The biggest mistake I made here was that I actually believed all the way. I genuinely believed I should only worry about max DPS'ing because my healers have me covered. I genuinely believed that people wouldn't clutter the 40-man comms with useless, emotional exclamations such as "OH MY GOD!" every 10 seconds, after over a year of hardcore raiding. I never once considered roaching out, and I never even rehearsed the Petri usage in my head -- that's how much I believed. Reality check: you are actually trapped in a room with several agents all around you. There are healer "agents" who can choke so hard that they only cast 3 successful spells in the first 60 seconds of the fight, and show no remorse as they literally stay at *full mana* and watch you *RIP*. And there are "agents" who will move into you with Detonate Mana and clip you, then don't even bother to throw a heal back to undo the damage. And, unsurprisingly, these disgusting cockroaches are the 1st ones to consider, then execute the roach out, of course. If you opt for the WoW Hardcore experience in the upcoming months, here is my biggest advice: always keep track of the number of "agents" in your Hardcore groups and raids, and don't get fooled by the pre-fight cinematic. With enough agents, the W is never in sight to begin with. So your gameplay changes from playing for a W into playing for a roach out before the agents *out-roach you* out ;-)
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The biggest mistake I made here was that I actually believed all the way. I genuinely believed I should only worry about max DPS'ing because my healers have me covered. I genuinely believed that people wouldn't clutter the 40-man comms with useless, emotional exclamations such as "OH MY GOD!" every 10 seconds, after over a year of hardcore raiding. I never once considered roaching out, and I never even rehearsed the Petri usage in my head -- that's how much I believed.
Reality check: you are actually trapped in a room with several agents all around you. There are healer "agents" who can choke so hard that they only cast 3 successful spells in the first 60 seconds of the fight, and show no remorse as they literally stay at *full mana* and watch you *RIP*. And there are "agents" who will move into you with Detonate Mana and clip you, then don't even bother to throw a heal back to undo the damage. And, unsurprisingly, these disgusting cockroaches are the 1st ones to consider, then execute the roach out, of course.
If you opt for the WoW Hardcore experience in the upcoming months, here is my biggest advice: always keep track of the number of "agents" in your Hardcore groups and raids, and don't get fooled by the pre-fight cinematic. With enough agents, the W is never in sight to begin with. So your gameplay changes from playing for a W into playing for a roach out before the agents *out-roach you* out ;-)