Oh Yogg, how you slay me so…

I was all set up for a /rant, as fail raids never fail to get me into that mood.

Today though, I just feel defeated. No anger, no hate, just sad for once.

I’m slowly working through the phases of dealing with grief. Bear with me.

Step 1: Denial

First night during last week’s reset, we wiped on clouds every single attempt.

“It’s okay, it’s our first week attempting Yogg. I mean, we’ve only tried him for a day on 10-man in 1 group.”

“Everyone’s just getting used to the fight. There’s a lot to remember.”

“We’ll get it down next time. Hey, we’re making progress! There were only 5 guardians up this time vs. last attempt’s 8!”

Step 2: Anger

Second and last night of attempts that week, we got to Phase 2 a few times about an hour into the raid, only to go back to failing to clouds by a large, large margin with 8 guardians running around at times.

/bangs desk with face

/throw keyboard

/livid, rabid convulsions

Step 3: Bargaining

Beginning of the raid last night, GM says, “If we make any progress tonight, we’ll consider hard modes.” For the next hour, I watched 5-8 guardians slaughtering the raid.

“Please… let us make it to Phase 2… I won’t take any loot for 2 weeks!!”

30 minutes later.

“A month? How about a month? I won’t take loot for a month?”

Step 4: Depression

So we gave up an hour ahead of our usual raiding end time. We set up a new schedule at the end of the raid for this week in hopes of getting 2 groups into Uld-10 and practicing on Yogg in 10-man. Hopefully, both groups will clear to him and we’ll see who’s popping clouds. Le sigh.

/make Tuesday morning QQ blog post

Step 5: Acceptance incoming…