Heroic Races

Our guild has started having heroic races, which is super, super fun. The guild bank puts up a pot, and anyone can put together a 5-man team to compete. We have a judge who chooses a random heroic on the spot (so no pre-knowledge) and we zone in, wait for the word, and go.

I love speed runs. Not just because they’re fast, but because they make heroics once again challenging. When you’re pulling several packs of adds as fast as you can, wiping suddenly becomes a possibility again. Mistakes are gonna be made and then you have to react and recover from those mistakes.

I recorded our run of Ahn’Kahet for fun. We screwed up the first pull badly — went far out of range of the healers (nitro boosts), causing both hrist and the mage to die before the healer even got there. So then we lost over 20 seconds to rezzing, not to mention how much longer the pack took. There were some other packs that we thought we could avoid, but turns out we couldn’t, so we had to double back for them.

Despite that, we still managed a time of 8 min 30 seconds, which isn’t bad at all for old kingdom.

Depressingly, we did not win that race. Someone had formed a team of all stealthers and they just walked past almost all of the trash. They beat us by about 30 seconds or so.

Also, AFK Rogue formed up a team to challenge, but amusingly most of them didn’t show up so he joined the stealth team.

For future runs the judge has declared stealth teams against the rules. I can’t wait for next week’s races!