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I watch the life bar so carefully as my fingers hover above the number keys on my keyboard. Looking down I notice my skills have become full and vibrant with light! I quickly hit buttons and wtahc the life bar of this Ghostly Hero ratchet down further and further. Finally it reaches an end. It is overcome by a dull shade of Blue as I scream in joy over my Logitech Headset. I look up to see the Ghostly Hero which dawns our colors stand proudly in the center of the alter. As I select him, I see that beautiful Claim Resource skill pop up. Looking at the clock I see only 20 seconds remaining! All seems to be falling into place. The skill fades away into the numbers across the screen, but I see no announcement of alter attunement. Our Ghostly Hero is laying on his ass! No, people are interrupting him! I quickly cycle through the sleu of enemies to find a ranger, and I hear it again. That sharp clicking noise. He's getting interrupted! I finally find a ranger, and run to him to begin laying my knockdowns on him. I am successful! I lay this ranger out for what feels like an eternity. All the while I'm waiting for that beautiful message to display on our screen. The pixelated crack which I fight for day in and day out....it never appears. Everyone drops with a multitude of groans that tugs at my heart. "The Sissy Boys have won the Hall of Heroes. blah blah blah favor of the gods for America blah blah blah." NOOOOOO! |
Even though I didn't win the HoH, I was so happy to have gotten that far. My team was very organized and we had no bad people that made mistakes all the time. That's pretty rare for a semi-PUG (we had partied before a couple times) So us getting to the HoH at midnight PST Saturday night while the Sissy Boys were there, simply amazed me. I had such a wonderful feeling that I just wanted to share this with at least someone.
I know I'll get the obligatory flames of "anyone can get into HoH at the right time" and whatnot, but I don't care. I initially made this thread to get all of this out of my system since my guildies weren't online when this all happened. Then, I thought people would see this as me bragging. I don't want people to see it as that, I just want them to know that there still are people like me that get as gitty as a school girl when they get to the HoH (legitimately, not using the "trick") and come ever-so-close to winning it.
So this post doesn't get seen as a bragging post, I would like for others to share their HoH experiences. You seasoned vets, maybe share some of your thoughts and experiences when you weren't numbed to winning the HoH and still saw it as an unobtainable goal.
P.S. I graduated to rank 3 on this run too!