the more anecdotes of EJ raiding i hear, the more it reminds me of my guild :-P

everytime I see a hunter with 95% durability when I am sitting at 10% it makes me want to take 1 less hunter each time.

Don't forget the damn rogues that vanish and bug stuff out too. DPS classes FTL!

Its a habit, I tried to edit out my name but for some reason the forums closed up for a few hours to me and I couldnt remove it. If it has always been Fagadin, then I apologize I havent noticed until now. I only noticed it while seeing someone had edited out my name and mentally linked to two. Ill just apologize and say no more from here on.

Sorry.

The first guild I ever joined in my fledgeling WoW career had a raid leader who was deadset into the idea that vanish didn't shed threat but just re-distributed it equally throughout the raid. Thus the gap between the MT and DPS classes shrank, giving a lower threshold for error and giving rise to potential raid wipes. Upon drawing aggro, he would personally threaten to nail anyone to a gibbet if they so much as dared to vanish instead of dying outright like the good little rogues they were.

It's one of those things that are much funnier in retrospect. Not so much at the time.

Amen.

They fixed this a while ago, now vanish grants you a .5s chance to strip your gear off with a macro, after which the mob comes and rapes you. On a related note fuck hunters.

If your guild is at absolute rock bottom in terms of morale, there is always PvP against Alliance PuGs, or, if you're even beyond that point, I can't recommend more highly the therapeutic effects of a 40 man Deathmatch in the Dire Maul Arena. Especially if you play Officers vs. All (use your ill-gotten uber gear now! bwahaha, the proletariat rises!!).

Honestly though, PvP is a great way to defuse tension and build morale. Letting out your frustrations by chaining a CL and ES into the face of that one guy who just wont shut the fuck up on Ventrilo really makes it a lot easier to go back into MC/BWL/AQ with him the next day.

FD isn't exactly the pinacle of unbugginess. It's better than Vanish and on a shorter timer making the bugs matter less, but I've had it outright fail to do anything (without being resisted) a few times, and multiple times I've had mobs run up and start beating on me while I was feigning death.

I haven't even been able to manage that for a good while now. Last time i actually succeeded was on razorgore, probably about a month or so ago, and even then, i didn't drop out of combat for at least twelve seconds or so after vanishing (the vanish buff had actually faded before i dropped combat).

Oh yeah well your seed SUCKS. So there.

We actually blame our paladins. Because two of them are officers. And sound EXACTLY ALIKE on Vent.

Thus, anything goes wrong? Their fault.

(No, there's no logic to it, it's just the way it is. Something goes wrong? Blame it on our Canadians or our paladins, or in extreme circumstances, our Canadian paladin.)

This thread delivers some great insight. It's a whole heap of useful information to keep in mind. Thanks for all the contributing posts.

You give them 5 seconds?

Periods generally denote decimal points. :P

When people screwed up on my raids and we were sucking I generally just pointed out what people were doing wrong while throwing in some sweet "fucking idiots" and "dumbasses" to make sure everyone knew I was unhappy.

I never raised my voice, though, because I think it's stupid.

EDIT: ps sup zagzil B)

Back on topic: we'll call a raid early if we're within an hour of scheduled end time and we're just not on the ball. No point in repeatedly wiping if you're not learning anything with the wipes because you're too tired/unfocused.

For us, it's the guy who, many months ago, accidentally cast DI on the tank during what had potential to become our first Onyxia kill.

We had a priest namged Galthazar accidentally use his hearthstone way back when we first encountered Chromaggus... still referred to as "Hearthazar" to this day.

just curious, how many guilds have main-tanks that have forgotten ony cloaks on nef, AND haven't let them forget it even though it's been months?

Here's one. He forgot it on Ebonroc once, too. Luckily we have two MTs and the second one is a bit more capable (coincidentally, he's our GM).

We blame all our wipes on a mage called Xestion. He's the token "always dies on a bossfight" guy in our guild. The sound of his voice on comms doesn't help much "Oh god it's a wipe, damn it Jimmy" "Whaaa?".
We also make fun of one of our Fire mages who despite our best efforts still won't spec to Frost. He dies a lot as well and the "You could have Iceblocked that" thing never gets old ;)

Does having your MT accidently vendor his onyxia scale cloak instead of equipping it count?