Gitr has seen the whole spectrum in his 5 visits to ZG. He’s seen 2 wipes on Venoxis weeks after the guild started ZG runs AND has seen Mandokir drop on the first attempt with 10 n00bs in the group. Maybe I was operating under the assumption that Mandokir was easy, since my first run wasn’t even close to being close. The next run after that, we dropped Thekal in 2 tries. A huge success for those involved.
Then there’s last night. We took down Venoxis in the first try, and only one person died… after the fight… in a cloud. Then there were 3 tries on Mandokir, and none of them were close. I don’t know why, either. That’s what’s frustrating for me with, I don’t know…maybe it’s my point of view in the fight, my awareness in a raid, or just plain n00bishness. If someone in the guild who wasn’t there asked me what went wrong, my best answer was that Mandokir killed us faster than we killed him.
We tried both tactics of tanking the raptor or just taking him down. The only thing that I can think of is that we were down to 2 priests, 2 druids, and a pally. If we had unlimited heals, we could have stayed in there and dps’d the tar out of him or kept shooting away. Whatever it was, things weren’t working time and time again.
As far as personal development, I’m getting the hang of DPS now. Up until the Venoxis fight, I was #3 on the damage meter, only behind 2 hunters. After the fight, I was at #5 with 2 mages climbing ahead of me. The hill up to Mandokir kills my damage because of the Bloodrinkers, but I got back up to #7 during the attempts on Mandokir. Now that I’m getting comfortable in my new role of not drawing aggro, but still beating the crap out of things, I want to see what I do in UBRS if there is a MT. On the way to Marshall Windsor last night, I was #1 with a 59 and 57 rogue, 60 druid, and a 60 hunter. It wasn’t even close. I had 32% of the damage and took 47% at the same time while in battle stance the whole run. THAT was fun.
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