The Return

I apologize for the quietness as of late. Times are a changing and I've been having a rough time here lately. I'll spare the details and get right into business.

Our new guild, Sacred Pack, has now downed all four wings of Naxx. Woo hoo! Ah, yes, the guild. Wolfden is no longer in exsitence. The powers that be decided Kroff and I were trying to take over and after a long debate and much foul language and general hostility towards the two of us, we took our leave. That very night, a couple of the officers got together and decided Wolfden didn't need to exist anymore and gave everyone a week to clear about before the /gdisban. Stupid isn't it? All this over a dumb raid and someone's hurt feelings because we said we didn't want to go. Oh well, screw them.

In any case, I'm happy to report that 100% of our raid followed us and we all live happily in Sacred Pack where we are blowing crap to hell and back. Like I said, all four wings cleared and Obsidian and the Vault securely on farm status.

Last night...was interesting. Since we cleared the last of the wings on Sunday, we headed back into Naxx last night to hand Sapphiron a taste of the floor. Kroff had everyone watch the videos and I did so. The fight itself looks like cake. Of course, Ciderhelm makes everything look like a walk through the park with his crew. But I was really surprised at how easy this fight looked. It's basically a ten minute battle of doing two different things repeatedly. First off, you engage the big frosty butt in the middle of his room. Tank stands with his back to the doorway where you enter, dps and healers hug the wall and work their way to the side of him being very mindful of his tail and front paw for cleave. Once in position, healers keep up raid and tank from nasty frost aura, melee pwns face, and tank takes the hits as usual. Life drains come up occasionally, a mage or druid decurses and we go on our merry way giving Sapphiron a taste of our blades. Secondly, he decides he wants to use his wings for a bit, and flies straight up. At this point the raid spreads out, he ice blocks two of us, the rest of the raid runs behind either of the ice blocks. He does a massive AOE flies his butt back down to the ground and you continue on as before.

Not that hard, right? Right. And really, it wasn't that hard for us to do the moves. And honestly, I'm not sure what was kicking our butts. It seemed to be the frost aura in all honesty. Once I saw we were having trouble, I started reading some on other sites to get some "hey stupid, you're not doing this" tips. Nothing. Only thing I could find was "up your frost resist". Well that's just dandy. The only frost resist we have is my mark of the wild. That's +75 resistance, not too shabby in my opinion, but apparently that just wasn't cutting it. One site I read said something to the effect of "thou shall not use frost resist gear on thou main tank or you shall perish." They said that gearing for frost would drop too many of your other stats to be worth it. They suggested getting the rest of the raid frost resist gear and trying to outlive the buggar.

So my two healers were putting their heads together in guild chat after the raid and debating on getting their sets made. Both were pretty upset at how much healing they would lose. So I'm really not sure what to tell them to do.

I'm wondering if I need to pick up my set and gem it all for dodge. I think that will help a little bit even though I don't believe I'm the main concern. I told Kroff last night, that it seems the healers keep me up just fine, it's the raid they're having trouble with. The aura is just hitting everyone too hard. So we either need to get everyone else higher frost resist or more life. That's my thinking.

In the mean time, I'm going to farm some mats and have the three Polar pieces made and pray it doesn't break the bank. We'll try that next week and see how we fair.