Distracting Shot

Rotface Down March 2, 2010

So I finally took down Rotface last night. Not a guild first, but a personal first for a few members of the raid, including myself. It was far from a clean kill, but no one died but the boss, so it was a success. I seem to have lost the combat log from this, though.

We also had our best Festergut kill, down in 4:31 with 34654 total raid DPS. There were a few times over our two attempts on Festergut that I lost a lot of DPS due to, presumably, either moving or being made to vomit. I’ll need to continue to work on that, but I think I can finally say that we have him on farm. It has always taken a few attempts, but I think that this time we could have taken him down without heroism or speed pots.

I finally got Exalted with the Ashed Verdict, with the title and updated ring that goes with it. The biggest part of that ring is the socket, and it sims as a 30 DPS upgrade for me. A few other people got ring upgrades as well.

I also got a new staff, the Shaft of Glacial Ice. That’s a major upgrade for me, simming as 70 DPS, which I can believe – it’s better in every way than the polearm I got out of heroic HoR. I still need to go and gem it.

The priest got Lockjaw, which seems nice, someone got Abracadaver, which is fun to play with, and the tank got some new hands, which I guess are nice. I don’t know about tanks, but stamina and strength sound helpful :) It actually might have been given to him as offspec, which makes sense because I don’t think hit is a very tankish stat.

We got a few attempts in on dreamwalker, and everyone’s getting used to the fight. We’ll probably take Wednesday to get these 6 down, and maybe some time on Friday, and then make some attempts on blood princes and dreamwalker. We got a guild first down of jarraxxus in TotGC10 this week, and might go and try to kill faction champions as well. We aren’t extending raid lockouts though – still a lot of people who can benefit from loot and badges from the first 6.