Video summary
The video features a hardcore World of Warcraft death reaction where the commentator dissects a disastrous run in Dire Maul, focusing heavily on poor group coordination and critical gear management errors. The main issue identified early on is the group's decision to pull a massive pack without utilizing the "soothe" ability to skip it, a move the reactor deems unnecessarily risky and foolish. This strategic blunder sets off a chain of events where the party fails to maintain proper distance from the boss and adds, leading to chaotic positioning. The commentator emphasizes that in hardcore scenarios, every player must be prepared for worst-case situations, specifically noting that having at least one speed potion is non-negotiable when facing high-level dungeons or unpredictable patrol spawns.
As the run progresses, the commentary shifts to analyzing individual class performances, highlighting how the lack of a speed potion on the priest ultimately seals their fate. The reactor points out that the melee classes, particularly the rogue and warrior, fail to maintain optimal evasion spots by stopping unnecessarily, which forces the ranged casters like the mage and priest to retreat further into danger. The mage is criticized for using maximum rank spells instead of efficient Rank 1 abilities, wasting valuable mana in a desperate situation where resource management was crucial. Furthermore, the group's inability to communicate effectively about incoming patrols leads them to stop fighting and regroup at dangerous locations, allowing enemies to catch them off guard.
The climax of the analysis occurs when the party is overwhelmed by multiple packs and the boss simultaneously, resulting in the death of several members including the priest and the rogue. The reactor argues that while no single player played perfectly, the group's collective failure to adapt their strategy to the changing battlefield conditions was fatal. He specifically critiques the rogue for not utilizing bear form and speed potions effectively to survive the initial onslaught, noting that a simple shift in tactics could have saved him. The video concludes with a broader lesson on accountability within hardcore groups; players must accept their mistakes rather than blaming others, as even experienced teams make errors but the difference lies in how they recover from them. Ultimately, the reactor stresses that survival depends on having essential items like speed potions and lip potions organized together for quick access, along with the discipline to keep moving and avoid predictable traps.
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[Music]
okay I'm going to mute the music for now
and we're going to watch this clip wait
they don't have the
Trap wait are they just trying to skip
it without the Trap or
what wait this is sketchy as [ __ ]
already this seems so unnecessarily
sketchy holy sh like I feel like the
Rogue should be ready to distract the
boss again and I
also feel like they need to sheeper
lock just already from this pole because
someone's going to get
banished and then it's going to cause
problems they're going to pull the next
pack here comes the next pack there's
the
banish there's the boss
dude like this is so dumb already like
the fact that they so the fact that the
group agreed to do this they are all
five
stupid I would never agree to do this
[ __ ] this is dumb as [ __ ] to to do this
full stop if you're going to do this
okay if you're going to do
this right
here you can actually skip this pack
with sooth so you have to soothe this
warlock jump up here and run up and if
you get a resist on the soothe you
basically have to just roach it's really
[ __ ] right which makes this insanely
risky it's just there's just no [ __ ]
reason to do it they call to kill us
incorrect call should be a soothe and go
up that's the only play
here
okay let's see what happens I mean I
basically called everything that's
happened so far
do people have speed
pots y gets
banished he's probably fine he just B he
just vanishes right like I feel like at
this point if you go into a level 60
dungeon at at the very least you should
have one speed pot and one lip arguably
more lips but one speed pot are the very
[ __ ] least in case you have to do a
run like this cuz if you have a speed
pot here you're fine and if everyone has
a speed pot everyone is
fine yeah the Rogue has vanished he's
completely
fine are you guys fine are you guys
fine I
they're leaving party way too late if
they're going to do this they should
have done it earlier you can actually
jump I'm pretty sure you can jump on
here and it's an evade
spot sooth good
sooth no no no oh yeah he pulled
now keep going again if he has a speed
pot he still has his pot CD if he had a
speed pot he'd be completely
fine I mean Mage should be slowing here
right the entire Time Mage should be
throwing out blizzards and novas there's
no reason for him to be this far there's
no threat to him right he can just
blizzard the closest mobs and move away
again the closest mobs have no chance to
get to him
ever just one rank one blizzard is
probably enough already I don't know
where Snoopy is
no no no no no no oh my God do not
[ __ ] The Flash he might get
killed wait there's no way Sara dies
here
though there's the blizzard but it's a
boss doesn't
matter
not you can't the
so Mage lives uh priest lives wait we
got to watch the the Snoopy p
man um there's only
four oh don't get Fus
though everyone
group [ __ ] yeah mine super
shoot nice War stop you have another
dummy no I don't I don't I
don't he's only me
just go your
defens he should just go here right this
is an evade spot I don't know if these
these mobs have Port but he can just run
to any of these ramps and jump on it and
I'm pretty sure they're all evade spots
there's some bosses that have the port I
don't know if this is the one
though you can't stay here though you
have to run literally to the opposite
you have to run to where you were
fighting the mobs to try and get half
Stone back
he can charge you on the evade SP he
needs to keep running this staying here
does nothing
dud know yeah he's going for the safe
spot where are are you good pocket
I'm how long's on his half I left but
it's not giving me the the timer oh [ __ ]
I think you were the last one Hearth I
think I have no for two
minutes moade I can't
combat keep moving keep
moving can I leave this now the group
invite invite me and leave invite me and
leave okay wait left the group now
yeah is back in uh two
minutes okay now I'm I'm looking for a
reset
spot keep moving bro there's a ledge as
well on the left but it's hard to get
on oh God imagine the plant popped on
him holy [ __ ]
dude like you can use the bones here to
get onto this
ledge and I'm pretty sure that's an
evade spot as
well but again I don't know if it works
on the
boss I believe you can line
him I mean he's doing what he needed to
right it was a little bit delayed but it
was okay the boss the mobs aren't on
him but he's he's paed correctly right
this is the best thing he could have
done there's no way he's getting out
past the mobs right okay they're coming
seconds keep going keep going keep
running I'll jump down when they wait
until they're all the way
up oh my
God let get oh my God okay he made it
out that waset
this is first run wait there's another
run the fact that they even went to do
this to do a
tribute like for a minor amount of extra
loot for this insane amount of [ __ ]
risk is crazy to
me absolutely
Bonkers where is the next one where they
die do I just skip onward a
bit do we have like clips for that
[ __ ] where is it so like here
already you can't slow the boss but like
he can put out some some rank one you
know bolts if possible he can p it some
rank one blizzards I get it he doesn't
want to get aggro the boss and the boss
isn't slow but like a rank one blizzard
shouldn't get him Agra of the boss when
there's been heals flying
around especially when there's been
Shields Ling around as well right he
won't get aggro one rank one blizzard so
putting some slows in is is nice
but the issue is the is the bosses like
let's be honest right it's not the ads
at this point is the bosses and he can't
slow the bosses so so what if he slows
an ad right if the bosses connect on
Sara she's dead he's
dead so
like you can see him roaching and I
would say if there was no bosses
absolutely get the slows going I do
think you can stay a little bit closer
to your group I think that there is no
need to be this distance away when you
don't have aggro as the Mage you're not
getting killed you can just run out you
have many many options so he's a long
long way away from his
group in this situation okay this is
Snoopy puff this is Mage puff this is
Rogue PFF
okay we'll watch Rogue P
first I can Target him yeah should I do
it just kill the master you target it
shouldn't be a problem here right it's
like a couple of
mobs any grenades
anything heal him heal him heal him yeah
just heal me just come back a little bit
form sppy just run help that yeah y yep
yep pirate why are you walking
bro what are you talking about why am
iing Savage come on man the just kill
the
M kill the mes we got this in sense of
something see my Mana what am I supposed
to do rang blizzard and
NOA now we're going to wait
not the greatest tanking position right
shouldn't be going through the middle
middle is risky on
hard the dumm and
run everyone should just be W away
stopping not the play W never
stop like they're losing so much
distance because they keep stopping you
never [ __ ] stop you you double you
away if you're melee if you're this much
in the mix you [ __ ] double you away
the fact that people are stopping is so
grief especially with these changes in
elevation here right you make the priest
come back because you do this you
[ __ ] double you as much as you can
because the longer you double you for
the less stuff hits you right this is
just from a uh this is from Snoopy
Snoopy's P only right he stops he turns
he's doing all this [ __ ] [ __ ]
right just run I can help that yeah y y
y pirate why are you walking bro
this this actually lowkey isn't even
that bad right like you just Warrior
tanks the boss you AOE the mobs stand
like people are not doing damage because
it's like they're panicking but like you
can just kill the ads and then it's just
you could probably Forman this honestly
like okay pirate roaching Is Not Great
you could probably still just Forman
this but because they're just running
and P and pissing themselves it's
sketchy
and then they pull
more priest is [ __ ]
here didn't keep
distance so it's [ __ ] I'd love to see
the priest puff priest PFF is probably
one of the most important ones
here okay get out get out run
run I can Taun last how much
he doesn't have manag to
shift I I cannot I cannot stun him just
run
out
[ __ ] the boss came up after like the
masses to after we
uh so I feel like people are not in this
same page when it comes to
running like when you run you run
together you help each other you use the
stuff that your class has to help each
other
run like it was actually completely fine
here like this isn't even that
bad okay it's not great but
like the boss is the the Mage is low
it's one [ __ ] ogre some
dogs just kill them no like what's the
[ __ ] issue your priest has so much
Mana still tank the [ __ ] boss wall
kill the
ads it's
crazy yeah I mean good shout but it's
like even if it's not salvageable help
your [ __ ] team use rank one stuff I
get it he's low Mana but like so of
played well I think that
there's the problem here right is that
and and actually this is kind of why
Sarah dies watch the way that they move
when they decide to run watch where
Snoopy goes just Snoopy don't watch
anyone
else it's good it's good it's good paing
is not a direct line but he's like
pottering about stopping stops a ton you
know he could already be [ __ ] here
you know and what what if he's here nice
now he's already at the edge right
now now he goes back he pots about the
boss gets on him right and now the
priest is forced to come
back right just because they didn't run
in a straight line just run in a
straight line there's no reason to [ __ ]
about it you want to get as much
distance from as many mobs as possible
and as close to the exit as possible
Right
so now what happens is SAR doesn't have
good distance cuz he had to come back
because Snoopy was on top and over the
lip of the top of the ramp right so now
Sara is in this is the probably the
worst place you can be in as a priest
because he's now the furthest person in
with all the mobs
coming this is where you have to speed
pot if you don't speed pot here it's so
bad and this is why you need a speed pot
super important
oh was actually sorry Aussie is actually
behind but still he also [ __ ] choked
hard on the paing same thing as Snoopy
get the [ __ ] out
move well we haven't even started
talking about pyro yet by the way before
I before we even bring that up the two
melee AB absolutely can make them
further to the exit and make it so that
the priest doesn't have to run back
because of the stupid line of sight at
the top right the priest literally saved
Snoopy here because Snoopy walked
backwards
that's unfortunate in firsters so like
again now they like kind of think oh
yeah maybe we can maybe we can salvage
this but I think this is the second time
they fight in a bad spot and another
Patrol comes
right and then there's another Patrol
that comes from behind which is really
unfort but this is actually killable
here right it's one brute two dogs and a
boss right AOE [ __ ] Taun and War I
don't know what he has left but like you
should be able to tank this
okay and I'm not putting this on the
tank I'm putting it on the the you know
the group should have have called here
this is salvageable but it needed to be
salvageable it needed here this is where
they should have [ __ ] done
it not here but like in the middle right
in the middle here this is where they
should have fought cuz this is the
lowest risk spot and you can see the
Patrol coming from a long
time the Mage is so low HP look at
it and anyway so
now positioning is really bad because
your the priest has no distance Mage is
[ __ ] gone again we haven't even
started talking about the Mage cuz like
I'm criticizing a lot of stuff
uh honestly in festers I think your main
[ __ ] main mistake was honestly just
not having a speed
pot I feel like everything else you
played like spot
on you did the [ __ ] you had to do and
you're in the spot you're you are in the
spot that you are in because of the
group getting the heels off get slowed
by the
dog and that's just [ __ ] dadge now
right when you get slowed as a priest
it's
[ __ ] but yeah I think the speed pot on
priest as since you have no Mobility on
pre speed part is so [ __ ] valuable
and then here comes the
patrol my speed pot finish this run yeah
I mean this is what I was saying before
I think every single
run that I've been into so far I make
sure I have at least one speed pot on
one lip because you don't [ __ ] know
what's going to happen right and it's
like leveling and doing all that [ __ ]
and getting to 60 and getting geared and
then like dying cuz you didn't have a
speed PO is like hurts hurts my soul man
cuz like you legit saved the group here
and you paid the [ __ ] price for it
cuz you didn't have some shitty speed
pot right oh yeah no for sure absolutely
infestors like no doubt about that right
you can you can live this without a
speed pot if the group plays well like
absolutely not taking that away in any
way shape or form but obviously I think
that it's worth the good thing with
hardcore is you can look at every single
player and see what could this player
have done to
save the deaths here essentially and I
think the only thing you could have done
better was have a speed pot so at least
you can say hey hey you know I played
well I died but I played it well which
is better than oh I [ __ ] up and died
right
so I think you just don't have any
options right the heels that you're
Landing are heels that will literally
save people's lives and the rest of the
time you're
moving and yeah you just [ __ ] now I
don't know I don't know
if I don't know why pirat is like so
accusatory with his tone they're like
now we're going to wipe
yeah like oh [ __ ]
really you were going to the the
ledge you're like so close I guess I I
can't quite see on this PVE but it's
like this ledge here right but the
[ __ ] shitty dog slow is brutal
I think that's it
actually fear on the dogs I don't know
what's hitting probably actually done
know what Hing more
dogs and now this is the part
where it got pulled the same time my
heel so got [ __ ] so unlucky man so
now the fact that Snoopy didn't just run
in a straight line at the start comes to
bite him in the ass because he would be
up
here and and if he's up here when he
gets Agro he actually makes
out I mean we're going through everyone
right but both melee can just double you
way more in a straight line rather than
stopping slowing down
Etc we haven't got to the Mage yet we've
done both melee and we've done the
priest Rogue kind of
is doing Rogue things he's obviously
scared as well if he doesn't have vanish
he can't do too much to the boss if he
gets Agro from the boss it's pretty bad
again he can get slowed it's really
[ __ ] sketch for the Rogue at this
point if he gets Agro any dos it's just
not great there's not a lot he can do
right he can do like a vanish cheap shot
if he commits to try and get K he might
get slowed and die as well if he doesn't
have vanish so it's
like yeah I I don't blame the Rogue for
getting some distance like like he's
done as much as he could earlier
on you know is he going to kill
everything by himself not really
likely where's the bear charge does he
not have bear
charge he's in Bear he gets slowed
can we can we be charge the
boss bottom left
bar
uh yeah he has bear
charge and he has pots so he just be
charges and pots I ammo then he gets the
slow off res shifts and
runs I swear he lives if he does this
he just shifts out pots while he shifted
out on the global and then res
shifts Snoopy could have legit s lived
from this
spot you can't poers shift
days yeah but the days is almost off
it's the other slow that's getting him
right the dog
slow like yeah he gets days as well but
it's range on the
thing it wasn't on
CD it's a range
indicator oh that's that's gutting bro
yeah he could have legit lived let's
switch the pirate P because this is what
everyone's everyone's uh
druming he's got enough Mana to blizzard
here he should already be sending a
blizzard right from the edge okay he
sends one but it's on the boss cancels
it instantly that's a shame it was it
was a Max
ranker that's the [ __ ] that's an
issue right it should be rank
one but he sends the max rank he
actually has rank one on the bars by the
looks of it but he sends a Max ranker
for one tick and it's on the boss he
doesn't have rank one binded okay but
it's there otherwise why would you have
it
right I think that having rank one blizz
is one of the most important things you
can do on on
Mage so that's a just a macro mistake
ahead of time something that is some
should be taken on board after this wipe
right he should be binding that and
getting used to using it if we're going
to say okay how how do we improve from
this how do we improve from this in
future right
I think also generally understanding
what it means to run out of the dungeon
don't just [ __ ] abandon your
teammates right use your stuff and help
your team as much as
possible there's no call out that
there's a Patrol
coming there needs to be a call out of
that so the team understands to keep
moving instead of fighting here they
stop and fight here for a little bit
because they don't know there Patroll is
coming if somebody calls the patrol is
coming which pirate could have done he
could have called and said Patrol coming
from the right don't stop keep coming
get down run get the [ __ ] out you know
but instead they stop so watch
here yeah yep yep yep pirate why are you
walking bro what are you talking about
why am I walking look at my
Mana the just kill the
M kill thees we got this of uh something
do you see my Mana what am I supposed to
do for you just kill the mases one shot
okay we
he has Gem and robe ready does he have
Mana poot his Mana
poot he's pot cool
then so I mean he just he just has to
pop some [ __ ] right like at least he's
waiting but it's kind of too late right
he overcommitted with the running
I'm I'm now we're going to wait S
no okay get out get out run
run as a mage I feel like you should
have all of your Mana gains in one place
right it shouldn't be like one here one
here one here one here like all of the
stuff that's relevant to each other
should be contained in one spot so that
you don't have to panic looking all over
the place wasting time in in sketchy
situ situations this is important for
hardcore same thing with lip same thing
with fap same thing with speed pot like
things that are going to keep you alive
should be in the same
spot how much
Mana there no that much man you have a
boss in you you called run getting slow
um [ __ ]
wait I don't think I I cannot I cannot
stun him just run just run out run out
you were fed
$1.76 [ __ ]
they called run ran and I was at a Mana
I don't know what the hell they were
expecting dude that does not make any
sense no they pulled they over pulled
two PS and the boss like
[ __ ]
no oh
no I mean the regular ogres can still be
poly we just had the boss and like five
Ms and and two ogres we could have poed
one ogre killed one and then walked it
out yes literally just even an ice would
enough you guys P that when I instantly
ran out bro you instantly ran you didn't
even look as much as you're angry right
now of course I ran out not Ang at all
you pulled two packs you over pulled two
packs and a boss I had 1,400 Mana left I
had to spend all of that Mana to try and
put it on blizzard to save you guys in
the first place and nothing left you
weren't paying attention to party
resources one and you weren't paying
attention to where the boss that's not
on
me I saw the B the boss coming I don't
know if we could could like move back
faster but yeah my response would be how
much Mana is rank one blizzard like tell
me right now if I was in this group I'd
be like how much Mana is rank one
blizzard that's it that's all I would
ask
him cuz there's nothing he can say to it
there's nothing he can say to not using
rank one blizzard there it's nothing to
do with his
manner he wasted 400 manner on Ching Max
rang blizzard dude I I I would if I'm
I'm sorry that's what I would do if it
was me I would ask him how much manner
is rank one
blizzard right and I'm not I'm not I
wouldn't want to Flame him nothing like
that it's just like don't act like it's
everyone else's fault everyone can take
accountability for this that's the thing
that is is annoying right you don't need
to Flame the guy there's no point in
making drama about it at all right it's
not about that right it's about everyone
having their own share of the
accountability that's how it is in
hardore no one ever [ __ ] plays
perfect no one ever you can watch every
single [ __ ] clip of every single
[ __ ] death and find something that
one player does wrong in that clip
that's the beauty of wow right that's
why hardcore is cool as [ __ ] because
there always something you can do
better so like not taking some
accountability for people dying even if
it's not directly his fault right you
can still be like ah [ __ ] man like okay
it wasn't my fault but I could have
maybe saved you sort of thing you
know but like I don't think it's worth
any you know it doesn't warrant drama
any further than
that I would I wouldn't Flame the guy
like obviously he made an incorrect
decision he he did what he thought was
his best he did what the decisions what
he thought were correct obviously he's
not trying get them
killed you know so he did he did what
was his best right so why would you
flame someone for
that you know like we like he made
mistakes right that's not we're not
that's not up for debate you can look it
and and see that he made
mistakes right and people will make
mistakes right we we broke everyone
else's mistakes down he made mistakes
too everyone made mistakes right his
were just the most
obvious but I just think think
that there's no reason to have an ego in
something and try and defend it
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when you know yourself that you are not
as experienced at that thing as other
people there are other people that are
more experienced than you you can't
[ __ ] just sweep it under the carpet
and hope that people will you know not
call you out on it I think out of
everyone in this
clip uh the priest didn't do much wrong
to be fair I was going to say Snoopy
probably was was one that almost did
nothing wrong but I think the original
paing the start I mean should be could
have saved himself I think he knows that
even a charge on the boss here could
have saved
him no lip he can just
lip like if he lips does he come out a
bear he does right he has to cancel form
lip so he just has a cancel form lip
macro no biggie right and he can do that
like where is it let's see a good spot
for it I can talk
when these mobs get him
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like he can react now he gets dazed
right he should be like [ __ ] I'm dazed I
got mobs on me I don't think he expects
the amount of damage he takes so let's
say like here right he takes a bit more
damage there a ton of dogs now now you
lip now there's now it doesn't require
game knowledge now it's situational
knowledge right there's a [ __ ] ton of
dogs on me and I'm slowed I can't get
out of this anymore no one can help him
priest is dead everyone else is
gone right so what does what does he
need to what is his decision to make
like what can he do here right to save
himself he shouldn't be worrying about
other people he should be worrying about
himself so he has charge and he has pot
cool then he has one lip now my issue is
he has his things that can save him are
very spread out that's the first thing I
would say is is not great I think you
need to have the things that can save
you together but that's neither here nor
there
he has lips we cancel forms and lips now
nothing can hit him for 6
seconds I don't know if the lip removes
the slow it definitely doesn't remove
the days but he can lip and charge the
boss actually if he lips the slow will
come off regardless right because he's
changed form so he lips one Global he's
out of form goes back into bear charges
the boss the days will be over by then
the slow will be being shifted and then
he could just run around the corner and
he's
done right that's the play
here and he 100% lives if he does that I
think he probably gets out as the lip
ends but the problem is he can't just SL
shift the slow and he's getting spamed a
because there's so many dogs on him
right if you sh he needs to stay in B to
avoid the damage but the lip will
mitigate all the damage for him
so
s sge and I mean he'll probably see that
himself right I think as a dreid player
he'll be able to see
himself um yeah tough one tough one
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