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Done with Gruul’s
We started our Wednesday raid night off with right at 20 people, so we formed two Kara raids and went to town.
My gear has improved a good bit over the past two weeks so I was given the MT spot this run.
Unfortunately for me and the rest of my raid, I am having a hard time keeping up with the threat that our DPSers can put out there. They are (most of them) horribly ahead of me in gear progression at this point. Not to mention that our Pally gave them all kings/might since they are used to not having to hold back at all.
The Attumen trash went down mostly fine. Had a few deaths from Attumen himself. Cleared our way into the dining hall without a problem. Then it got bad. A death on the AoE pulls. 4 or 5 deaths on one of the 2-pulls from against the wall. A couple more deaths from the 2-pull on the other side.
I need to take a good look at my gear. I think I’m far too heavy on the mitigation side of things right now. I don’t hit hard enough and I miss WAY too much. Even having the DPS give me 3 or 4 seconds to get threat on a pull isn’t a guarantee that they won’t pull threat immediately because my initial swings miss so much. And when I do miss, the healers pull aggro in a split second.
Right after we took down Moroes and his crew Vish and I took a quick AFK and when we got back, everyone was gone! It seems that a few more people had logged in and we had enough for a 25-man, so we were off to Gruul’s.
We wiped right away on Maulgar due to bad positioning of Firehand. We regrouped and took them all down no problems the second time.
Gruul also wiped us on our first shot there. Too many people got hit with cave in I assume. The healers went down, so the tanks went down, then the rest of us one by one. Then during rezzing, one healer got too close to Gruul and aggroed him. One person who had been rezzed started heading for the door. Gruul took out everyone who had been rezzed and went to chase down the runner. I was laying dead in Gruul’s chamber, but Gruul had been marked, so I could see him running through the caves.
After the runner was dead Gruul’s door opened and someone proclaimed that he had reset. But I could still see his mark running back through the caves. The same healer that had aggroed Gruul self-rezzed and started rezzing someone else. Then Gruul - on his way back to his chamber - showed up and stomped him again!
Does that count as three wipes or still just one? Either way, we killed Gruul without a problem on our next *official* attempt.
I got the Greaves of Malorne, making me 2/5 for T4. Oddly enough, those two are both from Gruul’s lair. I thought for sure I would have the two from Kara first. Oh well. I’m personally done with gear from Gruul’s now. It’s nice to know that I don’t have to compete with anyone for the drops there anymore.
The two T4 pieces I’m wearing now make it a bit hard to stay uncrittable (415 Defense for a Druid). Luckily I have recently made revered status with SSO and they have the Glyph of the Gladiator for sale. It’s pretty expensive at 85g (at revered anyway), but that 20 resilience put me over the mark for uncrittableness so I gladly payed it.
I’d rather have the defense and dodge from the Glyph of the Defender, but I’m not yet revered with the Keepers of Time. Five more Black Morass runs though and that bad boy is mine.