You Fail At Wiping If...

Happy Tuesday, otherwise know as Fail Day. Seems last week had a theme so I decided to incorporate it into this weeks fail post. Something, which holds dear to everyone's heart. Now I give you what you all are waiting for.

You Fail At Wiping If...

• It was only a wipe because you forgot to bubble
• You taunted the boss as DPS
• You thought an army of iceblocks was code for awesome
• You confuse "Skull" with "Box"
• You heal people standing in Death and Decay
• You are unaware of the fact dragons cleave
• You keep dpsing when wipe is called
• You are unsure what tank the beam means
• You go on with healing the tank if a wipe is called
• You don't have a hearthstone macro
• You are unaware of how to "hug a crusher"
• You never have attempted hardmode trash
• Your best assisting happens on MC'd targets
• You interpret "Stop DPS" as "Blow all cooldowns mindlessly"
• You DI the mage

and finally

• Your wipes are pointless because you never kill the boss

That is it for this week. May your wipes all have a purpose!

Wiping

A lot of people have asked me about wiping, so instead of making this a Wednesday thing I thought I would roll it into its own topic.

Everyone's favourite pass time in the world of PvE. As a raid leader this is something I always try to avoid happening, although it will happen and you better get used to it. Wipes could be caused by people not doing what the strat involves, or could be complete flukes. The key I guess is to really understand why it happened. If you caused it, realize that and fix it. No one wants to be the problem. Even if it wasn't you, you can always do better and make sure the next pull you yourself execute better. Most importantly it is never a good thing for a random person in the raid to call someone out. If the raid leader chooses to do so that his his choice, but never some random other person in the raid. Even if they did something completely idiotic. It is not your place. Doing so can only hurt moral, and makes you look like you are high and mighty and can do anything better than anyone. If you notice something talk to the person, but making them feel like crap is not your place.

Now if someone repeatable screws up it is the raid leaders job to address the issue. Figure out the problem and fix it. Maybe it was a combination of things, maybe the strat needs to be tweaked to fit your raid. This is the time for you if you think of something to talk to the raid leader privately. Never call the raid leader out. Then it would just end up like a political arguing session. We all know they get things done right?

Really the most important thing to do after a wipe is to get back focused and do it again. With content becoming less of a joke this is becoming extremely important since everyone has gotten used to it being simple. Get in the frame of mind and compete are the top of your game. You do this every pull your raid will have success and you will have more fun. Isn't that the point of a game anyway? To have fun.

I leave you with a quote from Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."