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You have discovered The Bubbling Mire.
Another loading screen: this one showed a frogman with a spear. It wasn’t exactly threatening, but since Drew had just been killed by an angry fish, he was withholding judgement.
Efthalia and Aconite appeared in the mouth of a dripping-wet cave, illuminated by more of the glowy mushrooms he’d seen on the surface. Ahead of them, two frogmen were standing around, ready to be killed.
[Group][Efthalia]: tacs
[Group][Aconite]: Um
[Group][Aconite]: Well, I thought we could tank it with my Doomshadow
[Group][Efthalia]: you want me to heal your pet.
[Group][Aconite]: Well, it’s got more health than either of us and it’s the only one in the party with an actual taunt.
[Group][Efthalia]: this does not feel like a pro move
[Group][Aconite]: Welcome to healing
[Group][Aconite]: Dignity is something that happens to other classes
[Group][Efthalia]: I could try to storm tank it
[Group][Aconite]: And I could keep you alive with my zero healing spells
[Group][Efthalia]:…
[Group][Aconite]: Honestly. You tanks. You really do think your health stays up on its own, don’t you?
[Group][Efthalia]: ok ok
[Group][Efthalia]: just let me spend my ONE talent point
[Group][Efthalia]: and quickbar my TWO healing spells
On some level, Drew was aware he might be taking this too seriously. He set up a couple of targeting macros and rearranged his interface to centralise his party’s health bars. Beside him, Aconite jumped up and down, and finally started the longish ritual to summon the blobby demon that would be responsible for keeping them alive and unmolested in the dungeon.
[Charnos] says: I have been called
[Aconite] says: Yes. Yes you have.
[Aconite] says: Now, pay close attention, this is a three-phase fight and your top prio is keeping the mobs off the healing team.
[Group][Efthalia]: lol
[Group][Aconite]: Right. We’re probably going to die horribly because I’ve never played a tanking class or a pet class
[Group][Aconite]: And I’m really not sure Charnos was paying attention when I told him the tacs
Charnos was, in fact, gazing around distractedly. It was probably just a quirk of the animation, but it wasn’t very reassuring. A couple of raid markers popped up over the heads of the patiently waiting frogmen.
[Efthalia] says: Dude, focus.
[Group][Aconite]: I’ll send him against star. We probably need to give him a couple of seconds to establish threat
[Group][Aconite]: Do you have [Incapacitating Wind]?
[Group][Efthalia]: yeah but i’m taking something for it
