We are now 11/12 in ICC normal, meaning we have but just one boss remaining - The Lich King, the Prince formerly known as Arthas Menethil. (HA! Puns.)
In the last 2 weeks since Sindragosa's demise, we've given a handful of attempts at the Lich King. He's pretty tough, as we all expect him to be - I mean, he is like, THE big bad boy of WoW, at least for the time being. Once Cataclysm comes out, I'm sure a team of 2 paladins and a druid will be "farming" him for the mount...sad but true. I mean, look at me, I run ZG and Kara every week for mounts with an uber raid consisting of a rogue tank/dps and a pvp disc priest.
Anyways, yes he is tough. The fight is complicated and it seems pretty stressful for the healers, since they really need to be on the ball about dispelling and topping people off and such. Then again, he hits the tanks like a truck so I'm sure it's stressful for them as well to watch their 60k HP dip into the triple digits every now and then. Come to think of it, it's really stressful for the DPS to kill all the adds that spawn constantly. Damn, the fight is stressful for everyone, it seems!
I'm happy to report that we seem to be making progress. We were able to get him to phase 2 and killed a Valkyr before she could drag our paladin off the ledge. I'd say maybe in another 30-40 wipes we may be able to get this.
Unfortunately our main tank is leaving us after this week, so we'll have to get someone else in who will need to learn the fight over again. Sigh. The biggest roadblock to raid progression is not skill or gear, it's the number of people who can consistently raid. Frailty thy name is the casual raider!
So we shall see how things go. We have a couple more attemps scheduled before our MT leaves. After that I might switch guilds yet again. You see, I was recruited during a pug! It was ICC25 and man, was I on it. I was on steroids or something, pumping out 14k dps on saurfang. My name was #1 on the charts starting from the first trash pull all the way up to festergut (where we wiped twice and everyone left). The raid leader, another rogue, just came right out and said it - "I want to steal you from your guild". His guild had the kingslayer, was 9/12 in heroic mode, so yeah I was about to say "take me, take me now!". Until he mentioned that they raid starting at 7pm... >.> Living on the west coast sucks.
But I'm still thinking it over. I mean, if I really wanted to, I could make that raid time. My work schedule is flexible, I'd just need to get my ass in early. But it can be done. Plus their 25man group runs a little later so I could definitely do that. I guess what's holding me back really is laziness. Switching guilds mean you start at the bottom of the food chain again. There's the stress of trying to impress people, the potential of clashing personalities or annoying 14 year olds on vent, loot drama, awkwardness between ex-guildies, etc etc. So much to take into consideration.
Although next week I might ask if I can raid with them for the 25man. If they seem like nice folks I'll seriously consider switching. But nowadays I'm a lot more picky than I used to be. I hope I haven't become a gear snob/elitist jerk. I'm still in touch with the common man, I swear! My pally alt is only at 3k GS so I know what it's like guys!
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