Sunday night my guild had scheduled a quick raid to do the Weekly Raid boss and clear some ICC trash for rep. I had signed up on My paladin because I thought it would be fun. About an hour before the raid was scheduled to start I turned on my TV, found a show about Lost, and zoned out and logged out; completely forgetting, in my Lost-induced trance, that there was a raid which I had signed up for.
Last night when Bear logged in and mentioned the fun that was had in ICC, I hastily apologized for spacing on the raid.
Then he benched me.
It’s only fair. I ninja AFK’d out of Kara the other day, granted it’s Kara, but I should have said “AFK Dad aggro” but honestly I didn’t expect to be gone for a half hour.
So, two raids within a week’s time or so, and I’ve been banned from raiding with my guild. It serves me right. It sucks because this weekend we’re going to the Black Temple. I need to redeem myself and become un-banned. How to do that? I’m not sure. All I can do is hope that my flakiness hasn’t made me look as ditsy as Jessica Simpson eating a can of Tuna.
I mean seriously how do you flake out on two raids in a week and not say a word to someone without looking as dumb as the girl who asked if Tuna was Chicken? I’ll say this in my defense: I am very bad with time management, but I do know that Chicken of the Sea is a brand name, not a descriptor. I’m not that dumb.
If, for some odd reason, my ban gets lifted I am sure I can be a help in the Black Temple. I know we seriously over-level the place. I know we seriously over-gear the place, but the boss mechanics still could kill us.. I’ve been there. I’ve killed the first 5 bosses. I can help explain what to do in those fights. I can help explain what NOT to do in some fights. I think. I can at least explain what a healer may need to know for those fights.
I learned last night that “knowing a fight as a healer and knowing a fight as Melee DPS are two different things.” We were in The Forge of Souls at the first boss. “Everyone know the fight?” crickets… “Ok let’s roll.” /blinders /fight fight fight. “hey dummy, when you get such and such, run to the other side of the room.” “hey dummy, when souls show up kill them.” Oops. I felt bad for our healer, that fight lasted far longer than it should have because I didn’t know what I was supposed to know.
That said, Black Temple was my playground for two months. I know those Bosses. I’ve only done Heroic FoS like twice… So I should be able to explain the bosses a little. Right? Yeah I’ll be doing research before we go in just to refresh my memory, but I’ll leave you with this…
Raging Daisies’ First Supremus Kill, Months Behind, March 13, 08. With 24 people in the raid. yeah we were leet.(LOL)
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Heh, I see that happen a lot with melee in forge of souls, I wouldn’t feel bad about it. It’s easy to get the blinders on and I’ve had to whisper quite a few people to remind them that they’re glowing purple
Sigh.
It was a joke, Maer. A joke. It’s a joke, because we don’t raid, so how could anyone be banned from raiding? We don’t raid, we get together and do stuff, sometimes, as friends. Raiders that are impersonal ban people from raids, man.
A joke.
That was followed by my suggesting that you could make amends by writing a blog post about the wackiest topic I could come up with at the time… tunafish.
Kinda a clue, there.
Cassie is really upset that you would not only seriously think you were banned, a cler sign you think we take things way more seriously than we actually do, but also that you wouldn’t even mention being upset to either of us, but chose to blog about it instead.
To recap… yes, you missed the raid that was on the calander, but real life comes first, nobody worried about it except to hope you were okay, and you’re not banned, you never were.
/flail
I was playing along with the joke!
I mentioned Tunafish in my blog about the “banning” as a joke. Sorry if anyone thought I was taking this seriously.
I still think you’re messing with me. just covering all my bases.
Wow, look at that picture. so many memories!!!
One of the best guild I’ve ever been into.
Arnen! you’re in that picture! You were even in my party! That was a great time and I do miss that guild, at least when times were good.
I know, me too. I learned so much from that group.