Secrets of Shadowbolting

Some days you just don’t want to deal with your guild and the drama of keeping everyone happy. It just happens. When I found myself in this mood and wanting to show one of my friends WoW (she used to play dungeons and dragons and a little prodding could push her over into joining) I figure – lets go kick some butt. While we try and figure out how not to die (battle grounds just were not going so well) I see a message in trade chat looking for more for UBRS. Woot! a level 60 instance in the old world where we can go shadowbolting happy.

Off we go to UBRS where there are 2 other level 70s, a 59 and a 60. Vuur’s tanking. Looking at the gear on everyone else – I’m it. We have an afk warrior (one of the 70s) a mage, another lock, the 59 priest and a 60 warrior.

Now, it’s great you want to run an instance and you find people to go. However, in Vuur’s rules of raiding you must have the following in mind when you pick an instance
1. Know your way around or have a map handy
2. Have the keys to get in
3. Know where the bosses are

It’s really simple, if I’m not in charge, whomever is (even if they are lvl 59/60) better have some idea of what they are getting people into. Luckily I was in a forgiving mood and we were able to find someone with a key. I’m still not quite sure how many bosses we killed or how far we got – I really wasn’t paying that much attention but after 2 wipes I was done. When the squishy priest goes and gets themselves killed by aggroing the wrong mob, the warrior is afk and Vuur is crushing people on the damage meters (and it’s 1am and I’m sleepy) we is done.

So in short – you want to run an instance? Wonderful. Know what you’re getting yourself into and be prepared even if half the group is over geared. Wipes can still happen and this can be a very grumpy lock.

Speaking of which – Nixx wins for comment of the week(end)

V: Who is this psychopriest guy whispering me for a guild invite?
N: I dunno
V: well he said you knew him and you said he should talk to me
N: I don’t know – I sent him to you cause you can be mean and I don’t want to deal with him
V: Me? Mean
Biscuitville: Vuur, you’re scary

/sigh