Rummys Blog

Last night was quite a departure from Flowersz’s normal second day in Naxx, for starters we only had Sapph and Kel’Who’seBad to do. For seconds we one shotted both of them. The fights were textbook, no unexpected damage, no deaths, in fact no-nothing at all! I even had healbot showing the Frost Blocks, and that made quite a difference to the emergency riptide healing.

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After that we went on to have several goes at the Eye of Eternity and Malygos. No dice. We usually got to phase 3, often with one or more dead players. But though we seem cool in Phase 1 and OKish in Phase 2 the flying phase is still too new to us. I’m not surprised, it would be more than a bit incredible had we defeated him on our first night. We all need to go and do the Aces High “practice” daily.

We kept losing players in Phase 2, and it’s pretty nearly always when we’re running from bubble to bubble. I died once in the running and I’m fairly sure I was at good health when I left the old bubble.

I also died once because I didn’t leave my bubble soon enough, by the time I noticed the “Deep breath” warning had come up on my screen – if I’d run then it would have been a certain instadeath. Instead I had to stick in an ever shrinking bubble during the AOE, and died anyway – lesson learnt.

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EoE still wasn’t enough, we decided to have a little bash at Naxx25 with a group made up of every level 80 we could find, irrespective of gear. While it was pretty good chaotic fun it wasn’t what you might call successful. Only one boss down. It was fun though. I’ve only heroic raided a couple of times and always on “single boss” fights such as Sartharion in Obsidium Sanctum. “Proper” heroic raid dungeon fights are much more tricksy and, dare I say it again, fun. Suddenly I didn’t have to worry about chain heal bounces, there’s nearly always players in range of each other. Though there was no way I could “cleanse” away all the poisons/diseases/curses, I settled for dropping an appropriate totem for my group and just trying to heal through it all – seemed to work.

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Despite all the later wipes and repair bills I enjoyed myself immensely right up until our Raid Leader called it a night because he had an exam tomorrow (at around 01:00am CET)! Sure it was his choice, but I didn’t like the feeling of adding, however unintentionally, to the social pressure on him to stay on longer than he should have.

Exams, any exam, is important. You spend a shed-load of days learning, and then it’s all tested in a fraction of the time. Being sub-par for one of the learning days is one thing. Being tired for the exam is another.