Great Heart, Questionable Intellect

Great Heart, Questionable Intellect

JB's Alliance friend, UB, got it right when she heard that JB was heading back into Naxxramas for the second time. "I admire JB's heart," UB stated, "but question her intellect."

In last night's raid JB focused on the Construct Quarter. The first raid boss in this quarter is Patchwerk. What a nightmare that ugly, smelly monster was back in the day. Getting to him required killing a bunch of mobs, which JB had no trouble with. She also had to jump a flowing gulley of very nasty goo. The smallest touch (when the back of her heel touched the goo when she jumped over it) brought her health down to 2%. That was close. JB then sidestepped the moving drops of goo in the lane that Patchwerk paces. The battle was anti-climactic as JB shut him down in under ten seconds. So much for the nightmare that Wild used to wrestle with on a weekly basis.

Getting to the next two bosses required walking a narrow, winding pipe. Wild was always terrified he would fall, which was instant death and cost the raid a lot of time. JB was more sure footed and traversed the pipe without issue, and very quickly two more bosses, Gluth and Grobbulus, went down. One of them is a giant sized dog, and JB actually felt sorry for the pup.

Then came the final boss in this quarter, Thaddius. Wild has nightmare's about this one, too. There are two adds to kill, on platforms that require jumping one platform to another. Fall short, and the deadly water below will kill you in a few seconds. JB killed the adds but failed to make the leap to Thaddius's platform on the first try (the timing is very tricky). She survived the deadly water by using her walk on water talent and clambered back out for another try. Lightning strikes from the boss kept disrupting JB's attempts to make that leap, and the hits were actually causing disturbing damage.
"Hell with this," JB muttered, "what's the worst that can happen?" She jumped. She didn't make it.

Splash.

Sigh. JB hearthed home. But it doesn't look like she's giving up.