Friday 3 April 2009

Bring on the Dwarves!

The Munquis entered Naxx again last night. We enter every Monday and Thursday, so it shouldn't be too big a suprise.

I wasn't supposed to be in the team, but a missing DPS meant a spot became available, and I was offered it. And damn did we do well.

Despite a late start while people were waited for, Flying mounts were purchased, and people generally pissed about, once we finally got in there we stormed on ahead. 6-8 manning trash to try and make up a little time.

The Spider wing was cleared without a single hiccup. Had we not stopped mid-way to summon some of the missing members we probably would have earned the 20 minute achievement.

Plague quarter went just as well, with everyone earning the "safety dance" achievement on heigan. (So Flowersz, you're forgiven for last time).

In the Military quarter we had 1 wipe on trash, where we all got a bit carried away. We'd had a 5 minute break, and our healing machine was still not back. So the request to pull bigger groups "when he returned" was half listened to.
Oh well. We lost a single man, to trash, on the Gothik encounter. But we can't blame him, it wasn't really his fault. So that cost us the potential "undying" achievement (but it turns out we wouldn't have made it anyway).

Construct quarter also went smoothly, with no delays, no one falling of pipes, no one dying on frogger. We did wipe, once, on Thaddius when a couple of people missed the jump to the boss platform, and a few got hit by the wrong charge.

Overall, it was about as excellent a night as anyone could have expected. We cleared all 4 wings in one night, and had only 1 boss wipe. So all but Thaddius were single-shotted. The loatheb corridor tactic is now perfected, and it took us no more than 60 seconds to get through there.
We took a vote at the end, to see if we should carry on and try to clear Saph and KT, and get the whole place cleared in one night. A few said 'no', so it's saved until Monday. But with that team I'm sure it would have been very easy.
It's a shame we didn't start on time, as it would have given us at least 1 shot on both of them. 3 ranged DPS would have helped on KT too.

The experience of the raiders really showed last night. Time wasn't wasted explaining all the details of encounters, everyone knew what was expected of them, and if Vedd assigned extra duties like Kiting, Add control, or Horsemen roles it was pretty much just a "Yessir" and the job got done. We actually functioned like a full team of people who knew what they were doing. Despite that same team probably never having raided together. And we had fun.

A "BIG GRATZ" to all those involved in last nights run.
A Simpsons style "Ha Ha!" to Funk for not managing to catch me up.
A "Thankyou" to Vedd, for leading the way.
and A "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" to the Dwarves in Ulduar.

Hall of Fame:

Tanks: Karudan (Vind), Argas
Healers: Biafra, Flowersz, Komatai
Melee: Vedd, Hetebliksem (Babe)
Ranged: Funkadelic, Thundress (Manda), Smythy

Edit: You can tell a raid has gone well when, by the end of it, you've actually earned 100g. Although I did shoot 150g worth of Arrows.
I did 16 Million points of damage with them though. So at less than 10g per Million dmg I think many would consider that a bargain.

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