We got everyone but Slice in the raid and started clearing trash to Beth’tilac. My machine was flaky but I only dc’d once. Not too bad. We got to Beth’tilac and figured we’d invite Bocat rather than have an empty slot. We pulled – and I dc’d. Got back in. Healed things. Dc’d again. Logged in, was dead. Rev rezzed me. I stayed in this time until the boss was dead – and then dc’d again, so we called a break while I switched all my peripherals over to my laptop. Then realized that some of my addons were out of date. Just little ones like Vuhdo, DBM, and TidyPlates. Nothing big.
Somewhere around there Sorak lost power and now we were short a rogue. But hey! There’s Slice, finally.
Ok, the next few hours were a blur for me because my settings weren’t quite right and I felt like I was fighting my computer all night. We had afks that took forever. At some point Sorak got back online but was going to stay out and let Bocat and Slice be in – but then Slice’s computer exploded, so we put Sorak back in.
It took us 3 hours to get to Rags and I don’t believe we wiped on a single boss. It was just that much other stuff.
We managed a few tries. Didn’t really get anywhere. Well, we’d try again Saturday.
Saturday rolls around. I have all my replacement people in raid – but where’s the substitute tank? Oh. Crap. He got a job and can’t raid tonight.
Well, grats on the job and Grom, let’s see your tank gear. But that meant we needed another fillin. I asked everyone I knew, finally found someone – and Slice’s computer blew up again.
That was that. We weren’t downing Rags. We decided to go play in ICC and work on some achivements. A couple people dropped and we brought a couple in from guild and went off and had fun. I do like going back in there. We’ve got a couple achievements to get on normal, and need to kill the LK on heroic, for the next time we go in there, but as far as “ways to say we raided at raid time, while not just throwing ourselves into magma over and over”, it worked.
Sunday night Log returned and suggested we go try Rag if we could put our raid together. Well, Kerick was up for it of course, and Ado and Falahla would give it a try… Bocat was on, and a few guildies willing to help. At almost the last minute Kisara showed up so it wasn’t a bad group. We only had an hour and a half, had one person who hadn’t seen the fight and two who hadn’t seen it with us, but hey.
We did some great pulls, two healing the whole time. I think we got some good practice in and I’m glad the raid isn’t getting rusty, but with some of our mains out the attempts just didn’t gell. So Rags is still standing.
And if people will just stop seeing that Molten Core Rag kill and congratulating us, I’ll be happy.
Oh, right. So on the theme of “Murphy’s Law”. I ran Brewfest this weekend on most of my alts. I want a kodo on Invariant. Saturday I queued up – and got a kodo. On Analogue.
Sunday I ran everyone through again. This time:
That’s right. Now Analogue has TWO kodos, and Invariant doesn’t have any. Sigh.
I blame Slice. For all of it. Even the Kodo.
What about Log? Doesn’t he get any blame?
Nah this week I could safely agree it was me….pc was acting up sigh. Appears hard drive drivers may have been the culprit i think.
Odd thing is my brother then came over Sunday before I went thru with a complete wipe and reinstall….he had a can of compressed air. Cleaned it out…guess I was not thorough enough. Unplugged the VC and put it back in. Did the same with the HD….and not a hitch….sigh
Slice rerouted all power and resources to keep his COGs up and running lol
Did you try reconfiguring the deflector array for reverse polarity tacyons? That always works.
Maybe to power up the Hammer of Dawn, but I prefer to curbstomp and chainsaw instead
It’s Sorak’s fault, clearly when he stole all the power it made Slice’s machine overload.
This ^^
It is ALWAYS Sorak’s fault
Yes, I will admit lots of GOW3 was played this weekend. sigh not what i wanted to do though
At least everything going wrong makes for a good story. Whenever a lot of things begin to go wrong for me, I secretly cross my fingers that even more things will blow up in my face just so that I can tell the story.
Isn’t that just the essence of being a blogger? 😀 A while back Ana was in a particularly bad pug and I suggested she drop group. She said something along the lines of, ‘No way. This will make a great post.’
Grats on the Kodo, or I should say “Un-grats.” I know the feeling…I got the Agility dagger on my priest…
Rag will still be there and just in case I get another shot at him, I’m doing research on how to tell my “left” side from my “right” side…. /facepalm
Did you ever read my posts on spacial awareness? Most of it is probably obvious but there might be something useful in there.
Yes – more than a few times and bookmarked for reference 😉
Extremely useful although I will probably still need a map for those adds clearly labeled “Go Here Stupid and Shoot This One” in plain, block letters…
Can i haz one of those too?
Out of curiousity, what addon is that that shows that you have one as a mount?
That is ArkInventory, my bags addon. It also tracks what stuff I have on which characters so I can find who has all the cinderbloom.
It is a great addon. If I mouse over something like a stack of cinderbloom, it will tell me all the alts that have some and how much they have, as well as where it is (bag or bank). It will report on the guild bank contents too.
Augh, that’s so frustrating! 😦 I hope you have a more stable computer situation and raid group for next week so you can finally get Rag down.