Raid, it kills bugs.

This week’s raids start off with our Wed. night OS/VOA 10 man with a side of 25 pug.

It went much smoother this week than our first week did.  One of our healers wasn’t able to come and we’re short on backups for anything (save tanks) so we decided after waiting for a PUG healer that never came, to just 2-heal them.  It worked alright, a wipe at the beginning of OS due to nobody moving and our lack of a raid healer when the AOE fire came down fromt he skies – we learned the lesson and started moving out of the way of such things.  But after that it all went smoothly, from OS to VOA 10.  Then we picked up 15 more for VOA 25 which went quick.

Caluah a hunter of KAF’s got a couple upgrades (fist/leggings) and Isaaru our mage got some leggings as well.  It was a decent night for the guild, even though no Shaman worthy gear dropped save the fist for Enhance offspec, heh.

Hopefully Naxx will render me some more upgrades on Friday!

First Guild Naxx – Pt. 1

It was painful, it was tiring, it was depressing – it was great! 

I can’t say I’m not a little disappointed.  I went in thinking that a lot of our members had at least pugged Naxx before but turned out once we got in that our main tank hadn’t even attempted it, let alone got in a worthy distance.  Luckily we have a few others with the experience to explain the fights – our main tank couldn’t use vent because the codec wasn’t Apple compliant.  Which made it that much harder to get everyone on the same page.  We also had to pick up 3-4 DPS to fill our empty slots which made things nerve wracking a bit more than they would have been had we all been guildies.  At the end of the day we got 2 of 4 quarters clear (Plague/Arachnid). 

We’re supposed to take the rest down tonight – supposing none of the DPS we rotated out hijack it during today’s off-time and finish it off without us.  That’s the worst part about picking up pug fill-in’s.  Hopefully their inability to comit while actually IN our group is a taint on the rest of their sad lives so getting up the nerve to do so is just not in their cards.

I got boned out of a waist drop because one of our scrubs add-ins looted while I was out of the instance repairing during an unfortunate death when they downed the boss.  I got a leather head piece that I probably won’t even use. 

I did get a nice caster trinket and before that my wrist finally dropped in DTK so all in all my +Heals are up over 1800 with Earthliving 1900+ with Flametongue down.  Progress is going…if we do get to finish up Naxx tonight I’m hoping I’ll get some shoulders off of Patchwerk and another chance at some T7 tokens.

That’s about it.  Over all I think a lot of us learned a ton and the next week’s run should be MUCH smoother!  Good times.

Tips Learned:

• Don’t rely on DBM for timing your heals on Loath in the Plague Quarter.  It doesn’t work well – watch the debuff timer.