Inspired to greater heights
My emotional response to the rocket boots change has run the gamut from denial, to anger, and finally, last night, to acceptance. After admonishing that Ana not use her rocket boots on bosses in case they backfire, I went on to use them during the pull of Rotface. Usually I use the boots to quickly close the gap and keep Rotface from moving out of the dead middle of the room.
So anyway, I hit shift-R to activate the boosts absent-mindedly. Total muscle memory run amok at that point. And then imagine my horror as suddenly I shoot up into the air and clip the ceiling. I yelled obscenities into Mumble as Ana shouted “I’m picking up Rotface!” and everyone else began laughing uncontrollably.
I hit my parachute at the zenith, but took the full duration to come back down to earth. The chute cut out right before the end of my descent, and I had to eat some fall damage from the last bit of the drop.
We had a rogue, Gandy, that used his boosts during the trash before Blood Princes. Of course, his boosts malfunctioned, and up he went. Clipped through the ceiling and was killed by the trash up above.
As he described it to me later, “I felt like that Far Side cartoon of D. B. Cooper parachuting down with his briefcase into a dog pen. They all just watched me and the slaughtering began when I landed.”
And then on Sindragosa, Ichioso the boomkin used his boosts to help run back to the spider room as Sindy came down post-Rimefang’s death. However, instead of launching himself forward, he shot up into the air. All we could hear coming from behind us as we fled to safety was “she’s going to eat me! … Ok, she ate me.”
So, yeah, rocket boots. Bad idea in raids now! Sadly, and hilariously.
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We had a raider use rocket boots to attempt to reposition at the end of a transition at HLK. Up he went, and when he came back down – no platform.
Endless amusement from rocket boots malfunctions – endless.
@Rilgon
1 December 2010 at 11:51 am #
Hardly a problem if you’re a Hunter.
The problem there is making sure you don’t wear your Disengage keybind into a damn plastic nub.
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@Anafielle
1 December 2010 at 12:34 pm #
I was laughing so hard. I can’t believe I was able to tank. I could barely see my screen through the tears of laughter.
So much amusement.
I didn’t use my rocket boots all night long. Damn things… they seemed to have an exceptionally high rate of malfunction.
@windpaw
1 December 2010 at 12:42 pm #
“Clipped through the ceiling and was killed by the trash up above”
I’d have paid cash money to see that…
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@Rhidach
1 December 2010 at 1:20 pm #
After posting, Gandy clarified to me that he passed through the grate that opens after BQL dies. Still, hilarious!
As much as I hate to laugh at the misfortune of others, that is hilarious.
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I was in MC with 2 guildies getting the achieve for one and hoping for my second binding when out of habit I hit my boosts and parachuted down into lava instead of clearing it while nearly burning to death from the malfunction >.<
I feel your pain and then some.
@Rhidach
1 December 2010 at 1:15 pm #
Ouch!
Haha. Amazing.
I got a good half dozen uses out of my boosts last night, all with no malfunction, but none of them during a boss fight.
Our rogue lit his during Princes and died from fall damage, which earned him a mocking for forgetting his parachute.
No fuel spills yet.
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Sorry Rhi, but that was freaking hilarious. Also, the fact that we bounced back and got the one shot anyway made this easy farm boss a bit of a funny challenge.