Friday’s night was interesting in all sort of wrong ways.\u00c2\u00a0 I already hadn’t been sure if I’d make it because of a birthday dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, at dinner I did my normal drinking and when we finished, I was happy to find that I had made it home in time for the raid.\u00c2\u00a0 And I was still feeling the effects of the drinks.<\/p>\n
Which in itself, wouldn’t be bad.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve raided before while drunk.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve done most of the fights enough times that it’s more a matter of staying awake rather than doing what’s right.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem?\u00c2\u00a0 We were missing a Hunter.<\/p>\n
Normally our ICC runs have 2 Hunters.\u00c2\u00a0 The rare times the other regular Hunter isn’t on, our group knows a couple of standby Hunters, none of which were available.\u00c2\u00a0 Since all of them are MM Hunters, while I’m just an SV Hunter, it usually means that I leave the responsiblity for placing Hunter’s Mark<\/a> on target’s because they have Improved Hunter’s Mark<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 So I’m out a practice.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, even in PvE I’ve gotten out of the habit because I tend to blast through things so fast nowadays.<\/p>\n It primarily affects my dps numbers, but you can’t have everything.\u00c2\u00a0 A minor thing but still significant.\u00c2\u00a0 But again, I wasn’t really worried.\u00c2\u00a0 What was a bit more worrisome was the fact that we ended up with no Druid or Paladin, meaning we were missing some of our raid buffs.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t usually run with a Mage and with no MM Hunter’s, it means I was going to be without a Trueshot Aura<\/a> as well.\u00c2\u00a0 So our dps was going to take a general hit.\u00c2\u00a0 I did compensate slightly with a Drums of Forgotten Kings<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0Drums of the Wild<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 So, not only was I the only Hunter, I was apparently also the Druid and the Paladin of the run…which became slightly more true than I like…<\/p>\n We started with Heroic Rotface.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally our Paladin tank is responsible for the Big Ooze<\/a>, but since he wasn’t with us, the Death Knight tank took that responsibility with the Warrior tank on Rotface himself.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we were short a Hunter, I believe we used the Warlock as an additional ranged for the Vile Gas<\/a> attacks.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I actually find the Heroic version of the fight easier than the normal for some reason, I didn’t think anything of it.<\/p>\n Well, my drunken state meant I was a little slow on my reaction and I was in the middle of an area that got hit with an Ooze Flood<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I also managed to get hit by a Slime Spray<\/a> at the same time and if it wasn’t for our healers being on the ball, I would have died.\u00c2\u00a0 Which became important about midway through the fight.<\/p>\n I suddenly heard “I’m down!\u00c2\u00a0 I’m down!”\u00c2\u00a0on vent followed by “Key, Ooze!”\u00c2\u00a0 The first was of course our DK, who didn’t get through the Ooze Flood fast rough and had gotten rooted and died.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, even in my alcohol hazed state, I still immediately found, targeted and starting shooting at the Big Ooze.\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing I put out some hefty damage and threat with my Explosive Shot<\/a> and Aimed Shot<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t keep Distracting Shot<\/a> on my toolbar normally,\u00c2\u00a0one accidentally button push and things get ugly.<\/p>\n So suddenly I found myself tanking the Big Ooze around.\u00c2\u00a0 While I never managed to master the “Jump Shot” most kiting Hunter’s learn, I’ve gotten pretty good at strafing while kiting.\u00c2\u00a0 The one I had exploded and we actually lucked out slightly when I ended up being the next target of a Mutated Infection<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It meant I didn’t have to go running around looking for at least one of the Little Ooze<\/a>s,\u00c2\u00a0I just had to find one more, merge them, then run like a rabbit.<\/p>\n So despite that “Crap!” moment, we actually managed to down Rotface on Heroic.\u00c2\u00a0 (I was also sobering up rather rapidly at that point.)\u00c2\u00a0 We then moved on to Festergut on Heroic.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The first try actually was going well, we avoided the Malleable Goo<\/a> well and\u00c2\u00a0didn’t have problems with the spore placement.\u00c2\u00a0 What killed us was when the off-tank taunted, took one blow and DIED!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n The off-tank realized what he did wrong, and we tried again.\u00c2\u00a0 To very similar results.\u00c2\u00a0 It was decided that Festergut just hits way too hard on heroic for us to deal with.\u00c2\u00a0 So we switched back to normal and took him down with no problem.<\/p>\n Well, at this point we didn’t even try Professor Putricide on Heroic.\u00c2\u00a0 Our DK took control of the Abomination, which he had done before and the Warrior took on Putricide, which he hadn’t done before.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, it’s pretty basic for that tank.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I guess he didn’t understand our normal strategy, which is to tank Putricide by his table for most of the fight.\u00c2\u00a0 He started kiting him around the room.\u00c2\u00a0 Which in itself wouldn’t be bad, except he was kiting him slowly around the room, which mean that Putricide, and by extension the raid, was near where either the Volatile Ooze<\/a> or Gas Cloud<\/a> was spawning.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, dps actually was good on switching to target them and it wasn’t an issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Putricide went down and we were off to the Crimson Hall.<\/p>\n Where we ran into our first Hunter deficiency issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally, the 2 Hunter’s are responsible for Kinetic Bombs<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 So this time, they assigned the Warlock for the other Kinetic Bomb.\u00c2\u00a0 Two problems with this though.\u00c2\u00a0 One, the Warlock had never done it before and two, something I didn’t know, is that it’s only direct damage<\/em> that keeps the bombs in the air.\u00c2\u00a0 Which meant that all the Warlock’s DOTs weren’t going to work, he’d have to pet it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Which he found he couldn’t quite do.\u00c2\u00a0 And actually, since he didn’t even know what the Kinetic Bombs were when we explained it, he started attacking the Dark Nucleus<\/a> instead, the ones our off-tank needed to survive.\u00c2\u00a0 They way their aggro works is that they don’t have a threat table, they just aggro on whatever last damaged them.\u00c2\u00a0 And with DOTs on them, it meant that even when the off-tank hit them, the DOT would tick the next second and be back on the Warlock.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Once we got the Dark Nucleus\/Kinetic Bomb issue straightened out, the Warlock still was having issues with them.\u00c2\u00a0 So, with a heavy, drunken heart, I took on both bombs to allow the Warlock to just concentrate on dpsing the bosses.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, I’ve singled the Kinetic Bombs before, and I’ve worked out a few tricks, like setting my pet on passive so that I know when the bomb he’s attacking is done and I can send him after another.\u00c2\u00a0 With that issue straightened out, the Blood Prince Council went down.<\/p>\n Then it was on to the Blood Queen herself.\u00c2\u00a0 Which again, began a comedy of errors.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of it was again people not knowing what to do or at least how we do it, such as the two people with Pact of the Darkfallen<\/a> going to the center of the room.\u00c2\u00a0 Others were people either biting the wrong people or not biting at all and getting Mind Controlled.\u00c2\u00a0 We finally called it a night, although we were getting pretty close at the end.<\/p>\n Saturday night we reconvenied and ran to the Blood Queen.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, since Heroic is not particularly any more difficult than normal, primarily just a dps issue, we did it as a Heroic fight.\u00c2\u00a0 This time, we got everything just perfectly and she went down.<\/p>\n Then it was on to Sindragosa, which is where we spent the rest of the night.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was a long damn night for it.\u00c2\u00a0 About a third of the people hadn’t done the fight, and half didn’t know our tactics for it.\u00c2\u00a0 And it wasn’t entirely new people, but a few of our regulars still haven’t gotten the tactics down correctly.<\/p>\n So part of the issue was the tanks, primarily positioning issues and getting the whole “run, remove the debuff, run back in” cycle.\u00c2\u00a0 Which on one hand, was a good thing since at least our DK tank wasn’t even sure his gear was up for tanking that fight.\u00c2\u00a0 But during one try, I got the Frost Beacon<\/a> on me and I ran towards the tail, which was where the next placement was supposed to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Except the tank turned her at that moment, meaning I got a Tail Smash<\/a> full in the face.\u00c2\u00a0 Which in itself wouldn’t have been bad, except we were near the stairs and I didn’t fly too far, in fact I flew into the middle of two other dps and we all got Ice Tombed<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Which became the theme of the night.\u00c2\u00a0 People didn’t know to avoid the people tagged with the Frost Beacon, which caused a couple of instances of multiple Ice Tombs.\u00c2\u00a0 Other times, people would place the Ice Tombs too far away, meaning the tanks couldn’t remove the debuff and died.\u00c2\u00a0 One guy was running the wrong way, and when they corrected him, he RAN THROUGH THE RAID, trying to get into position.\u00c2\u00a0 And naturally, that ended up with half the raid Ice Tombed.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s when people even realized they had the Frost Beacon.\u00c2\u00a0 Once, I was Ice Tombed, I was broken out and then immediately Ice Tombed again!\u00c2\u00a0 The Frost Beacon player didn’t move and as a result, everyone except one tank and one healer got Ice Tombed!<\/p>\n Needless to say, it was a long frustrating night.\u00c2\u00a0 After a couple of hours, we finally started getting people to at least go to the correct side of Sindragosa, but was still often placing it too far away or would stand too close to someone else who had the Frost Beacon.\u00c2\u00a0 And almost cruely, the Frost Beacon’s were almost always going to the newest members, not those of us who had done the fight a couple of times and knew generally where to stand.<\/p>\n So we called it a night.\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday night was a wash because again we were missing people.\u00c2\u00a0 If we have enough people, we’ll probably give it another go tonight, hopefully with a regular tank back.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I think that would help all that much, the tanks managed to work out a lot of the positioning issues by the time 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