Sometimes raids just don’t go your way. Be it stealth afk’s, the stars misaligned, stupidity, or Blizzard (probably the biggest reason), you wind up wiping. I have noticed that regardless of how bad things are some people just refuse to die. They will do anything in their power to make sure they kill whoever just got divine intervention and to delay your attempted CR. Thankfully, I have the ability in certain encounters to ensure said wipe happens in a timely manner.
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My long, hard day of work is finally over, so I figure I’ll log on and play a bit and relax. Good plan, in theory anyway…
I log on about an hour or so before start times to make sure things are in order and won’t start late. Before I’ve even finished loading in, I’m bombared with …
Recruit_01: What zone we doing tonight?
Recruit_02: What’s a zone?
Recruit_03: What’s vent?
Recruit_04: What loot can I roll on?
Recruit_05: I don’t understand dkp, so I’ll just roll on everything I want
After explaining to them what a zone is, where we’re raiding, what vent (Ventrilo) is and how to get it working, what DKP is and how it works and yelling at Recruit_05 for being an idiot, I look to see who’s online and start making plans for the raid. Sadly, I don’t get very far..
Recruit_03: I downloaded the vent server client and don’t see any options
Recruit_04: Why do I start with 0 dkp?
Recruit_05: Why was I kicked out of the raid?
Recruit_04: It’s not fair, I should be able to get stuff today
I politely (not) tell Recruit_03 he needs the vent client and then explain the facts of life to Recruit_04 and Recruit_05. Thankfully, yelling tends to shut them up and preserve what’s left of my sanity.