(WoW) Winter Veil
Not so much about the in-game event, but it's that time of year.
So we rocked Trial of the Crusader. Then we got put in our place by Onyxia and Marrowgar. And this last weekend's raid window was... rather quiet. With some people's schedules complicated with the holidays, I didn't expect much. We did manage to pull together and down two Ulduar bosses, but it was late and only those two. Flame Leviathan is easy enough on normal mode that we can still "brute force" the encounter and not send anyone onto the boss. XT-002 is still something of a pain. Maybe it was lacking a third healer, or having some less-experienced level 80's or maybe the fight's just that much harder, but it seemed to give us more trouble than most of ToC10 and we weren't even close to triggering the hard mode.
I'm... not sure I like Ulduar. It's huge, with something like 13(14) bosses and varying degrees of trash. Maybe it's me, but the fights feel disproportionately difficult. It could have been some manner of chance, but ToC10 felt downright easy in comparison, and that is later/"harder" content. I look at it and the instance stretches out before me like some trial that can never be completed. It taunts me. While I'd like to clear it, and I think the guild could with some effort and time, it feels like it would take sooo long. @.@ At least when I get spanked in Icecrown Citadel, it feels genuine somehow. In Ulduar, it feels like we should be doing better somehow. Ah well.
And I'm not sure what's in store for the next month or so. Two of our usual raiders, including one paladin healer, will be out-of-country. That leaves us an awful lot tighter on the healer front. I don't know if we can "progress" much down an active healer. Lacking a third means one more DPS, but I don't think that makes up for the heals in most fights. I guess we'll see how things play out.
So we rocked Trial of the Crusader. Then we got put in our place by Onyxia and Marrowgar. And this last weekend's raid window was... rather quiet. With some people's schedules complicated with the holidays, I didn't expect much. We did manage to pull together and down two Ulduar bosses, but it was late and only those two. Flame Leviathan is easy enough on normal mode that we can still "brute force" the encounter and not send anyone onto the boss. XT-002 is still something of a pain. Maybe it was lacking a third healer, or having some less-experienced level 80's or maybe the fight's just that much harder, but it seemed to give us more trouble than most of ToC10 and we weren't even close to triggering the hard mode.
I'm... not sure I like Ulduar. It's huge, with something like 13(14) bosses and varying degrees of trash. Maybe it's me, but the fights feel disproportionately difficult. It could have been some manner of chance, but ToC10 felt downright easy in comparison, and that is later/"harder" content. I look at it and the instance stretches out before me like some trial that can never be completed. It taunts me. While I'd like to clear it, and I think the guild could with some effort and time, it feels like it would take sooo long. @.@ At least when I get spanked in Icecrown Citadel, it feels genuine somehow. In Ulduar, it feels like we should be doing better somehow. Ah well.
And I'm not sure what's in store for the next month or so. Two of our usual raiders, including one paladin healer, will be out-of-country. That leaves us an awful lot tighter on the healer front. I don't know if we can "progress" much down an active healer. Lacking a third means one more DPS, but I don't think that makes up for the heals in most fights. I guess we'll see how things play out.
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