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plonqIt took a few hours, and quite a few tries, but we managed a Horde first on our server; we cleared the spider wing in Naxxaramas.
First pull was at 14:00, and we finally downed her at just after 20:30. Some of the wipes were a learning experience, some were just plain bad luck. We ran 30 minutes past the scheduled end-time for the raid, but we could taste a kill in the making and we all decided to stick it out for as long as it took. By the time we got to the kill, we'd burned through three repair bots, and just about every potion and consumable we had in the guild bank. We went into the final fight with only minimal buffs, leaving us to suspect that strategy and timing was much more important to the fight than all the potions and other goods we'd been burning through.
To give you an idea of how frantic this fight was, here's some of the things that happen during the encounter.
As you can see, it's a pretty intense fight. And this is the easy wing in this instance. O_o
The GMs fired off a note of congratulations to the guild officers after the kill. I guess they'd been watching to see how we'd fare. Cool.
The final kill was really clean, with only a handful of deaths. There was no way we were going to give up after having brought her down to 5% once, 4% twice and 1% (!) twice. Those last two really hurt. =)
I have also been informed that it's the anniversary of my former guild. Grats guys. From what I've seen and heard, it sounds like you're progressing nicely. I'll crack a Gordok Green Grog in your honour.
First pull was at 14:00, and we finally downed her at just after 20:30. Some of the wipes were a learning experience, some were just plain bad luck. We ran 30 minutes past the scheduled end-time for the raid, but we could taste a kill in the making and we all decided to stick it out for as long as it took. By the time we got to the kill, we'd burned through three repair bots, and just about every potion and consumable we had in the guild bank. We went into the final fight with only minimal buffs, leaving us to suspect that strategy and timing was much more important to the fight than all the potions and other goods we'd been burning through.
To give you an idea of how frantic this fight was, here's some of the things that happen during the encounter.
- After the first 20 seconds, and every 40 seconds after she randomly encases three people in web and sticks them to the wall where they will take about 750 points of damage per second until they are freed.
- After 30 seconds, and every 40 seconds after she releases a wave of baby spiders that swarm into the raid.
- Every 40 seconds she sprays the entire raid with web, stunning them for 8 seconds and dealing out about 2100 points of damage.
- She hits with a necrotic poison that reduces healing by 90% for 30 seconds.
- She occasionally fires off a cone of poison dealing about 2100 points of damage to everyone in front of her (important for the raid to stay behind/beside her for that reason).
- At 30% health she enrages and her damage production goes up considerably (as if she wasn't tough enough already.
As you can see, it's a pretty intense fight. And this is the easy wing in this instance. O_o
The GMs fired off a note of congratulations to the guild officers after the kill. I guess they'd been watching to see how we'd fare. Cool.
The final kill was really clean, with only a handful of deaths. There was no way we were going to give up after having brought her down to 5% once, 4% twice and 1% (!) twice. Those last two really hurt. =)
I have also been informed that it's the anniversary of my former guild. Grats guys. From what I've seen and heard, it sounds like you're progressing nicely. I'll crack a Gordok Green Grog in your honour.
