Tuesday we went in and tried Kargoth Bladefist. Strangely, despite his name he seems to be a very violent fella. It took us two or three tries, but he went down. Honestly, I wasn't prepared for this, so we went forward into fights I had not looked up yet. Next on our list we decided to try the Twin Ogron. We got mushed, and then there was a DC from a healer. Our night ended there.
Wednesday we went in and started on the Twin Ogrons again. This time after a couple of attempts they went down and we were able to chalk off two of the bosses on our first night of raiding. We decided to try Brackenspore next, which we were making progress until we had another issue with DCing. Deciding that we couldn't do this boss with two healers, we moved over to the Butcher. We only managed a couple of attempts, but we got him down to 15%. Very happy with our first week. I'm also Dissapointed that the butcher wasn't a big pig demon. (Diablo I-III have ruined me for villains named "The Butcher.")
Still having issues with 2 things in raids. One is DCing/ending early. I know when I raid I plan on staying until the end of the 2 hours. When someone has to leave it's not as big a deal with the flex system, but it can impact the raid if you are a tank or healer a lot more then if your are a DPS. I know people have busy lives and it's a busy time a year, but I'm going to be a lot less happy come January if we have to swap out a major roll early.
Second is timelyness. Both nights we have started a half hour later or better. That means there is a whole hour we have wasted, and I'm pretty sure, had we used that time, we could have killed the Butcher this week. If not something else. I normally try to get invites and that rolling at 10 server, and when I have to hunt people down, or wait on people it bogs everything down. Once again real life happens and I'm O.K. with that. However, I want to make sure this is a week 1 trend and doesn't continue on.
So far Highmaul seems good to me. I ponder that if we have downed two out of seven bosses already, that it might be tuned a little easy, but at the same time I am hopeful we might down them all before Blackrock Foundry opens sometime in February. (Blizzard hasn't said when yet) It would be nice to be even with the raid content this time around and as more people get geared and hop in, I look forward to some pretty good progress.
Warlords still seems to be fine. Now that people have gotten gear Heroics seem alright to run, and I'm enjoying a few of them. Hijacking a train in Grimrail Depot is just fun. I have my Legendary ring to 680, and I'm working on the next part of the quest. I am also determined to find all the treasures in Warlords now that I have bought the maps from the archaeology vendor in Ashran.
I have also dipped into LFR. It's not a bad pre-emptive gearing spot, as everything in it is insanely easy. It does get kind of boring but as far as what it is intended for I'm with the group that thinks it's perfect. If you are just in it to see the content and story and your not worried about raiding it's perfect. I don't see myself running it once all my gear has hit that 640 spot, but until then it's a way to get some OK gear before I start getting raid drops. I am happy that most of what I'm seeing in there is already lower geared then what I need. Of course the legendary quest might have me running through there a bit for now.
Next couple of weeks are holiday driven. I only plan on raiding on Tuesdays for both weeks so it's important people are on time and ready to rock. I would love to get a new boss down each night.
Lag/Lazyeye.
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