That story gets gleefully retold every time the guild members meet in person, by the guy who was the GM back then, after Beer #4.

Puzzled, I explained my rationale. Rolling greed means you are greedy and want the item, right? Whereas rolling need ensures whoever needs the item will get it?

And so, I was saved from a group kick but not plenty of subsequent embarrassment.

Fast forward to raiding in wotlk. Ran out of arrows in a fight? Check. Weapon broke during a fight? Check. Trying to click on the health stone dispenser but right clicking on the boss and starting the fight? Check. Looking forward to more memorable screw ups.

Nothing to worry about – we all have nights like that.

While it wasn’t WoW, I did do something similar a week ago in Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Had a friend who needed some help on Karagga’s Palace (2nd raid) because her group was hitting enrage timers. I’m mostly DPS kitted out for the most recent content, so I said “Sure, I’ll help knock it out, this’ll be easy.”

So I show up, and we start the fight as soon as everyone gets back from AFK. We stand around for 2 minutes before we pull.

And then when we pull, I realize I don’t have Tracer Missile on my bar. (Tracer Missile is the key Mercenary DPS ability.)

So… I look at my bar… and realize I’m still specced for healing.

/facepalm

Still, they got the boss down to 28% before we wiped, down a DPS, with an extra healer.

And I could have respecced while we waited. I have Field Respec on that character. (Can respec once every-so-often (I forget the cooldown) in the field without having to visit the respec guy.)

It should have been a one-and-done once I got in there. Instead, I wiped us.

Heh.

My 2 yen,

Akiosama

Tanked up through the first boss (Successfully, mind you) dual wielding the dark iron ale mug and the yellow brewfest stein.
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Hunter, in Nexus. The big white ghost boss. Disengage is next to rapid fire. The edge of the platform is less than the disengage distance away. It’s a long way down…

Same hunter, some time earlier in Kara; kept getting whispers from someone’s mod saying I was using downgraded versions of some of my shots. WTH? I just hit 70, why is this…oh, yeah. You need to go to the trainer…

Same hunter, some time earlier in Strat, dead side. The baron has an AOE that reaches outside his room, and when the pet is on defensive, it attacks anything that damages me. Door shuts in my face, leaving me, the healer and a DPS standing around going derp, as the baron eats the tank and other DPS, as well as my pet.

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Never did the divine intervention thing as a paladin, but I have ‘healed’ in my DPS gear and spec…

The mage doesn’t get played enough to have anything funny happen. :P

We are clearing through the main area in MC with 2-3 bosses down.We had just wiped and are running back and a hunter joins us. About half way down he pulls out his pet. His brand new freshly tamed level 3x rare wolf. It seemed like whole instance just started walking towards him, I was behind him and all I saw was a wall of fire and mobs before I turned around and ran for the entrance.

But maybe its a feral druid thing, But melee break their weapons, Tanks break their shields and hunters break their bows, Use causes durability loss. I have been carrying a backup ranged weapon on my hunter since nef was current content in bwl.

But wait, there’s more!

I… ONLY LAST WEEK finally enabled a “Heart of the Phoenix” macro button on my bar, so when my pet dies I can actually insta-rez it in combat without the long cast time!

When Heart of the Phoenix was first introduced, I could never get it to work, because as soon as the pet died, the damn PET BAR DISAPPEARED, so there was no HotP button to press!

Yes, I never, ever, ever followed up on that. I simply cast rez pet when my pet would die, standing there as long as it took, ususally during the “all dps blow cooldowns’ point of a fight.

But why am I now a good Hunter and able to cast it on the fly and USE it?

Brawler’s Guild. My pet dies so damn fast in the fights, and the fights themselves are such a burst DPS movement thing, that I had no choice but to research every single ability and figure out how to use it.

Now, for the first time ever, if my pet dies in Ferocity spec, I can isntantly rez it and keep going without interrupting my rotation.

Next up… figuring out how the F*(&^ to use Masters Call.

Many times, my guildie and I would run into that problem in Naxx. It got so bad, our main tank would actually inspect us before pulling.

What can I say, I love me some naked time!

Back in TBC days, running Kara, I remember arguing with guildmates that I couldn’t misdirect to the tank because I wasn’t spec’d for it. They kept telling me I had it and I kept telling them I didn’t. I kept checking my spellbook and there was NO Misdirection there. They didn’t believe me and kept razzing me about it. After the run that night I went to the trainer to change specs to get Misdirection…and lo-and-behold there it was just waiting for me to tell the trainer to teach it to me. My “derp moment”? Not going to the trainer after dinging 70 to learn my new abilities. What’s even more sad is that all spec’s got Misdirection. I was so clueless that I originally thought it was based on spec.

/sigh

The first time I encountered Garalon. It was in Raid Finder, my first time doing that raid, I’d been pulled in on a 2/3 clear.

So, obviously, there was a lot of waiting for more people to join, because that’s what it’s like in Raid Finder on a 2/3 clear.

Personal habit: When I’m on my mage, I like to keep my shield spell (can’t remember the name — used to be Mana Shield or somesuch) active as much as possible. I’m squishy. I might not pop it during a boss fight, but I like to have it up going in. So, we’re waiting, hanging out near the boss, I’ve got a leg targeted for when we attack, and I keep refreshing my mana bubble.

A note on my UI: It’s unmodified. I have the spells I use most often on the bar. I have other spells that I can’t fit there on bars six and two, so I have to click the little arrow to get to them. Yes, it’s inefficient; it’s also what I’m used to by now. Every time I refresh my shield, I click back to my main bar.

Mana bubble is the third icon on bar six. Scorch is the third icon on bar one.

You can see where this is going, can’t you?

Yup … idiot mage goes to refresh, misses arrow, hits Scorch, tries to break the cast by walking backwards and realises the instant she does so that Scorch can be cast while moving.

Yes, we wiped. Yes, I spent the next ten minutes apologising profusely.