The Paralyze isn’t permanent and (unless the tank really hates you or is totally clueless) Ozruk doesn’t do anything that damages the non-DoT DPSers. Twang twang twang (or bang bang bang) — pause for paralyze to wear off and Twang again. Rinse, repeat, loot.

Now melee DPS I can see viewing this fight as a death sentence, but I’m confused about the Hunter thing…

Still, I guess one of the things that bugs me is the fight is recoverable with one, even two enraged twilight heralds… but most pugs seem to wait for the 1st to pop, then put down their weapons and refuse to play.

For me, it’s only when a fight goes bad that it becomes interesting… who doesn’t love the tank & healer finishing off a fight… or just the tank… or just the lonely mage and his mirror images running like hell trying to take that last couple of percent health.

I know the definition of skill is boss down, no damage taken, everyone over 14k dps… but for me, the real definition of skill is wiping the shit off the fan and throwing it back in the boss’ face.

<3 to our evolutionary cousins and their appropriate tool use (Hell I want to scoop up some shit and throw it at most zoo visitors, public transport users, ISP customer service staff and the odd Blizzard developer… ohh did I forget the pugs… yeah, the pugs too)

But I only leave a group when I know I am detrimental to it’s success… which means I get to complete one heroic per week

Hunters must die… Lock’s 1st of course, but in the absence of a Lock, a Hunter will do fine.

As I mentioned in the post, the thing about this fight is you expect, nay plan, to have at least one death. it’s one of those fights you blow all your cooldowns before the tank gets aggro, because a bit of dps ping-pong is better than the certain untimely death that is coming.

Although I am always a bit shocked and surprised when rather than being at the top of the meter, I am dead 30 seconds in. doesn’t help when the tank drags the boss to the ranged by mistake (repeatedly), or I hit blink rather than iceblock and find myself at the bosses feet… not that I would ever do that… kk?

What is one person’s (Rip’s) loot pinata, is anothers (your Pally mate’s) nightmare.

It’s the advantage of guild groups (which Blizzard has made this expansion all about, but then seems to be making it preferable to pug for some reason).

Guildies will 4 man an instance with the 5th on permanent follow due to lag/dc.. but a PuG.. they wont buff or provide food/lockrocks.. but boy will they bitch and moan if you are only on 9,999 dps.

I had a couple of ICC fights like that, the one after the lootship (ohh how quickly we forget). I was listening to vent, playing with the “natural rhythms” of my casting and targeting raid mates to kill the adds. Long after the fight was after, my PC caught up and I got the whole fight in fast forward. I was dead, but I had still done alright.

There have also been several arenas where I have been a blind man guided by my guide dog mates. Sheep, interrupts, blinks the lot… some how we win some of them… I can only hope that the opposition is suffering from my lag as much as I am.

Don’t ask me where nobtwaddle came from… maybe it was my inner-nobtwaddle aching to get out.

Normally when I log on I have normal latency (which here is a base of 240-340), which then escalates over the next 15-60 minutes to silly numbers (4,000-10,000 are normal). It usually resets when I DC.

Unfortunately, sometimes it just happens. I had a night of good latency until I entered an instance on Squidly, as the healer. The 1st I realised I had real latency issues was when I got the tanks “WTF!” in chat, to realise they had already wiped on the 1st trash pack, even though my screen showed them all standing with me at the entrance.

Sometimes it works in my favor… not very often though.

I hadn’t noticed the sound… might have my ambient sounds turned down, or I can’t hear it over my internal dialogue (don’t fail, don’t fail, don’t fail), or maybe it’s just my fit of Tourettes which comes with the fight.

I have been trying to pick the right spot on the cast bar, might start at 2/3 and work down. I don’t worry so much on Gnome as I just blink out and I haven’t run enough on Squid (although he always seems to score this instance)

I go from Orzuk’s voice signals too… the one thing I do really bad is spellsteal too early.. I might get the dot.. ummm sorry for everyone else.

Mmmm OK, I’ll come down with a case of something if I get invited to Al’akir. although raids aren’t too bad, as all of the guild suffers from the lag monster to some extent, so they tend to be understanding.