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Raiding the Voidspire – Week 2 & 3

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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.

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Raiding the Voidspire – Week 1

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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.

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WoW – Midnight

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So that’s a launch that happened. I had refused to preorder, but on the launch night, 2 minutes after midnight I pulled the trigger, so we could play for an hour or two. Went surprisingly well.

I dinged 90 yesterday, after mostly playing a bit every day (Wed-Fri) and some more on Saturday. Unfortunately I didn’t make a screenshot when I started, so no idea how many hours. I leveled my Warrior Solo, first 1-2 level as Prot, then I switched to Fury.

No real criticism from my side, except I’m not really hyped. I don’t like revamped zones, and we got 2 of those, but otherwise it was… fine I guess? Didn’t really replace a lot of my ilvl 160 raiding gear until Level 87, but ok. I did like that doing 2h of World Quests instantly boosted me like 20 ilvl, sitting at 200 equipped, 210 in bags now, could start doing heroics already.

Other alts I have lined up to level: Feral Druid in a duo, and probably either Shaman or Paladin as the next solo one. We’ll be talking about our raid plans tonight, the timeline of this expansion is really weird. Still weeks until the raid and M+ opens, I think. It’s so weird I need to double check the dates.

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