How bad was your first WP run?

[Vortok]

My first run was a few months ago with two dps friends (pretty much all in quest AF). Went in blind. Thing that stands out most if that we tried to prioritize adds on the slime boss based on the debuff they did instead of just mindlessly aoeing them all down. Yay for being punished for trying to have intelligent target selection.

[Akirakogami]

the pudding killed us over and over again.

[gadzi_h]

My first run was a bit of a challenge I ran it with ilvl 50 bard gear and a GC weapon. We wiped once on the pudding boss, then once on the king. I just used DF for that run and it really was a decent party.

[Teleniel]

My first run of WP was before the changes... and it was a cake walk (and profitable!). We went through, killed everything, looted every chest and basically face rolled it with nothing other than ilv 50~55 equipment.
After the changes, the more you try to hurry the more chances there are you'll screw something up. Although with some people they just never seem to be aware of their surroundings and NEVER LEARNED how to dodge things, so if you aren't speeding you have to warn them when there's something behind them.

[Maelwys]

My first run was just about pre-nerf, was in full AF, the GC i55 weapon and a level 44-ish GC shield.
We got through most of the dungeon ok, apart from a few wipes to Stalkers... but they made me kite everything in the last boss room.
And I mean everything.

I was running around trying to kite the Boss, the Stalkers and all the Tonberries in huge big circles (shield-lobbing each of the stalkers) whilst the ranged DPS just targetted the boss and the poor melee DPS was more or less chasing us all like a headless chicken. It took 4 attempts, but we killed it eventually.

Much Much Much Much Much easier these days, purely because I know all the Tonberry Stalker spawns and the Paths they take.
The last boss is a joke as long as you just tank him in the middle, save your cooldowns (even Stoneskin) for Grudge and have at least one ranged DPS (a White Mage counts)

[Haprimac]

My very first time there was as a BM. I was with a full FC group who had done it before, so it was smooth and flawless.

The first time I tanked WP, now that's a completely different story... Again, I had a full FC group, this time with DDs that I had never played before and both had relic +1 weapons and pretty overleveled gear compared to my fresh 50 paladin. Safe to say, the aggro was everywhere but on me. I didn't know the way tonberries move, how many groups it's safe to pull etc., so we wiped quite many times on trash. Bosses went easy enough, even managed to keep aggro. But the moment a tonberry stalker appeared behind me, I knew it was game over and try to pull another tissue from the tissue box. :''')

I was pretty upset after that run, but after doing WP 10+ times on my scholar, I started to see how other tanks do it and felt confident enough to go again on my paladin with my WM buddy. Went much better and after that even better and now it's pretty simple, as long as I don't fool around with tab target. n_n

[Darksword]

Never had a problem with WP on my other classes, though my tank isn't quite high enough to run it yet.

Last night I had an abysmal Chimera run though. I left a really good FATE party in Coerthas because people had been shouting for one DPS for a Chim. run for like a half hour and I decided to be a boyscout. Went and joined them with my relic SMN.

It went very poorly. The tank was a PLD wearing full AF, NQ AH gear, and an NQ Goblin Longsword. I'm not a gearwhore, but my lord. He couldn't hold hate, he died at around 50% 8 or 9 times. What the heck was he even going for a relic for? Was he going to run Coil in AF with a Curtana? Chimera's not a hard fight, but the tank has to have some defense and more than 3800HP.

[saber_alter]

did my first WP a few weeks before 2.05 hit...lets just say it didn't go well

for one we didn't clear it. the entire team consisted of first timers, so we only knew the mechanics from websites.

dps didn't know how to effectively kill the tonberries during boss, so i died a lot.

[xenowind]

I swore I would never do it again after my 1st run, and now I'm still running 10 times per day.

[Odd]

wiped before 2nd pull , didn't realise that big thing was unkillable .

got told by a DPS to get out of dungeon because my gear wasn't good enough . Came back in full DL with Relic and wtfpwned it .

However I now tell DPS to gtfo of dungeon if they are under geared .. what comes around goes around .

I prefer to look at it as "two wrongs don't make a right."

My first WP run was a ton of fun! It was pre nerf, and we had several wipes as we were all there for the first time. But It was a really fun group, nobody raged and we all thought the mechanics were quite interesting.