Stealing The Staff
Illustra was lounging about today, looking for something to do. One of the guild members in Fury was looking a for a DPS to substitute into an ongoing Sethekk Halls run. Heroic mode, no less. I hadn’t done heroic Sethekk Halls to date, but I thought it might be interesting. Some of the Fury guys are pretty good, and I got a chance to see some of the more veteran members in action.
The group was composed of myself (70 affliction Warlock), Wayneboo (70 arms Warrior), Balzamon (70 Mage), Midgetie (70 protection Warrior), and Valoron (70 restoration Druid), all members of Fury. Valoron has been farming heroic Sethekk Halls, looking for the Raven Lord mount. When I jumped into the group, they were clearing towards the chamber where Anzu is summoned.
This was of course the first time I’ve seen the fight with Anzu. He is summoned in the center of the room, and comes down from the ceiling. Sethekk Halls is usually filled with flying birds anyway; for this ceremony it seemed several more were swirling about the room. He comes down and the fight begins…the tricky part for casters is his Spell Bomb debuff. I got it about three times…when you have it, you can’t cast spells…if you do, it blows out 1000 health and 2000 mana. I managed to have it safely removed twice, but the third time he caught me with it just before a Shadowbolt casted off. I didn’t enjoy being hit so sneakily by him.
Anzu also summons a large group of birds (at two-thirds and one-third his health). We all gather into the center and attempt some AoE. We had plenty to go around between, the Mage and myself. The encounter is quite interesting. The Druid is kept busy by throwing HoTs on the bird statues in the room. Over the duration of the HoT, the statue animates and benefits the party in some way.
We didn’t have any problem dealing with Anzu, but this was a veteran group that has worked together and run this instance many times (except for me, of course). Anzu dropped the Talon of Anzu.
We cleared towards the final boss with some difficulty. In short, the crowd control wasn’t great. I was only asked to get out the succubus once I believe (which is perfectly fine with me). After we cleared some of the trash pulls, there was a bit more opportunity for me to “crowd control” a mob via chain fearing. Chain fearing is something I’m much better at. We did wipe several times…all it would take is for one of the mobs to get a Mind Control on the healer, or a fear on the tank or healer and we had issues recovering. There was quite a bit of cemetery running.
The fight with Talon King Ikiss resulted in a wipe on the first attempt. This was just some bad luck, perhaps everyone wasn’t prepared for the opening of the fight. I was the first one to be dropped, because the tank was polymorphed, I got one-shotted behind a pillar. The second attempt was smooth and everything was under control. I love being a Warlock and running away from a boss or mob for positioning purposes, but still being able to DoT him while facing another direction. Other classes can play with the offensive angle and make an attack while running away to some extent, and other classes wouldn’t be able to attack at all.
Talon King Ikiss dropped a Primal Nether (needed by Balzamon), the Shoulderpads of Assassination (needed by Valoron), the Sethekk Oracle Cloak (needed by Balzamon), and Terokk’s Shadowstaff (needed and won by Illustra). As we were clearing between Anzu and Talon King Ikiss, Balzamon had been relishing the idea of the epic staff dropping and he carrying it into Karazhan that night. When I threw down a superior need roll, I stole it away from him. Huge upgrade for me, and it was a major piece of the upgrades I’d like to win out of the five-man instances. I’ve already put the +40 Spell Damage enchant on it!
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