Ugh…I just finished up a post about our raid last night and wordpress choked in it and I lost all the work. Grrr…
I don’t know what is going on with this funk that we’re in but I’m hoping it’s going to end soon. So last night we went back into Ulduar to try to finish up the mess that we started on Tuesday night and last night was only slightly better in that we actually killed some stuff. We had our missing heavy-hitters back so it was looking to be a good night but it sure didn’t turn out that way.
We started off at Auriaya and wiped at least 6 times… I don’t know what was going on but people were constantly getting 1-shotted by the cats, it was a frustrating mess. Finally after that debacle we moved onto Freya. Not too bad, I’m a tank so I die more than most by nature of the job but we managed to get through all the trash with minimal drama. When we got to the actual boss we wiped 4 or 5 times because the 3-group of adds wasn’t dying properly. Chalk it up to a combination of people not paying attention and doing shit damage…
After Freya we moved onto Thorim, we only wiped once and then we moved onto Hodir. We wiped 2 or 3 times, I got to DPS (thank God, I hate tanking that fight).
We wanted to save Mimiron for Sunday so we could spend the night on him so we went back outside and killed Razzorscale and then took 2 attempts at Ignis before we decided that it was too late and some of us wanted to go to bed.
Ugh…not as bad as Tuesday but not a significant improvement.
It sucked bad. We ended up taking some of our scrubs to Ulduar last night because we were missing a few regulars and we paid for it with a lot of frustration and even more repair gold.
To be honest it’s not really the fault of the scrubs, they aren’t familiar with the fights and some of them don’t raid all that often but it’s just frustrating from the standpoint of an officer and a raider that we were making such good progress and some people just decided that they’d rather play f****** Everquest (seriously, Everquest 1!) or PvP…
After only killing Flame Lev and Kologarn after 2 hours of wanting to punch kittens we decided to go do Vault of Archavon since it was up. We did it 10-man, then grabbed the rest of our guildies (15 logged in), picked up a few friends and a few pugs and did it on 25-man too. It went quickly, we wiped once on Emalon because I screwed up (tab-targeted Emalon by accident and charged him, with the 4 adds in tow) but after that it was uneventful.
After that we did a little guild PvP, 10 of us raided up and did a AB which was actually a good time since we won with a 5-cap. I wish we’d do guild PvP more often.
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.
Last night we downed Freya for the first time, it took us 3 or 4 attempts. She dropped:
Gloves of the Wayward Vanquisher – Raistln
Ironbark Faceguard – Lyssa
Alchemist’s Cache – Finnegus
After, we cleared to Mimiron and he’s going to be a tough fight. We got him to phase 2 and called it a night. Tomorrow we’ll be back and should be able to clear most of everything so, hopefully, by Thursday we’ll be back at Mimiron for some new attempts.
We had Wintergrasp so we went and did 10-man Archavon. This was my first time fighting the new boss they added, we got pallie, druid and shaman gear.
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