life, the universe, and donna

Warning: Warcraft stuff. Specifically, Naxxramas.

In describing the Heigan fight in Naxxaramas, I said “There’s no enrage timer, so technically you can down this boss with just a tank and a healer… but it’ll take forever.”

Well, we proved it: 19 minutes later, with both tanks & one healer still alive, Heigan finally died. The benefits of having a DK tank: He switched to DPS, let the other tank tank, and saved us probably another 4 or 5 minutes of the other 7 raiders playing Bejeweled while they waited. Really, we probably could have wiped and started over and downed him faster, but by then it was a matter of pride. One, we were going to one-shot every damn boss we could. Two, as the aforementioned healer who didn’t die, there is NO WAY I am dying on this guy while I still have a tank alive. Suck it, Heigan.

Pride: We one-shot just about every boss in the place on Friday, despite it being the first time a few of our players had seen them. I’d cleared the Arachnid, Plague & Military Quarter before, but we’d always gotten stuck on Patchwerk… who is undeniably a gear check. No problem now: One-shot. Awesome. (Well, as it should be: Once you’ve got the gear, Patchwerk is a ridiculously simple fight.) We then proceeded to take down Grobbulus with no trouble, and … then Gluth.

Fuck Gluth. We wiped on him a couple of times on Friday, then called it as some of our east-coasters were sitting around 3am. Ok then. We did freaking awesome, so we’ll come back on Sunday and finish this shit up.

Sunday: Got Gluth. Hate Gluth. Stupid Zombie Chow. Bloody frustrating fight. Tank went down with 30k health left on Gluth — ONE zombie reaching him would have had us wiping, but everyone laid on the DPS and … phew. I never want to fight him again. What do you mean he resets tomorrow and we have to kill everything all over? WE JUST KILLED HIM.

Sigh.

Thaddius only took us a couple of tries. I. Can’t. Jump. I kid you not, our second attempt (first attempt, the two mini-bosses got moved too far away from the Telsa’s and nuked the raid) I simply couldn’t make it over to Thaddius’s platform. I swear I had some crap-ass latency going on, because I’d hit jump, and instead I’d just fall in the slime without jumping at all. Five times in a row. Oh well. My idiocy at least gave everybody else a chance to learn the fight, and thankfully on our next try, I made the jump on my first try, and we downed the bastard.

Then on to Sapphiron.

Stupid dragon. Sapphiron is basically just a positioning fight. Well, we wiped 10 times in a row then called it, but I don’t feel too bad about that. We learnt a lot about how to position ourselves, and we’re getting the hang of where to stand to avoid cleaves & tailswipes, and how to haul ass back to the ice blocks. A few of those wipes were just plain bad luck (like when I tried to hide behind an iceblock, but was on a slightly different Z-axis and got killed… or when both ice blocks were on the other side of the room, and half the raid got wiped trying to race over there.)

Anyway. We’ll get the hang of it soon enough. Regardless, am very proud of my guild: We’ve cleared all four quarters now!

I also scored some new pants, and who doesn’t love new pants?