Naxxramas

[MongoJerry]

And finally there is the Nef problem: Although most of BWL is firmly on farm status now, killing Nef is still a major time sink for us, as it usally requires some attempts and you have the stupid 15min Cooldown between each attempt.
So we usally clear BWL upto Nef on one day, and do Nef the other day prior to AQ. Doing Nef can take a while, and after he finally goes down, everyone is to tired to make any serious AQ attempts. We have not downed Huhu so far, yet Nef because of his fat loot is higher in the priority list then AQ content.
Nef is due to the length of the encounter itself and the moronic 15 min cooldown imho such a #$%&ty encounter, that I hate it almost as much as MC.
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Yep, I understand and remember. It takes killing him a few times to get him on total farm status. But it doesn't take many successful attempts to get to the point where you can kill him on the first try. Once you get to that point, you can do all of BWL in one evening, which makes things much easier.

It also helps if you have some incentive to keep your raid moving. The best thing that happened to our raids was the introduction of the AQ Scepter quest series, which includes as a requirement a BWL clear from Vael to Nef in 5 hours. When we first got this quest, we thought it was going to be tough on us, so we really focused and our raid leaders figured out a lot of who would get what loot ahead of time. Before that quest happened, our BWL runs would average 6-7 hours. When we actually did the quest, though, it took four hours and that even included a wipe on Nefarian. Once we knew we could do that, we started pushing ourselves to get faster at it and reduced downtimes during the run. Like I said, our typical run is now three and a half hours. When the runs go that quickly, they're much more enjoyable.

Two tips:

1. As much as possible, whoever is deciding loot should have a good idea of who loot is going to ahead of time. If you spend 10 minutes deciding loot at each boss, that's an extra 10mins x 8 bosses = hour and twenty minutes that you're adding to the run. Even reducing that to 5 mins/boss adds 40 minutes of wasted time for the raid. We use loot council, and our class leaders know our loots already and tend to be able to award loot quickly. If you use dkp, be ruthless about getting the bidding/rolling going.<>
   
2. Have a hunter or set of hunters who are sadistic pullers who keep pulling mob groups after mob groups. It is amazing how much time gets wasted when you sit and wait too long between each trash pull.<>
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