Well, dear readers, I am living proof that you can raid as a casual player and progress while doing it. For the last 5 weeks or so, I have been spending every Saturday night (the progression night) in a raid group. Sure, it’s only once a week, but it’s the best I can do. We have been raiding SSC for 3-4 hours every Friday and Saturday night, and I’ve happily been part of every kill so far. On to Saturday night.
For the second week in a row, the Friday night crew managed to take down Hydross, Lurker and Morogrim. Last week we started on Fathom Lord Karathress, and he ate our lunch. I think he even dated my sister, it was so bad. So we started out this week in the same predicament, a little wiser, and a little better prepared.
Say hello to the Fathom Lord and his cronies.
I got some advice on the fight that I passed along to the raid leader courtesy of Matt at World of Matticus. (Thanks Matt!) So we had a better idea of strategy going in. I was once again assigned to be the main healer for our Pally tank, who would be handling the Shaman. The kill order would be the shaman, the hunter, the pet, the priestess and then the Big Guy himself.
The first attempt was a wipe, due to aggro troubles involving the hunter’s pet. He got loose and ran around smacking clothies and healer types upside the head, yours truly included. He two shotted me, if I remember right, and I didn’t even SEE him. Ugh.
The second attempt was smooth. The shaman went down, and I became something of a healing free agent. Healing the raid, kicking in to help tanks in trouble, generally slinging regrowth around like it was going out of style. (Why regrowth? Well, one thing I’ve found in the raiding environment, is that once I’m raid healing, lifebloom gets healed over anyhow. So generally I just use it on tanks and regrowth on raid targets.) I also managed to battle rez a healer up that had gone down. Anyhow, before I knew it, we were blasting away on the Big Guy.
What the heck? Wrath? Yeah, that’s right. Mad Resto Druid DPS took over. Healing was pretty well covered, my CD on Rebirth was long since blown, so there was only one thing to do. Unleash the Hounds of War. (When it comes to Resto druids, the Hounds of War are Toy Collies and Pomeranians, btw.) Can you see those crazy damage numbers? Sweet! (Ok, enough of that, /sarcasm off.)
Of course once my DPS was added to the mix, the Fathom Lord did indeed fall. Yay! And I have a shot to prove it!
So, what did he drop? Honestly, I don’t remember everything. I had typical class-specific tunnelvision for the loot. He dropped the T5 pants token for Druids, I know. As well as a pair of [Soul-Strider Boots]. I used my SK spot on the boots, passing on the pants. I plan to get the [Grovewalker's Leggings] as soon as I pick up another 6 badges, and the boots were a nice upgrade over my [Boots of the Incorrupt] from Kara. Yeehaw!
It was a great night overall. We learned from our previous mistakes, stayed focused, and took down that blasted Naga. Sure, we’re not progressing all that FAST, but we are progressing. We’ve now downed a new boss 2 of the last three “progression” nights. Let’s hope it continues next week! (We did take a few cracks at Leo, but they didn’t go so well. I’ll serve up the story and pics on that later.) We’re now 4/6 in SSC, and I got some shiny new boots to show for it. Thanks for reading!
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Mum,
I was on that run with you and let me say that was a lot of fun to get that boss down.
Congratulations on the boots, always nice to have Tier 5 loot, also I think we werent as far off on Leo as you may think. I felt after the last try we were actually doing a better job coordinating when he stopped his whirl wind. In my opinion that fight has the following Phases, Phase 1, kill the adds that’s with him. Phase 2 Whirlwind, Stop all agrro, Phase 3 Kill your Demons. Once we have more practice at coordinating each of those phases I feel he may be an easy boss to kill, the only problem I see if we get people who cant kill there inner demons, I think that poses that biggest challenge.
Rhene–
Thanks for reading! I agree that the Leo fight looks doable. I wasn’t filled with dread, as if he was a huge, huge challenge. He’ll get his soon enough. I also got more advice on that fight that I passed on to Miser.
LOL! Um, Mum. that’s about 200-300 more damage per hit than I do and wrath has a faster cooldown than my seal judgements
Pally tank dps = suckage 
Leo is doable. There wasn’t a real hard stratgey to it. I had read up on it but everyone, including M was punchy enough at that point that they were content jsut to see the fight.
Basically, pally tanks + a shammy make Leo a pushover. the only thing you have to worry about is killing your own inner demon. The secret is pretyt much knowing when to stop dps.
Mum, you should have tried Boomkin /giggle Trees are fun to hug though.
I need to get into the SSC runs. Unfortunately they have been going whenever Real Life stuff has been happening. Crossing fingers for the future though.
Clest–
Better get in quick! I imagine that as we keep progressing, more and more people will want to participate!
And to think, I never once considered teaching as a career. Grats on the loots. You know where to find me if you ever need a consult. That goes for anyone else.
whee gratz!