Last night was my first “real” raid with the Bad Apples, not a random cross-guild invite, not a “lets do the weekly quest”, not a “lets see if we can down the first boss”. But an honest to goodness scheduled, we’re going to clear the first wing of ICC with a 10 man team.
I can’t be very proud of myself, the BA raids are more structured than the Munqui ones with actual assignments! Unfortunately I’m still tempted into popping heals all over the place whenever I see someone low, which resulted in my tank dying! I did get better on focusing on my tank as the night progressed though. Another run or two will let me know whether my tank is a total focus or a number 1 priority with the rest of the raid sitting at number 3 and no number 2.
As is more normal for me now, I ran without any kind of recount so I couldn’t see where I was on the meters until later. How did I do on the meters? Irrelevant! The druid was better than me of course otherwise lets just say I sometimes shared second place with the Priest.
This is only the second time I’ve downed him, and the first time I’ve seen the 2 healer strategy, the last time we had 3 healers. 2 Healers make it much harder to keep the random one that has been “marked” alive, but serious focus healing seemed to do the job.
As per last time I was dropping earthbind totem when I could to slow the “adds” down. Also as per usual I don’t really fully “grok” a fight until I’ve tried it a couple of times – so next time I’ll add Frost Shock into the mix to slow the little buggers down even more, always assuming I can find it on my button bars.
Another thing I learned: on the Gunship battle, I jumped from ship to ship to keep my target in range, though only after witnessing yet another tank death. For me this is all learning the encounters, hopefully I’m not alone in this.
No upgrades for Flowersz unfortunately, but at least I’ll be seeing new content come Sunday and the continuation of this raid. I’ll have to bone up on the bosses before then.
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