Recently, I blogged about Reversion and I setting up our own raid. We went for our first time last week and got 11/12 down and some attempts on the Lich King.
This week, we went Friday and Saturday. The raid composition was slightly different. Some people couldn’t make it – one had to work, my brother owed a weekend to the Army – and some just didn’t show. We found substitutes and got started. Karius the mage and Rossini the warlock were both there, tearing through the bosses of ICC with us. One of the substitutes we’d arranged earlier in the week, a mage, offered to have her husband bring his hunter. He’s in a different guild and has a lot more ICC experience, so we gladly accepted.
We tore through the first three bosses on heroic, with one funny bit when the other tank suggested trying to bug Saurfang on the gunship. Apparently there’s a way to stand on the rail and taunt him where he can’t hit you, and then you can get the achievement for no one going over more than twice easily – the melee can just stand over there and kill mages and such.
We finally agreed to try. “But only one crazy idea per person per raid,” I said. That’s the rule. I’d seen someone trying to “bug” Saurfang before and it didn’t work but hey, why not try it.
Well, it didn’t work. The tank died over there. Ooops. But the rest of us were alive and we didn’t really want to wipe…
Reversion jumped over. The hunter misdirected the adds on our ship onto him. They decimated the mage and came back. We cleared the adds on our ship. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. I hope the other guy went and got a beer while we were playing – floor tank is always a boring role.
When we got to Deathbringer’s Rise, we explained the strategy for doing it heroic, got set – and suddenly I was staring at a loading screen. So was Reversion. And so was everyone else, apparently.
Well… great… The world was down. We waited and after a few minutes we managed to get back in. But we were downstairs again. Oh well, go back up – and the boat is gone. Again. We had some fun waiting for people to get back in by using the warlock stone to summon ourselves, jump off the ledge, and get back to the top without dying.
“Hey,” said the hunter. “If we fought him right here, would the beasts spawn over the edge?”
Nobody knew the answer.
“What if we knocked them back over the edge?”
Well, the only person in raid with a knockback was… me. In my offspec. I agreed to go boomkin, we re-arranged the assignments, and I dug out my “dps gear”. Which is basically enough stuff with hit on to get me to hit, a trinket that doesn’t have an “on heal” effect, and that’s it.
We got started, the tanks positioned Saurfang, I tried to remember how to dps. The first beasts spawned. I knockbacked. They didn’t go over. Maybe I hadn’t been close enough. I repositioned while killing them. The next wave spawned, same thing. And something else was wrong; these beasts weren’t that fast, or aggressive enough. I was getting suspicious – and I realized I didn’t have raid lead any more. When the world had gone down, I’d lost lead.
Too late, we realized this was normal Saurfang, not heroic. But he was almost dead… so we just killed him.
Then it was off to Dreamwalker, so that the other druid could switch to her shammy who had gotten first 4 plus Dreamwalker the other night. We tried on heroic, and failed. I’m not sure why, because I don’t feel like I really understand that fight. The first attempt was definitely my fault because I missed a bunch of portals – I didn’t realize they were red, not green. Not to mention unnecessary deaths from falling out of the dream… oh well.
We went and killed Rotface and Festergut on heroic, made two attempts on Putricide before setting him to normal and then, seeing as it was late on Friday, killed the Princes on regular and disbanded for the night.
The next night, same time, same place. We cleared trash to Blood Queen, set it to heroic – and got kicked downstairs. Annoying. Then went upstairs, and the trash was back. Extra annoying. Then we one shot her. Not annoying at all. So we went and one-shot Sindragosa, despite the fact that I managed to stand next to the frost beacon when she was at 10% and had to be broken out.
So we had a good three hours to work on the Lich King. We went up and the hunter volunteered to explain and call the fight. He had a lot more experience at it, so we gratefully accepted the offer and got to work.
The first three attempts we made, we got farther each time. The fourth attempt we wiped in phase 3. The fifth attempt was… not as good; we screwed up with the plague and died early. The sixth attempt, everyone listened, positioned themselves perfectly, followed orders – it was great having someone who A knew the fight and B was not healing or tanking call it; we’re thinking of switching to Reversion’s hunter in order to let him be better equipped to direct fights.
We were at 20% and things were chaotic, but we were all alive. I started muttering the percentages aloud as I watched and healed (I got sucked into the sword on our third attempt, and healed the guy and got out, that was very cool. I was sort of hoping it would happen again but it didn’t). Then – 10%. The Lich King wiped the raid, we watched, we cheered, we rezzed, and we killed him.
A wall of achievements filled my chat log. Every one of the people we had brought got the achievement. For some, this was their first kill. For others, the first time on that character. It felt… awesome.
We’re going back next week and are going to try to get even more alts turned into Kingslayers. And this raid is going into Cataclysm. It feels so great to have a group of people you can rely on.
Congratulations and Good Luck
Congratulations! It’s an awesome feeling indeed 🙂
That’s awesome 🙂 Grats!
Fantastic! That’s awesome. Maybe it’s just because, err, we’re not as good as we could but that fight always feels chaotic to me. I think that’s partially what makes it such an excellent fight though – the fact you’re never sure you’re going to do it, unless you do it.
By the time he was 20% I knew we were going to get it. A big shout out to Repgrind for getting the achievement on her mage! And another big shout out to Falahla, it was the first night she’d been past Putricide in ICC! Epic.
Repgrind is practically groping her lover there—ice block man.
Hey now! You leave Tirion out of this. At least I’m not groping Shaatom.
Poor Cruel, he makes such a good floor tank.
I know Ado already had Kingslayer, but it might have been 25 man only, so maybe he got the achievement too.
Ok, off to write my own post. How can you people post on the weekend? That is play time!!
Yeah, he got the achievement (99% sure… I went and checked….). We were kind of surprised about that here but realized he must have done 25 man only.
I posted Sunday morning while Reversion was working on his NaNoWriMo words, because I wasn’t in the mood for NaNo right then heh.
Yep that was the first 10man kill for me. I got the title in 25man some time before. It was nice to get the achievment as I’ve been achievment farming a bit recently.
We loved having you and Fahlahla along – Reversion mentioned taking notes on your raid-calling techniques and we’re thinking of having him switch to his hunter so he can call effectively like that. Thanks for helping out! We really appreciated the assist.
Ado loves 25-man much more than 10-man.
Reading the comments linearly, I thought you were talking about McKenna.
OMG. Ha ha ha, nice one Lag. Ha ha ha, he left our guild just a few days ago. I guess he wanted to start a PvP guild with someone but then joined Marauder. Who knows? He’s legendary without a guild.
Getting Kingslayer as subs a couple weeks ago was really nice…. but getting him down on a group we built and led there is way cooler. And we are 6/12 on hard modes. Though they are the easier ones and we probably will not get all 12 before cata anyway. Still is nice though. Between all this recent sucess and watching the live raids Paragon did at Blizcon, well I am really looking forward to seeing what raids cata has to offer. Now I just need Yog and the last boss in RS and I will have downed all the raid bosses in this expansion.
She forgot to mention it but we topped the night off with a quick OS 3D.
If you guys want to try for Uld10 drakes I’d love to come as well. I’m missing two acheivemnts for the 10man drake, oddly enough I have them on 25s for some reason, but I know all the fights and their hard modes.
Yes, absolutely – we’ve been talking about doing just that. What days/times would work well for you? We have actually never downed Yogg – we got into raiding late – and we’d like to finish Ulduar. I did about 3/4s of the Ulduar achieves on my paladin, including Firefighter, but wouldn’t say I *know* them.
I’m all for getting in there tonight. Mondays are normally open days for a lot of people, though Trout has often put up classic raids on Mondays.
I’ll check with Reversion but I think we’re up for a try, though I don’t know who else will be around/available. I bet we can get a good raid started at least, although we may have to continue, Firefighter takes work.
Classic raid nights will not continue until after Cataclysm, so Mondays are open currently as far as Crits is concerned.
I don’t know about tonight, I’m kinda signed up to do LK attempts with the Cael Clan.
I would dearly love to get Karius in there though… he only has 4 achievements to go (Freya, Mimiron, Vezax, and Yogg) but the other guild group already had 2 mages in it, so I’ve been going on Kerick.
Perhaps we could start tonight, do some of the early ones, and then have you join us for those 4 which are fairly far in? Only that might be unfair to whoever we kicked for you. Hmm. I’d like you in but I’m not poaching on Cael’s raid.
Well we’ll see what happens. It’s not really Cael’s raid, it’s Lex’s, and he’s famous for not showing up. Plus we have a couple of pugs in it, so it’s not exactly a guild run. We didn’t even make it past the first transition last night, so I’m not exactly expecting it to be successful.
We’ll just have to see. I’ll be on around 7 like normal and we might be able to grab a few from my guild if we need spots filled. Or we just decide a time next week and go for that.
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Grats on getting him down. Lovin’ the fact Guild Boss Man finally has come back to raiding and got him down. I also would be willing to contribute to getting as many guildies the KS title as possible, so let me know if you ever need some help.
You and your crew are on my list for “people we can probably beg to fill a slot and help us out” although I know you have your own raid plans. Part of my intent with this raid is to explicitly NOT cannibalize your raid as we go into Cataclysm. If we ever have any conflicts please don’t hesitate to let me know so we can work it out.
Actually, it’s quite the opposite. Our main 10 man is even icced out just to do it. We went and did Ulduar, lol. I’m skipping icc altogether most weeks these days with my toons, lol, but with a purpose behind it (helping guildies down LK), we’d love to lend a hand.
Geez, you got comments from Ado, Selv, Cael … it’s like a who’s who of old-timer Crits members here!
And it’s totally upping my blog hit count for the week! I’ll take it!
More Blog Hits!!..
(Whats the hit cap, I’m always uncomfortable under the cap.)
Any of the groms are usually available by about 7ish server on mondays. I dont really care about the achievements, too far behind on those, but dred just needs vezax to call ulduar complete. I’d be more than happy to come in and help!