Yesterday we finally managed to slay Lucifron:
![[Image: MC_Luci_dead.jpg]](http://lendzion.alfahosting.org/images/WoW/MC_Lurker/MC_Luci_dead.jpg)
This time it wasn't a completly random raid, but a coalition of four guilds: Infacted, Dunkle Schaar, Forsaken Heroes, Hauer und Huf. The real challenge to doing endgame raiding isn't really killing the mobs, but the tedious administration of organizing 40 people and keep them happy throughout the course of the run. So Kudos to Bletasur <Infacted> and Craven <Forsaken Heroes> for stepping up to the task.
Things were much better coordinated then last time, and we "only" wiped once on the way to Luci and two times attempting to kill Luci himself.
We successfully off tanked Luci and killed his two guards first, then Luci himself. Having Decursive installed really helped getting rid of those nasty debuffs quickly. It is, besides CT_Raidassist, mandatory now on our raids.
Some people also sat down and rewrote parts of CT_Raidassist to make it is more compatible with the German client, and now all Buffs/Debuffs are shown except for those that contain the special German characters ä,ö,ü in them. Mana conserve is also working now; great for keeping your mana budget in line for these prolonged boss fights.
We also tried Magmadar but failed. We have to work on our strategy to deal with the fearing he does every 30 seconds or so (maintank gets feared, looses aggro and the healers become doggie food). We were making progress by rotating Maintanks, i.e. immediatly replacing the maintank when the current one got feared, and our coordination was getting better, when one pack of those core hounds that stand right next to him respawned and added during the fight and we were wiped for good. Anyway we are pretty sure we get him the next time :)
The Alliance on our server already got to Gehennas though; oh my...
Funny sidenote: Between slaying Lucifron and our attempt at killing Magmadar there was a prolonged waiting period as someone went on a shopping trip to Orgrimmar to buy reagents for the raid (why people always don't have enough reagents with them? One of the WoW mysteries that remain to be solved...) and things somehow generally didn't seem to get on. Suddenly Mahlmaust, one of our Druids lost temper, took a Noggerfogger Elixir and rushed off to the next core hound pack, screaming "LEEEROOOOY JENNNNKINS". I stood right next beside him and was thinking he was just joking, until I realized that he really wasn't going to stop out of aggro range and then he came back training the doggies. We didn't wipe and it was so funny he only got a mild reprimand from the raid leaders. :) Unfortunately I was too baffled to take a screenshot.
This time it wasn't a completly random raid, but a coalition of four guilds: Infacted, Dunkle Schaar, Forsaken Heroes, Hauer und Huf. The real challenge to doing endgame raiding isn't really killing the mobs, but the tedious administration of organizing 40 people and keep them happy throughout the course of the run. So Kudos to Bletasur <Infacted> and Craven <Forsaken Heroes> for stepping up to the task.
Things were much better coordinated then last time, and we "only" wiped once on the way to Luci and two times attempting to kill Luci himself.
We successfully off tanked Luci and killed his two guards first, then Luci himself. Having Decursive installed really helped getting rid of those nasty debuffs quickly. It is, besides CT_Raidassist, mandatory now on our raids.
Some people also sat down and rewrote parts of CT_Raidassist to make it is more compatible with the German client, and now all Buffs/Debuffs are shown except for those that contain the special German characters ä,ö,ü in them. Mana conserve is also working now; great for keeping your mana budget in line for these prolonged boss fights.
We also tried Magmadar but failed. We have to work on our strategy to deal with the fearing he does every 30 seconds or so (maintank gets feared, looses aggro and the healers become doggie food). We were making progress by rotating Maintanks, i.e. immediatly replacing the maintank when the current one got feared, and our coordination was getting better, when one pack of those core hounds that stand right next to him respawned and added during the fight and we were wiped for good. Anyway we are pretty sure we get him the next time :)
The Alliance on our server already got to Gehennas though; oh my...
Funny sidenote: Between slaying Lucifron and our attempt at killing Magmadar there was a prolonged waiting period as someone went on a shopping trip to Orgrimmar to buy reagents for the raid (why people always don't have enough reagents with them? One of the WoW mysteries that remain to be solved...) and things somehow generally didn't seem to get on. Suddenly Mahlmaust, one of our Druids lost temper, took a Noggerfogger Elixir and rushed off to the next core hound pack, screaming "LEEEROOOOY JENNNNKINS". I stood right next beside him and was thinking he was just joking, until I realized that he really wasn't going to stop out of aggro range and then he came back training the doggies. We didn't wipe and it was so funny he only got a mild reprimand from the raid leaders. :) Unfortunately I was too baffled to take a screenshot.