Another Vezax Corpse Photo

Managed to down Vezax on ten. Once again I was Enhancement, heals were performed by a priest who's rogue was in Nech's raid before I joined, and my sister as a tree. Immediately afterward we got Yogg to P3 with me as a bear druid, which leads me to believe it won't be long before we can claim multiboxer world first Ulduar10 clear. :)

Vezax again

Last night, our 25 managed to drop Vezax (with a multiboxer~). Partway through our attempts, I switched over to Enhancement, owing in part to the fact most of what I was doing was Earth Shielding the MT and spamming Wind Shear on Vezax, and in part to the fact that with that little effort, our tanks dying on their own wasn't what was killing us (difficulty with interrupts was).

Focusing a bit more on interrupts than my DPS cycle was more challenging than standing there spamming Wind Shock while occasionally renewing earth shield, but the raid pulled it together and managed to avoid getting Mark of the Faceless on people (and dying to shadowcrash) long enough that we could smack Vezax into an inert loot pinata. The spike is really rather nasty when you're relying almost exclusively on Pain Suppression, Icebound Fortitude, Shield Wall and the like for tank survival during Surge of Darkness, but it's pretty much the only way Nechja can pull reasonable DPS on the fight.

Next up, Yogg-Saron. With a multiboxer.

Unbreak My Heart, Say You'll Love Me Again

Man, I hardly even remember that song.

Regardless. Two nights ago, we managed to add Heartbreaker to our list of achievements. Probably the easiest one to do with a multiboxer, though we still had to figure out positioning and movement for the sparks and void zones. More or less, we settled upon having Nech stand in a little pile of shaman while everyone else spread out around XT. That way she could focus on DPS and whichever shaman was afflicted by Light or Gravity bomb without having to worry about anybody else.

It's fair to note that we had, in addition to myself and a disc priest healing, a Shadow priest with a Holy offspec, which really made things easier.

General Vezax

Well, last night we got Vezax to 7% before the proverbial shit hit the fan. We ran out of cooldowns and one of our healers got knocked out of range by a Shadow Crash during a Surge of Darkness, is the short version of events.

And all this radical change in our luck took was me bringing my Death Knight instead of my Shaman, so we could have a Death Grip for the Saronite Vapors. Bring the player not the class my ass~

This Was a Triumph.

Yep. Two hardmodes done last night in Ulduar10. Huge shout out to Cim, our warrior tank. I don't think she gets enough credit for how well she does for our raids. She was pulling the next group in the Gauntlet on Thorim at just the right speed. Enough was dead from the previous pack that tanking everything wouldn't get her killed, but she didn't wait until everything was dead either.

Hodir was plenty of fun too, but a lot of RNG. I feel disappointed that Nejcha (Nechja's partner) wasn't able to participate in either kill. Holy paladins are just crippled on AoE fights, especially in combination with a resto shaman (hopefully 3.2 will up our AoE healing, but CHeal bounces for 1.2k~ on the fourth target are still really insufficient for a fight like Hodir).

All I gotta say is, I'm not looking forward to Mimiron hardmode. :D

Pokemon? In my WoW?

Normal Steelbreaker, I Choose You acquired, with a four boxing shaman in the raid.

We decided to work on this tonight instead of Vezax. Our continual bane on Vez (on 10) is the pathing behavior of the Saronite Vapors -- and how they like to go wandering off to the backmost areas of the room and be useless over there. Our usual composition lacks a Death Knight, and the clouds cannot be knocked back by Thunderstorm, leaving us prey to their whims. This, combined with regularly lacking interrupts that are not our warrior or me ... well, it's probably going to be a while yet before we get Vezax down on 10. Our 25 is looking promising for killing him though.

Failuremoon.

Short and to the point - Our regular 25 was postponed this week due to Feathermoon undergoing some massive failure. Instance servers were down, then the world servers were taken down, brought back up, and the instance servers didn't return for about three hours after our start time.

But hey, my hunter made it to 60, woo?

Barriers: Transfer Aborted: instance not found.