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Article #349212Worst LFR ever...
From: Catriona R
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:31
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:31
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So, picture the scene, LFR ToT part 2, we enter, one tank leaves (sigh), 2nd tank pulls the first pack of bats while we wait, all as normal... until, a million more bats join in and rocks start falling from the ceiling... Tortos has joined in. We were miles away from him, don't think anyone had even jumped down to the same level at that stage, so no idea how that happened, anyway, wipe, and we try again. Next trash pack pulled, few seconds later, bam, Tortos joins in. Huh? We get a few of the bats down before wiping. Try again, same result, meanwhile we're all watching really carefully to see what could possibly be causing it, nothing obvious comes to mind. The next try we all stayed up on the ledge, so as to be absolutely nowhere near the boss... he still aggroed! At least by this time only a bit of the trash was left, we went for the boss after the trash, very scrappy kill, bu, at least he died. Phew. So, onto Megaera, we at least survived the trash, but reaching the boss, nobody went too near her but she aggroed anyway, before everyone was present. Not again... wipe. Ressed up, aggro despite nobody being closer than where you jump out of the lake, wipe. Ffs... after a couple more attempts we at least got almost everyone alive before some poor person jumped out of the lake at the usual spot and bam, boss aggro - everyone shouted at him but tbh I don't think it was really his fault; he didn't seem any closer than anyone else should be exiting the water. So this time enough of us were alive to go for it, and urgh, what a rubbish group. One healer was afk (and dead, he had the cheek to demand a battle res mid fight when we'd tried to res him 4 times before the pull... he didn't get one lol), another was really really low on healing done, and the other four of us did our best but eventually ran oom due to idiotic dps. If it's possible to drop an aoe in the group, they did, stand in front of the boss for rot armor, don't move for cinders (and I was impressed, nobody dispelled early, every time they lived to the end of the debuff before dropping it in the middle of the raid so no blame at all on the healers!)... and for all the no-moving, a lot were really low dps (at least one was afk). So eventually with healers oom, we wiped. Ressed up in what should be a safe spot, nobody near boss but still, aggro, wipe. Tried again, same. Several more no-pull aggro wipes later, most of us gave up and quit. What a nightmare! Still got no idea what the heck was causing that aggro - either, it was a very strange bug, or, somebody's found a novel way to grief, using something so long range that we can clearly see nobody is within 40 yards of the boss (frankly much further away), nor are any projectiles visible in the air, nothing. I really don't get it, bug reported it but with no ideas what's caused it (and no similar reports on the forums, I'm not sure my report will help a lot! Very much hope I never experience that again anyway; thankfully most of the group was friendly and sensible, so I stuck with it far longer than I would've done with tons of bitching and sniping at each other, but still, frustrating to say the least.
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