Seven Dead Heads

So, after trying a couple of different Megeara strats with repeating two colors of heads, and dying at the same point either way, we tried something different last night using all three. Whatever it was, it took only a few pulls to work it out.

The view from the floor of the last 5% of her health coming off was quite nice, really.

Left to Right, more or less: Wok, Vanicus, Zugzuug, Liyhe, Arvash, Adoe, Tyledres, Psynite (yes he went goblin now I get to hear him die bwahahah), Shadeey, and Zarm in the background.

Not having expected us to clear Megeara, and not having done LFR, I had not seen or read a damn thing about Ji-Kun before we got there. I HAD heard about the snails, thanks to several other blogs … okay, mostly thanks to That Was An Accident! because it is totally hilarious and if you’re not reading it, you’re missing out. Fortunately, Ji-Kun is pretty straightforward if you’re not on the nest team, so a quick reading of the dungeon journal and of course good communication in our raid group was enough to get the gist of it. We got it down to around 40% on the first try, so … not too bad.

This was the view from the last pull, or maybe it was second-to-last, I don’t remember. Either way … that was our worst one. Both healers blown off the platform followed immediately by Quills. Good times.

Turtle Soup

A couple of small changes, and we got Tortos worked out. No, those changes did not include the Special Tricks used by the holy pally in Leit’s raid. They were more along the lines of having the melee spread out for the falling crap and having someone other than Adoe kick the turtles so he could concentrate solely on burning them down.

You may notice that I am missing a food buff in that shot. Yeah, I managed to die halfway through the fight. It was almost like Zarm was anticipating it, though, because I swear the brez hit my screen before my body hit the floor. We recovered, obviously … although a later bubble saved me from a second death. You can see I still have the debuff from it.

Left to right: Fat panda Wok, fat panda Sorak, that’s our cool new rogue Psynite in front of him, Arvash, Zugzuug, Adoe, Liyhe, Shadeey, and Zarm. Wait, who am I missing? Oh. Yeah. Vanicus. You know which one I am by now, right? I’m between Zug and Adoe. /facepalm

We did pulls on Megeara and it went pretty well. We were getting to the sixth head and then losing a tank, usually when a healer had Cinders and had to move. Once we get that worked out and refine the cooldown rotation, she should go down too.

Killing Trolls

Finally. The Council of Elders is defeated. This one took almost as many pulls as Horridon. We just couldn’t find a strat that would work for us. Then yesterday, Leit posted about his group downing them and the strat that they used. Stack ‘em up, burn ‘em down. That sounded like the kind of strat we excel at, so I linked the post to Slice and Adoe and we made plans to try it.

Raid time approaches, however, and there are issues. Adoe’s computer was misbehaving and Sorak and Wok were not online. Sorak was just running late, but Wok wasn’t going to make it. Adoe commandeered Shadeey’s computer, but of course, that left us without her. Ok, no problem, we have backups. Zug goes tank and we bring in Bocat and our shiny new rogue Psynite. It’s almost working, but we’re lacking just a bit more dps.

How do you get even moar brute force out of a brute force tactic?

We don’t need two tanks. Zug, cleave all of teh things plz.

But wait, doesn’t the tank get stunned for 15s repeatedly throughout the fight? Meh. You have CDs bitch, use them.

And, since Arv is Batman ….

Yes, it actually worked with him solo tanking it.

AND everyone lined up nicely and got in the picture.

Left to Right.
Back row is Zarm and then Sorak and Zugzuug on their birdies.
Front row is Liyhe, Psynite, Vanicus, Arvash, Bocat, Lyssianna, and Adoe.

Here’s what Lei Shen really thinks of the Zandalari.

We dropped down into the Depths, played in the waterspouts and died to some bats.
Some of us have very different reactions to the loot we receive from the trash, though.

Bo, I really don’t know what to say. :p

Horridown

Finally! It only took about 90 pulls. This stupid fight had me half-convinced that it was time to stop raiding. But we made it through.

Arvash has a nice writeup with more detail about the fight. Yes, we three healed it. I’m pretty sure there’s no way we could have done it otherwise. There are so many debuffs that need to be cleansed, and of course having the extra raid cooldowns also helps a lot.

Left to right: Adoe, Liyhe, Bocat, fat panda Sorak standing behind Lyssianna, fat panda Wok standing behind Arvash, Vanicus, boy in a bubble Zugzuug, and last but definitely not least, Shadeey.

Want to know the best part though? Killing Horridon meant clearing trash to Council of Elders. Trash that drops ….

Squeeeeeeeeeee! I got a pet!!!!!!!!!!

It might be a bad sign when I’m more excited about the pet than the boss kill …

Oh yeah, and that was another server first, also! So we get to keep our position as the top guild on the server. lol.