It Was Really a Long Way Down
“So BRK, how was your weekend?”
“Pretty awesome, brain. Gear upgrades, loads of heroics, and two-thirds of the way to exalted with Wyrmrest. Love the tabard-rep system, yeeha!”
“Nothing bizarre?”
“Not really. Good all around.”
“Nothing peculiar?”
“No. Everything was nominal.”
“Nothing… out of the ordinary?”
“What are you getting at!”
“Did anything happen this weekend that, should it get out, perhaps compromise your position as a hunter of preeminence, at least in your own mind?”
“Our own mind is You, you know.”
“Did anything happen this weekend that, should it get out, perhaps compromise your position as a hunter of preeminence, at least in your own ego?”
“Don’t know what you’re talkin’ ‘bout, brain. Now if you’ll excuse us…”
“What about… well, I heard a rumor on the spinal cord that you got a little upset during a heroic Nexus on Saturday.”
“Upset? Nah. We cleared heroic Nexus as nice as you please. Nothing to report.”
“But there was scuttlebutt about the second boss…”
“NOTHING HAPPENED AT THE SECOND BOSS.”
“Nothing?”
“We were there at the beginning of the fight and there at the end. We weren’t combat rez’d, so that’s all good.”
“You weren’t combat rez’d? Why did you feel the need to say that?”
“There was no NEED to say it… we just… felt like saying it.”
“Perhaps… something went amiss on the fight?”
“Amiss? Well… something didn’t go quite according to our standard plan, but the boss was defeated.”
“What didn’t go according to plan?”
“Nothing major, just missed our Bestial Wrath button and hit the button beside it, by accident.”
“Hmm. Fascinating, BRK. Would you be so kind as to divulge the button that’s beside your Bestial Wrath button?”
“Well, on the left of Bestial Wrath is Serpent Sting.”
“Serpent Sting. That doesn’t sound like it could be catastrophic.”
“Exactly.”
“Well that’s good to know.”
“Yes.”
“BRK?”
“Yes, brain?”
“There is a key to the right of the Bestial Wrath key.”
“Yes there is.”
“Did you press it by accident when fighting the second boss in heroic Nexus.”
“We did.”
“Did it work?”
“Most effectively, yes.”
“Just to refresh myself, what is the particular dynamics of the second boss in heroic Nexus?”
“He’s an Elemental, rift opening dude. Kill him on his platform, kill the rifts he opens.”
“Rifts?”
“Yes, rifts.”
“Platform?”
“A suspended platform, yes.”
“If one were to, oh I don’t know, fall off the platform, would that be a problem?”
“We would never run and fall off the platform, so we can’t answer that question.”
“If you jumped off…”
“Jumping off suspended platforms is not in our arsenal. At least not in boss fights where jumping off of suspended platforms means hurtling to one’s death right at the start of a boss fight, so far away from the party that a combat rez is impossible, necessitating running all the way back into the instance, Aspect of the Pact’ing all the way back to the boss, engaging him and helping kill him. No way.”
“So you didn’t jump to your death.”
“No way.”
“You didn’t run to your death.”
“We’re better than that brain. We don’t do uber-noobish stuff like that.”
“What’s the button to the right of Beastial Wrath?”
“Disengage.”
“…”
/blink
“So BRK. You started a boss fight…”
“Yes.”
“Ran into position…”
“Perfect position, yes.”
“On a platform…”
“Suspended, yes.”
“Smashed Bestial Wrath…”
“With a vengeance, yes.”
“But didn’t really hit Bestial Wrath…”
“No, not really.”
“And instead smashed Disengage…”
“Like Gallagher.”
“And since the mechanics of Disengage have changed so that one need not be in melee-range of your enemy, merely in combat, it causes the hunter to…”
“Leap backwards.”
“Leap backwards, yes.”
“Leap backwards with wild {bleeping} enthusiasm.”
“And if that hunter is on a platform…”
“He leaps off the platform, and falls and falls and falls… until he dies from exiting the instance-universe.”
“Fascinating, BRK…”
“So since we’re dead at the bottom of the instance-universe, we’re totally out of range of a combat-rez.”
“One would assume.”
“So we dead-ran from the graveyard to the instance, rez’d inside the entrance, summoned Loq, Aspect of the Pack’d back to the boss, re-engaged him, and helped kill him. We got our Emblem of Heroism and everything! Yeeha!”
“It might be appropriate to point out that a hunter who Disengages himself to death in a heroic boss-fight might not be authorized to ‘yeeha!’.”
“Well, as long as nobody finds out about our momentary fit of Epic, World-Class, Noobishness…”
“Your secret is safe with me, BRK. Go ahead and /yeeha.”
/YEEHA!
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Absolutely, hilariously, non-epic, win. XD
This is exactly what more boss strats need, the touch of oooops. Made me smile.
I actually found out recently that pet’s don’t suffer from fall damage (Always thought they had) so I was having a fun time taking the Wolf I had tamed for an instance and kept on dropping it off a tall height, giggling at it’s immortality.
Haha, Accidents happen, like maybe forgetting to lock your action bar then swapping BW with intimidate instead of casting it O_O
Well, stories about long falls.. This morning I was venturing through Storm Peaks
completing a quest where you need to drake hop by harpooning them and knocking off the rider..
Temple of storms is really high
and it was a long long long long fall when the harpoon failed..
Highly fun read…. and yet sadly the longer I read BRK’s website the easier it is to believe he actually HAS conversations with his brain like this.
“Smashed Bestial Wrath…”
“With a vengeance, yes.”
“But didn’t really hit Bestial Wrath…”
“No, not really.”
best part.
Absolutely brilliant!
I had a crap sleep last night, and am awake for several hours now, and this made my day already
I think the link to the wiki for Gallagher should link to a video of him smashing stuff
maybe this on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrYulad8W4
This is surprisingly similar to my “I wonder if they included invisible walls here” moment directly after defeating the second boss.
Needless to say, there are none.
As soon as I saw nexxus I knew…. I did it last night sigh…
BRK. You are a master of textual dialog.
Brilliant!
…btw. have you moved the button for Disengage yet?
So.. what food were you eating at the time? All these new food buffs, I can’t figure out which one is the best for a BM hunter to eat.
Well, the button for Distracting Shot is right next to my Misdirection button… -.-
“Fun” moments in Naxxramas.
As for Buff-Food:
There is Agi, Crit, and AP buff food which is good for Hunters. There is also Hit buff food. Plus, there is a new pet food.
Here is a list of all the new recipes.
Had that same oops moment with a slighty uncoordinated tap of Misdirection… hit hit Distracting Shot instead.
That reminds me of a Paladin in my guild who has a new standing policy for this expansion. While instancing, if he sees a place where you can potentially leap to your doom, or do something utterly stupid like jump from a balcony and aggro not only a boss, but the 3 pulls around said boss, he absolutely must take said jump. With a resounding “I wonder if you can fall from here” in vent.
That’s different. Paladins can bubble.
Also, you can fall/jump/Disengage off the platform of the second boss in Hellfire Ramparts (Omor the Unscarred. You land on the ground outside the instance, with a good amount of fall damage (but not lethal if you were full HP).
@Thrashalot
It really sucks when you are in the Graveyard waiting for the next person to Summon the HH and you cast Misdirect on the healer! I was checking her gear and forgot to change targets before I cast it.
The good thing is I noticed it before I fired a shot. Was able to cancel it.
I’ve been in there twice and both times someone has fallen onto the little lower platform near the 2nd boss - you know, the one where you don’t immediately fall to your death, but can’t get up either. They have to sit there, and the easiest way to get out is to jump off and run back from the graveyard.
I wonder if it would be possible to MD some mobs onto them to kill them in place?
Hey, at least you did it in a somewhat accidental way.
I ****ing walked off of the edge while trying to scan it for the quest at level 71.
Ha!
Now I don’t feel so bad that the same thing happened to me last week. Not on Heroic, but still, same fight, same problem. What can you do?
I did the same thing on my hunter on those steep ramps in Karazhan. Minor agro pull, hit disengage and succuessfully got distance from mob…by leaping the railing and plummeting to the floor some 20 stories below. It was such a noob mistake but the jump back and LONG fall time just made me laugh pretty much the rest of the run. “No, don’t rez me. I enjoyed the ride down, let me enjoy the ride back up.”
Awesome read as usual BRK!
/laugh
Awesome.
The ‘new’ pet food gives exactly the same buff as Kibler’s Bits, and the buzzard meat to get for them is a lot easier than trying to stock up on Northern Spices.
I think every hunter out there has had a mishap with disengage. If you say otherwise, you’re either in denial or just set yourself up karma-wise for something to happen.
I’ve disengaged right off a cliff, thanks to having it right next to Feign Death, which I *really* meant to hit instead. So no, you’re not alone there…
But man, that had to be extremely funny. Not at the *time*, but after.
going to have to learn to copy my comment before I post it. Damn errors
We had the same deal in Kara on the ramps with the new mage knock back spell. She knocked a mob of the edge and fell all the way to the floor below. Since mobs don’t take fall damage like that the mob brought everyone we skipped with it.
I just ran Nex early this morning (insomnia), so this post was timed perfectly. Nobody fell to their death or anything so eventful, but I have the exact imagry fresh in my mind, and it’s hysterical. The problem is I’m at work now, and people are looking at me funny since I’ve been laughing so much. They KNOW I can’t be doing anything work related that I find so humorous.
OMG sooo funny! BRK you are the best…
~ Hunter Noob? BRK Fo’shizzle!
Now that you have been humbled will you rethink your one space after a period policy?
@Yunk
LMAO!!! That is the best question I’ve seen posed to BRK yet.
Haha. I really enjoyed this read. And halfway through, I was like… “He Disengaged” and there it was. I can just see it in my head..
SUCK ON THIS! ::cast beastial wrath::
OOPS!
BOING!! As Dwarf Hunter jumps suddenly backwards and into the endless pit of dispare.
So funny.
Keep the single space alive! Don’t listen to YUNK!
LMAO!
Epicly epic.
Hey, that sounds awfully familiar. I’ve been trying to use more than one button on my hunter, and did this exact thing, only with out the accidental part, just forgot I was on a floating platform. Saw a warrior do this in Beta with Heroic Leap(to your death) almost had to call the instance on account of laughing too hard.
I did the same thing once.
In heroic Bot.
On Warp Splinter.
I did this on a bridge in Karazhan. Wasn’t even a boss, our healer pulled aggro, I switched to misdirect towards the tank. They got too close, I thought I was facing down the ramp, turns out I was facing the side of the ramp and disengaged off of it. Fortunately, I did have my parachute cloak. Unfortunately, we were rushing to Shade and I landed right in a mob that we had previously decided was unnecessary to eliminate.
Score one for Engineering, Score minus one for not completely clearing an instance, and Score one for misdirect worked and healer lived, then rezzed me at a distance later. Davlin comes out on top. Booyah!
I haven’t done anything that stupid (yet) (by luck)
My disengages, in pvp, usually end up in a wall, where i easily get pwnt by that death knight
This is precisely the reason I un-bound Disengage
and thats why you keep disengage or other potentially deadly buttons bound to modifiers so you don’t accidently kill yourself … though it does make it a lot less interesting.
/consider
I did this myself - although I had to come back and do it again after the instance. I had to use a parachute cloak so I could see if it was the fall or the bottom that killed me.
It was the bottom.
I’m seriously considering screwing enchantments and instead attaching a Flexweave Underlay to all my capes from now on. The ammount of times disengage has hurled my completely unaerodynamic dwarven posterior gracelessly off the side of howling fjord is getting beyond hilarious. I spend more time in flight than I do hunting.
Thank goodness I didn’t have Disengage in Outlands.
Because i have heard your podcasts and because i know how fast you talk when you get excited- this was a pleasure to read- lol.
Enjoyed the post, BRK. Good stuff.
I hope you used Aspect of the Cheetah instead of Aspect of the Pack to get yourself back to the fight. Otherwise Pack will make your entire party dazable once you get in range (unless you’ve already switched over to DH or Viper, of course).
I think that boss has some sort of anti-Hunter aura around it. The top two Hunters in my guild [myself included..it's not ego-stroking if you're literally the only two Hunters in the guild.] have fallen off that platform. Nothing as epic as disengage, but dang it.
Evil, evil boss.
RIGHT!
/changeskeybinding on Disengage….
Note to Self: Do not bind Disengage next to BW or KC for that matter.
I, on the other hand, wouldn’t have made it back in time because I would have been the sad wisp who got lost going back into instance. True story.
Good thing no Disengage back in Ubers… kite big fatty dragon boss while rest of group waits on in eager anticipation … Disengage off bridge … /fake DC
win on a loosing situation, very funny.
Ah, did Nexus last week, we were curious what would happen if we jumped off…..thanks for the tip.
Side note doing the dwarf chain in Howling Fjord, we didnt take any damage when we fell off the cliff (must be the vehicles take no damage rule) to escape some angry mobs and hit the rune to jump back up.
So BRK . . . can we all assume you’ve moved your disengage button a little further away from your bestial wrath button? :p
Love it!
If you are going to die in an instance let it be a memorable one.
Great to hear you are enjoying the new instances.
~Hydra
I’m pretty sure I’ll do the same at some point… I’ve already almost wiped groups due to the auto-acquiring target bug
Which is why hunters shouldn’t have Disengage spell on their action bar, poor BRK hehehe.
Thanks BRK! You made me laugh.
In case you were curious, the moonkin button to avoid would be Starfall. That sucker has an aggro radius the size of lower Manhattan. (oops)
I have a similar boss fight story, altho not with disengage. We were on Illhoof and halfway thru the fight my macro for targetting the demon chains stopped (I thought stopped) working. Getting a bit preoccupied with that I stopped pew pewing to continue mashing that button while staring at the monitor to see if the demon chains would come up as a target……..Oddly enough I ended up in shattrath in a matter of seconds with a loud WTF! coming out of my mouth.
Lesson #1: Don’t put boss fight macros next to your hearth stone on your action bar.
Lesson #2: Pay attention to where and what you click.
My old guildee’s still dont let me go a day w/o bringing that up.
Hint: Put Disengage on a Shift-, Ctrl-, or Alt-modified key.That requires you to hit *two* buttons by mistake at the same time.
I just got my Going Down? achievement yesterday. Lucky I didn’t die. I wanted to show off my new parachute cloak, so I flew straight up, dismounted…. and hit the wrong button. Last thing I see before I splat was NO TARGET, lol. I had to put a [modifier:shift] in front of my disengage after they changed it, I kept jumping backwards into all kinds of trouble
brilliant post. BRK you are awesome.
wrt Disengage, has anyone done one vertically out of the water? I.e. aggro a shark in Northrend below you, then hit Disengage. That would be a funny movie, a dwarf hunter bursting out of the water like some crazy rocket