Death Knoob In The Halls

Yeah, it's true. I'm perfectly capable of making ridiculous mistakes, thank you very much.

I've been trying to get my Death Knight, Desarra, to level 80 lately. The grind from 71-77 wasn't that bad. The grind from 77-78 has been a really, really long one. To supplement the experience I'm getting from questing, I usually queue as DPS in the new LFM Feature that Blizz recently implemented.

In general, I can usually stay right on top of the DPS meters. Yes, yes I know...I'm a death knight...why am I surprised that I can top the DPS meters? Well, one reason is that I'm not sure I know too awfully much about melee DPS. Actually, this is my first high level DPS character. My druid has always been a tank or healer, never dps...well...rarely has she ever been DPS...I fail miserably at being a kitty, so I'm not often asked to do so.

Anyway...I like to think I'm doing alright as far as DPS is concerned. So, I queue up and the instance ends up being Halls of Stone. Well, I've been there a bunch of times, so it's no big deal.

Right?

I'm aware of all of the groups of mobs that need to be pulled carefully because of how close together they are. I'm aware of the patrols. I know how this works. The group was a bunch of heirloom wearing alts. We all knew what we were doing.

My ghoul, however, doesn't seem to understand. As the tank made the first pull, I opened up with Icy Touch, as most Death Knight's do. Well...my ghoul goes saaaaaailing through the air into the fray...we already had 3 mobs on the tank. The ghoul managed to pull 3 more patrolling dwarf guys AND two of the stone guardian things in there...

You know...the ones that do Forked Lightning and make your healer miserable...

Those ones. Yeah.

Well, I apologized profusely, explaining that I didn't expect him to jump PAST the mobs we pulled...The tank was quite blunt about the situation...

"Don't apologize...just don't let it happen again or I'll boot you from group."

O.O

Yeah...stupid ghoul...err I guess I can't blame him completely. He's undead-ish so...probably doesn't have much left in the way of brains anyway.

It never occurred to me that, for the first few precarious pulls that I should either set him to passive or dismiss him. But if the inadvertent ghoul induced adds weren't bad enough...

In Azjol'Nerub a few nights ago, Mr. Ghoulpants decided to engage Hadronox early. I'm not entirely sure how it happened or why...but he launched himself right on into the fight. Actually, maybe it was the poison spray...he was set to defensive...that might have been it. *nod* That was probably it, come to think of it...

The ghoul and I...we have some adventures together for sure. I'm going to be sad if I ever decide to give up my Unholy spec. Right now, he's a permanent minion. If I switch to either of the other two specs, I lose his permanency and the ability to summon a gargoyle...EEK! Hopefully I'll be able to work out a way to stay Unholy. We'll have to wait and see what 80 brings. I have 2 levels and like 3 or 4 bubbles til I hit 80, so I have a little bit of time to work that out.

As an example of how things tend to work out for us: In general, I can solo most group quests at my level. Between the ghoul and the gargoyle, I usually have enough damage going on to burn the elites down before they can splatter me all over. I figured I'd be alright to try and solo Ragemane (Zul'Drak Wanted Quest).

Well, I go in and start trying to beat up Ragemane. I summon the gargoyle, but notice that the fight is going on for an unusually long time...I look around and can't seem to find the ghoul anywhere. *sigh* I try to use his attack command after I finally realize that he's been on passive (thanks to him getting me in trouble in Azjol'Nerub)...he walks over...I don't mean like...he rushes to my side to save the day. No, I mean he quite literally walked over just as slow as he could and stood there for a second. I had already blown cooldowns and popped a health potion...so my few survival tools were just about gone. He finally ended up slapping Ragemane, but by then it was too late. I ended up being a Plate-Wearing Corpse floating in the water...yeah...good times. I'm sure he and I will have more stories to share, but for now I have to get back to RL :(
My Ghoul...in all his infinite awesomeness...:)