(WoW) A Visit to Archavon

So the guild has planned a Vault of Archavon run Saturday afternoon, trying to get as many members are possible together to hopefully fill out the 10-man version. I almost missed it myself, but the week played out such that we put off our offline game, freeing up my time to make it online.

There was some last-minute communication and we ended up with 8 people. Good, but not a full raid. There were a few other levels 80's unaccounted for, but such is the problem with scheduling. So we picked up a druid healer and.. umm.. I don't recall what class the DPS character was.

The first trash pull went fine. The second was going okay, but flowed into pulling and third and somewhere in the chaos, I got squished. Go tank! o.o; Last time I was in there, we picked up the third mob while fighting the second, too. I thought I drew back far enough this time, but I guess not. Number four went down easily enough, leaving us with Archavon himself.

In general, I'd say the fight went fine. There was a detail I should have explained to our other tank, though. <..> When tanking Archavon, pull him out of the clouds he creates - for your benefit, and that of melee DPS who want to be behind him. The only other trick is making sure he stays on one of the tanks when he picks up the other, and I think we had that down pretty well. So we downed him and he dropped two pieces of epic... rogue gear. :P Lucky rogue, who had considered coming with an alt.

So... it was a quick run, taking way longer to get everyone together than actually do. VoA is short, that's all there is to it. Our DPSing guest outgeared and out-damaged most of our DPS pretty soundly. In fact, I worry a little about guild DPS in general. But we downed him without being close enough to his enrage timer to worry, so I can't really complain. This establishes that we're able to fill out most, if not all, of a 10-man raid - but I think it would be harder to do for a longer period of time. I still hold out hope that we might get into that content at some point. In the meantime, I do feel like this was an accomplishment of some measure, and I am proud of my guildmates.

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  1. foxwingMay 13, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Sorry about that, hon... It was only my 2nd time going through VoA and last time, I was brought in as DPS, not OT. Sorry. -.-

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  2. marinredwolfMay 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM

    It worked out, no worries. I "knew" this the previous time I was in there, yet failed to execute it due to focus on other things. >.>

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