It’s been weeks since we had our entire raid group together. Before this weekend we’d entered Firelands twice; once we just did some trash and once we did a few Shannox pulls but without Reversion there they just weren’t solid attempts.
Friday Log told me he definitely couldn’t raid that night, so I went looking for another tank. I got one of our dps to swap to his warrior tank, so all I had to do was fill that dps slot. One of our melee dps parted with the raid a few weeks back and that slot is a bit shaky right now. I have Sharelore’s great dk who comes when she can, but her work schedule gets in the way. And then Locklyn showed back up so I grabbed him on his hunter, but now he was going to tank.
I tried asking in guild, but after over half a dozen people, no luck. People had to study. People weren’t geared. People couldn’t make the time. And several people would have come but now that there’s another raid going at the same time as ours, they were already spoken for.
It’s perfectly possible to have two ten man raids going in the same time slot, supposing neither ever has attendance issues. Of course, when does that happen?
So we went to BWD and nine manned it. With the lower dps, and two afks where someone critical went off for twenty minutes, it took us nearly three hours. But just before we pulled Nefarion, Sharelore logged in and we got her in. We killed Nef and looked at the time. An hour to go. Not time to clear trash and pull Shannox, not really, so we went to BOT and cleared that place too and called it.
Saturday was going to be good. I had an empty DPS slot again so during the day I hit up guildies, finally finding someone to come in. We had our tanks, it would rock.
Saturday night came, and one of my healers was missing. But we had BH! So I got a guildie who had half an hour to spare and we went and killed Occu’thar. Yay!
Then we went to Firelands, and as we started on trash, Sharelore logged in again, on her druid. I invited her to come heal with us and we were set.
We killed trash. Things were laggy. We discussed our strategy, pulled Shannox, and Rev and I lagged out so hard it was like watching a screenshot.
The next hour was a nightmare of disconnects, lag, resetting routers, calling the ISP, checking addons, to no avail. I was lucky to have latency under 800mps and even when the latency didn’t seem high, we’d just lag.
Finally we gave up and went to Throne of Four Winds. It makes me so mad, our first decent night in weeks. Even with the awful lag we were managing the dogs and such well, but when one tank can’t move and one healer’s reaction time are crap, you just aren’t going to get there.
It took multiple attempts on AA, all our wipes were in P3. We had lag, we had people who didn’t know the fight, we had clouds spawning ahead and behind. But we killed him too and called the night.
It was a pretty awful weekend of raiding. I hope Friday night our lag is better. We’re down 4 dps on Saturday and I’ve only filled one of those slots, so we’re going to hit Firelands hard Friday and clear T11 on Saturday. With crazed dwarf hunter pugs from Trade, if we have to, because we are raiding two solid nights if it kills me.
WTB more fill in raiders. Sigh…
Sorry you guys are having such problems. We’ve been there before and it isn’t fun.
Rough patches are just patches though. You’ll get through em :)
All I need is for a couple more SR folks to roll or transfer alts for me :) I figure someone still owes me equal value for an Adoe, right?
I’m still harrassing Sorak. He’ll cave eventually. He *has* been working on his DK slowly but surely.
Wait, you said equal value for Ado … crap
Sorak + an Arv alt, might be an ok deal…
Ha. Arv’s alt is like … level 7 or something. Doubt I can drag him away from grinding achievements long enough to level. I can’t even get him to log onto his goblin warrior!
lol, Friday and Saturday nights are very iffy for me, I wouldn’t be able to committ to one until last minute….if I can, what class/role is needed and does it come in a sexy form?
Right now we’re a bit shaky on melee dps. We also have a periodic tank shortage when Log has to go be an Army of One. Are they still using that slogan? Anyway. We have two people kind of interested in that slot but their schedules are unreliable as well, which would be kind of nice to have multiple redundant backups.
For mdps, we currently have no enhancement shaman. Both the “fill in” melee types are dks so something else would be nice. I’d say rogue but then Reversion would hate me.
Arv, just having extra melee to rotate through that slot would help, even if it’s only once in awhile and last minute. Shaman would be nice, especially since you already know how to play it. Do they come in sexy? Damn straight, they come in girl dwarf! Or draenei. yuck.
You know, Reversion needs some gear competition. Arv would make an adorable gnome rogue IMO.
I’ve been having the same issues in my guild. (We actually have 3x 10mans all week).
Group 1: Banging their head on Ragnaros
Group 2: (My Group) We’ve had 2 decent nights in FL.. (on Baelroc)
Group 3: Still running T11 content
In the last couple weeks we’ve lost critical players to both the 1st, and 2nd teams.. and it just SUCKS trying to find replacements. I feel your pain..
We’re having some issues with our ten man as well… Even have been accused of holding people back from Firelands progression simply because half our raid has been out the last three weeks… So i understand the frustration.
I should clarify that I’ve been accused of holding people back for no reason. Some of my raiders seem to feel that just because half the raid is out, that firelands is so faceroll we should be progressing anyway.
Wow, that’s…. not a very productive attitude. I’m very proud that we’ve had remarkably little raid drama through all this. I’m learning to adjust my expectations and trying to remember that I love this game even when I can’t down new bosses.
Well I apologize that I won’t be there this weekend :(. The business has to come first, and it’s a business trip. But I can certainly say that I’ll be thinking of all the fun I could be having with you guys friday night while I’m re-testing for my 5th degree. Hopefully the weekend will go better for all of us!
Grom – business absolutely comes first. I hope you don’t think of us at all because you’re busy knocking their socks off!
That’s precisely what happened to my cata-start guild. Things were going great; we’d downed a boss in the first two weeks, and then… there were never enough to raid. There’d be people on, but they’d show no interest. They were PvPers who we’d routinely go help, but it apparently wasn’t reciprocal. Our guild never recovered and is now ashes. Sorry to hear it, mate, though I’m sure your guild, being older and more established, will be fine in a few weeks.
We will, it’s just a rough spot. That said, don’t let a guild failure to thrive stifle your WoW adventures. There’s great guilds out there with raids happening, don’t stop until you’ve found the right one for you.
I know for Ado and I, this summer has been rough because of all our RL obligations. We’re going to miss another Saturday night in a couple weeks, but then our calendar is clear for a good number of weeks. It does make us feel bad, especially when some of the time, we’d much rather be raiding then doing some of the obligations. But its summer, and summer is always tough with family vacations and such. It’ll get better!!
This happens every year in summer. Just have to keep going.