Diaries of a raider

Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.

Diaries of a raider

****Episode 1, firelands****

(make in a documentary style video)

Raid - Firelands. Our group has been going strong. We lost quite a few players over the past couple of months, but recently we finally replaced out toxic healer shaman and got a brand new preist healer in his place.

Dread - Yah, praystation was a poorly geared healer, but anyone was better than our shaman healer. He would get mad at every single wipe and yell at people in vent. I'm so glad hes gone

- The team was never the most competitive group in the world, but they at least wanted to catch up to the other raid team in the same guild called the early crew, as they raided late at night, and were called "late crew"

Dread - I can only raid at night because I actually live in southeast asia but I play on a US server, so its the only time that isnt too too early but usually everyones asleep when I play.

- Progressing though firelands was going well even with an undergeared healer. The team was finally ready to start balroc on normal, but gear just wasnt quite there yet.

Hiru - Our ret pally isnt the best when it comes to dps. I mean his gear is fine and all, but theres no reason to ber barely above the tank every pull

Dread - Brasher is a nice guy and all, but I just wish he would pull little higher numbers.

Hiru - well its not like brasher is the only one with low dps. I also raid in the early crew and the numbers are just higher overall with roughly the same gear. The only reason I play as BM right now is because its the worst dps for hunters, and allows me to be closer to the rest of the dps, as they're pretty bad. AS BM, I'm only number 1 dps by a small margin, but if I go to any of the other specs I feel bad pulling 25% more dps than number 2

Cow - The healing has always been kind of a stuggle. its hard having to get use to a new healer every couple off weeks since we keep losing one for one reason or another

- over the corse of catacylsm, the late crew has lost 5 other healers. For a while, the original guild leader was one of the healers for late crew, but with the massive changes to healing from wrath spam, to mana conserve cata, she couldnt handle it and eventually just quit the game

hiru - Losing mojo was kind of a big deal. With her gone, we also lost a tank since her husband was our DK off tank. But man were their replacements better. Our brand new preist whos never healed before does better than mojo. But thats probably because I tought her everything she knows about healing since I heal on with the early crew on my priest.

Cow - I miss mojo, she was a great healing partner. But she did have a tendicy to go omm very early in the fight, and that was a big problem when we worked on chogall in the last teir. I pretty much had to single heal it most of the time.

Bloody - grim wasnt the best tank in the world either. I just couldnt understand how a deathknight could take so much damage. They're suppose to be one of the best tanks. Then one day, in the middle of a raid, I decided to take a look at his talents and he didnt have improved blood pressence!

- For those of you who dont know, Back in cataclysm, defense was removed as a stat, and all tanks need at least 6% reduction in crit from bosses to never be crit. It use to be with enough defense, you'd be fine. but with the stat gone, all tank specs have a talent that would just give them crit immunity, and improved blood pressence was this crit immunity for death knights

Dread - grim was a nice guy and all, but I'm sad to say started doing better with him and mojo gone.

hiru - so our raid team was in a goodish place. The new healer was undergeared, but was actually good at the game so it wasnt a big deal. Our biggest problem was dps. I even went marks for baleroc just so we could stop hitting the enrage timer.

- Now a little back story on baleroc. While not the last or even second to last boss of the raid, He was the gear check boss you needed to down in order to get to the last 2 bosses. If you could down baleroc with its tight dps check, then you had the numbers for the next two bosses.

Dread - we were hitting the enrage timer pretty frequently, but he was getting lower and lower each time so we just had to tighten things up a little more.

Cow - healing the fight wasnt a problem either, as if you did the mechnics right, you had major heals to easily keep the tanks up, as well as many classes to cheese the crystals.

Bloody - tanking the boss was pretty damn easy if I remember correctly. All you had to was taunght for like 1 ability and you would get super big and do more damage from a debuff he gave.

hiru - all was going well, and we were on track, but we knew what was keeping us behind. everyone knew, but no one would say anything, until the little incident happened.

- after another really close attempt, a wipe at around 5% health, someone mentioned in vent that maybe we just needed a little more gear, when the low dps pally finally had enough

bloody - to be honest, I was totally shocked. He's always easy going and laughing in vent.

Cow - He was the last person I would have expected to blow a fuse.

hiru - I thought it was kind of funny

- After the failed baleroc attempt, brasher, very clearly upset, yelled in vent. "lets not beat around the bush. the elephant in the room is me. I know my dps is low but I dont know how to do better. I'm just bringin you all down. You'll do a lot better if you just find a pug to replace me" he then logged off and wasn't heard from until a week later

hiru - you know, that wasnt the first time I've heard someone go off in vent after wiping a bunch, and it sure as hell wasnt the last. But it was kind of the saddest. I mean yah his dps sucked, and we downed the boss pretty quickly right after bringing a random person from the guild in who did middle of the pack dps. but you know. well, actually I dont know what to say. He did eventially switch to play a rogue for the next teir to get the legendary daggers. And when he got those, he did finally beat me in dps sometimes.

Cow - he came on like a week later and apalogized. By then we were working on the next boss and he deicied to raid on his rogue and did a lot better. But he was still the lowest dps.

Bloody - there was this one time, where he couldnt make it to raid one night in Dragon soul, but he needed the shards from the bosses so his girlfiend played his rouge for him. And you know what, she did better dps than he ever did desptie learning how to play the class that day.

hiru - omg that was so funny. Ok so, his girlfiend was our healer praystation, but we were able to get a fill in while she played his rogue. I taught her the basics of the class before the raid and she was keepng up with my hunter on most of the fights. there was like a universal agreement to not talk about the numbers when he came on the next day. Poor guy, I dont think I've ever seen someone that bad who tried so hard.

- the guild would eventually go on to defeating ragnaros and work on some heroic bosses before dragon soul came out. But that was the start of the end of the raid team. In the next episode of the dairies of a raider, we'll go back in time and talk about the start of the raid team, before going forward in time to the end.