To help out the DPS a little, I switched to DPS and Sharny healed with Akholy. Unfortunately, that wasn't really working as she kept getting hit by snobolds. Trees really do have an upper hand on that fight.
Other than that, Northrend Beasts was really really really bad. We died on worms repeatedly, and when we finally killed the Yeti, most of the DPS were dead.
It's really important to stay spread out through all of the phases of that fight. Especially during worms. They breathe poison/fire in a cone in front of them, and the more people get hit, the more we're running around and not killing them.
We took so long to kill the encounter that we almost hit the enrage timer. This is not an option in hard mode - the bosses come out when THEY think it's time not when we've killed the previous boss as in the normal mode. This is why we need to focus our DPS, to hit snobolds when they're up, kill the worms with minimal running around, and get maximum damage on the yeti during stun phases.
Five attempts on Beasts is really quite shameful, and I would like us not to do that again.
Lord Jaraxxus was fairly ordinary, and other than some people missing their legion flames, it went quite smoothly.
Faction Champions were AMAZING. THE best attempt I have ever seen in normal, hard, 10 man, or 25 man. One shot, everyone on full health, absolutely beautiful. Let's do that again every time :D
Twins were abysmal once again. I realise I've not written up a strat for it, but these fights are comparatively easy. Lightbane is a light creature, she hates dark. So if you have dark aura, you do more damage to her. Darkbane is a dark creature, she is a vampire, grrr arrr, if you have light when you hit her, she goes booo hisss, and gets upset and dies. This is especially important to remember when one of them has a shield up. Only light can break through a dark shield; only dark can break through a light shield. It's like Maths - plus and minus cancel out.
The spanner in the works is when one of them is explody, THEN and only then do you want to be the SAME colour as the explody boss. Think of it as "there is SOOOO much light coming out of Lightbane that to protect myself I need to _absorb_ it instead of _break_ through it". Become one with the light. Or some such.
The final boss was fairly well done, the healing was much smoother than the attempts previously, and no one died. Very proud.
I think the transient 8th and 9th spots in the raid are making it hard for us, and so if we want to progress towards Icecrown Citadel and Hard modes, we need a stable team.
At this point, Az won't be able to do ToGC with us as he's bound to another team for hard modes, Adinara should be coming back next week but might not, and Yas is only helping out because we're short.
If you have some mates that would be keen on a constant team, ask them, and let me know.
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