It took way longer to kill him than it should have based on how easily he went down last night. LOL, isn’t that the way it always goes? In the end it was determined that what killed us the most were the following things:
Information Overload: Waaaaaaaaaaay too many strategies out there and everyone’s friend has a piece of advice. We changed the strategy too many times to try different things and should have just stuck with what was working from the beginning. (Unfortunately, we didn’t realize it would for…oh, say, a couple of weeks.) Really, people, we love you and appreciate your advice but now please go fishing or something.
Bad Group Dynamic: The team wasn’t really feeling like a team lately. We finally had to let go of one of our healers and replace him. He just didn’t fit in and folks were not happy raiders. The new shammie is a vast improvement in sooooo many ways but most importantly he just seems to fit.
Mood: We remembered we are here to have fun while killing big things and that it’s GOOD to laugh at the stupid that happens. (See BGD above LOL)
In the end we did it this way: 1 Paladin tank (Me!) on Nef 1 DK tank on Ony then adds (yes, I know what everyone says about pallys being the ones that should be kiting them but frankly he’s a better add tank than I am. I admit. So bite me.) 2 Resto Druids, one on me and one on raid 1 Resto Shaman on the DK tank A mage, warlock, warrior, hunter, and rogue as DPS
We pushed two crackles in P1, none in P2 and then blew him to bits in P3
During P1 Nef and Ony were on opposite sides of the room with their heads towards the 2 pillars in the back. The adds were kited but the hunter with frosty novas and rings when in place by the mage. We put them on Nef’s ass by the pillar closest to the door.
For P3 I kept Nef in the middle of the room and just spun him as needed to make sure our DK didn’t get tail swiped. There was also a degree of hyperventilating starting when he got to 12% but I’m pretty sure that’s optional.
So, that was that. We have our weird looking ghosty birds now! Yay! On to serious hard mode work!
The DK also reset the adds twice while kiting to give us the time to blow him up that long in P3.
ReplyDeleteAnd during P3, the healers switched who was on who so lots of HoTs were rolling on the DK kiting at all times.
And the poor rogue died. But she's feeling much better now.