The Night We Kicked Major Butt

So on Wednesday nights our merry little raid is supposed to charge into Obsidian Sanctum and The Vault and clear them both out in a little over an hour or so. When I hopped on last night to farm a few mats for Kroff before the raid, I noticed what would be a change in our plans for the evening; we didn't have Winter's Grasp. That being noted, the raid assembles and we run in and pwn us a dragon. One shotted everything with very few casualties. I didn't de anything! Yay! And we headed outside. After thinking for a minute Kroff announces to the raid that we're going to go ahead and clear a little bit of Naxx. Everyone can stay for roughly two more hours so that should at least give us time to clear the Arachnid Quarter. We plunge on in and one shot Anub'Rekhan.

We head to Grand Window Faerlina and start out pretty good. Then, we have a problem. She's enraged, we take out skull...and she's still enraged. Umm....? What? So they take out X. She's still enraged. Oh someone please help! She's beating me into the ground and I'm running out of "oh crap" buttons! Okay, I'm dead. So...what the heck happened? We're all fussing and complaining forking it over to a bug from blizzard. Someone asks if they have to be close to her when you kill them because as it was Delynth was tanking them on the stairs and I was tanking her on the platform. No, that shouldn't be it. *Ding* It hits me. It's because he's on the stairs. I've had to tell him every time we fight this chick, 'you need to bring them up on the platform'. So I relay this to Kroff. He relays this over vent. And off we are again. Bam, first enrage. Kill skull, no more enrage. Genius. Delynth proceeds to fuss over vent that he's never had to do that before and he KNOWS he's tanked them on the stairs before. Nope. I've had to tell him every singe time to bring them up to the platform because he tries to tank them on the stairs or lower. But I keep my mouth shut, let him fuss, and we move on.

We one shot Maexxna with my druid butt depoisoning and Delynth tanking. *grumble* It's not that I'm not tanking. Don't get me wrong. I don't mind doing other things. But the fact that I'm standing there twiddling my thumbs (hooves, whatever) until I have to hit depoison the WHOLE FIGHT. Yea, that's irritating to me. I know I'm contributing to the raid, but I don't feel like it. Anywho, after this fight went down, we all met up in the beginning again and I checked Recount. Depoison. Whoa. Take a wild guess at what the meter said.

Depoisons
Ahtabat - 20
Squee - 1
Nakar - 0

That's right. Zero. Now wouldn't you think someone who had been assigned to depoisoning would ummm depoison? Yea, me too. But there it was. A big fat zero. I showed Kroff and we kind of marveled at the fact that he wasn't doing anything that fight. And then I had kind of a, gracious moment I guess, and I asked if recount included his totem. Hmm, we're not sure on that one.

In any case, we debate a minute on who we're going to take on next and we decide to go kill us a Patchwerk. Yay! We clear out the trash, in record time might I add, and buff up and wait for Patchwerk. Oh boy, here we go. I'm getting pretty tired at this point, so I'm not as excited as I was the other night, but I'm still alert enough to use my abilities in at the appropriate time. We start out really well. DPS is strong, heals are doing well, not where I would ideally like them to be, but well, and Delynth and I are almost topped off. About halfway through the fight, I notice Jules has already popped her fiend. This makes me a little nervous. We're only halfway through and she's used one of her major "I need mana back" buttons. Chapp's in the other group, so all I can see is his mana pool and he seems doing be doing well, but I have no clue what he's already popped. We get on down and Patchwerk's got about 1/3 of his life left. I start popping my cooldowns. We move on down to 1/4 and I've popped almost everything but Frenzied Regeneration. Jules announces she's out of mana. I glance over to Chapp. Thank goodness. He's got about 1/4 of his mana pool left. I hit Frenzied and pray. I move my cursor up to Patchwerk's life and we're under 100k. Should be smooth sailing then. I fully expect to die, but Jules manages to get a couple more heals on that crit thanks to my awesome glyph: Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration. Patchwerk down. No casualties. Woo hoo! We rejoice, distribute loot, and head on back to the beginning.

All in all a nice night. Wait. We're not done. We're not? Kroff wants to try one more boss before we call it. Razuvious. Oh heavens. I foresee my stress just talking about it. But we clear up to him, Kroff explains the fight, and we give him a try. It goes pretty well. I'm excited. We didn't down him, but we did get him really freaking close, giving me hope for Sunday's raid. I think I need to do some more reading up on him before we charge in again. I'm having trouble with the crystal picking up my apprentice after I click it off.

In any case, a good night all in all.