Happy Tuesday of Dead Bosses

Yay for Tuesdays and new timers!

We did indeed gain seven new raiders over the past few days and tonight was our first 25 man with them. Needless to say, being Tuesday every Reset Raider came out of the woodwork assuming they would be included and given the shiny purple pixels of their dreams simply for gracing us with their presence.

Nu’uh, not this week.

I think we capped out at 39 raiders on at one point and, contrary to what the Reset Raiders thought would happen, we included the new raiders in on the vast majority of the bosses. We do a fair amount of subbing in and out on farm bosses and did indeed bring in some of the Reset Raiders for a token boss or two but even the healers - who had gotten particularly comfy with the idea that (pardon the pun) we couldn’t live without them - had to sit if they did not have stellar raid attendance.

And then a couple of things happened…

People paid attention.

Raiders were focused and followed directions well.

Veteran raiders stepped up their game and the new raiders did well.

And, we downed a new boss! That’s right, Blood Council is dead! Best of all, we did it in three tries and most folks had never done it before on 10 man.

There was definitely a tighter feel to the raid tonight. It seemed to bring out the A-game in people knowing that there were several toons parked right outside the instance eager to replace them if things did not go well. There was less negativity, less complaining (outside of whispers anyways lol), and an extremely low rate of people being infected with the Stupid Debuff.

We did “lose” - and I use the term lightly - one mage and his stable of alts because he wasn’t included. Well, duh, you show up every other week for farm content and you think you earned a spot?!? Hello! Nooblet, where were you when we needed you?

We’ll see how the rest of the week plays out and how attendance is but overall I am cautiously optimistic about getting several new 25 man bosses down this week!