Your worst group?

[Arethor]

Lately?  :) 

That last worst group was the VC raid with MJ (Grizabella) leading, and we had another Lurker (Priest or Paladin) but I forget now who that was (speak up  :) ). 
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The priest was me as Zane. I had actually been on the first two attempts mentioned when Kan was his warlock and then when he was his warrior.

The first group was half decent except that there were one or two occassions where my "On Me" calls went unnoticed while a different mob was filleted by the full party and looted before anyone noticed me down at 35% health. The other problem with the first group was the rogue. He took it open himself to be main-tank/puller. We didn't have a proper tank other than maybe Kan's VW so that wasn't too terrible but he would regularly run ahead aggroing multiple mobs at once either on purpose or because of his large aggro radius that he was oblivious to. If anything we were slightly underleveled for a proper VC run. The Gilnid wipe was the nail in the coffin. The rogue pulls 4 goblins and Gilnid while i'm still drinking, not even expecting more mobs to come. In about 2 seconds the rogue is gone and everyone else steadily falls under the mob. This coming about 30 seconds after a soulstone saved us from a complete wipe as i was able to rez everyone except for the one person who needed to leave.

The second group made believe there was hope for me to get a decent run that day. We picked up MJ and Kan switched to his warrior, so I knew i'd have proper sheeping and tanking. After many little things along the way we made it to the ship room.

Smite should have been easy, but instead our second mage decides to go all-on Smite instead of healping with the guards. Smite does his shocker and while he goes to get his new weapon the two bodyguards team up on me. Bye Bye healer. I run back to the instance where i'm greeted by the hunter who had also died. We fight our way forward while everyone else fights their way back.

We get back to the ship room, clear Cookie and work our way up the ramp. Our aggro radius must've been huge. When get near the top, Greenskin aggros pulling the rest of the ships crew at us. I yell to everyone to jump in the water and as I go to jump off of the platform I get frost nova-ed and slaughtered. Another run of passing patrols and we get back to the ship. We pull Greenskin and he brings the whole crew. I jump into the water and I'm the only one to survive. I wait a little bit and make a newb error. I didn't wait for the full reset and end up getting slaughtered as soon as i set foot on the beach. Another corpse run and sneaking by patrols. This should be the last time, right?

We get back to the ship room get up the ramp and here comes Greenskin this time we all make it into the water, wait for the full reset and try again. Greenskin comes again, jump, climb ramp. At this point it was pretty obvious that our aggro raidus was too big to stand on that platform as Greenskin walked by so I suggested hanging back till he passed at the same time that MJ suggested the same thing. We finally made it past that section of ramp, kill off the pirates on the top ramp, so now it's just Greenskin and his 2 cronies. They go down very quickly and with quite a bit of satisfaction.

I call a drink break and while doing so I tried to quickly inform MJ of how VC acts now since he hadn't been at this point since beta. So i reitterate in party chat multiple times. Tank on VC everyone else on bodyguards. MJ stated the same thing and I stated it one more time for good measure. I made sure to stress that we would get 2 more bodyguards when VC got to 50% health. I don't think MJ and I could have been any clearer.

So of course what happens? We pull VC, Kan runs in with no fear showing in his eyes taking on the man himself. I step off to the side as one of the bodyguards aggros on me because of proximity and promptly shout "On Me" knowing that we're going to be needing some healing. This is when i realize that there are 2 bodyguards near VC pounding on Mongo and 2 bodyguards pounding on me.

I managed to get myself overboard and into the water with hopes of rezzing the 2 fallen heros and one fallen moron. After VC goes and resets himself I climb out, go across the dock and stand at the bottom of the ramp to the boat. The entire boat has now respawned as we've been in the ship room for over an hour now. I make the call that it's a full wipe with no chance of recovery. I hearth out and call it a day. Wish I stuck around so I could have done the Lurkers run. Zane still needs the head of VC. ;)