Carnage

After a few weeks of members dealing with finals, taking vacations, and dealing with other real life issues, Carnage was back to making progress. We've been farming previous content for a while with sub raiders and social members, so our raid dps has improved significantly. So, we cleared previous content quickly and returned to Mimiron. We tweaked our healing positioning a bit and quickly learned the phases of the fight and got the evil gnome down on our third attempt.

Our next raid, it was on to General Vezax, the giant warrior Ancient One. It took a few attempts to adjust positioning and strategy for 25-man, but in the end, the One went down and phat loot was had. We had time to continue on to Yogg-Saron, so we went to have a look at Ulduar's final boss. It took us a few attempts to squeeze 25 people into the room and dodge its spinning clouds, but we were able to progress to phase two several times. We were adjusting our strategy for that phase when time ran out, but are confident we can figure it out the next time we get here.

Carnage finally silenced the annoying screams of Sara . . . . Yes, we downed Yogg-Saron and completed Ulduar (heroic). It took a few weeks to figure out how the phases of the fight and to execute them cleanly, but we made steady progress and finally put everything together this past Sunday on our third attempt at phase three. The end of the battle was particularly exciting. We were so focused on killing the Immortal Guardians quickly that we got close to the enrage timer. In the last minute at five percent, we switched all dps to Yogg's brain and asked our tanks to pop their CDs and tank all the adds. They died along w/a few raid members at 1%, but we still got the kill as well as the achievement for not having anyone go insane. One of our trial members remarked: I guess that means we don't have any retards in our guild. We don't know about that . . .

Onward to the joys of hard modes!