Another hard mode down. One raid night and part of last night was spent on this but our last attempt of the night we ironed out the flaws in our strat and even overcame mistakes made by a couple of us. For instance, apparently I fail at switching targets and was dpsing the dark target with the dark aura for about 20-30% of their health. I noticed this at least 3 times, switched targets, unsuccessfully…….. Which is why at the end we only have 2 people alive. I’d cover the repair bills for that but I’m cheap!

It was surprisingly easy. Compared to the last 2 bosses anyways. Maybe 3 hours total put into this fight since Jar-Jar died and we 1 shot this tonight due to some special help…

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.

Team 1 killed Anub’arak and picked up the “Tribute to Skill” achievement on the way.

Additional edit notes by Tikus. Here is a pic from a few months ago, well before they got their Rusted Drakes, that  I should have posted. Just a reminder of the best fun and awesomely hard fought fights Team 1 has experienced. Kudos on all your dedication and achievements guys !

This was a very difficult fight to learn. Basically every person in the raid had to play near perfectly to meet the timers and not die. We normally run with a rather melee heavy raid, melee light for us is about 8 not including tanks so the worms could do some real damage if everyone wasn’t perfectly spaced out, and even when they were it was still worrisome. Also we run normally with 2 warrior tanks which is pretty much the worst tank setup for this encounter but whatever. We killed them.

Also in 10 man news. Our first team of 10 man finally got back to working on new content after a bit of a break over the summer and finished Glory of the Ulduar Raider. Our second team just got back up and running with some new(mostly new?) faces and took down Lord Jaraxxus on Heroic.