"OK guys, let's save this Living Monstrosity for last. It looks harmless."

Our first Spiderwing pull (the ones that hook you in) was a killer too. The hunter we sent in is scared of pulling mobs now, he's not used to dieing ;p

despite spending a week in naxx already and a few days on test, last night i completely forgot about the "GET OVER HERE" spider hook and got myself eaten on our first pull on the way to grand widow. oops :-P

Ahaha, exactly the same we did /:

I had the bright thought "hey, I'll put down a explosive trap on these little spider bastards, AoE ftw" And then... there was darkness, and in the end of a tunnel, a light, drawing me nearer. Oh, and my combat log was filled with entries all happening in the exact same second. Fun times.

(Patchwerk trivia: He'll HS you even if you are Feigned Death)

Interesting anecdote, I was in a friend's ventrillo server yesterday, and heard the following conversation:

"Wow, I'm inspecting this druid in org, 5/5 genesis, mace of unending life, whole lot of other purps..."
"I'm in Stratholme, Is it Kaubel?"
"Yes"

I knew the little ones hit for 1k each and I knew they shouldn't be AoE'd. That however did not stop us from sending team mage in. Warrior channel was a hoot all night ;p

I and the significant other both have ours now. :-(
She has the Kaubel signature edition and I have the Pubbie surprise.

I'll see if any healers in Goon Squad want to put up the scratch.

Is that 10k raid DPS about where you were and an attempting guild would want to be? Like I said earlier, 500 dps per player seems quite challenging, but by no means unreasonable to ask of a fully AQ geared guild. Plus you do have the tanks doing some level of damage as well.

Rasuvius loves his horsies

It's less than 10k raid DPS, but if you could hit that level you could handle him DPS wise, without a doubt.

The thing about this fight is that even with the super-efficiency of frost mages, they were going OOM before he died, despite chugging Major Manas and with max consumables. That said, this is one fight that will definitely get a LOT easier as your raid gears up with T3, much more so than other fights. It's tuned to a full T2 / AQ40 farming guild, and when you're a full T3 guild it'll feel so much easier.

The odd part is the enourmous difference between alliance and horde casters in this fight

/hug paladins

But windfury/strength of earth/grace of air for hunters/rogues/warriors should make up for that (if they somehow get a shaman).
Playing horde mage doesn't seem that fun though.

If you have seen any of the DnT killshots, you would realize Gnome mages are their secret to winning :P

Don't use the gnomecard. I have been trying to ignore them for ages now and yes they are indeed by far the most annoying part of the alliance.
Second annoying is male NE hunters.
Every time there's a PTR up I go horde and kill gnomes and fruitelves all day long, it feels so good.

Besides, casting frostbolts is boring no matter what faction you are. Fire ftw!'

EDIT: Hey you have troll mages, they are twice as annoying and ugly than a gnome ><

You guys have almost the same raid marker setup that we do, except we have moon instead of the star. The first couple times we did this fight, I couldn't help but laugh my ass off at the chaos on vent when we were pulling and as the fight was proceeding.

Priest 1: OK CONTROLLING MOON
(MC breaks)
Priest 1: Oh fuck, it broke
Tank 1: Shit, someone get on moon
Tank 4: I got it
Me: CONTROLLING SQUARE
Random Raid Member: You have to taunt him!
Me: Trying...
Tank 4: Shit, I'm down
Raid Leader: You guys have to HEAL HIM, SOMEONE GET MOON
Me: Dude, square's about to go down
Raid Leader: KEEP SQUARE UP, where's the next add?
Priest 1: COMING WITH CIRCLE
Priest 1: OK TAUNTING
Me: Breaking...
(Square goes off in some random direction)
Tank 1: WHO HAS SQUARE???
Random Raid Member: I think you're supposed to
Tank 1: No, I've got moon cause he broke and Tank 4 has square now
Raid Leader: Tank 4's dead...
Raid: ...

Trolls are pretty sweet and if I had known how sweet they were I would've made one instead of an Undead mage. Beserking~

the raid icons are great

/rw INCOMING GEOMETRY!

My attack macro puts a skull on the target now. I'm sure everyone will be annoyed at it in a week or two, but damn if it's not quite handy right now.

we were trying to figure that out. mind if you share that with me?

/script SetRaidTarget("target",8);

/script SetRaidTarget("target",i)

where i is

1 for Star
2 for Circle
3 for Diamond
4 for Triangle
5 for Moon
6 for Square
7 for Cross
8 for Skull

(shamelessly lifted from elsewhere)

e;f;b

I'm going to have to try that in pvp, thanks for the code Kalman & Deric!

He's got a salt lick on the pommel.

(HERETIC!)