Feb 13
Sartharion the Onyx Guardian Down
Posted on February 13, 2009 under My Play | 1 CommentWorld of Warcraft is an ever-changing game. While reading this post, keep the date it was written in mind—changes may have occurred since then!
Aes Sedai ventured into The Obsidian Sanctum (10 man) last night for their first full-guild raid. I started off as an off tank, moved to DPS as we reshuffled the raid after people disconnected and/or had to leave, and moved back to off tank for Sartharion himself. We pugged in a great shammy healer, Kasylin, for the final encounter and I want to thank her immensely for her help.
For those of you who don’t know this fight, from time to time walls of lava rise up from the left or right side of the island and move across, doing damage to anyone standing in the way; if any of the adds that spawn get hit by the walls, they gain a lot of damage.
As you can see, there are gaps in the walls, which the raid must stand in to keep from taking damage, and where the off tank must pull the adds to keep them from enraging. The first time we attempted this encounter, we discovered that Deadly Boss Mods keeps track of, and announces to the raid, when and how many times people fail to get out of the way of the lava. And there were a lot of them–and my DBM happily called every one of them out.
It makes it very easy for leadership to quickly see if folks are doing their job.
We make a second attempt, which fails quickly due to respawns being added to the fight (is this normal or did someone aggro them?).
So, we take a moment to repair, come back, clear some trash, type “/rw MOVE THE #@$&*% OUT OF THE WAY OF THE LAVA WALLS!” (actually, there was more discussion that than, but when it all boils down…) and engage him once more. The “lava churns,” moves across the island… and I’m silent in raid chat. Adds spawn, I pick ‘em up, my buddy the main tank does his thing, lava churns again… nothing. Nobody called out. Great!
Throughout the fight, we took maybe two or three lava waves, and though our DPS was low, we managed to bring Sartharion down.
And what should drop? Gloves of the Lost Vanquisher. And who should win the roll?
/happydance
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by Drazmor, on February 16 2009 @ 6:43 am
Whoa! I missed a lot!
I think it’s because when I last came here, you didn’t have a feed, so I didn’t remember to check back here much. Well, I will head over here a lot more often now.