Team RubiPam report:
Team RubiPam had a VERY successful week! First, on Thursday, Thanael's lag monster was so bad he could not really play at all - but Carune graciously came in and tanked for us on his bear tank Gromn, and all went very smoothly. We downed the first 4 bosses, through Council, without much of a hiccup, so thanks very much Gromn!!! By Monday night, Thanael's lag issue seems to have been fixed (it was a provider issue, I seem to recall a theory involving overloaded intertubes from the combination of kids out of school and a locally popular porn site going HD, but that cannot be confirmed) so he was able to raid again.
Yes, we could have done the brave thing and tackled Tortos again so Corwynn could get his gun, but instead we did the smart thing and used Thanael's lockout from the week before to skip the turtle and go straight back to Megaera. And lo and behold, a one shot! We knew we were really close last week, and this time, I think it became clear that Thanael's lag issue was what was killing him last week, because there were no problems this week. What a great feeling! So, we went on to Ji-Kun - but more about her (him? there was some discussion in raid about gender, but I personally think it's a her, what with the eggs and all) in a minute, can we talk about Gary? And by Gary, I mean the ginormous snails on the way to Ji-kun that are annoying in LFR but downright hilariously nasty in normal. Many deaths were involved - it's like it used to be on Frogger in Naxx, when Pretty was laughing in vent at Papa going down to the slime only to get zapped herself immediately - I seem to recall Elu in a similar scenario with the snails "Oh, Mage, he got you agai...DAMN! That sucker just turned on me!" So that took a while, but once we got to Ji-kun, it was not that bad. In fact, we 3 shot her (I'm writing the report, so it's her!) Heinkel and Joravic tackled the nests without a healer, and despite Joravic never having done the nests at all before, it only took a couple of tries to get the hang of it, so kudos to Joravic!
So we are now 6/12 in TOT, and headed into the second half tonight perhaps, or perhaps we'll go back to the first, hasn't been decided yet. We are going to be having some absenteeism in a couple of weeks because of performance schedules (Heinkel, break a leg!), vacation, medical stuff, etc., so I would like to get as far as we can in the next couple of weeks, but we'll see. We will also need a regular sub on Mondays for Heinkel beginning the end of June thru July because of his play performances (I think?), so hopefully we can round up Nerphme to fill that spot. I would also like to bring in Team Z folks as we have openings from night to night, to give them gear and experience in TOT before they tackle it as a team, but at the rate they are going, they might be in there themselves by July, so we'll see.
Saturday Night Massacre:
This week, it was a simple one shot of Nalak - and thanks to Rubidium for keeping Pamena alive while I completed that portion of the Wrathion quest chain, running around from an add for a while - followed by a guild LFR which went very well.
THIS SATURDAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT! I have put a Guild Cata Raid Achievement Night on the calendar for Saturday - instead of Nalak and LFR, Carune and I and some others thought it would be fun to tackle the raid achievements the guild is still missing from Cata - heroic Cho'gall, Sinestra, heroic Nefarion, heroic Ragnaros I think are the ones we still need. I hope we can get a good mix of those of us who tackled the Cata raids at level and people in the guild who never had a chance to see Tier 11 or Firelands at all, since that was pre-LFR. So please do come everyone, I think it will be a blast!
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