While we didn't get as far as we would've liked (AHR would've been nice. I hear she has 100 priest drops just waiting for us!), we pulled through 3-4 near-wipes. The tanks and chanters, as our crowd control, did a particularly superb job tonight, and we lived through some pulls we had no right to live through.
We prepared for the raid by repeating useful phrases to ourselves:
And buffing with our usual professionalism:
The entry way just inside the palace was beautiful.... after we killed the mobs there:
But soon the decor wore on the raid:
We discovered all was not totally unfamiliar in this new zone:
Although there were indeed a few game mechanics that some.... took exception to:
Certainly there were some oddities about the zone we hope are not repeated on future trips:
And we had some excitement in trying to figure out how to actually get through the zone at all. Luckily some thinking, remembering, reading, and finally just a bit of experimentation yielded a key to let us get to blob1. Shylah summed it up well:
TVX, the first boss, was highly unexciting:
Grats Bora and Piamiles on:
A bunch of the pulls, however, were. This is from after a pull calmed down and we merely had 5 mobs in camp:
And here's the aftermath of the pull + traps + spawning mobs + general fun that led to our closest almost-wipe of the evening:
Truly a zone for a skilled raid to shine in -- particularly the chanters! The time we spent in NToV definitely helped with the raid discipline necessary to deal so well with Vex Thal.
We crawled to blob1 to end the evening, and got some fun screenshots while there:
The best feature of blob1 is its AE gflux. Free rides the entire time! Rummel took advantage of it to practice his new rogue fighting technique, Crouching Tiger, Flying Dorf:
Grats Redleaf and Utdaan on:
It was definitely a historic night for Temerity. I did take pause several times as the night went on, however, and wondered.... if a single night here can produce the following, then what will several raids do?
