It's a bit sad to count how many "months behind" we are on this, the real blocking fight of the instance. However, we've had more chaos and adversity in this raid tier than any other I can remember, and it's a real testament to those that stuck around that we were able to keep the group together, even with the weeks we took off.

It's worth mentioning that our two most geared players decided to leave us a month ago for a "better" guild, just as it looked like we'd be able to kill this. What followed was a lot of begging people to raid and cobbling a group together, and then learning the fight with a single caster, no mage, and no heroism. Eventually we used a BM Hunter for hero and forced our caster to sit to try to get some syngery, so thanks go to Maddik for being willing to sit; to Tatsuo, for coming out of retirement for three weeks to help us keep raids going, and to everybody else who actually stuck with the guild, rather than taking the easy way out.

Nothing is as smooth as a first kill! Losing four tenths of the raid at about 10% to a particularly special Shockwave makes for the best kind of excitement.

We tried so hard to make an unconventional strategy work here, before finally giving up and doing things the "easy" way, which turned into a pretty quick kill. Overall this is a frustrating fight for many, though, since there is so much RNG and weird little nuances.

This was a fight we should have downed much earlier, but with the revolving door on DPS lately, we've had so much trouble keeping a set of solid, geared DPS players in the raid. Oh well, it's done, and on our way we go.

Actual vent conversation during kill: "Hmm, it's at like 40%, we're way behind. Let's just pop hero and hope for the best. Let's try stacking on the boss. No wait, how about the Claw? Yea, let's stack on the Claw. Okay, hero wore off, I think we're like 20% behind. Oh well, just try to heal I guess. <20 seconds pass> Wait, we killed it?"

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