Rage On has been in Icecrown Citadel since it first opened, which was something the officers agreed we wanted after our belated incursion into Trials of the Crusader. While I can’t say we’re kicking ass at the forefront of the push into Icecrown, it seems to me that we’re in the middle of the curve somewhere.
Just last weekend, we cleaned up the first wing of ICC with one-shots (well, save for the Gunship Battle, since Malaswa triggered it before we’d all had a chance to put on our jet packs.) Even Deathbringer Saurfang died in one attempt. Since we’d wiped to him continuously the week previous, this was a welcome development.
Then… seventeen attempts on Festergut.
We finally killed him on the seventeenth attempt. As it turned out, that was the very last attempt we could make that day anyway, as Az and Bren had a pressing engagement to rush off to. Seventeen attempts, incidentally, is roughly three hours of raiding. We cleared trash, wiped on attempting Festergut over and over again, then when trash respawned, we cleared again. I’m sick of healing through Stinky and Precious.
But we downed Festergut on the seventeenth attempt, and that was the very least of what we wanted last weekend.
We took a few swipes at Rotface – doable, but we didn’t have enough time left – then hied off back to Ulduar, where we finally did in XT-002 Deconstructor in hard mode. I can now officially say it: our hard mode hymen is broken. We’ve just beaten our first hard mode and we’re hungry for more. Next weekend we’ll be back in Ulduar for Iron Council hard… and after that… Sartharion with 3 drakes up? Trials of the Grand Crusader? Who knows?
Let me just share this: Festergut on normal mode is intense and painful. None of our DPS did less than 4k DPS. Our top DPS was Bladewisp, who cranked out an incredible 7k DPS – and the rest of the team weren’t far behind. Our tanks were taking hits in the 20ks. Any time a tank got parry gibbed, we were in big, big trouble.
But we downed him in the end. The first time’s always the hardest.
Rotface dies this weekend.
