After an absolutely flawless attempt (but a 4% wipe to her enrage timer), we had two attempts left at Blood Queen on 25. It was looking good – we just had to tweak things to squeeze a tiny bit more DPS out.

We wiped due to an unlucky double-melee pact (yuck), and everyone ran back. One attempt to go. I had a soulstone that had gone unused, so I popped up, ran to the safe side of the room (very important, as I’m SO nervous about pulling and wasting attempts), and rezzed a few people to save them the run back.

Aussie lag attacked. I should have anticipated it, and I’m kicking myself over it. I rezzed a shaman, and for a split second, the game/server registered that he was on the Queen’s side of the room before he teleported to where I was standing.

+combat, +death, no more attempts for the week.

A few moderately naughty words on vent from me (mostly along the lines of “I am quite certain I was on the safe side of the room”), and a lot of disappointment from everyone else. I felt absolutely horrible.

Afterward, the people who had seen it happen claimed they thought the shaman had ankhed, because it looked for all the world to them as though he had jumped up on the spot, right near the boss (you’d have to be pretty stupid..!). But no – he hadn’t “popped”. I had rezzed him, but the lag had him stand up on the spot and then reappear at my feet. In that split second, the boss decided he was close to her, and we lost our attempt.

I should have realised it would happen. We now have a new policy – no rezzing, just run back.

It wasn’t really my fault, others vouched for the fact that I was well inside the “safe area”, but I felt like an absolute dog for the rest of the night – wasting our last attempt when we are working on server first. I got a lot of nice whispers telling me not to worry about it.. but I still felt guilty and angry and stupid.

One of the really horrible downsides to limited attempts – accidents and lag robbing you of tries. Blah.

Sorry Inex, we’ll get her this week, I’m sure.

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