Turning the Corner
Posted 06-29-2009 at 07:56 AM by Horacio
I've written a fair amount about my raiding experiences and detailed the differences between my 25 man and 10 man raids.
To review, 25 man is casual progression and we work hard at it but we are fairly casual and have a limited schedule. I'm the #2 tank and I MT most trash and keep the tanks together and organized. We're through Mimiron and working now on Vezak....and after half a night's work, doesn't seem to bad, I think we'll drop him this week.
My 10 man, I am the RL and play now on my DK as frost DPS. We are more casual, more laid back but we try and I at times get frustated with our lack of progress. It took us 3+ weeks to kill Hodir. The ins and outs of that fight were too much for some folks and we couldn't get over the hump.
Well, we finally got him last week and added a Thorim kill on for good measure. Good, but we still limped to that point.
Last night was very different. We chopped off the bosses we are not required to kill and drove straight for Hodir. We one shot FL, XT, Kologarn and took 4 tries to get Hodir then one shot Thorim. Up until the Hodir wipes, we were crusing and it was the best raid we had had since beginning Ulduar when it was released.
We had just enough time left to port back and take out Razorscale before calling it, giving us a fresh start on Freya tonight. 7 of us have whipped her in 25 man so I think we'll get it down. Then on to Mimiron, but alot of folks want to get IC down before the week is done. So....we'll see.
To review, 25 man is casual progression and we work hard at it but we are fairly casual and have a limited schedule. I'm the #2 tank and I MT most trash and keep the tanks together and organized. We're through Mimiron and working now on Vezak....and after half a night's work, doesn't seem to bad, I think we'll drop him this week.
My 10 man, I am the RL and play now on my DK as frost DPS. We are more casual, more laid back but we try and I at times get frustated with our lack of progress. It took us 3+ weeks to kill Hodir. The ins and outs of that fight were too much for some folks and we couldn't get over the hump.
Well, we finally got him last week and added a Thorim kill on for good measure. Good, but we still limped to that point.
Last night was very different. We chopped off the bosses we are not required to kill and drove straight for Hodir. We one shot FL, XT, Kologarn and took 4 tries to get Hodir then one shot Thorim. Up until the Hodir wipes, we were crusing and it was the best raid we had had since beginning Ulduar when it was released.
We had just enough time left to port back and take out Razorscale before calling it, giving us a fresh start on Freya tonight. 7 of us have whipped her in 25 man so I think we'll get it down. Then on to Mimiron, but alot of folks want to get IC down before the week is done. So....we'll see.
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If your goal is to finish content - skip all of the optionals until your last raid night, OR do 1 optional a night as a "warm up" and then hit your progression targets.
And you need to roll horde. :PPosted 06-29-2009 at 03:00 PM by Warmaker 
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I'm sending over a toon or two, I have plenty.
We do skip but I hear alot of complaints and they often get couched in the "but we're not hardcore, we're here to have fun!"
Suprisingly, we killed Freya last night and the group voted to go to Mimiron instead of back to Iron Council. Well, the results were predictible, heh, despite the fact 5 or 6 of us had been in on a 25 man kill. Neither of the healers had and died early in all attempts. Melee who hadn't seen it died on the first shockblast and it was pretty much a clusterf***.
So we did haul ass back and clean up IC and ironically, sharded both items they dropped. /facepalm.Posted 06-30-2009 at 06:50 AM by Horacio
