Sunwell Part 2

Well, some good news. A friend of mine got in the guild. He's been stuck in limbo since my old guild broke up. And with Wrath approaching he was very worried that he wouldn't get to see Illidan die. And while he did get into the guild, he did not actually get a raiding spot. However, despite that he got into a BT run this week and not only managed to see Council and Illidan die, but he also got T6 Legs and Chest. In 1 night he pretty much caught up to me gear-wise.

Last night the guild went back into Sunwell to work on the Eredar Twins. And while so far I've liked the fights in BC, Eredar Twins is easily the worst in the whole game right now, supplanting Leo for the worst-designed boss spot. Why is it so bad? It's mostly a matter of raid positioning being terrible; combustion insta-killing the raid, LOS issues, and massive raid wide damage. Combusion is definitely the most annoying ability I've seen in a while. It's living bomb, or Solarian, with no warning and only 3 seconds to react to it before killing everyone.

Eredar Twins fell fairly quickly. They don't have many HP, and Combusion is only an issue through Phase 1. So then we went onto M'uru. M'uru was probably the hardest fight in BC before the nerf, but we managed to figure out a strategy in about 2 hours. I'm not going to say that this fight is trivial...but if you've got good tanks and DPS and can coordinate well, this fight isn't too bad right now. I'm actually surprised that we got past it actually. Like Eredar, when things go south in this fight they do so with quickly. Things can go from OK to dead raid in about 5 seconds; and even with the nerf everyone needs to be on their toes.

Unfortunately last night also was one of the first times I've been so far down on the DPS chart. Eredar Twins, well, I was just playing uber-conservative, and kept falling off the ledge because I just couldn't get any LOS. But M'uru doesn't really seem suited for mage DPS. Oh well, I'll just have to work better next time.

We did go ahead and make one pull on Kil'Jaeden (sp?)...1 pull, no strategy = 70% before we wiped. That encounter truely looks...epic, something that was missing from the Illidan fight honestly. I'm really looking forward to more time with KJ tonight. There is even a chance we'll get him which would be awesome.