Breakfast Topic: What's the worst way you've wiped a raid?

You might have to squint pretty hard to see it, but what you're looking at in the header image is my pictorial representation of one of the two worst ways I've wiped a raid. Well, recently at least! I had only relatively recently started off-tanking the raid, and our main tank had gone over to tank healing for Magmaw, as my off-spec was retribution. We'd killed it relatively quickly, but in subsequent attempts, where, you know, you're a bit more lax and less attentive, I had taken to tab-targeting Magmaw's body when he pulled himself off the spike.

Tab-targeting is just fine, apart from the fact that I had bound my autorun to the key above tab, to the left of 1. So, every so often, instead of hitting tab, I'd hit autorun, and, unless my reactions were particularly fast that day, I'd run straight off the edge into the lava. From which I could not be retrieved, by hook or by crook or by Leap of Faith. Even battle rezzing didn't have enough range.

What was the second way? What could possibly be worse than that? Failing to get onto Nefarian's pillars. I was still the paladin off-tank, on Onyxia duty, so I had a bubble and such to keep me safe, but I'd still get stuck on the lip of the darn pillar.

How about you? What's the worst way you've wiped a raid? What do you still cringe at slightly, weeks, months, even years later? Oh, and I moved my autorun key. A very long way.

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Around Azeroth: The worst tea party ever

Now that these hummingbirds have killed a lone picnicker, picked his bones clean, and mutilated his pink teddy bear as a warning to any others who wish to trespass on their territory, they can finally enjoy their feast of sushi and watermelon. But wait! These chopsticks were not designed to be manipulated by talons! And everyone knows that human flesh and watermelons don't taste good when mixed together! Will these avian murderers ever catch a break? (Thanks to submitter Gilgor of Novus Initium on Kul Tiras [US-H] for the screenshot!)
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Breakfast Topic: Best race, worst start zone

This is an image of the undead start zone, taken, appropriately, while dead. The undead start zone is, in my opinion, the best in the game since its redesign. It has quests which actually draw me in, the sad story of Lilian Voss, and of course, the dark lady herself. I love it, I remember the first time I did it, which was, incidentally, after Cataclysm hit. I was entranced by the story, which, for someone who doesn't really dive in to that part of the game, mostly because I don't find it that compelling as it's encountered in the world, that was a big deal.

Conversely, while I feel for the spaceship-crashing draenei, and like playing them, their start zone is not great. It should be noted at this point that this is all highly subjective: different strokes for different folks and all that, just because I dislike one start zone doesn't mean you should too. What I'm wondering is this: what is the best race with the worst start zone?

The reason I ask is that I've recently obtained a US account in order to join up with the folk in WoW Insider's guild, It Came From the Blog, Horde side on Zangarmarsh. I normally play in the EU, but for $5 for the battle chest, I thought "why not?" Of course, I then had to work out what I wanted to level. My favorite horde race, by a long shot, is the goblin. I love them, their funny little walk, their ridiculously large hands, their croaky voices, their pointy ears and noses, their funny haircuts... they're great.

But my god, I hate their start zone. I don't want to drive a hot rod around the place with my friends, I don't want to be stuck on Kezan, unable to do battlegrounds. The great thing about the vanilla races is that, with a little effort, you can take your human to the gnome zone. Or just run around killing things until you're at a level where you can run around and kill more things. You don't have to finish a story and get off an island, you have options.

What's your opinion? What's the race you love to play, with the start zone you love to hate?

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