Monday, May 08, 2006
Zul'Gurub progress report
Or how we started our collection of heads.
Tigers. Yesterday evening expedition force made of Tiger and our sister guild Dance Macabre, went into Zul'Gurub hungry of revenge for the past failed attempts. Our wounds were healed, we were ready and hungry of victory. We had a very good team combination and everything was looking bright. We never cleaned those regular mob groups as smooth as we did, everyone did great. Then we crossed the bridge, dealth with all the regular mobs and there he was - Venoxis, standing atop the altar with his four snake minions.
We felt a need to try out new tactics, and since yours truly read that every time you kill one of his minions, his attack power gets a boost, we decided to keep the snakes sheeped/sleeped or othervise controlled untill we deal with the big guy. This didn't work, as the sheeps were breaking constantly and snakes running arround the place and us being unable to focus fire on the boss - so we died.
Resurrected, healed and re-buffed we decided to go for the old tactics. Killing the adds before killing him. And we lost Ameyja right at the beginning. Everything went downhill from there, from Gortesh dying at 50% right after he turned into a snake, to me taking the aggro over after him running arround a bit and dying in one shot right after.
Resurrected, healed and rebuffed we tried a slightly different approach with Gortesh pulling him into the corner, while the rest of us downed the adds. Then we stayed out of range and only went for ranged DPS, while Gortesh tanked and all healers were focused on him. He changed into a snake and Gortesh started kiting him arround the place and out of his poison clouds. At 20% he started dealing alot of damage, we all went in for a kill. Gortesh went down, I took over and we got him down to just 1 or 2 % when I died, But we had the kill. Everyone went all out and he went down!. For a second everyone was silent, half of the raid was dead, and then we started shouting like idiots over teamspeak. It was great. Our first Zul'Gurub boss, and our first boss that took coordination from more than 10 people was down, his body laying infront of us. Loot half-sucked, but I think none of us thought about the loot too much.
We went for Jeklik next, still light headed from Venoxis, and had a few unneeded deaths on our way there, before we got our wits back. Cleared the path and there was the feared Bat lady, High priestess Jeklik. On first attempt we got her down to 51% - we needed her at 50% in order to stop the spawning of annoying bat adds, but unfortunately we never succeded in that. Either we were unable to controll the adds and few of them broke away from the main group recieving the AOE and went on killing our healers, or Jeklik herself went crazy and didn't want to go back to the tank no matter how much he taunted. We need some more practice there before we manage to kill her, but important thing is that every time we do it, we do it slightly better than the last time so that is what counts. Congratulation to Eru for leading the raid, and all the rest of you, you know who you are, for doing your piece of the job as it should be done.
So as of yesterday, one head is rotting on the sun ontop of a pike outside our huts. Venoxis.
Cheers!
Perun
Tigers. Yesterday evening expedition force made of Tiger and our sister guild Dance Macabre, went into Zul'Gurub hungry of revenge for the past failed attempts. Our wounds were healed, we were ready and hungry of victory. We had a very good team combination and everything was looking bright. We never cleaned those regular mob groups as smooth as we did, everyone did great. Then we crossed the bridge, dealth with all the regular mobs and there he was - Venoxis, standing atop the altar with his four snake minions.
We felt a need to try out new tactics, and since yours truly read that every time you kill one of his minions, his attack power gets a boost, we decided to keep the snakes sheeped/sleeped or othervise controlled untill we deal with the big guy. This didn't work, as the sheeps were breaking constantly and snakes running arround the place and us being unable to focus fire on the boss - so we died.
Resurrected, healed and re-buffed we decided to go for the old tactics. Killing the adds before killing him. And we lost Ameyja right at the beginning. Everything went downhill from there, from Gortesh dying at 50% right after he turned into a snake, to me taking the aggro over after him running arround a bit and dying in one shot right after.
Resurrected, healed and rebuffed we tried a slightly different approach with Gortesh pulling him into the corner, while the rest of us downed the adds. Then we stayed out of range and only went for ranged DPS, while Gortesh tanked and all healers were focused on him. He changed into a snake and Gortesh started kiting him arround the place and out of his poison clouds. At 20% he started dealing alot of damage, we all went in for a kill. Gortesh went down, I took over and we got him down to just 1 or 2 % when I died, But we had the kill. Everyone went all out and he went down!. For a second everyone was silent, half of the raid was dead, and then we started shouting like idiots over teamspeak. It was great. Our first Zul'Gurub boss, and our first boss that took coordination from more than 10 people was down, his body laying infront of us. Loot half-sucked, but I think none of us thought about the loot too much.
We went for Jeklik next, still light headed from Venoxis, and had a few unneeded deaths on our way there, before we got our wits back. Cleared the path and there was the feared Bat lady, High priestess Jeklik. On first attempt we got her down to 51% - we needed her at 50% in order to stop the spawning of annoying bat adds, but unfortunately we never succeded in that. Either we were unable to controll the adds and few of them broke away from the main group recieving the AOE and went on killing our healers, or Jeklik herself went crazy and didn't want to go back to the tank no matter how much he taunted. We need some more practice there before we manage to kill her, but important thing is that every time we do it, we do it slightly better than the last time so that is what counts. Congratulation to Eru for leading the raid, and all the rest of you, you know who you are, for doing your piece of the job as it should be done.
So as of yesterday, one head is rotting on the sun ontop of a pike outside our huts. Venoxis.
Cheers!
Perun
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