WoW: Midnight

On Sunday it was time for Chimaerus again, first Heroic (3 wipes, ugh), then Normal. Then a quick visit to March Normal and then a reclear of the first 3 in Voidspire on Heroic. So that’s 4 for the Vault already, but now wipes on Dragons on the program for Tuesday.

The Dragons actually died, around pull 21 (7 wipes today), although we only had 10 people. Then we got some 10 tries in on Lightblinded Vanguard, none better than 76% and I messed up quite a few tank swaps. In my defense the addons seemed to show really weird timings and I had to fiddle with settings between tries.

For M+, we timed a 12 and a 13 this week after getting all 8 portals last week (on Warrior). I’ve also tanked a few 10s (and one 11) on my DH and I’ve done a couple 6-8s on my Blood DK. Season of the tank I guess.

On Sunday we cleared Chimaerus and March on Quel’Danas on Normal (1 wipe on Belo’ren), then back to Heroic Voidspire and 3 bosses died.

On Tuesday we started with Chimaerus Heroic, who died on the second pull (5 wipes overall), then we cleared Voidspire Normal with zero wipes, then tried the two dragons again on Heroic, but not a lot of progress in 5 wipes.

I’m noticing that I keep missing to write these posts but juggling 3 instances is a bit weird and progress was uncommon this time as well. We’re 4/9 Heroic now, which feels a little slow, but not terrible I guess. When the Voidspire Normal reclears stop we should have more time anyway.

Sunday started quite nicely with Chimaerus and all of the Voidspire, only one wipe on Crown, and then Belo’ren on the third pull.

Tuesday continued with Midnight Falls on the fifth pull and then we had 8 wipes on Imperator Heroic, 2 of them around 25%. Very happy with that progress.

So I was indeed made a raid tank (well, they did ask and I had offered to do it) and we went for the Voidspire first.

That Sunday we killed the first 3 on Normal and people were less upset about our progress, and then 2 more on Tuesday, but Chimaerus still proved harder than anticipated, with some low percentage wipes.

Week 3 we killed 4 on Sunday, then cleared the Voidspire on Tuesday, and had time left to kill Chimaerus – so 7 in total. So far the two dragons and Chimearus proved to be our roadblocks.

So if we ignore that first night: 1 wipe on Averzian, 3 on Vorasius (incl 1 on rekill), 0 on Saladhaar, 12 on Vaelgor (incl 5 on rekill), 8 on Paladins (incl 1 on rekill), 6 wipes on Crown, 3 wipes on Chimaerus.

Not completely happy with this, but at least we reovered.

Disclaimer first: For the last 5 years I’ve titled these posts mostly “Raiding [name of the Raid instance]”, because there was only one per season. The last time I remember having several raids per tier was in Mists of Pandaria, 12 years ago (and I have no clue about the 8 years inbetween where I didn’t raid). So maybe I’ll just keep calling the whole tier the Voidspire, this is my blog after all.

So Sunday was the first raid, we had a potential cadre of 19 people, 15 showed up. Unfortunately one of our healers wasn’t finished leveling and out sick (thus the delay) and the replacement had barely reached 90 and postponed raiding for lack of time, so we had to scramble for a replacement first. Before our pre-raid meeting 2 weeks ago we were still short a tank as well, but one of our long-standing more casual guildies stepped up, which was nice, so I was off the hook as one of two replacement tanks.

We tried Chimaerus in the Dreamrift first, unfortunately no better than 38% in 8 tries (my damage as Fury was kinda meh), so we switched to Imperator Averzian and got 9 tries in, best at 20% and 16%. People were not happy with our new tank at all, so I’ll probably have to do it on Tuesday… and actually watch a video I guess.

Update: Tuesday raid was cancelled.