Team RubiPam report: THE KING IS DEAD!
Team RubiPam went into Monday night, after wiping on Lei Shen repeatedly at about 30% last Thursday night, grimly determined but not really expecting (at least I didn't) to get him down before the patch dropped. Rubidium changed up our strategy a bit, telling Pamena to do complete atonement healing, just smite, smite, smite no matter what essentially. We kept getting closer, one wipe at 7% before our break, but then after the break more wipes - the dance is just tricky for us. We were close to the witching hour - it was 10 minutes before quitting time, and we had about 2 pulls left in us, so we didn't call last pull going in. Amazingly, we all kept surviving each stage, and at about 3%, Rubi warned Pamena and Bemused that he was going DPS so we needed to use all our cooldowns. The Thunder King's HP kept inching down.....and BOOM! HE WAS DEAD!!!!!!!! We all got the "Ahead of the Curve" achievement for killing him before the patch and the accompanying nerf dropped. Much rejoicing!!!!
This is the letter I sent around to our team later that night:
I just want to say how proud I am of our team for getting Lei Shen down before the nerf - and how much we owe to our leader Rubidium. He is Team RubiPam's combination of Nina, Kaels and Snuffy - he puts so much work and thought into organizing the fights, calling for correct movements when we need reminding, figuring out strategy, and rethinking strats, as he did for tonight, to get us a successful outcome. Rubi has been the rock on which this raid has stood for two expansions now, and I am so thankful he has stuck with us.
I'm equally thankful for our two stalwart newcomers to the group, Lynera and Buckdeekay, who have stepped up so admirably over the last few weeks. I did not know whether we could recover from losing Elu, but everyone has worked hard to improve and make up for that loss, and we got our reward tonight.
I have said it before, but it bears repeating - there is no better feeling in the game than finally beating a raid boss your team has been crashing on for days or weeks, and that goes double for an end boss of a raid tier. I am so proud of all of us, and I so much look forward to raiding with all of you to take down Garrosh. This will be the first raid tier our team is starting on time, at the beginning of a patch or expac, so that in itself is something new and great for us.
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