After finishing up our failed Emalon attempt, we regrouped for a planned Naxx-10 run with as many members of Bad JuJu as we could muster up and fleshed out the rest with our "sister" guild compadres.
All in all, I am very proud of how everyone performed in the two completed quarters of Arachnid and Military. The wipes were minimal and usually just due to rushing through trash pulls. My breakdown of the performance
Arachnid -
Anubrakan (sp?) - One shot. Since our MT is overgeared, it was easy enough to "heal through" the debuff. Everyone performed admirably, especially our OT was new to the fights in picking up the adds. I raid healed the fight
Grand Widow - Two shot. Our MT did go down, probably due to all the poison abolishing I was doing and not being able to heal through the enrage (we did it the hard way lol). Second time was much better.
Maxenna - One shot. I healed again, flailing my mouse and keyboard to keep off the poison and raid heal. Definitely a good test for my newfound healing off-role. Offtank did well on the add pickups, and the hunter did well on the wraps.
Military -
Instructor Razzledazzle - I think one shot. First time to mind control tanks for our OT. He did very well. I dps'd this as we had picked up a third healer to replace a fury warrior from our guild. I topped DPS on this one with over 3k.
Gothik - Two shots. First attempt the light side got overwhelmed. Again the OT was here and was his first attempt. We reassigned groups, so I was now with the OT and could help him tank the adds on the 2nd attempt. Try two the dark side started to get a bit overwhelemed, but they perservered in time. The boss came down and went after me initially, but no big even in cat form to take a couple swings. In the end he went down.
Four horseman - Two shots. The first try we failed because I was trying the backside for the first time. I tried to go bear and was thinking the healadin was going to stick with him. I guess I misunderstood the strategy, so round two i switched back to resto and "heal tanked" while the front side group worked them down. This obviously worked out much better. The only issue we had was our shadow priest died twice (battle rezzed once) dying on the back side to the voids the one boss plops all over the floor.
All in all, with several players with little to no experience running these quarters of Naxx they did a very nice job. Several people from Bad JuJu got some nice little upgrades, as well as a nice new bow for our hunter friend from the sister guild. Yours truly, finally can say goodbye to his staff of trickery now that I have the shiny new Wraith Spear for my dps set.
It definitely made up for the Emalon wipes, and the mood and general attitude was much more relaxed without the usual raid leader in tow.
Kalon over at Think Tank recently posted his views on successful raiding (much more in depth than I have described), and I think he's hit the nail on the head and I can truly relate. This is not to say our usual Raid Leader is a bad player or bad strategist. I think he has some good ideas, and at times shows a willingness to listen to little ideas. However he can be a bit grating and TOO pushy, and sometimes he needs to be willing to take on some new fresh ideas. However he does get groups going and there's something to be said for that. Babysitting 9-24 pug raiders is NOT an easy chore. However I have to step up more in speaking out when I see things going wrong. As a player who is perfoming MANY of the roles within our group, I see a lot more perspectives and I have to speak up more. I have to also help lighten the mood when things are frustrating and maybe even keep the RL's tone a bit downed.
I see hope yet for better raids to come.
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