Rockstar and Karazhan Part 3
Sunday night…and Rockstar is picking up a continuation run of Karazhan this week. Everything through Curator is down. The lineup for tonight includes Illhoof and the Shade of Aran, but hopefully we’d be able to do the Chess Event as well.
This week we brought a Warlock with us. Again we experienced smooth clearing right to Illhoof’s bookcase. We quickly setup for the fight, and I tanked Illhoof right on the edge of the green circle on the floor, with Illhoof’s back to the group. This would maximize the speed with which the melee DPS could turn around and destroy the Demon Chains when needed.
The fight was as usual, a flurry of imps, impressive DPS, great heals, and looked as chaotic as it was fun. This is another one of those easy tanking fights…I get to spam threat moves, throw in a few Thunderclaps to try and get the imps to focus on me for a second…not much difficulty for the main tank. I try to stay on top of the Deadly Boss Mods bars and help announce when things might happen.
We dropped Terestian Illhoof in 4 minutes, 27 seconds. He dropped Shadowvine Cloak of Infusion (disenchanted) and the Lightning Capacitor (needed by Amrys). This was a great start to the evening. Just as with the Maiden of Virtue, we had an experimental attempt with the group at hand, saw how the fight worked, and came back on the next outing with the appropriate skills to one-shot the boss fight. Great work.
With this bolstered confidence, we went once again to the Shade of Aran. The Shade of Aran wiped us for four straight attempts, but yielded on the fifth. One attempt had us caught in a Flame Wreath when the elementals came up. Bad news for us, the raid was snuffed almost instantly. Having healthstones to use after theMass Polymorph was big for us. I think people are getting the hang of this fight…and a few people need to work on some stamina gear to ensure the pyroblast doesn’t one-shot them.
The Shade of Aran was dropped on our fifth attempt in 4 minutes, 42 seconds. He dropped the Boots of the Incorrupt (disenchanted) and the Saberclaw Talisman (needed by Amrys). I think everyone was celebrating after this fight…this is a real Karazhan milestone. We dropped him (sure after a few wipes) on our first foray into the instance. Good times.
On to the Chess Event. It’s nice to have such a pushover encounter after the big Shade fight. Trivia explained to the newcomers how to use their chess pieces. I got a chance to be the king. I was charging forward towards the opposing king, but was eventually caught trapped between 5 of their pieces and 3 of our pieces. I was surrounded. I was spamming my attack and heroism as best I could. I was getting great heals. Eventually I was able to break through and attack the opposing king. It was a relief to see his health going down faster than mine. Great healers on our side.
The Chess Event chest dropped the Girdle of Treachery (needed by Predictys) and the Headdress of the High Potentate.
The group decided to take a shot on Prince, although time was winding down quickly. We had Armandeluz in the group, he’s a top-notch holy Paladin. It took a while to get the explanation of the fight off, and we took our shot. I was thoroughly impressed…I was just hoping I wouldn’t go down like a rag-doll in the opening seconds of the fight. We got lucky with the infernal drops (I was tanking Prince in one of the “typical” spots, about 40 yards in front of the door). Amrys got some hard lessons about Enfeeblement and what happens if you don’t get out of range in time. We were able to get into phase 2 (albeit just barely) on our first-ever try. That’s hot stuff.
We got the pep talk from Trivia and Armandeluz, which is good for the newcomers I think, to put things in perspective. Our first week together as a group, including 4 completely new people, and we one-shot mots of the bosses in Karazhan and get Prince to phase 2 on our first try. Good things lay ahead for the group. This was a great evening. We could have moved faster in places (such as getting back after a death and buffing up), but Illhoof and Shade and Chess down, that’s a great accomplishment. We would be back for a shot at the remaining tougher bosses.
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