Raid Bitch Ramblings

The Raid Bitch is tired and just wants to make everyone tea and cake and watch them all get long. Don’t get me wrong, if you piss me off I can have a temper. I get annoyed and frustrated and snap at people when shit goes wrong. The Raid Bitch is not particularly warm and fuzzy when the Stupid Debuff is on the raid. I have very little patience for stupid questions or pointless whining and that is why there is a Special Snowflake rank. Trolls in trade…don’t get me started….

But I hate being the bad guy sometimes…particularly the one who has to decide, and more apropos to this the one who has to communicate, who sits and who is in when there are 30 good options for a 25 man raid. Not to mention the other 10 sitting there that aren’t the best of options. This is one of the things I do regularly that is both the best and worst of situations to be in. Best because it’s great that we have three extremely capable, reliable trees; worst that we only need two in raid and someone needs to sit. Or when we have 12 melee and need to bring in ranged. Or when we have 4 fury warriors and, well, that’s just silly. I do think that most understand that raid make-up trumps all else. It’s still no fun to sit though - particularly when it’s on a boss you really want a drop off of. Very few of them complain about being subbed out and I appreciate that. What’s worse than complaining though is when they take it to heart as a sign they are failing. And worse than that is sometimes I have to explain that while they aren’t exactly failing there are performance issues that need to be addressed and they may be at the bottom of the damage meters in a group of heavy hitters. Can we just have cake now?



On a lighter note, here’re a few things you can do to entertain yourself in raid!

Fun with Fury! Bribe your hunter to misdirect the biggest mobs in the trash to the fury warrior. See how many times you can make him die before he refuses to accept the rez until all the trash is cleared. Once you kill the boss and move onto the next trash set your paladins up with a bubble rotation so he finishes every charge unable to do damage. Mix the misdirects with the bubbles for the rest of the night.

Reset Recount right before the trash that leads to Blood Queen when boomkins are Starfalling their fluffy little hearts out and then use those numbers for the bite order. It makes the boomkins feel good to think they can come out on top. Sad locks and mages being mocked by chickens.

Clear the Plague wing trash then decide you don’t have the right raid make-up for Putricide hardmode and tell everyone to go to Ruby Sanctum. Then go back to ICC and kill Sindragosa. Racking up those frequent flier miles FTW.