Originally Posted by Kissmyaxe
We've been getting bear for about 6 weeks now, farming Illidan since January.
Yesterday we had our best run ever with 11 mins left on the clock. I was pretty amazed myself as we didn't plan to get a record or anything, it just turned out that way.
Group composition was:
Prot Warrior
Prot Pala
Shadow Priest
Ret Pala
Resto Shaman
Fire Mage
Destr Warlock
Shadow Priest
Elemental Shaman
Resto Shaman
The protection paladin had only ZA and badge gear and the elemental shaman only has a few T6 equivalent parts.
Basically we never stopped to drink. We didn't manage cooldowns the best we could tho, since we used Fire Elementals on Eagle and the cooldown still had 5 minutes left when we engaged Dragonhawk boss.
As I said we didn't try to stack up the raid, but since we had done another run earlier that day this is what we had available.
Thinking about it now, I'm not sure what else you could change to optimize even more and get it done even faster, apart for some gear upgrades.
As everyone says it's all about focus. Even 30 seconds delays (ressing, etc) or resting breaks will add up and eventually affect your time.
I must say I do enjoy the rush and I think I'll be pretty disappointed when we will all have mounts and people will lose the will and determination to continue doing it.
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How in the world? Very impressive. You did this with 2 Resto Shamans? What--did your tank Shield Wall through the Bear silences? Do both of your Shamans have Vial of the Sunwell or something? My goodness. I had to do a double-take on your healer selection.
I don't doubt that many raids would be capable of a time like this if they were willing to use Mana Potions, etc. on the go. Once guilds find that "safe zone" for completing a full Timed ZA they don't really attempt to outdo themselves. They don't bother using Drums on trash, they don't bother having their healers DPS when they don't need to heal, etc. They just farm like zombies.
I guess the same goes for many instances, like Hyjal and Black Temple.