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I'd like to share a recent boneheaded move of my very own.
I'm part of a group of four in Gnomeregan. Although not the highest
level, I'm the de facto leader [1] as I have some vague sense of the
way to go. We've just killed Electrocutioner 6000 on the elevated
platform and the other party members have used the C punch card
machine there.
Someone asks: "Which way next?" I say "I think I know the way." I then
go to what I think is the walkway. Except it's not. I plummet to the
distant bottom, nearly drained of health, where the mobs promptly kill
me . . . and my groupmates, who trustingly followed me
down.
(Fortunately they didn't hold it against me; after doing the corpse
run to the back door of the instance, we fought our way to the D punch
card and the nearby walkway, where we promptly got crushed by the
first group of Dark Iron Dwarves we met. Still, good times.)
[1] I find that I often become de facto group leader in an instance
simply because I always insist before setting off that we a) define
explicit roles (puller, healer, tank; which Paladin is responsible for
which Blessings and Auras so we can stack them right; that sort of
thing), and b) rebuff regularly (especially important given Paladins'
5-minute buffs).
--
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~ylee/> PERTH ----> *
Cpu(s): 1.8% us, 1.0% sy, 0.6% ni, 95.1% id, 1.5% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515800k total, 378292k used, 137508k free, 63252k buffers
Swap: 1052216k total, 25392k used, 1026824k free, 96240k cached
I'd like to share a recent boneheaded move of my very own.
I'm part of a group of four in Gnomeregan. Although not the highest
level, I'm the de facto leader [1] as I have some vague sense of the
way to go. We've just killed Electrocutioner 6000 on the elevated
platform and the other party members have used the C punch card
machine there.
Someone asks: "Which way next?" I say "I think I know the way." I then
go to what I think is the walkway. Except it's not. I plummet to the
distant bottom, nearly drained of health, where the mobs promptly kill
me . . . and my groupmates, who trustingly followed me
down.
(Fortunately they didn't hold it against me; after doing the corpse
run to the back door of the instance, we fought our way to the D punch
card and the nearby walkway, where we promptly got crushed by the
first group of Dark Iron Dwarves we met. Still, good times.)
[1] I find that I often become de facto group leader in an instance
simply because I always insist before setting off that we a) define
explicit roles (puller, healer, tank; which Paladin is responsible for
which Blessings and Auras so we can stack them right; that sort of
thing), and b) rebuff regularly (especially important given Paladins'
5-minute buffs).
--
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~ylee/> PERTH ----> *
Cpu(s): 1.8% us, 1.0% sy, 0.6% ni, 95.1% id, 1.5% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515800k total, 378292k used, 137508k free, 63252k buffers
Swap: 1052216k total, 25392k used, 1026824k free, 96240k cached
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