TBD Marches On

Pretty good weekend of raiding we just had. The Wyrmfoe 25 team took down the Lower Spire painlessly, then we moved on to give Festergut a few tries. As it stands we simply don't have the DPS to kill him (which could be very limiting), but its good to see the fight and our best attempt got him to 15%, so hopefully we don't have too much farther to go. The new raid buffs will obviously help as well. Saturday night we started by clearing ToC, since there are still some very desirable trinkets there, as well as a couple other upgrades here and there for various people (at this point all I want is another Trophy and Death's Verdict). After that we moved on and started work on Blood Prince Council, which I had never seen before, eventually getting the kill in a very messy way (as mentioned in my post on BM hunters). After that we went over and killed Valithria's trash for the Frost Emblem, then decided to go back and test DPS on Festergut again since we had some people who hadn't been there the night before. 11 Frost Emblems and a new kill for the guild, not bad all in all.

Sunday night was TBD's first night, and I wasn't there but they cleared out the Lower Spire then spent a little time on Festergut. Monday night they needed me, so in we went. Our first target was Festergut, who we should have killed on the first try, but one of our tanks got DC'd at a bad time and the other got a 10 stack of Gastric Bloat. Second attempt was totally clean and a kill with 45 seconds to spare. We decided to continue the Plagueworks and head over to Rotface, who the team has never seen, and who many of us haven't seen in any capacity. Our first attempt was messy, but we got him pretty low and things cleaned up as we got farther in. Second attempt was really well executed by everyone and we got him down. All of a sudden we had gotten two first kills in 45 minutes.

We decided to try Professor P. Things went poorly. That fight is definitely a lot harder than either of the other two in that wing. The abomination tank has to be very much on top of eating slime and slowing down oozes (not easy) and DPS has to make a good switch and get good burst on the oozes. We definitely had some trouble with both those parts, and generally once we had even a little trouble with one ooze it turned into a failure cascade because we fell behind and couldn't get caught up. That fight is definitely tricky for us, and it doesn't seem likely to be our next kill. Healers did an excellent job keeping people up through all the damage though. We decided to try Blood Princes next, since a lot of us had gotten experience with that on 25. It went okay, but there were definitely some parts that threw us off and we need a little more time with it.

All in all, it was a good weekend. Progression on both 10 and 25 man, some extra emblems, and I picked up a set of leather legs that I will be using if I can't pick up the T10 legs as a drop before I get to 95 emblems.