Team RubiPam report:
Another good week for Team RubiPam - on Thursday, Halloween night, with Vanillapie superbly subbing in for Mageartin who was off trick or treating with his grandson, we extended our lockout and tackled Dark Shaman right off the bat. Well, after killing the trash which takes quite a while in itself. When we got to the Shaman themselves, however, we made relatively quick work of the encounter, getting it done on either the 2nd or 3rd pull, I can't remember. Not many wipes, at any rate. As Rubi said, we are half way through Siege of Orgrimmar! We then went on to try General Nazgrim - you know, I understand military code of honor and all that, but I'm still disappointed that the General stuck with Garrosh here. At any rate, he puts up a very good fight, complete with whirling blades of death, adds, a defensive stance during which cries of "don't hit the boss, stop hitting the boss, pull that bleeping pet off the boss!" are regularly heard, and while we had some very good pulls (got him to 1% on one), we didn't quite get it done.
Monday, Rubidium was out, so we decided to try the 3rd wing on flex, with Carune coming with us and Bemused and Pamena two healing. We did not expand the size of our flex group beyond 10, as we wanted to closely approximate a normal run to get the best use out of the practice. Most of us had done Nina's flex raid on Tuesday, which had gotten thru Malkorok, so using my lockout, we were able to start on Spoils of Pandaria. What a total pain in the ass that fight is - although also interesting in that each side of 5 has to beat the clock to get all their boxes opened and mobs down, then switch sides to kill the other half of the mobs. Many wipes, and we found that we had to recalibrate our dps on each side, switching people around till we got it more or less even. I actually, on this fight, heard Thanael utter a cry of anguish the likes of which I had never, in 3 years of raiding with him, heard him make before - turns out he grabbed the hook transport back up to the platform by mistake, instead of a box to open, leaving his team to enjoy our untimely deaths below without him. Nonetheless, we finally got it and it was very satisfying. We had less than a half hour of raid time remaining after that, so we went to check out the big dino with the axe sticking out of his forehead, and got some good work in on him. Tonight, we have Rubi back, and we will go back to General Nazgrik, who I think we may well be able to get tonight. Then on to the 3rd wing!
Rubi will be out next week - something about "vacation", I do not know what that concept is all about myself - so Team RP may go back and farm the first 5 or 6 bosses on normal, maybe try flex, we'll see. We could even take a night off ourselves! I keep saying this raid tier has to last us for 6 months at least, so I really would like to not get burnt out on it before we even get to Garrosh, let alone to heroic mode. Still, it was a really good week for our team!
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