Blackwing Cabal

We defeated Razorgore for the second week running. This time, we only wiped about five times before really getting into the swing of things and teaching him a fatal lesson. As it stands, the server has been playing up a lot this week, and so there are rolling restarts - however, I believe that there will be a half hour gap or so between when the servers went down and when we can log back in. My guild has decided that we will all take a half hour break before logging back on, reforming our raid and giving Vael a few attempts.

The biggest problem here is that you need quite high Fire Resist in order to stay alive as long as possible. There is constant Damage over Time of the fire persuasion. The more resist you have, the longer you will stay alive, and the more Damage Per Second you will be able to punch out. It's a very fun fight no matter whether you live or die (as some people cannot avoid dying. See: Burning Adrenaline*). As our regular raiders, my mage included, raid each week, we will get stronger and better geared, improving our effectiveness overall. It doesn't hurt to have a bit of practise at any boss, either; whether we are likely to succeed or not ^^

*Burning Adrenaline (BA) is a debuff that gets randomly put onto one caster at regular intervals (I don't know the frequency of this). You are given approx. 30 secs to do as much damage as possible, as you already have the universal debuff that prevents the requirement of mana usage, but it also causes all casting times to be zero - this basically gives you unlimited insta-cast spells for the duration of BA. But once the timer hits zero: you be dead.

I have to get up early for work tomorrow. This is going to be the case every Friday night. I'm going to just have to live with less than 8 hours' sleep for a 10-hour day. Getting back into the swing of things is only going to be good for me, anyway. Taking a break from playing all weekend is just what I need. An early night tomorrow won't hurt either, as I am playing the drums at church this Sunday morning.

-Timotheos
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