Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

So far so good on the big raid day. We got formed up a little bit late, but not too late. Everyone headed down to the Emperors room, we got buffed up pulled the first Anubisath, had a bad combo call from the raid leader and wiped. So we picked ourselves up, pulled again, and one-shotted them all the way to the Emperors.

We had one wipe on the Emperors due to healing aggro mid-phase (we use two Warrior tanks) but after we got up we blew them away in pretty good time. Due to current raid make-up we're headed to try and take out Rasuvious and then its likely back to Ahn'Qiraj for C'thun trash clearing and attempts.

Clean raid so far so I'm looking forward to a quick downing of Rasuvious so we can get back to C'thun. I really enjoy seeing Old Gods die for some reason...

We ended up getting Rasuvious down after taking a short break for people to repair and stretch. In fact I wouldn't say we just 'got him' I'd say we beat the snot out of him. I think there were only two or three deaths and he was toast.

With Rasuvious down it was time to work towards C'Thun, so we headed back to clear the absurd amount of trash between the Twin Emperors and C'Thun. I have to say, I think we spent almost as much time clearing the trash as we did attempting Rasuvious, which is just frustrating. Not because we wiped and did stupid things, but just because there is sooooooo much of it. I think the most irritating part about the trash before C'Thun is it doesn't really seem to serve any purpose besides delaying the raid getting to C'Thun. The only reson for it I do see (besides the aformentioned delay) is possibly helping us learn to deal with a lot of things going on and a lot of people taking damage at once. However, we don't deal with the trash in anywhere near the way you approach C'Thun. We don't split the raid into groups and we don't spread the DPS.

I'm really looking forward to the C'Thun attempts tomorrow and I hope we get the folks we need to get some good tries. We've got the idea of the first phase down pretty well I think, though we could certainly get through it more cleanly. What we really need to work on is the chaos that ensues in phase two which we can only do by practice, practice, practice. The one thing I think would really help us a lot in learning C'Thun is reducing the time between attempts. Its currently taking us between fifteen and twenty minutes to regather and rebuff between attempts and if we could reduce this even by five minutes we'd probably be able to get at least one more attempt in every four attempts which could help a whole lot.