(WoW) Back on Track
So last night we may have set a new record for closest-to-on-time start. We also had too many people to get everyone in - increasingly common these days. After getting spanked repeatedly last weekend, we downed Mimiron on our first attempt. Almost everyone even survived into phase 4. Admittedly, there were only about four of ten people still standing at the end of the fight, but any victory you can be rezzed and walk away from...
General Vezax gave us some problems as people learned to deal with mana regen without dying. I scraped by in our last fight - I think we had one healer down, I'd used Lay on Hands, and survived by the skin of my teeth. It was our... third or fourth attempt when we downed him? Then we went on to Yogg Saron and were overwhelmed a couple times in phase 1. We really need to learn to stay the heck out of those clouds if we're goint to make it any further.
That was our allowed two hours, so it was back to ICC. We finished Deathwhisper after only three waves of adds, which was awesome. We drew the frost giant weekly on the ramparts and managed to organize disease control a bit better, so we got that down on our second try. The gunship battle is sort of routine now. We proved we could get Deathbringer Saurfang down again, even with a tank dead for part of the battle and, I think, two marks in the fight. We downed some further trash and a mini-boss I didn't realize was in the Frostwing Halls. ... Then we killed more trash and mini-bosses (why does the val'kyr give an emblem, but the dogs don't?) because people wanted more reputation. Aieee! It was feeling late for me, but we got several people to revered, which is good. We even tried Festergut, but he kicked our tails a couple times and we called it.
Lots done in the night. Lots of reputation gained. We're even starting to make use of Divine Intervention as a quicker wipe recovery tool. Good raid night all in all, though I was feeling a little pushed toward the end.
8:04 - Roster selection
8:15 - Endering Ulduar
8:25 - Minirom attempted and downed.
8:50 - Clearing in the Descent to Madness
9:10 - General Vezax attempted
9:32 - General Vezax finally down
9:42 - First Yogg-Saron attempt
10:15 - Starting ICC
10:50 - Clearing Lady Deathwhisper trash
11:04 - Deathwhisper down
11:25 - Second attempt on the frost giant
11:54 - Gunship battle
12:14 - Deathbringer Saurfang down
1:06 - Cleared to Festergut
1:30 - First Festergut attempt (notable delay there)
1:40 - Wrap after wipe
General Vezax gave us some problems as people learned to deal with mana regen without dying. I scraped by in our last fight - I think we had one healer down, I'd used Lay on Hands, and survived by the skin of my teeth. It was our... third or fourth attempt when we downed him? Then we went on to Yogg Saron and were overwhelmed a couple times in phase 1. We really need to learn to stay the heck out of those clouds if we're goint to make it any further.
That was our allowed two hours, so it was back to ICC. We finished Deathwhisper after only three waves of adds, which was awesome. We drew the frost giant weekly on the ramparts and managed to organize disease control a bit better, so we got that down on our second try. The gunship battle is sort of routine now. We proved we could get Deathbringer Saurfang down again, even with a tank dead for part of the battle and, I think, two marks in the fight. We downed some further trash and a mini-boss I didn't realize was in the Frostwing Halls. ... Then we killed more trash and mini-bosses (why does the val'kyr give an emblem, but the dogs don't?) because people wanted more reputation. Aieee! It was feeling late for me, but we got several people to revered, which is good. We even tried Festergut, but he kicked our tails a couple times and we called it.
Lots done in the night. Lots of reputation gained. We're even starting to make use of Divine Intervention as a quicker wipe recovery tool. Good raid night all in all, though I was feeling a little pushed toward the end.
8:04 - Roster selection
8:15 - Endering Ulduar
8:25 - Minirom attempted and downed.
8:50 - Clearing in the Descent to Madness
9:10 - General Vezax attempted
9:32 - General Vezax finally down
9:42 - First Yogg-Saron attempt
10:15 - Starting ICC
10:50 - Clearing Lady Deathwhisper trash
11:04 - Deathwhisper down
11:25 - Second attempt on the frost giant
11:54 - Gunship battle
12:14 - Deathbringer Saurfang down
1:06 - Cleared to Festergut
1:30 - First Festergut attempt (notable delay there)
1:40 - Wrap after wipe
/applaud I am very, very pleased with the progress of the guild. Sure we had some rocky parts, but we're jelling in both performance and execution. We can soon get in 10-mans on other nights I'm certain, given our nightly roster is getting to be roughly 10 people on most of the time, allowing Saturdays to be Icecrown only days. Once we demonstrate competence in doing Marrowgar through Svala week after week, I may consider the idea of raid extensions for us to try downing wings for progress.
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