ZA Bear Run Two
So, you wanna know how the second Bear Run went?
The tone for the evening was set pretty early, as we headed towards the Eagle boss gauntlet. I accidentally aggroed one of the pats that walk nearby, and by the time anyone knew they were on us, I was dead. “Run back,” I was told. “We don’t have time to rez if we’re gonna get the chest.” So I ran back (which is pretty quick with the graveyard right by the door), joined back up with the group, who were already into the gauntlet, promptly pulled aggro again, and died. That repeated itself another two times. Yes, that’s right. I died four times before we even made it to the Eagle boss.
I have no idea what I was doing wrong. I was attacking the marked target, I was AoE’ing when appropriate, I was trying to stay out of the way, but nothing seemed to matter. Compounding the problem was the general chaos of the gauntlet event - several times I would see AGGRO! flash on my screen, but couldn’t see what was attacking me to know where to move or how to adjust.
All in all, it was just not a good run. No chests, not even any bosses down, despite several attempts on both Eagle and Bear, and about 30G in repair costs. =/ We did have a couple stand-ins covering for regulars that couldn’t make it due to the holiday, so that might have contributed to things somewhat, but I don’t see how that could have affected us all so greatly. I think probably it was just a lack of focus. Maybe our quick success the previous week made us think that we would coast through the first boss or two and we wouldn’t have to start trying until the Dragonhawk.
We’ll try it again Monday.
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ZA timed runs are certainly interesting - I’ve been getting into more and more of them now that we have a Pally guildmate who is running it almost every time it resets and is knowledgable enough to lead it without it being annoying
Some of our runs, since they’re largely PUGs from the LFG tool, have had some players that are geared like they’ve been in this instance and beyond, but don’t do the damage or healing or whatever they’re supposed to do like one would expect with that level of gear. I know there’s terribad players who keep guild hopping and getting gear upgrades in 25 man raids etc but I wonder… how many of those players are actually eBay’d characters transferred to our server?
Have you had that problem, or do you run mostly with your guild for ZA?
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@Valdesta: The ZA runs that I do are nearly always with the same people. My Horde guild is part of a three-guild alliance that gets people together to do runs like this. My server, Shandris, is not quite progressed enough to do PUG ZA runs.
Your comment that the well geared people you PUG it with don’t perform to the level of their gear is interesting. It’s probably combination of what you mention - bad players and eBay - but running an instance like ZA with a PUG would be difficult, I think. Having to learn the group dynamics on the fly would definitely make things harder.