Luci down!

[Concillian]

It was Morde and Otheo, although Conc being the stud he is, ended up tanking Luci for most of it because he was able to figure out where to stand to not give the healers all sorts of trouble.;)

Yeah it started out pretty hectic, with people getting on DPS a little early (well, a lot early) because I made a mistake on one of the guards (taunted at the wrong time) AND GG had a resist on feign. That guard went nuts and killed a few of the Aggro Monkeys ™ early on.

Meanwhile the #1 tank and maybe #2 tank went down (maybe the raid was still working on the #2 tank's target? I think he went down though) due to learning positioning both on the part of the tanks and healers. I didn't pay too much attention to positioning, I just put Luci somewhere that looked good and luckily the raid leader clearly noted DPS OFF and allowed me some time to get solid aggro before leaning into her for the last 80% or so.

The funniest thing to me is that the people who cared about the DPS meters were msging me on the trash up to Luci that I was leading in DPS, then there was speculation in /raid that I was fury spec'ed (as if to suggest I may not be that great of a tank choice, I think, I don't really know why it was mentioned, anyone who inspected me and Wimpy... the other choice, also a Lurker, would see that I was far better geared. Nothing against Wimpy, of course. I've just been 60 a lot longer than him and had time to collect a nicer set of tanking gear.).

To me it's pretty ironic that the leading DPSer steps in to pickup and hold Luci at 80%. Hopefully some of those people implying I might not be the best tank learned a little about warrior capabilities (and how much more good gear matters than talent spec for warriors).

I must thank Mav for keeping WF up, that surely played a big role in putting me so high up in the damage category. He also is probably the one who healed my misc damage, though not a big deal on the trash to Luci. This is why damage meters sucks so bad, I would never have been so high without Mav and nobody sees Mav's contribution. It also encourages the Aggro Monkeys ™, and I admit I was one on one of the ancient core hounds :blush:. Luckily he was almost dead, and I positioned his head away from the raid before he had a chance to spray everyone.

Overall, I was a little surprised about how routine and easy Luci was. We had people who knew we needed to de-curse and de-magic and really that is all the info we needed. The fight is easier than Venoxis in that there are no boss "Phases" or transitions. Luci doesn't hit hard or do anything to screw with aggro, or really much at all. And we probably actually killed her with 30 people or so given what happened in the beginning, I guess a lot has to do with average "blue" gearing levels compared to when MC was released. I guess I have to figure Luci is the first boss for a reason. Teach people to coordinate who is de-cursing and who is healing / DPSing, etc...