Apotheosis raids on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Lately, we’ve been clearing in about 2.5 hours, at most, on Tuesday nights. I stopped putting signups up for Sunday AGES ago and stopped putting up signups for Thursdays weeks ago.
This week, I knew there would be issues, so I put up signups for both Tuesday AND Thursday.
As such, Tuesday’s raid, post-5.0.4, was probably one of the longest three hours of the entire expansion, to be honest.
– UI issues
– Addon problems
– Connection issues
– Latency/frame rate issues
– Mechanic issues
All of these plagued us in one form or another.
Yet, we actually got through Spine. YAY!
Morchok was okay.
Yor’sahj was okay.
Zon’ozz was craptastic, issues with soaking.
Hagara was fine.
Ultraxion was craptastic, until everyone made sure their DBM was working so that they could appropriately hit Heroic Will when they had Fading Light.
Blackhorn was okay.
Spine was okay, even though someone fat-fingered Heroism randomly early on and even though we had a different tank configuration.
Madness was rough — issues with impales and then P2 bloods.
But I feel good about walking in there, pwning 7 bosses and leaving just one left with another 3 hours scheduled this week.
The most hilarious thing of the night quickly turned sour when we wiped on Madness and were ported to the top of Wyrmrest, then had to take the portal back DOWN to the bottom of Wyrmrest, then had to take a portal to the Skyfire, then a portal to the Maelstrom. I mean, really? Portal boss, hello! We got REAL tired of that.
I don’t have a lot to say about being a holy paladin during 5.0.4 yet, but I’m sure I’ll post soon. I really am loving Clemency and Eternal Flame, though. After running a couple of fights in the back half of LFR, I also removed my 3×67 int gems and put in 3×67 spirit gems and switched to Heartsong. I still felt the crunch here and there, particularly on H Spine and H Madness.
I expect a lot of things to fix themselves in the next couple of days, though, so I’ll post more comprehensively later on.
Overall, a long, but successful raid night for Apotheosis. Still seeking various classes for Mists of Pandaria, so check us out!
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Hmmm, spirit gems and heartsong, just out of curiosity if you know Kurn, how were the healing priest doing in your raid? I am gonna be raiding tonight and curions if i should go ahead and start to regem a little and recnchant the weapon?
slice – How you doin’, buddy? :) Sorry for the delayed reply. The priests seemed to do quite well in terms of numbers and seemed to be enjoying their new abilities. I think everyone was a little pinched for mana, though. Many of our healers have thrown in some epic Purified gems, including the priests, or, at the very least, reforged to ensure there’s plenty of spirit on all the pieces of gear.
Heya kurn doing ok, finished up a normal DS to test things out last night, and it was different I would have to say. Reforging to make sure every piece of gear had spirit on it helped. Also I have to say I had to be a bit more conservative in healing, cause one could OOM oneself fast.