We came a-knocking on AQ20’s door tonight. It was quite the night with high drama and great results.
First things first: make the first pull without wiping. LOL. Not so easy when your first pull brings in 2 of the guardians as adds right off. We reset and made good progress…to the doorway to the left. It was quite nice of Blizzard to put the graveyard right by the entrance, because we all got very familiar with those corpse runs. About 25 in all for me, I think. After our first complete wipe in the doorway, we made it all the way to Kurinnaxx with fine discipline and improvement. We marked a target and Fish tanked the charging wasp off to the side so he wouldn’t charge. DPS took down the marked targets sequentially and dropped Fish’s in seconds. It was about a minute or so per pull. Then it got HARD.
We got a briefing and synopsis from someone who ran it earlier in the day with a PuG. He has a nasty effect from the front, drops sand traps that silence, and gets pretty enraged. The problem with the silencing even flowed into our tanking ranks because you couldn’t taunt and our sunder armors missed.
Our first attempt began early while spreading out when we found out exactly how big his agg radius is. Let’s just say it’s big. Really big. With an unexpected body pull, we got him down to 19% on our first attempt and we were ready to go at it again. A big help in this fight is that you have plenty of time to run back from the GY and rejoin combat. Several times. After 4 attempts, Talion broke out the repair bot and people started calling out their repair bills. I heard “5g for cloth…yay Magister’s.” LOL
After one more wipe, a couple of people had to leave, and we brought in one more rogue to up the dps and I was told to go as dps as possible. I busted out the elixir of mongoose, my agility belt, went berserker stance, and equipped both Dawn’s Edge axes for a grand total of 25.8% chance to crit, get flurrry, and really start going nuts. That is how, on the 6th try, we took him down. DPS the crap out of him and keep the tanks up. A lot of the learning was getting the aggro off the first tank as his healing returns get worse. Aggro is really hard to get, but once you get it, it takes a long time to give it up. I found that out. It took almost a minute for Siv to take it off me after I stopped attacking.
He dropped a lot of money (over 2g each member) and a very nice blue plate belt. I forgot to write down the name, but it was a major upgrade for Gitr. So he decided to roll as low as he could and got a 9. Woot! The experience was great. It was very satisfying to take him down after so many tries.
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