Krush Groove

Last night, CCC hit up Karazhan with a new schedule in mind. Given that we were clearing Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, Opera, and Curator in about 2:35 consistently, leaving some awkward downtime where there wasn't really time to push thru to Shade, or learn a new fight like Nightbane, a few of us proposed a new itinerary. First night, Moroes, Opera, Curator, and Shade, for maximum trash clearage. On Monday, we'd hit up Prince and took him out for the first time, but after 2 1% attempts (the second of which was 9 manned, thanks to jacked-up aggro mechanic on Blizzard's part. Come on, now, is Inner Fire REALLY that big of a threat???), we knew that if we didn't get the crappiest Infernal placement in the world, Malchezzar was dying soon. What struck me as far more impressive was that we one-shot the Shade of Aran for the first time.

We were right on schedule thru Curator, last night, if not a few minutes behind, but that looooong trash clear wasn't nearly as egregious as it recently seemed, thanks to a metric ton of rogue and general DPS gear dropping a lot recently. In an effort to get Bytes' rogue the Emerald Ripper from Moroes, we were down to 2 healers during Moroes, and Squeak and I were duly skeered, but it looks like we held up just fine, pally and holy priestage. /cheer

Not only did we clear everything we were set up to do, we also got Illhoof down on our 3rd ever attempt, and might've on the 2nd had Yours Truly not discoed halfway through the fight. Once I got back in, X-perl was totally jacked, and healing was a disaster, because Clique didn't reload properly either. We've had a nice long run of useful stuff dropping from midway thru the instance. Other than the boots off Moroes, I don't think there's much of anything that i can really use from the frontside of KZ. (I'm discounting the healing mace from Maiden, because the one off Prince trumps it. If we can ever get it to drop, then one of us is going to be sitting pretty till the other finally comes on Malchezzar). Maiden is going to suck once they bump Blessing of Sacrifice to a 1min cooldown. Yuck.

All things considered, however, it looks like CCC is the real deal, thankfully. A month of running together and we've cleared the whole place, save Nightbane and Netherspite, I believe. Hoof's presence is still sorely missed. :( I can totally understand his need for sleep, though. He's probably the only person in a long time that I've raided with that knows the pain of a similar schedule to mine. Of course, Mrs. Hoof and Hoofling complicate his picture for obvious and far more responsible reasons, but still...