ToC, ICC - 9 Dec 2009

So, even though we were all excited about the patch and the new instance, Fook was the most excited and started drinking at midday, in the sun. The end result: he was too sick to come and raid with us.

Adinara is unfortunately the worst geared of all the raid and so the tanking became very difficult. Rezolute took a break from his exams to come check out the new stuff with us, but it was going rather slowly.

I actually really enjoyed going into the instance fresh, without any prior knowledge. It was fun figuring out the abilities of the bosses. Good spotting on the Servants and their sleepy 'pets', Akholy!

So we've learned so far that the boss whirlwinds, shared 200% dmg amongst two or more closest targets, spreads out lines of fire from him, and uses bone spike on people that needs to be DPSed down. Lots of situational awareness.

ToC didn't really go well at all. Actually, the first encounter was most excellent with no one dying. Jaraxxus was kinda terrible. It's probably the first time that we even wiped on that boss. Took us three attempts. Faction Champions were looking dicey but we pulled through. And for the Twins, I think it was getting really hard for Adinara on the off-shield duty. By then it was 9.30, so we just called it and went to bed.

We can start with the end of ToC on Tuesday.

Ulduar - 8 Dec 2009

Wipe fest on General Vezax, our best attempt was 71%, and many many attempts of not even getting to 90% because we failed on interrupts, shadow crashes, leeches, and cooldowns. Moreover, the combat log bugged out and I don't actually know how many attempts we made. It was a good solid hour and a half though.

Looks like it's going to be a patch tonight, so we'll hit up 10 man Icecrown if it is released tomorrow. If not, a quick ToC and maybe another hit or two on the General.

Next week is our last week of raiding in 2009, so it'd be nice to finish the Ulduar instance and move on to better gear before coming back for some hard mode achievements.