New VoA boss – Koralon the Flame Watcher

So here’s the set up. I’ve just finished Wintergrasp everyone always needs a tank. I’ve tanked both 10 and 25 man VOA.

I see a:
“LF1m Tank 2 more heals 25 man VOA”

So I pst: “Hey I can tank it. Or off tank whichever” (keep this point in mind as it’s crucial to the story)

I click accept and run into VOA, spec into Tank mode, toss on my gear buff myself up and we’re ready to go. Raid leader says lets get going (he is the other tank btw). So we go. I say who’s my healer? THE RAID LEADER says xyz is, so I toss Vigilance on him and wait for MT to pull the first add...he doesn’t so I do as Agro has already started. The second add comes up and no body picks him up so I taunt, mocking blow and get agro under control. So I self tank the first two adds, no huge feat, heals picked up on the fact that I was in need of heals.

We head into the new boss wing of VOA and again someone agros and I pick up the mob because he’s attacking cloth targets and burning them bad. A quick taunt and he’s mine, we kill it. Then the same situation plays out again. (you might already be noticing a trend.)

We’re at the new boss. A few people know the fight (or have seen the video on the fight) and do a quick relay of info. Nothing to challenging, no dps pumping, nothing explodes to insta-wipe the raid.

Step 1. Tanks stack up to mitigate meteor strike
Step 2. Healers heal tanks and raid
Step 3. DPS kills boss

Key note: stay out of fire, it kills you. (You can take this knowledge with you back to into the real world.)

Simple enough right. How can this possibly go wrong? Oh let me tell you.
Step 1. Ready check
Step 2. “ok go ahead and pull”
Step 3. Blackthought goes down faster than Mrs. Promiscuity 2002.
Step 4. Raidwide wipe.

Ok so let’s review what happened. Well rather let me give you a brief synopsis of the raid chatter.
Raidleader: what happened? Who pulled?
Blackthought: I pulled.
Raid Leader: you’re a tank
Blackthought’s HEALER: Uh yeah I’ve been healing him this whole time
Blackthought: well yeah that’s why I came. I’ve tanked everything up until this point.
Raidleader: Who said you were tanking
Blackthought: You did
Various raid members: ...seriously wtf you said he was tanking
Raidleader: No it’s me and random tank.
Blackthought: well where the hell have you guys been for the first 4 mobs?
Raidleader: I was tanking them.
Blackthought: who’s been healing you
RAID: (SILENCE)
Blackthought: have you NOT noticed you haven’t been taking any damage?
Raidleader: This is stupid either way why did you pull, I ready checked and not everyone was ready.
Misc Raid Member: Dude you said GO!
Raidleader: Nuh uh...
Various raid members: Yes you did. WTF. WTF. OMG. AH CRAP. Yes you did!!!
Raidleader: Nuh uh
(xyz has left the raidgroup)
(ABC Has left the raid group)
Raidleader: this is stooped you guys are all noobs. I’m leaving.
2-5 more members leave the raid group. Raid falls apart

Now normally I would say lets try to draw from this experience. Let’s LEARN from our mistakes, let’s build up on failures so that we may one day achieve that which we strive to succeed in.

But this isn’t normal. This is a special blend of fail. This is a fail that bears no fruit. A fail that is so AWESOMELY fail that to call it fail is to give all other fail moments a bad name...and keep in mind their name is fail.

No this is more than fail this is pure, potent, poisonous NOOBISHNESS. With a healthy side serving of “ignance” (this is not an Uld boss BTW)

So yes, that’s my first run at 25 man VOA with its new boss.
10 man VOA with its new boss went well. I died, no heals on me, we did not wipe. The rest went well. New VoA boss is pie, hot, hard hitting pie.