Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Reliquary of Souls Down - Belated Post

I was hoping to post this with a big "Archimonde Down!" or "Here We Come Shahraz!", but both Archimonde and Gurtogg have proved a bit trickier than hoped.

We got Reliquary of Souls down for the first time on April 16th. The key was keeping the interrupting in phase 2 simple - just 2 rogues, alternating. We were also short a healer for that night, which made phase 3 more dangerous, but certainly made phases 1 and 2 go faster.

The kill was a little chaotic - at about 30% Vast told us to go all out on DPS, he was shieldwalling. Unfortunately someone forgot to watch aggro and at about 6-10% he started wiping the raid. Of course, at that point we're all doing tons of damage due to the aura so he dropped to 1% really quickly... and stayed there. All 3 shamans ankhed, so they had the debuff reset, and Deque, our other prot warrior tanked it with a huge debuff stack while 2 shamans healed and our enhancement shaman slowly took him down from 1%->0%. Very exciting first kill.



We also got Gorefiend down, but his kill story isn't as exciting - we learned how to handle the ghosts, and we kicked his ass. We've been doing it for several weeks now.