And the beat-down goes on…

So, in a last minute orgy of destruction before Lor and I run off to visit Mickey and Minnie, we decided to head in Ulduar one more time with all our shiny new gear and guild members and see how we did. The results were awesome. Without a single hesitation OR a single death, we were able to wreak havoc on Flame Leviathan handily:

 

Emboldened by our quick success, we charged forward into the instance to engage the previously undefeated Deconstructor! We cleared trash. We formulated a plan! We charged into battle!

We got our asses kicked.

Undismayed, we attempted the fight again. Once more into the fray!

We got our heads handed to us.

Puzzled, we tried a very complicated strategy involving pulling to one side, aligning ourselves under various constellations, placing ourselves at preceise distances from one another.

And died just about instantly for our troubles.

So, we went back in determined to go back to plan “A”. We moved forward, and were rewarded with the immediate death of our main tank (Me!!) and 3 out of 5 of our DPS. Then something interesting happened: Bo stepped in to the tanking role, our healers changed emphasis, and I will be darned if we didn’t get the dude down to about 30%! After some discouraging commentary about all we needed to succeed was no DPS, we headed back in with our new understanding of healer focus and placement around that demonic giant pinocchio-voiced robot. Here were the final results:

Just goes to show that there is nothing the Rats can’t do if we stick together and keep tweaking our strats!! Now, we did stick two half-hearted attempts at Razorscale into our closing raid window and were rebuffed, but we now know that the door deeper into Ulduar is open!! Now we just gotta come up with a viable strategy for that Ignis dude…

Vacationingly,

- Hawkwind