Saturday Night Massacre report
Saturday Night Massacre this week was, by popular demand, a guild LFR attempt at the last wing of Siege of Orgrimmar. I personally was not in a huge hurry to get in and see the end of the story of Garrosh Hellscream's disastrous reign as Warchief of the Horde, as I think this raid tier is going to have to last us until at least April, probably longer, and I don't want to get fed up with it the way we all did with Dragon Soul. However, the tide of popular opinion was too strong, so into SoO last wing 13 of us went - 1 tank, 5 dps and all 6 healers. We had very few problems with Siegemaster Blackfuse, and the Klaxxi were not much more difficult, but then we hit the "trash" before Garrosh. O.M.G. It was like something out of a horror movie - they kept spawning and pursuing us, and I think we wiped maybe 3 times before we finally got a strategy down to kill them before they killed us. We were extremely fortunate to get a second tank who knew the Garrosh fight well and, more importantly, was willing to give us pretty exact instructions on what to do. Jantuk did a fabulous job tanking it, but it really helped to have someone who knew it and who took the time to explain it in some detail. Several people in the guild earlier in the week had done this fight and not gotten Garrosh down until 6 to 8 stacks of determination (meaning 6 to 8 wipes) - we did it in 3 pulls, so with only 2 stacks of determination. So yay for guild LFR, it's definitely the way to go the first week a wing is open - and thanks to Mistybrew of Lightbringer server (I think that was her/his name), our wonderful second tank.
I am still hoping to develop some activities for SNM that more of the guild membership can join in on - Nina's idea of a naked race thru Kara, as organized teams, sounds like enormous fun, but we need to plan a bit for that in advance so I don't know if we can do that this Saturday. I'm still working on my "Magical Mystery Raid and Lore Tour of Vanilla and BC" idea, but I probably won't have anything concrete until maybe December or so. Any ideas for future SNM's are most welcome!
Flex Raids Galore!
I just wanted to put a quick note here about all the flex raiding activity that is bubbling away now - Nina's Tuesday raids are always full (I assume she'll report on this week's but it was great), so Tvath and Jantuk organized a Sunday at 5PM flex raid which went extremely well. In addition, Brumal is trying to organize a late night/West Coast time flex raid which he has currently scheduled for Thursday night at 11, after Team RP is done so some of our members can go if they want. It's great to see people stepping up to the plate and organizing these opportunities for more folks to get in on something that's a good bit more difficult than LFR, and is correspondingly more rewarding and fun! As Tvath always says, Best Guild Ever!
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