Ridiculous luck.

Oh my word, this is late.

And by late I mean almost 12 hours overdue. But I have an excuse.

See, last night I raided ICC 10 for the first time on my lock (alt(another guild)) and got farther than I ever have on my paladin (main(ToC)). Then some friends were starting Black Temple. They had enough people- 13, 14 of em, but they didn't have anyone who was tank spec'd except for a 73 Warrior (friend of mine). He couldn't hold threat on them, so they called me in.

Anyways, we go through without having much trouble. When we get to the council, we wipe once because we tried to roflstomp their faces, and that fight actually needs coordination (to a small degree). The Warrior tier dropped and my friend snagged the pants.

We then proceeded to Illidan, as people are wont to do when they get to him.

We roflstomped Illidan, with me posing as both MT and OT. In this fight, my friend died (he tried to OT).

Anyways, when the boss fell over, I checked his pockets: Warglaive of Azzinoth.

My friend didn't believe me at all, I was telling him repeatedly that it had dropped. Yeah, sure... I believe you....

He got up, checked the boss and when it was called for rolls, he rolled against another guilldie (a 70 Warrior). She got a 35. My friend rolled 100. Then on more Warrior Tier that dropped he proceeded to roll a 1.

The odds of rolling a 100 on a Warglaive? 1 to 2500 against. And then rolling a 1 on the other item you want? 1 to 250,000 against.

That there folks, is one of the reasons I play WoW. For moments where you say. Oh. Holy S***.

Unluck

As I figured, my ZG run did not go well.

By that, I mean that I was trying to get the Raptor and/or the Tiger and got neither.

I fact, I couldn't even down the Tiger boss. The Raptor boss was annoying and took a long time, but I gave up after 20+ min in one encounter with the tiger boss.

See, the Tiger boss (w/e his name really is) is a two phase fight.

Phase one, it is him and his two buddies. The three of them occasionally cast a great heal on them which does sill amounts of healing. Additionally, when one of them dies, within five-ten seconds, another one will cast a resurrection spell. This means that they need to go down at approximately the same time.

To aggravate me further, they have a Silence spell, that well, silences me. As a Prot-Pally this left Hammer of the Righteous, my normal attack, and damage from my seals for the most part. However, because they have different amounts of HP, hitting  HotR causes them to go down at an irregular interval. Thus, I couldn't use it.

I killed them three times. However, each time, as I was carefully bringing each of them to ~5%, I would kill one. Then I would turn to the next to see the tail end of a heal going off, and the other enemy would be back to 40%+.

This happened three times in a row. Just as I'm about to kill them off, one of them throws out a clutch heal and saves the day. I ended up trying to run away and died due to the really annoying Gurubashi Axe Throwers.

Unluck is a sad thing, but it happens. I have yet to get my Marrowgar 1h tanking mace. Oh well.

Luck

I can't think of much to write so- short piece today.

Luck is a huge part about WoW. I mean most significantly is drop rates. Like Baron Rivendare's mount. We all want it. But it has a 1% drop chance. To have a 99% chance of getting it you would need to run it well over a 100 times. To get something that looks like a 100% (99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...%) chance of getting it you would need to run it something on the order of six thousand times.

For raiding you might get hit by an extreme streak of bad luck from the RNG gods. You're healer may not crit for three heals in a row, the tank may fail to block, dodge or parry three consecutive crits from the boss and then the whole raid wipes.

And then in heroics, for achievements, you may get the perfect comp a dozen times in a row, and then not. While I've been working on Less-Rabi, most of the runs I've had for the past week, I think all, except for one, have had a shaman and a mage, both of which are very helpful. This most recent one had neither and we only had two interrupts amongst all of us.

But we must maintain faith with the RNG (random number generation) gods. Yes, they may screw us out of our loot, or our raid, or our achievement, but they may also make it so that you get your loot, and your achievement and you get to keep on raidin.