WoW, IM AN IDIOT!

i play world of warcraft (WoW). "gasp, you play an MMORPG? i thought you were a jock." yaya, so i have a nerdy side too. so what? i also have my own blog! recently i had a blunder in the game. i know not every one is familiar with the game so i will try to make it understandable for everyone. wish me luck.

so i have a level 60 mage--the highest level in the game. at level 60, mages get this really cool quest to go to a dungeon and kill this guy made of water. the quest requires you to take a "hydrdo essence" from the watery corpse after you defeat him; as a reward, you learn a new ability to make some water which regenerates mana (determines how many spells you can cast) at a much faster rate than normal. needless to say, in the game it is valuable. everyone with me still? good. so i finally get around to doing the final part of the quest and i form a group with other players to help me with it. we head out to the other side of the world and enter the dungeon. everything is going great and one of the guys suggests we go outside and try to kill this random dragon boss just for fun before we get too far into the dungeon. so we go to where the dragon is. this is where i have to use more nerdy lingo. the dragon is in a pvp arena (meaning its a freeforall and anyone who isnt in your group can kill you). this poses an interesting situation when other groups are also trying to kill the dragon. only one group can kill the dragon at a time and get credit for it.

so we enter the arena and, surprise, we find another group. so naturally we kick their trash all over the place. lots of fun, but time for business right--kill the dragon. the dragon boss is really tough for even a highly organized group, so we offer to join up with the other group and help them if they help us. seems like a good deal, right? so i am the leader of our group and i switch the group settings to a raid to accomadate the extra people (sorry for the geek speak). well, they attack us again...whatever, so we wipe them out once again. this time, however, right before their last guy dies he casts a fear spell on one of our guys, which causes him to run right for the dragon. bad news for us. now we are at half strength and so naturally the dragon eats us without a problem. when we get back to the arena the other group is already there trying to kill the dragon! hehe...when they get the dragon to about a third of its health we jump in and wipe out the group and finish off the dragon and get the loot. good times for all...well at least for us.

so after all this we go back into the dungeon to finish my quest. we fight and fight until we find the water dude, kill him and something goes terribly wrong. i cant get my quest item off the body. we try to figure out what we could have done to screw it up, maybe i forgot something for the quest, who knows? we cant figure anything out. so, we kill a few more guys in the dungoen and go back to the main city. when we start to disassemble the group we notice that the group settings are still set for a raid. without explaining it in anymore lingo no one understands, basically that was the reason for it not working. offering to help another group made me not get my special magic water. dont worry, i am not mad. i think it is funny. the point is that i should have known better. anyway, now you all know just how nerdy a jock can be.