Its the wipes you remember... not the full clears

Last night we took our guildie Niobar and his lovely pet Bar through Arcatraz to get his final frag for Kara. So the group was Nio, Wutan, Atania, Suzzy, and myself. I'd been to Arcatraz twice before, both times we went through it with no problems. What was different this time? No Jess/Aksana. What's the big deal there? Well let me explain.

Jess is sorta a walking encyclopedia of WOW fights. She remembers what each boss does, what we need to do, what we need to look for, etc. I think we've gotten sort of spoiled, expecting her to be there to remind us. Well, the five of us sans Jess go through just fine until we get to the second boss, that crazy dramatic Jerry Springer couple: Mean angry guy and Thong girl (aka Soccothrates and Dalliah).

So we remembered the whirly thing that Dalliah does and that she will heal herself afterwards and that her heal needs to be interrupted. Well we're just going through the fight and noticing she keeps getting healed a lot. I mean, A LOT. So this first time we stay with her for seriously at least 20 minutes, when I finally run out of mana. It was clear we weren't going to get her and needed to regroup. So we decide Nio will feign death, Wut will take the death for the team, and Suzzy, Atania, and I will run away and make her reset.

So Suzzy, Atania, and I start running. Now I wasn't sure how far she'd run because I'd never done this before. So we start running, and turn around to see if she's following. Hell yeah she is in all her 20 foot tall, 6 armed glory! Atania yells, "Yes she is, keep running"! The three of us turn and just keep running for the door, laughing hysterically. With her long ass legs, she runs pretty fast, but would stop to do her whirly thing so we were able to get out fine.

Try two... pretty much the same thing. We try again, after 20 minutes realize this isn't working again... and run for the door again, laughing even harder. Well, I don't think Atania was laughing too much, she was annoyed... but I was still laughing. However, I think it was at this second try that Suzzy realized what the little purple/pink square under Wut's picture really meant. We saw that little buff before, but actually reading it this time we learn that it means Wut can't be healed when he has that debuff. Because for every heal I give Wut, when Wut hits Dalliah, he will heal her as much as I am healing him. OMG! Last two fights I am just going along with a full triple stack of lifebloom on Wut, some rejuvs... and all of that pretty, yummy, healing goodness was also going to Dalliah! No wonder we couldn't get her down!

Well once we figured this out and Wut also found another way to do something to interrupt her healing, the third time was cake. Jess would have remembered that I can't heal Wut when he has the buff on at our first try at her. Well as Suzzy said, we will never forget this fight and the strategy now! I do think the running out as we're being chased by a 20 foot tall woman in a thong will be one of my funniest memories from this game. It's these sort of mistakes/wipes you remember, not the easy smeasy full clears. Do you have any similar funny stories you will never forget?

Well after we took down the couple, Nio had to go, then Jess/Aksana (it's weird, even when she's on Aksana, I still call her Jess) came to do the last boss with us. Here's a screenshot to end our funny night, though by the time I got everyone in position, the boss disappeared. Look at Wut there, the lone guy, but the shortest!