Apotheosis went in to ICC 25 for the first time as a guild. Here’s what we did.
– 1 attempt at Marrowgar heroic, before we did a one-shot of Marrowgar regular
– One-shots of LDW, Gunship, Saurfang, Rotface and Festergut (all on normal, even Gunship, sadly due to some buggy interface issues)
– One wipe on Putricide, followed by a clean kill
– One wipe on Dreamwalker, closing out the night
I was emphatically not prepared for a few things (Putricide phase changes are at 80% and 35%. Remember this!) and we definitely need to iron out some issues, but it went okay.
Tomorrow, I begin going through the logs and wearing the Healing Lead hat, which will involve talking to the healers. We had a ton of overhealing, which is fine, but I suspect there are some other issues as well that will need to be touched upon.
It was pretty disappointing to see that a healer and a tank just flat-out didn’t show. The tank had some last-minute recording to do with the band he’s in. I’m going to have to give him my cell number I guess, so he can text me in the future or something. Very bad to have a tank who just doesn’t show.
The healer? No idea. Would have been great to have a resto druid. But alas.
At least we had a feral druid who knew the fights and was able to be a kitty and a bear as needed. And we had E, the wonderous priest, pinch-heal for us.
So despite a slow start (looking for fillers) and some DC issues, it went pretty well. I hadn’t thought we’d get Putricide so easily, but we did. :)
My officers kicked ass and did a great job together. At one point, it was almost like we were in BT again. Good times. :)
All in all, it went well and we’re going to try to go back on Thursday. I think we’ll start out in Blood and then move to Frost. That gives me some time to sit there and write up a coherent Sindragosa strategy…
Next week, assuming we do this again… Heroic Marrowgar is gonna be our bitch. :)
I think I agree with what the others said – for people not having seen Heroic Marrowgar or even seeing Marrowgar period, getting him down as low as we did on a first attempt was huge. I was also pleasantly surprised with how well some of the fill in folks performed. I admit, I had the initial thought of “Oh God, we picked up these people in Dalaran – let’s see how this goes!” and was quite pleased.
Sorry for stealing your portal (singular!) by the way. :)
Oestrus – It wasn’t bad at all. Although the fill-ins are actually friends of a couple officers from another guild on the server. :) They were definitely not just random folks. ;)
You totally did not steal a portal. You stole an orb. ;)