Comments on: WoWWatch: Oops…

By: Raim

Raim — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:34:44 +0000

I agree hunter pets…
Also Nicholas – I have seen that vent mistake play out all too many times (no pun intended) and my ears are the worse for it!

By: Sarc

Sarc — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:27:39 +0000

ahh. the good old falling asleep trick. Same thing, but in BWL for me. on the suppression room before the 3rd boss. unfortunately somebody healed me accidently. then i feigned death. so i lived, but he pulled aggro onto the whole raid. not entirely sure it was my fault… right??

also:
hunter pets.
enough said.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:27:01 +0000

Great blog and podcasts guys, you have some of the most entertaining and insightful conversations. I’m really glad I stumbled on your lagwar

My ‘oops’ raiding moment was in Kara, we were clearing trash and over Vent we were all bantering about old childhood cartoons. I was a little distraught that so few had ever seen ‘The Tick’ so I thought I would be clever and play the opening tune through Vent. I quickly Alt-Tabbed, re-configured Vent to pull directly from my sound card, and pipe the audio back through my output. I waited for a quiet moment in the conversation, hit play on a youtube of the theme, and pressed my vent key for about three seconds.

Well, it didn’t even take three seconds. a flood of party chat quickly made me realize that something had gone wrong. One or two people did say ‘whoa, was that The Tick theme?’ everyone else had quickly thrown their headphones off their heads. It didn’t occur to me that a direct pull from the sound card audio would be anywhere near as loud as it apparently was. My friend said he didn’t really even hear what it was, he instantly jumped and ripped his headphones off. I had turned the sound down to a whisper, thinking that it might be much louder than my Mic level, but apparently, Vent didn’t pay attention…

Apparently, it was pretty f’n loud.

Good thing we were all buddies, but that kinda makes it worse…

By: chris

chris — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:08:28 +0000

haha ahh the good ol fuckup and try to play it off. im sure i cant remember all but the most recent one.

we were doing toc10, which isn’t a difficult place and we just finished the 3rd boss (faction champs) so its not your typical encounter. tanks can dps, a lot of utility is required, stuns, interupts, reflects etc… needless to say i wasn’t in defensive stance or full tank gear.

well, the next boss comes up get ready to tank (still wearing the wrong gear and in battle stance) so i charge in try to get some threat and a dps pulls aggro, ok no biggie, taunt..nothing..TAUNT..nothing..that ability cannot be used in this stance..3 dps dead, its a wipe. unfortunately i didn’t get a chance to reconcile the wipe because i had to leave for RL reasons (no i really did) but, shit happens.

By: Rer

Rer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:51:08 +0000

My favorite is the first time I was a co-raid leader in Karazhan. We had just reached the Maiden and things were going “okay”. (We had a few accidental stupid wipes and whatnot.) Assuring people that everything would be fine, I explained the Maiden fight. Right before going, the main leader, and other co-leader, my best friend, said they had to go afk for a moment. “No biggie,” I said, “we’ll wait.” Thirty seconds later my friend randomly targets Maiden and auto-attacks her (Note: He’s a Hunter), thus leading to an inevitable shitstorm on Ventrilo from the main leader asking why we were all dead.

Turns out his cat enjoys walking on his keyboard. xD

Needless to say, neither of us ever co-lead a raid again.