Breakfast Topic: Most frustrating moment
by Allison Robert 
Feb 27th 2009 at 8:00AM
The vast majority of the time, WoW is just pure fun to play, and even nights spent wiping on a boss can be an oddly happy experience if you're running with a cool group of people and you feel like you're making progress. But we've all had that moment in a raid or a group where you realize that things have unstoppably taken a turn for the worse, and that there's not much (if anything) you can do about it.I've actually had two of these in recent memory: being within one perfect Kel'Thuzad kill of server-first Immortal and then losing a single player to the second Frost Blast, and then having to call a Sarth 3D kill because people seemed to find an array of new and interesting ways to get themselves killed. The silence in vent on both occasions was pretty awful, and that these two nights occurred back to back probably didn't help anyone's frame of mind. I've had a Hunter buddy previously describe her worst moment as triggering the old Karazhan pet bug -- wherein you could aggro almost everything in the instance due to bizarre pet pathing mechanics -- when she was a trial member with a new guild. A Warlock friend still cringes when he thinks about the night he accidentally looted the Champion gloves off Curator, and then having to keep the group there for two hours while we waited on a ticket (back before any of us knew how loot transfers worked). Sometimes you realize the night's just going to stay bad, and that it's time to get out of Dodge. What was your worst experience in this vein?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
MusedMoose Feb 27th 2009 8:05AM
I don't know if I'd call it my *most* frustrating experience, but just last night, a friend took me through Sunken Temple with her 74 Warlock to get exp and loot for my 47 mage. I then proceeded to get every single leather, mail, and plate drop the instance had to offer, with a 2H sword thrown in for good measure. @_@
schm0 Feb 27th 2009 10:05PM
Yeah, that doesn't count. No need in wasting those items when you can just vendor them for some phat cash. Unless one of you is a disenchanter, that is.
mediumsizedrob Feb 27th 2009 1:24PM
I know that can't be your most frustrating, especially since you'd only use the stuff from sunken temple at lvl 47 2 4 hours before leveling past it's usefulness. ;)
Alkaios Feb 27th 2009 3:57PM
Wiping on Attumen in Kara. Twice. When Sunwell was out and the instance was a trivial badge farm.
Glad that was just a terrible PuG...instead of a bunch of people from my guild lol
Fnord Feb 27th 2009 8:07AM
A while back, my guild was getting tantalisingly close to the Immortal without trying - I came in just after Heigan, so I'd not have obtained the title anyway, but it was just then that people noticed "Nobody died on the dance, not even the couple of people who usually do".
We got all the way to Grobb without a death, when one of our druids decided to stand looking at the loot and died to a cloud. Game over.
Andrew Feb 27th 2009 8:10AM
The acheivement only counts deaths during boss encounters. If they were looking at loot you were out of combat, and thus, your attempt was still good at that point!
tom Feb 27th 2009 8:14AM
On the grob fight, you are still in combat until all of the poison clouds have dissapated.
Solemn Feb 27th 2009 10:32AM
Clouds that are still up after the grob fight keep you in combat.
miked Feb 27th 2009 9:35AM
Had you successfully cleared through KT with no deaths, you would have indeed gotten the title. As long as there are no deaths while in combat with a boss mob in that raid ID, all players present at the time of KT's death get the achievement/title.
This means you could potentially clear everything but KT, swap out a few people who don't have the title, and kill him and the new people will get the title.
Rewolf Feb 27th 2009 8:11AM
The worst moment for my guild, was probably when our smartass DPS DK decided to use his death grip on an abomination during KT, on our Immortal-attempt.
Suffice to say, the poor guy pulled an entire group, and got himself insta-killed. I could literally taste the tears of my fellow guildies, as the nerd rage unfolded in both written and spoken form.
I still cry myself to sleep, thinking about it ;_;
Jessca Feb 27th 2009 8:26AM
(Pet peeve alvert)
unless you were actually over at their houses licking their faces, I don't think you could "literally" taste the tears of your guildies ;)
Mattias Löfblad Feb 27th 2009 9:14AM
Yeah, it's usually "practically" that people are looking to say. Similar, but not as factually incorrect.
Rewolf Feb 27th 2009 9:55AM
No, I meant literally.
The tears were falling down on my head like quiet little messengers of despair.
It was that bad, seriously.
vazhkatsi Feb 27th 2009 11:37AM
we were wiping on p3 maly25 for 4 hours, and on the last attempt of the night, a DK, who wasn't even on spark duty, accidently deathgripped maly, who breathed on the entire raid, wiping everyone 1 minute in. great wy to end the night.
tho next day we one shotted him.
mediumsizedrob Feb 27th 2009 1:30PM
No, literally is still incorrect no matter how upset you were.. unless they were hanging above you and dripping their tears onto your head.
tomato Feb 27th 2009 1:47PM
I think she's using the word "literally" figuratively here.
jaxson_bateman Feb 27th 2009 3:49PM
That is just stupid. They intentionally, for whatever reason (ie. thinking they were hilarious) created a risky situation in a good Immortal attempt which ended up failing it for you? You should have GKicked them, or seriously reprimanded them at least.
If it was an accident (ie. thinking an Abom was coming, DG'ing it, but it actually wasn't coming and so the whole group pulls) then by all means it's somewhat forgivable. But having done some 'serious' attempts at Immortal in the past month or so, I can tell you that a good raiding guild won't stand for intentional stupidity, especially for an achievement which for most guilds is the only thing preventing them from getting a 310% speed mount (at least, the black version of it =P). Immortal is hard enough because of the extremely limited chances you get at it (once per week, as opposed to every other achievement being something you can bang your head against all week) so you don't need dumbasses intentionally making it harder.
Dogtag Feb 27th 2009 8:10AM
My one would have to be last week in Utgarde Pinnacle on Heroic, the group was a PuG and the leader was more interested in getting achievements on the bosses than actually killing them, and it was just a nightmare.
The group dissolved eventually, but thankfully I have a caring guild who came along and helped salvage the instance.
Invisible Elf Feb 27th 2009 10:37AM
Similar to mine. I was doing the heroic daily, drak'tharon keep. We were at the raptor boss, and we kept wiping to to crappy DPS (little undergeared tank and PvP and green geared DK). The leader (the tank) refused to skip that boss and just go straight for the last one to complete the daily. We wiped probably 7 times, none of the times even close to killing the raptor before me and the mage managed to convince the leader to skip him and just complete the daily.
Icefox Feb 27th 2009 8:11AM
Sarth 25 PUG: Druid token dropped, I rolled 99, absolutely delighted with that. Loot master gave it to a DK who rolled 92 :(
Bumped into the very same DK later on strutting about with his new valorous hands. Gah, urge to kill. Rising.