The High King Lives!
Despite facing the awesome wrath of a raid of eight glaring from outside his cave. Yep, we ended up 17 people short to attempt Gruul’s Lair. So we decided to kill some trolls instead.
We spent a lot of time talking and waiting for people to get mana back and all that, so we missed the first timer. We missed it by less than ten minutes, so I think we can do it once everyone is on the same page. Pretty easy tank and spank, got the same silly robes that dropped the first and only previous time StormSeekers had killed Nalorakk. A nice, morale boosting one-shot to counteract some of the disappointment of not doing a 25 man raid.
Then we clear over to Akil’Zon. We tried the gauntlet, twice. Utter failure, twice. Our DPS needs to get much better at assisting to get targets instead of just hitting whatever. After that, we used a phase-shifted imp to pull the tempest down the hill so we could avoid the spawning adds. After all, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying….” (that’s just about become my favorite quote now). Then we get to Akil’Zon. since I’m in just about the least progressed guild in WoW, I’ll assume most of you know how the fight goes, and for those of you who don’t waste your time in 10-man raids where the rewards don’t do you any good, here’s the WoWWiki link.
For a little perspective, we have some people who still have problems with “Don’t move during Flame Wreathe,” and “Run out during enfeeble,” so we tried to minimize the difficulty of the electrical storm by having everyone collapse to the tank a few seconds before. Tried five seconds, no one has to run that far. Wiped. Twice. Tried eight seconds (after reminding people that two attempts makes for no progression and it takes work) and wiped again. And again. But that time we got him to 3% before someone couldn’t run in.
A few more middling attempts, lost a couple of people. Attempt Nine:
We got the bastard down. No deaths. No one freaking out about being out of mana. (Though, most inadvertently, I tanked for one phase between electrical storms, oops.) Executioner and a Chestguard of Hidden Purpose. Stormseekers are now 2/6 in ZA.
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