Clean Karazhan Run For Kruenor
It’s been a while since my Hunter ran with his guild Apex of War in Karazhan. It might have been three weeks to be exact. Last night’s run went very well…I think there were some scheduling issues (maybe some no-shows). So after getting the proper number of tanks and healers available, I got an invite to join the run.
Clearing through the trash mobs leading Attumen didn’t require any trapping, as we were running with three Priests. So it makes it that much easier…rotating through tank targets is a Hunter’s specialty. Occasionally we’ve been sloppy with point-of-attack and fears causing unintended pulls of nearby mobs. But on this night, these pulls would be clean.
Facing Attumen, we had our DPS warrior Haltaf on Midnight, and our feral Druid Lycana on Attumen. It was a bit of a surprise at first, at least for me. I thought Haltaf would be on Attumen for the Disarm and Spell Reflection (bouncing Attumen’s curse back onto himself), but now I’m trying to remember whether or not DPS Warriors have Disarm…I think it’s a trainable skill for all Warriors. I’ll have to check it now. In any event, a couple of healers went down for some reason, but we had the fight under control. I’m glad to see Apex of War is using the “gather into melee range” strategy for dealing with Attumen when he mounts his horse. This prevents the notorious charging.
We dropped Attumen with one shot in 4 minutes, 36 seconds. Attumen dropped the Steelhawk Crossbow (needed by Roguejustice) and the Gloves of Saintly Blessings (needed by Katare).
Clearing the trash to Moroes was very well done. I don’t think we had any deaths of the AoE pulls…Lycana did a great job of picking of the phantoms who were attacking healers or our Warlock. For these pulls I like to enable my Ravager’s Growl ability, and then I enjoy the challenge of remembering it to disable Growl for the single elite pulls. I made the mistake of forgetting to disable Growl exactly twice last night.
The Moroes fight ended up well, although it started poorly. We had three shackles available, and the idea was to shackle three of the adds. The first target in the DPS rotation would be triangle, which was to be tanked initially by Romtu’s pet. The yellow star would be next in the DPS rotation, and I was to misdirect it to my pet as the first target was brought down. Well…star didn’t get shackled right away, and at least half of the DPS was fighting it. The other half was fighting green triangle. I was going all out on green triangle, as we must normally do, in order to quickly dispatch the first couple of mobs. I ended up hunter-tanking the green triangle for about 15 seconds, and ended up being killed in the opening 20 seconds of the fight. Not good. Yellow star was finally shackled, and DPS was focusing on green triangle.
Khalie gave me a quick battle rez and I rejoined the fight. Luckily my pet was still alive, so I just had to whistle him back. I totally forgot to use Trueshot Aura and Aspect of the Viper to help out myself and the group…I used a mana potion to get some mana back to help with keeping some of the shackles ice trapped.
We lost Katare in the fight as well, and I believe Lycana shifted forms to give our healer a battle rez. Luckily we had a couple of Druids in the group that night. We ended up one-shotting Moroes in 4 minutes, 20 seconds. Moroes dropped the Royal Cloak of Arathi Kings (disenchanted) and the Nethershard Girdle (disenchanted).
As we cleared trash towards the Maiden of Virtue, one of the trash mobs dropped the Ring of Unrelenting Storms (disenchanted). I swear this is the fourth straight run of Karazhan that ring has dropped from trash.
Clearing towards the Maiden of Virtue was smooth and without much issue. I should have been faster rotating my pet to the Phantom Hounds…I’d forgotten they would spawn. I had this down by the time we got to the end of the hall. The hounds shouldn’t have been able to hinder anyone (especially the healers), because we had two Hunters in the group able to dispatch pets to the hounds.
The Maiden of Virtue fight went great, and we did not use a Paladin. I confess I should have been paying more attention to what the tank and healers were doing. Now I’m not sure if a healer jumped into the potential AoE zone before Repentance, or if the tank dragged the Maiden to one of the healers during Repentance. I was able to keep Stryker up for the whole fight with a few heals. By the end of the fight, Roguejustice and Khalie were down, and Katare died right in the final seconds of the fight.
We one-shotted the Maiden of Virtue in 2 minutes, 40 seconds. The Maiden of Virtue dropped the Gloves of Centering (disenchanted) and the Boots of Foretelling (needed by Darthyoda). Tullus disconnected right after the fight…apparently he gets disconnected at the same time (roughly 8:39 PM) every night, which is insane. We waited for him to return and continued moving towards the Opera Event.
Dealing with the Skeletal Ushers was pretty sloppy. As Haltaf isn’t able to generate threat as quickly as a true protection Warrior, the goal was for Romtu and I to share misdirect duties to him. Romtu would misdirect the first (in a pair) of Skeletal Ushers to Haltaf to open the fight…and I would misdirect the second of the pair to Haltaf to finish the fight. Roguejustice climbed too quickly on the threat meter and ended up getting clocked by the first Skeletal Usher. These mobs must be handled one at a time, because they encase a top threat target within an Ice Tomb, and would normally rotate their aggro to the other tank. If one of the top two on the threat list isn’t a tank, that person is probably going to be killed.
For the Opera Event, we drew the Wizard of Oz, which I enjoy. This group is very seasoned, as far as winning the event. Darthyoda would be handling the Strawman (the scarecrow), and engulfing him in fire as much as possible. Lycana would be tanking Roar (the cowardly lion), who would be our first DPS target. Haltaf would be kiting Tinhead (the tin man), and I would be to throw in a few Wing Clips early on to help Haltaf out. Dorothy would be ignored until Strawman and Roar were dead…when her dog Tito emerges, we put our Hunter pets on him to make sure he doesn’t silence the casters.
We pretty much executed the fight flawlessly. When the Crone emerged, I finally did NOT receive the pleasure of being caught in the Cyclone. No one died during this fight. We one-shotted the Wizard of Oz in 4 minutes, 50 seconds. The Crone dropped the Beastmaw Pauldrons (needed by Romtu) and the Blue Diamond Witchwand (needed by Menohealu).
I was hoping we’d give Curator a shot, but with the late start on a weeknight, the raid was called there. No matter. I’m sure these guys are going destroy the next few bosses when they pick it up on Thursday night.
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