Monday - (12 Sep) The Ole Switcheroo

Monday - (12 Sep) The Ole Switcheroo

The Mf led and new, full on Firelands raid started on Monday night - well now, hold there pardner ... About ten minutes before invites were scheduled to go out, the raid leader whispered Wild: "We are going to run BWD tonight to help a feral druid guildie get some healing gear. Cool w/that?"

Hmm, personally, not really, Wild was thinking, but heck, Wild is the only raiding resto druid in the guild, at least until Bd can buy another game card. Wouldn't hurt to grow another. But don't expect Wild to pass on resto druid gear if it happens to be a helm. Wild said Ok. At least we'll down a few bosses and Wild will pick up some valor points. Once we zoned in Wild realized that Mf had saved the raid from last week. Ok so no farming the first three bosses, we were starting with Boss #4, Chimaeron. Still a good thing, since Wild wants a helm and the last two bosses, Atramedes and Nefarian, might drop one.

The night was typical of our raids. Lots of time sinks when not a lot got done. We seemed to have entered a "klutz" phase with raiders not paying close attention to where they were going. We wiped four times during the course of the evening on TRASH, simply because raiders weren't watching where they were going. It's not like those mobs were hiding from us or jumping out from behind pillars or something. They are clearly visible and patrol very well worn paths. After awhile it got kind of funny, in a "what else can ya do but laugh" kind of way. Anyway, we killed two bosses, Chimaeron and Atramedes, on six total attempts. And no, Atramedes did not drop a helm. We had more than a half hour to tackle Nefarian, but several raiders had not seen this fight yet. They were sent off to watch the ten minute video of the fight, and when that was done there was a ten minute explanation of the fight. Then another few minutes re-explaining tactics to raiders who HAD seen the fight but still had questions. With five minutes left of our raid time, we made one attempt that failed in the first phase and we then went home.

The raid leader thanked everyone for coming, congratulated us on getting two bosses down, and was glad some more raiders got to see the Nefarian fight. I'm glad I'm not a raid leader.

Wild did have some fun whispering with our pally healer, and we kept up a conversation about healing, and Firelands, and whatever else came to mind. She was a pretty deadly warlock back when we first started raiding together, but she likes healing and once she switched to her pally she's stayed with it.

Speaking of the Firelands, Blizzard has announced that the Nerf Stick is going to start hitting the Firelands on 19 Sep. They are looking at Patch 4.3 (which will come with three more five man raids, I think) arriving perhaps in November, so they are looking to get more players a chance at Ragnaros. They will be nerfing both normal and Heroic modes, so those who want credit for an un-nerfed Heroic Rag kill had better get busy.

Even Wild is disappointed at the nerf news. It's possible Wild's guild will not even have one Firelands boss down before the first nerf. That would make Wild a sad cow.