So, back when WoW was young, I met my first real Headdesker. If /facepalm had existed back then, well, I would have used it.
Merry I am on my way to Lower Blackrock Spire for the umpteenth time ( back in the old days, that was the start of endgame!), party setup looked good, everyone seemed to be on their game. All in all I didn’t expect to come out of this pug with my head in my hands.
We trundle along quite well, rolling over orcs and trolls without death or incident.. Until “That Hallway”. Ahhh yes. That Hallway. ( You old folks know which one I mean. If you don’t… git off my lawn! Damn kids.. ) You see, this particular hallway is littered with many, many orc warlocks and mages. They all use fire, while the warlocks loved to stick a particularly nasty debuff on your party that would cause damage to go from “Wow, they hit hard!” to “WHAT THE SHIT WAS THAT!?” very quickly.
Did I mention they also happened to be runners? No? Well they are. And they did, as they often do.
We managed the mass-pull of oh-shit-it-burns pretty well considering, with only one death. That’s when the headdesk reared it’s ugly head. Some time passed, as we drank and ate respectively.. and yet the corpse of one dead rogue lay on the floor. We also didn’t see a resurrection spell cast by our stalwart Paladin. Glancing at his mana to make sure I wasn’t about ask someone OOM why he wasn’t resing, I saw it was full. The Rogue beat me to it anyway.
“Can I get a res?”
Brace yourself.
“Oh, I can’t res.”
Oh yes, he said it. I can’t res. The Paladin can’t res. There were a few moments of dumbfounded silence, as the Rogue released to run back. “Why can’t you res?” our tank finally asked. I imagined his voice confused and somewhat halting. Here comes the best part.
“Oh,” the Paladin answers, “I never did the quest for it. It was too hard.”
/headdesk
… Do I even need to go on? Anyone who’s done it, myself included, can tell you the damn quest can be done nude. I mean really. And even if by some miracle it was abysmally hard.. how on earth do you forget, sometime during the next 48 levels, to go back and get it!
Resurrection! It’s never, ever a bad thing to be able to do that!
I just.. no. *shakes head*