03-28-2005, 06:28 AM
I've finished VC twice after an unbelievable number of horrid attempts. In the future I'm considering never doing it again. The people there are so bad. Most recent failure was mostly my fault...for joining such an ill-prepared group! Two Mages, below level 17, a Paladin at 19, a 20 Warlock and myself, a 23 Druid. I hate to be so self-congratulatory but I think it's mostly my fault that I got the group through the Mast Room. Then the idiotic mages aggroed the entire Foundry! I know the room takes a long time, but it takes even longer when you wipe three times.
When I was ready to do Blackfathom Deeps I had to wander around Ashenvale for a couple hours looking for a group. I teamed with a Priest on Culling the Threat and it turned out he needed to do it as well. When the Astranaar raid finished (well, paused anyway) two more priests signed on for the group. All three of them thought we were idiotic picking up a group with four healers. But we got a level 29 Warrior and we were in business. At the beginning we had a little trouble because everybody still had Scream on their bar. That got fixed quickly. We had a wipe, resulting from our warrior charging into the sunken part of the Twilight section. As soon as the first one ran in fear everything got aggroed. So I switched to Bear Form, and except for the wipe nobody in the group died, at all, in the instance. (yeah, this isn't a "bad group" story but I thought it was kind of funny)
When I was in the "let's try everything, for no reason!" stage of gameplay, I had an Undead Priest who went into Ragefire. The group was poorly constructed, with a Rogue, Warrior, and two Hunters. We got wiped because somehow we aggroed troggs from across a lava lake. Everybody knew we were dead as soon as a lightning bolt came out of the blue and pegged our warrior. Well, actually, the hunters survived. Little punks.
My favorite thing I've seen in relation to bad groups though was when my brother's warrior was in the Hall of Champions. There were two priests, a hunter and a paladin with him. The paladin went down first to tank. Soon he was getting totally whomped by Herod. The healers, who had stayed up at the top of the room, weren't in a position to see him and they couldn't heal him! Somehow the last priest killed him before they ended in a wipe. But even now I can't get the "Heh. Is that all you got?" clip out of my head!
When I was ready to do Blackfathom Deeps I had to wander around Ashenvale for a couple hours looking for a group. I teamed with a Priest on Culling the Threat and it turned out he needed to do it as well. When the Astranaar raid finished (well, paused anyway) two more priests signed on for the group. All three of them thought we were idiotic picking up a group with four healers. But we got a level 29 Warrior and we were in business. At the beginning we had a little trouble because everybody still had Scream on their bar. That got fixed quickly. We had a wipe, resulting from our warrior charging into the sunken part of the Twilight section. As soon as the first one ran in fear everything got aggroed. So I switched to Bear Form, and except for the wipe nobody in the group died, at all, in the instance. (yeah, this isn't a "bad group" story but I thought it was kind of funny)
When I was in the "let's try everything, for no reason!" stage of gameplay, I had an Undead Priest who went into Ragefire. The group was poorly constructed, with a Rogue, Warrior, and two Hunters. We got wiped because somehow we aggroed troggs from across a lava lake. Everybody knew we were dead as soon as a lightning bolt came out of the blue and pegged our warrior. Well, actually, the hunters survived. Little punks.
My favorite thing I've seen in relation to bad groups though was when my brother's warrior was in the Hall of Champions. There were two priests, a hunter and a paladin with him. The paladin went down first to tank. Soon he was getting totally whomped by Herod. The healers, who had stayed up at the top of the room, weren't in a position to see him and they couldn't heal him! Somehow the last priest killed him before they ended in a wipe. But even now I can't get the "Heh. Is that all you got?" clip out of my head!