Kruenor Fights Curator Through Illhoof
The continuation of Karazhan by the Apex of War core group was a modestly successful one last Thursday night. We had gotten a late start due to personnel issues on the first night, and I had been pulled in at the last minute because of needed DPS. The same would hold true on this night, and I got a chance to go along again.
The group was able to one-shot the Curator with no deaths. We had our protection Warrior Cidemo on Curator the whole time of course, but he was joined by our Arms warrior Haltaf and our rogue Painne. I’m glad to see the Rogue get a chance to focus on Curator, but wondered how the group would fare downing the Astral Flares without 2 of our DPS members. As it happened, that wouldn’t be a legitimate concern.
We weren’t getting behind on the flares, but he weren’t getting ahead either. At first, the two Hunters pets were supposed to have been on Curator, but I think we both began using them to help control the flares. The Curator was at 50% after the first evocation, and we had him down just after his second evocation completed. Curator was killed in 4 minutes, 15 seconds, and he dropped the Gloves of the Fallen Hero (needed by Kruenor, finally!) and the Staff of Infinite Mysteries (needed by Khalie). Everyone has been waiting for that staff to drop, and it does, on a night where there were no Mages in the group.
We decided to go after the Shade of Aran next, which is the move I agree with. I believe in always gaining access to the shortcut as soon as possible. Unfortunately it would take us two tries to get Shade of Aran down on that night. The first attempt lasted just over three minutes and ended with Shade at 19% health (I died when he was at about 32% health).
On the second attempt at Shade, we dropped him in 4 minutes, 28 seconds. We handled the elementals particularly well during this go…one was banished for the duration of the fight, and two of the other were killed quickly. Romtu and Menohealu were the only casualties. The Shade of Aran dropped the Steelspine Faceguard (needed by Romtu) and the Shermanar Great-Ring (needed by Haltaf for his tanking set).
We retraced our steps to have a crack at Terestian Illhoof. I had to modify my macro a little bit, because they wanted my DPS on either the Demon Chains or Terestian Illhoof (minus Kil’rek), as the case may be. Without a Paladin in the group for Consecration Aura, Warlass was having a tough time spamming Seed of Corruption.
We would wipe twice before getting Illhoof down on the third try. On our victorious attempt, I had a major meltdown with my user interface once again. There was a period of about 30 to 45 seconds where my autoshot icon appeared to be locked up, and I was unable to shoot any shots. As a Hunter, that’s a problem. I was able to swing my pet back and forth to the Demon Chains and Illhoof, and I was also able to lay a Snake Trap down, but that was it. That’s a tough thing to swallow, to just be standing there (and it didn’t escape the notice of others) as the group is calling out the “burn him” signal. By un-equipping my ranged weapon and re-equipping another ranged weapon (as well as the ammo), I was effectively able to “unstick” my autoshot key. I have no idea what this problem is, but it is certainly annoying.
Illhoof dropped in 4 minutes, 54 seconds (our third attempt). He dropped The Lightning Capacitor (greeded by Romtu) and the Shadowvine Cloak of Infusion (disenchanted).
I was hoping we’d clear to the Chess Event, but on this night (a week night), they called the raid…but it was okay, I was pretty tired at that point myself.
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