I decided to queue up for the new troll dungeons today. I figured, it's late, I usually get pretty good groups this time of night. As usual, as soon as I queued up, I get in to Zul Aman. This is a fun dungeon, even back in the BC days, I loved this place. Can give you a bit of a pain, but as long as you have a nice group, it's always fun. It was myself (bear tank), a warlock, rogue, DK and shaman healer. We go in and head for the first boss of the night, Akil'zon. The gauntlet run went pretty smooth, no deaths, which is always good. So we go up and we charge the boss, the dps down the birds that carry off party members, everyone did their job nicely.....until the storm came up. As soon as we get the storm, we stacked up and the rogue and DK get insta-death. No one had a clue what happened, but we killed the boss and moved on, slightly laughing it off. The warlock was kinda pushing us a bit for a timer run, which we rushed off trying to go for it.
We start killing trash on our way to Nalorakk. We get to the last set of trash and....I took one step too close. Oh crap! No time to CC so we try to burn them all with me holding everything, ouch......dead. 1 mass rez later and we are ready to try it again, timer gone, but no big deal. We CC and kill that trash and pull the boss, fight goes off smoothly and he's one shotted.
Now we take off and head for Jan'alai and we go to do the first pull, to which the shaman forgets his CC mark and the DK spaces out....wipe. But again, no one makes a big deal of it and we come back in and do it right. We get to the last trash pull before the boss and we get 2, yes 2 flame casters in the group. so we sap, hex and fear 3 mobs and kill 1, then we kill the fear. I then target the sapped flame caster and charge in, the one I ran past, the hex, comes to and 1 shots the healer, well, we know what happens when the healer is down. lol. We come back in and the shaman explains that he did not rehex because he saw me going for the flame caster. The lock informs him that there were 2 and that sap is usually hit before hex because hex can be done in combat. "Ohhh, crap, sorry. I noticed the name and didn't watch the mark.". We all gave him a "eh, no big" and continued on one shotting the boss.
We move on to Halazzi and have zero issues and one shot him as well. Hit Hex Lord with a snake and demon out...HEX! BANISH! SMACK BOSS! Dead boss, we win, loot! Went off like perfection. Meanwhile, we have been chitchatting the entire run. Just talking about the instance, the gear that has been dropping. We had a couple of agility BoE rings drop and I won one of them. "Awesome, and to think I almost bought that 20 mins ago!" which lead to chuckles and talking about loot they had gotten in here in the same sort of conditions.
We get to the last boss and it started off great, adds dead, killing boss. He changes in to the lynx form and starts beating on my hard, but we're ok. He spawns 2 adds, I pick them up and start taking a bigger beating, but we are still ok. I suddenly get 1 shotted, no idea why. "SHIT! how?" had no sooner popped up in chat then I get a BRez from the lock! YAY LOCK BATTLE REZ!!! I pop back up, flip in to bear, pop everything I have to help bring back health while healer is healing, I round back up the boss and adds, to which we kill the adds and he then switches to the dragonhawk form. Ok, we got this going very well, killing him, no one standing in fire.....rogue lags for a sec, and that's all it took to kill him. Boss drops, we cheer and rez while looting. It was like we had just conquered a raid dungeon, it was not that hard, but we were having that much fun. The healer then tells me that Not only am I the only tank that he ever ran with that picked up the cat adds, but that held aggro on them. To which I replied "Thanks! I do try my best. after all, it is kinda my job. lol.".
We all grats each other on a nice ran and after a bout 2 mins of more chitchat about the run, we begin to go our separate ways, actually saying good bye to each other. It just goes to show you, you can have a run with some "oops" and a few " awww crap, my fault" times, but if you keep in mind that it is just a game and try to just have fun with it, every run can be a great one. Everyone makes mistakes and getting mad and blowing up at people only makes it worse. I simple, "no prob, we now know NOT to walk up and say "Hi" to the flame casters." can bring on a couple of laughs and make the run go far more smoothly and make the game over all more fun.
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