CoD Takes Another Shot At Heroic Northrend Beasts-25

[Milric]

Tuesday's run went into Heroic CC-25, taking a second crack at Heroic Northrend Beasts. We did not down them, but I did not expect us to. I really wanted to see improvement over our last visit; we certainly improved.

After the first 45 minutes, it became a given that, each attempt, we would down Gormok and get to the worms with everyone still standing. We have a solid tanking, healing, snobald strategy for Gormok and it works repeatedly.

The worms gave us a lot of trouble. The trouble breaks into two categories: mistakes and weak strategy. Most of the mistakes were just due to inexperience. Melee would drift in front of a worm and take a breath attack for instance. That type of thing just takes practice to correct. However, our overall bile strategy was not working for us. After the evening's run, a few raiders discussed the issue in vent. We believe we have a solution for the bile problem. It will actually make Gormok slightly more difficult, but it should make the worms significantly easier.

We actually got to Icehowl once. I'll have to look at the logs, but I believe we had 23 or 22 people up at the time. We DPSed him for a full cycle, keeping everyone standing, until his charge phase. He tagged a raider on the charge, enraged, and that was all she wrote. Again, dodging him on Heroic is just a practice issue. After we start getting to him regularly, we will have that down.

The team performed well, with all three roles being up to the task. The tanks held agro, could take the hits, and could position the mobs. The healers could keep people standing (as long as they did not stand in fire/poison) including several times were a healer had a snobald on them. The DPS were meeting the various timers in the fight. Good work.

Along the way, a second team went into Onyxia-10 and downed her; scoring the achievement for a few people. Good work there as well.

We will make a serious run at them next week. If our change in the bile strategy works, we may down them.