It Had to Happen at Some Point

Or: Asshattery in the Amphitheater

In general, the vast majority of players I’ve encountered in Northrend have been nothing but courteous. In fact, I’m more likely to meet people who will go out of their way not to bother others while questing than not. Of course, to every rule there’s an exception, and I found that tonight.

Zigy’s been 75 for a couple days now–mostly because Grizzly Hills is annoying me to the point where I’d rather play an alt most of the time–which happens to be the minimum level to do the Amphitheater of Anguish chain. So when a guildie asked for people interested in taking down the new Ring of Blood, I jumped at the chance.

The event itself seems buggy. We had to repeat two encounters because someone didn’t get credit for the kill, even though other party members did get credit. The biggest problem, however, came from the number of people attempting the chain. Like the Ring of Blood, only one group of five can advance on the chain, and with three or four groups all trying to clear the event, there’s a lot of competition to start events. Generally speaking, the various groups had an informal rotation working, one group will kill their boss, then the next group would fight while the first was turning in their quest, and so on.

This was working fairly well, until a tool of a paladin got impatient and decided that it was faster to make the group in front of him fail than wait for them to kill their boss. See, he’d stand outside of the arena and taunt the boss we were fighting, who would then run off after him. But the encounter is set so that you fail if the mob you’re fighting leaves the arena floor. So the boss would run up to him and despawn, we’d get a failed quest, and his party would start their event before we could get back up to the quest giver.

Luckily, he only did it on one encounter (although it took him three attempts to pull it off), which I’m very thankful for, as otherwise the event could have quickly degenerated into each group purposely failing the others, and once we started down that path, I’m pretty sure there would have been a lot of reports sent to GM’s. All in all, then experience leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Although I’m enjoying my new hammer.