One of the problems with our 3 day raid schedule has been that we don’t get much time to work on new content. And we also can get really screwed up if someone in a critical position is unable to show up for some reason. However this week we were able to get Beasts out of the way in 1 attempt and 10 min of our time which gave us a serious advantage for the rest of the week. And now the red guy is dead. We discovered on Tuesday night that increasing the number of healers to 7 did not help things and actually made it worse. We discovered on Wednesday night due to a  shortage of healers and a very long work related phone call for another one of the healers that there wasnt much of a difference between running with 5 or 6 healers. So we stuck with 5, things went alot quicker, and portals were a bit more forgiving to people making mistakes and stuff and after the 3rd portal went down and the 3rd volcano popped, The red guy popped too and all was well.