Progress!!!!! Tuesday night, with Nina coming with us in Flint's place, we used our lockout and went straight to Spirit Kings, which we had only seen once before. Thanael tanked. and the rest of us spent a few wipes learning the dance, which took a few tries since Baelz, for one, had never seen the fight at all. On our last try, Pamena died half way through, which helped us discover that we could probably two heal this fight next time, as Bemused and Rubidium did yeoman healing work for fully half the fight. Finally, the last boss was down to about 8%, and there were only 4 raid members still alive - Thanael, Rubidium, Vevelain and Joravic - but they somehow managed to bring him down and we got it!! So FINALLY we're 4/16!! We then let Nina go off to her normal raid job at 10 PM, and we went to HOF to try the first boss in there again, as it is a one tank fight - Pamena switched to Senta and Cernun came in to heal. We had some good pulls, but didn't quite get it done, partly because Senta has apparently forgotten how to play arcane and did terrible dps, but next time, I feel sure we can do it. Tonight, Thursday, however, we have Nina helping us for the whole two hours (I hope), so we will tackle Elegon, which is mainly about execution, not so much about dps. Hopefully we can learn that one - a couple of us did it on normal with members of Team Kaels a few weeks ago, so maybe that will help, we'll see.
We miss Flint terribly, but we are so grateful to Nina for helping us in our hour of need. And Baelz is building a tank set so that he can be another subsitute tank, along with Corwynn, so I hope we will continue to progress while we wait for Flint to recover. We also miss Elu, who is out for much happier reasons as he is getting married next week and is busy with wedding prep - but we've got some great DPS backups in Joravic and Vanillapie who have been essential. So thanks everyone, and I hope I have more progress to report next week!
Other news:
Our Saturday Night Massacre continues going well, with a somewhat messy Sha victory this past Saturday - he was in a bad spot with lots of hozen patrols nearby, which some helpful Alliance toon kept kiting into us, giving us even more problems with adds. We finally recruited more pugs, got a full 40 member group, and succeeded. There was no old raid follow up, but several of us did LFR, which was fun also.
I'd like to schedule some more old raids, in addition to Ulduar and ICC which we have been doing to help Chanta, Snuffy, Thanael and maybe some others get items they need for legendary weapons of various sorts. Many people in the guild did not get to see the first and second round of Cata raids, Tier 11 (BWD et al) and Firelands, and Mageartin and Senta are still collecting items for their legendary staffs in Firelands, so perhaps we will try one of those in the next couple of weeks as a follow up to the Sha. Let me know of people's interest in that.
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