Karazhan rougher than usual; and then off to Gruuls

Karazhan was rougher to complete than we would expect. However a look at the stats seems to show that while our dps and heals are ok, it is our teamwork and strategy that may be reducing our success rate.

On Illhoof, we needed to adjust so that everyone (including one not on vent) attacked the demon chains immediately upon the cast. Our first two wipes come from very vulnerable chain targets dying; both priests, so cloth wearers and repeatedly targetted for chains.

Stats are here: WebStats 062808

Regardless, once we adjusted our response to the demon chains, as a group, the problem resolved. We again single tanked hoof, and on one wipe it was due to failure to heal the tank.

Then off to Shade; we actually did Shade first to obtain our port, and good thing considering the trouble we had on Hoof. On Shade, Jumba suggested, and we tried, an approach that worked given our dps problems; by halting dps on the boss at 42% until his mana runs, we prevent the Elemental/Sheep beatdown when his mana runs out. The timing of our dps will not allow us to simply burn him down and ignore the poly effect when his mana is low. We had 2 locks to banish some, fear others, and one could be tanked but not really necessary; the one problem we still had was elementals loose during a Flame Wreath, which is a true sitting duck situation. Jumba noticed on our second wipe that our dps was approaching 40% of his health rather quickly, but he was spawning elementals nearly the same time as his mana regen phase. Switching that up led to a win.

Then off to Gruuls; which was not easy, and repeatedly wiped us for a series of reasons. The tank on High King was unable to last and died several times, which spelled a wipe. The warlock was loose, killing folks off and ignoring the enslaved felhounds which were to tank him; at one point I was double tanking him and my target, Kiggler. Our success came finally after repeated fails, and once my target was down, I picked up High King and tanked him. We still lost half the group in our successful last effort, but the entire night spelled the need for greater teamwork and communication.

Gruuls stats 062808