(WoW) Inch by Inch

So, we finally managed to bring things together and get the Blood Prince Council down after running our way up to them. I think having our Keleseth-tanking death knight better prepared for the task helped, though there were a lot of factors involved. I ate far more empowered shock vortices than I would have liked - our ret paladin was slow to notice and try to get away. Still, on our third time we got it.

Then we pushed on to Blood Queen Lana'thel, wing-boss. A few attempts to learn the mechanics is almost a give, but we were close from about attempt two. Painfully so. But there was a bit too much damage on us for two healers, it seemed, and not quite enough dps with three. After a few tries, though, we started slipping. Said ret pally bailed with just the shortest of messages, so there was a delay in swapping in someone else. And weariness, and a phone call, and an accidental pull. Our one final attempt for the night really didn't measure up. I know we can do this, and I don't think it should be as hard for us as the previous fight.

From what I've read since, the solution may be delaying our biting a little bit. Lana'thel bites one person, turning them into a vampire, and they get increased damage and some self-healing for 75 seconds. Then they get hit with a 15-second window where all they can do is bite the next person. On second round of player-biting players, it tends to synch up to her second air phase, where having people next to each other is bad. What I've read indicates that waiting out 10 of those debuff seconds (and thus doing nothing that time) will help push the bite phase past the air phase. I guess we'll see, but I'm pretty sure we can do it.