(WoW) Growing Guild

Another Saturday, another raid. With at least four regulars on vacation for the weekend, you'd think we might be short. Well, we were a bit short on healers, but we still had 11 or 12 people with level 80 characters on - too many to fit in a ten-man raid. It makes me wonder if we'll run 25-mans in Cataclysm.

We did Obsidian Sanctum first, for the weekly quest. Kyn swapped out for his healer, though it may not have been strictly necessary. The other healer and I (without telling anyone - heh) tested the theory that I could tank a drake through the portal phase without heals. I dropped to about 1/3 health, with no healing and no defensive cooldowns, before everyone showed back up, so that's solo-healable technically. Whether Sartharion himself is, I can't say for certain.

Still, we downed one big dragon, then went on to Onyxia. That took us a few tries, one of which was painfully close (155k health left, 2 healers, 1 tank, 1 dps left, then things went terminally bad), before we downed her. We got a couple pieces of headwear for people, though only one of the two was an actual upgrade. And I won the roll on her head. Yay! ... Okay, the quest draws little fanfare these days, and the rewards aren't the greatest, but I'm still glad to say I've done that quest.

We took a little break before going back to ICC. It was harder with newer people, but Marrowgar took a few attempts (which go by fast if regrouping doesn't take half an hour), Deathwhisper was down in one, and the gunship battle took two. That's about where we wrapped for the night after showing folks the Saurfang fight.


8:30 - Gearing up in OS.
9:03 - Lining up Sartharion
9:15 - Forming up for Onyxia's Lair
10:27 - Onyxia down
11:00 - Starting ICC
11:33 - Lord Marrowgar, round one
12:05 - Marrowgar down
12:25 - Lady Deathwhisper
1:00 - Gunship battle one
1:35 - Wrap after Saurfang demonstration

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