Triumphant in the Black Temple

Suffice it to say Naj'entus has been nerfed to the ground, like Ret Pallies should be.

Happily, we're still raiding strong with decent numbers of folks showing up and raids kicking off close to schedule.

Waltz up through the sewers, stomping everything in our path.

Nature Resist Totem raid-wide, FTW! Lets me not have to fiddle with hunters and Aspect of the Wild in each party.

Trash that was previously troublesome, no hesitation, practically Leroy our way through the pulls.

During the two massive trashies infront of Naj'entus, our favorite Rogue does his new trick that bounces him between 5 targets and he pulls the boss.

Three choices here:

1) Eat the wipe. Stop healing, stop bandaging, stop avoiding AoE effects. Everybody die and lets regroup to kill the two trash mobs and the boss..

2) Kill the trashies and then eat the wipe. Since we're already in combat, lets finish off the two trash mobs and then die and regroup for Naj'entus only.

3) F it! We're here, lets just f'ing do it!

Option 3 ended up being the winner.

Major kudos go out to the team for adjusting so quickly to the prematurely started fight. Healers were right on the ball transitioning from regular trash to the hugely stressful job of keeping everybody topped off through the tidal shield bursts.

Major kudos go out to blizzard for nerfing the tidal shield burst from 8.5k to roughly 6k, which certainly helped us survive, lol.

Well, that was easy. Quick like a bunny, lets take our first BT "dead boss screenshot" and head on into the Illidari Training Grounds.

This room just looks so cool. Seeing it for the first time really made me appreciate the fact that the team is still motivated to keep raiding, because it really is a sight to see. Scary-looking mobs everywhere. Dragons (since when are dragons called Wyrms? can we call them dragons please?).

Took out Supremus in a two-shot.

This fight is fun as hell. As a class that does kiting as a way of life, getting targeted by the boss was outstanding as I was able to keep pouring on damage while leading him around the room. Glyph of Serpent Sting + Glyph of Arcane Shot, FTW!

In the killing attempt, he targeted Skittle the Wasp FIVE (5) F'ing times!!!!!! Mend pet + T5 bonus wasn't enough, so sadly she died all 5 times. But Improved Revive Pet to the rescue.

So, we've got 2 raid nights left before WotLK, plus an old school kara run for wednesday the 12th. If all goes as planned, we're gonna hit the Sunwell Plateau and maybe even take a shot at Kael'thas for giggles. Still rockin and rollin!

So, what else have you been up to?

The babies are fun and all, and the continuous dinging is pretty neat, but a girl's gotta do more than just run her little babies through dungeons.

We'll start with Black Temple. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

And the T-Shirt reads "I got Na'jentus down to 50% before the nerf. Boo-ya!"

The place is awesome, you pretty much get your ass kicked immediately upon entering the dungeon. The music is cool, the visuals are cool, the AoE pain is not cool. Even the spell names are cool. Sludge Nova soooo sounds like something that happens in a Tijuana latrine.

Guides recommend that every raider have 8500 health unbuffed or somesuch. Yeah, not even close for about a quarter of the raid, so we knew it was a mess going in. But we wanted to take a couple shots in BT before the nerf.

Made it past a royally nasty 6-pull right before the boss, which took a massive amount of trial and error and creativity to get past it given our experience and gear level. But we did it. And fiddled around with Naj.

Second night, made it past the trash much more effectively, and on our best attempt, got Naj to 50% which is not too shabby. If we were to improve, would require (A) toons with more stamina (B) more precise timing on throwing the spikes. Too soon and you sacrifice players who are below 8500, too late and najentus heals himself lots.

Black Temple, Yo!

And what's with this silly fel reaver-looking thing taunting us?

Lets kick his ass.

You got it baby. Dead Doomwalker!

And the true beauty of it is, we killed him sunday night, and his 2-3 day respawn timer will put his next appearance AFTER the patch and the health nerf.

So we get to put the feather in our hat of "Server Last Pre-Nerf Doom Walker Kill" which is more for amusement than it is for actual accomplishment. But we killed Doomwalker which is nothing too shabby either.

EDIT: I just read the patch notes. Looks like Sunwell Plateau, Black Temple and Serpentshrine Cavern are the three places impacted by the nerf. So seems to be remaining full strength. Whatever, I'm still happy we killed him :-P

Also swung by for a one shot of HKM and Gruul, but that's old hat at this point, lol.

So there you have it. The true end of my pre-nerf pre-patch pre-insanity raiding career. I'm a big fan.