While every raid is different, there are always situations that every raid encounters throughout its career. We present to you 10 of these archetypical moments.
Raids are exciting and are a regular occurrence in most MMOs. At least for those who want to participate in endgame content, raids are unavoidable. This inevitably means contact with other players and therefore recurring clichés. We have identified ten of these “typical incidents” for you.
1. The guy with the wireless headset
Where coordination and teamwork are particularly important, communication via voice chat is usually necessary. Thanks to the wide selection, there are many headsets in use. And every major raid has that one guy who has practically become one with his headset and never takes it off.
Usually, one only realizes this in the raid when suddenly strange noises are heard. This leads to some uncomfortable moments when one suddenly hears water flowing, followed closely by the toilet flushing. That usually results in images in the head that one cannot easily forget.
2. The one who doesn’t know the strategy
Anyone joining an existing raid group or wanting to participate in a raid at a higher difficulty level must fulfill certain requirements. One of these is usually that one has a basic plan for the boss fight.
- What abilities does the boss use?
- Which moments are particularly critical?
- What is the special task of my class?
However, every now and then someone fails at this and needs a detailed briefing from the raid leader. It is often forgotten that one generally does not want to take people without guide knowledge.
And at least: The three others who also have no idea about the fight but are too scared to speak up become wiser after the boss explanation.
3. The couple in the raid
Especially in guilds and in games with larger raid groups, it happens again and again that a couple plays together. But just because the two have found a common hobby in cloud nine, their gaming performance does not always match what is required by the current content.
Most of the time, one of the dream duo is so far below the average performance of the other players that their participation in the raid cannot be justified. This leads to many failed attempts until one player finally loses patience and openly addresses the problem. At this point, the raid is over for the day and a long, very unpleasant discussion follows.
These moments are particularly critical when one of the two lovebirds is represented in the guild or raid leadership. More than one group has broken apart over this … .
4. The one who is “2 minutes afk”
The raid is ready, the boss in pull range and everyone is just waiting for the command from the leader to get started. Then a “2 minutes afk” booms through the voice chat and the waiting begins.
Since “2 minutes” apparently varies greatly from district to district, the person in question naturally returns only after 10, 15, or 20 minutes and has an adventurous story ready about why they got distracted. After all, everyone has understanding for dear real life, right?
5. The guy who orders a pizza right before the raid starts
Sure, raiding is a time-consuming affair. But to allow 5, 10, 20, or even 40 players to spend time together, one must rearrange their schedule a bit. In almost every raid group, there is that one expert who cannot plan his evening properly and disregards consideration for others. This student (it’s always a male student – prove me wrong) orders a pizza ten minutes before the raid begins.
This usually leads to him having to get up during the first boss fight to open the door for the pizza delivery person, causing him to miss part of the boss fight or die in the fire.
6. The two damage enthusiasts
Anyone who wants to successfully overcome a raid must also deliver corresponding performance. However, in every group, there are two colleagues who take their job not just a little too seriously and also have to brag about their damage numbers the whole time. After every single group of trash mobs, a damage meter is posted – in the raid chat, so that everyone can see it and normal communication becomes impossible.
Even during the boss fight, the two engage in a “heated race” that must naturally be commented on in voice chat while the rest of the players tries to avoid making mistakes and concentrate.
This competition often comes at the expense of the healers. Because if you stay in the fire, you take damage but can still deal damage and execute your rotation.
7. The guy with the crackling headset
Who doesn’t know it: 20 people are sitting in Discord, TeamSpeak, or some other voice software, and in the middle of a challenging boss fight, a microphone starts crackling and distorting.
Half of the voice chat “flips out” and directly scolds the culprit. Of course, he is completely unaware of his guilt and insists for a few seconds that the problem is not with him, but with everyone else. Because that’s how technology works.
8. Cola kisses keyboard
The atmosphere is tense, the last moments of the boss explanation are running, when suddenly an “Oh, crap!” booms through the voice chat, followed by seconds of silence. The raid debates why the usually so calm Dieter suddenly loses his composure.
- Is the pizza burning in the oven?
- Is the police at the door?
- Did the game time just run out?
After a few minutes, the answer comes: Cola has been spilled over the keyboard and thus Dieter’s raid is unfortunately ended early – because he of course does not have a spare keyboard.
Will there ever be a generation of gamers who drink from bottles and simply close them again?
9. The “accidental” disconnect
Even in the most familiar raid groups, there are always evenings when the mood turns sour. Perhaps one repeatedly fails against a boss that has actually been defeated multiple times. Or another topic, such as the “performance of the raid in general” brings down the mood.
As frustration slowly rises, it eventually reaches a breaking point. Suddenly, one of the players disappears and is offline. PC crashed? RL emergency?
No, the next day it is said that “unfortunately the router malfunctioned” and that they couldn’t get back online all evening.
It’s just annoying when you have these people on your Steam friend list and they are still online there and even started another game … .
10. Mr. Face Aggro
Before the final boss fight, there is often a little break. While most players refill their drinks, use the restroom, or smoke a cigarette, a few players naturally stay at the PC and fool around a bit. Various toys are used, a few dances are performed, or they just jump around wildly.
During this, the inevitable happens: the boss gets pulled. Since a large part of the players is not present, he naturally wipes the whole raid group. They are disappointed upon returning from their afk break when they find their corpse on the ground. The guilty party then has to listen to “Who did that?” twenty times and is repeatedly humiliated (and deservedly so).
He will never learn.
Which of these incidents and archetypes have you experienced in a raid? Or are such encounters completely foreign to you? Let us know in the comments!
