A few weeks ago I spoke about our ex-guild leader and the drama surrounding his quitting WoW and now I'd like to talk about the changes we've made in our line-up and the difference it's made to our raiding overall.
First up, we'd found us 2 new healer subs but tanks were still few and far between. So we decided to switch up between the subs and have our holy paladin go prot. This was a severe blow to the heal team, as he is easily the best healer our raid team has ever seen and neither of the subs were anywhere near his level. Neither of them were even as good as the resto druid or myself and I was very worried that the buff to our tanking team might not make up for the loss on the healing team. Sometimes, it's good to be wrong.
Last week's raids were amazing. On Wednesday, we cleared out BoT and managed to get Chimaeron AND Maloriak heroic down, leaving us only Throne, Atramedes (which we planned as our next heroic boss) and Nefarian. On Sunday, we had to end an hour early and so didn't have enough time to get Atramedes down, but we managed 30% and came out of the raid fully confident that we'd get him this week. Sadly, Nef was plagued by a slew of dcs, one try having an interrupter dc during phase 2 (eep!), others having our new holy paladin dc (the main telecomms line into his country was cut, pushing him from 200ms average to well over 800 for 2 weeks :S) and eventually we decided enough was enough. Our early leaver had already left and 9manning Nef with dcs wasn't as much fun as it had sounded when we'd decided to do it.
Last night, we went to BWD first and holy [censored] it went well... We one-shot Chimaeron heroic and then Maloriak heroic too! In less than an hour! Our logs show 3 unsuccessful tries on Maloriak, but we reset if we don't get a set of aberrations before the black phase. Then we pootled off to BoT and cleared that out in about an hour and, 2 hours after raid start, we found ourselves on progression content once again.
An hour and a half later, we are 4/13 =D And now on Sunday all we have left to clear are Throne of the Four Winds and Nefarian. Given that we're going ot be doing the achievement for Nef, Sunday's raid will effectively be a 2 hour affair.
I'm shocked at how much difference it makes to a raid group to swap a bad tank for an inexperienced healer. And even I am surprised at how much our ex-guild leader was tanking guild morale as a whole. Our raids are happier, jokier and more fun than they've ever been, and clearly we're pushing more content faster. At this rate, we should be (at least) 5/13 next week. Keep up the good work guys =D
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