We spent last night in Naxx on alts instead of clearing bosses in Ulduar…

Our guild isn’t large, we rarely have more than 12 people logged in on any given night and if the moon is aligned properly we might have 16 but it’s super rare. Out of those 12 regulars we have 10, maybe 11 “raiders”. Raiders are the folks that we expect there to be logged in and raiding on most, if not all, of our three raid nights. One benefit if having those solid 10 regulars is that we have a lean, mean boss-killing machine. But, if one or two people don’t log in it can seriously put a wrench in the works. Last night was a prime example- one of our DPS/off tank DKs is out of town. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but we start raiding at 8PM so if we don’t have enough people on by 7:50 or so we have to start figuring out what we’re going to do instead and one of our main healers wasn’t logged in.

So, we got on alts and went to Naxx. By the time we got in the missing healer logged in which was a relief because I was main healing on Ipaq and I’m just not geared enough to main heal quite yet. That being said I did a pretty bang-up job last night if I do say so myself and I did get a number of good upgrades, two of which replaced some questing greens that I still had. Shameful, I know.

Overall a good night for our alts, but it’s frustrating that we lost a whole night of progression raiding for this week. But then again, we probably won’t have enough on for our Sunday raid due to Memorial Day Weekend that is coming up in a few days. I know I’ll be out of town and may not be on.