Absolutes in EverquestFollow

I lead many LDoN's on my Chanter. Before marking a MOB for a pull, I use Soothe (in the Lull line) to keep adds from coming. Its quite a nice system.

One particular LDoN (and EF, if you'd believe it), my Soothe was resisted at a horrible time, on a MOB in the center of a crowded room. When Soothe is resisted, the MOB may agro.. there's only a chance. It, of course, did. Immediately, I went to start Mezzing adds while the group fought hard to keep back the train.
My mez, which very rarely fizzled, did so.. thirty times in a row until I was OOM. I was so utterly confused and, frankly, humilated, that I was unable to, mentally, face the group again Luckily, the group was a strong one, and the LDoN was still completed in time, despite my bad luck reoccuring during that mission, several times over. I still believe there was a bug that must've fixed itself when I logged, something messed up with the chance to resist or fizzle.. every Soothe I cast for the rest of the mission was resisted, and every mez fizzled.

Since my LDoN's tend to go smoothly, despite the "High risk" constant, I rarely waste time picking out more than a single tank and a single healer. Which is, normally, fine.. single pulls with everyone buffed up is easy for a group, regardless of having a single tank/healer. Anyhow, point being, I've had tanks go LD before.. I've even had some rather apathetic ones simply camp, without notice.
The strange trend in this case is that, after a tank leaves, the healer seems to suffer the same fate (or apathy), and the group's without either. (Which is a time you're thankful you got Temp before hand and have your Int-caster butt act as a tank, telling the group to nuke with every mana they have to complete the mission in time.)

Lessons of the Devoted veteran's AA

AKA

Death Aggro vet AA

I KNOW there's something going on with this veteran reward. In RSS, Nest, WoS, MPG, Ruins of Illsalin, Hive, and many other zones a 65-70 would feel an urge to pop this, I have seen truely spectaculars wipes on groups that up to using the AA were doing great. When I use this vet ability when nobody else has, I get aggro I never got before all other things being the same. The SK who is pulling and using Terror of Discord to pull/hold aggro loses it to my single tash spell. He never lost it before I used LotD. Slow spells landing without resist messages but mobs that hit like they never got slowed. Mobs that were out of normal aggro range suddenly become much more sensitive and add in 2's 3's and worse (RSS and Illsalin in particular). I never use it unless the MA uses it AND I know the zone really well.

As for most absolute that comes to my mind. So many good ones mentioned above but LotD killing you 2 secs to 2 minutes into it gets my vote.

ROFL!

Sure can do that, just maybe not raids.

Warriors - no matter what level, no matter how long they have been playing, are compelled to tell everybody in the group/raid/zone/universe, how many Hit Points they have and link all their uber gear.