Tonight, after 14 nights of attempts across since the end of May, 30 forum pages (about 500 posts) of strategy discussion, tens of thousands of gold in repair bills (estimated: 50k-80k) and consumables (especially Mana potion injectors, you junkies), a lot of heart and even more patience, we finally conquered the best structured and most demanding fight in TBC. It turns out, dodging motherfucking balls really is the key to victory. Luckily, we had the experts on hand to show us how it's done.
It was a Server First, which is the first time Horde has cleared content before Alliance in the history of Lothar. So we let ourselves loose and celebrated a little!
Mu'ru is
the reason to raid. The overwhelming philosophy: economy of everything (time, DPS, healing, tanks, etc) made the most difficult aspect of this fight not just killing him before he killed us, but devising solutions to the countless challenges and nuances he presented against us. Through this victory, we came a more united, experieced, and
strategic team. As players, this fight made us get better. Well done, guys and girls!
Special recognition:Atonement - Ret Pally went tankadin again!
Poisongirl - Never raided shadow before, and happily filled the void for this fight!
Disintegrate, Lando, Ignitor, Mempo, Mowat - Incredible prolonged patience sitting out and raid buffs. <3
Unwound - Fight Timeline layout and healing ideas
Mpfive, Zergg, Miogy, Deaco, Tulani - Major healing planning
Ebnuzen - Group switching, raid organization, calls.
Kimposible (a.k.a. Kimahrii), Aliengrey, Mowat and especially Lithid - Ranged DPS organization/transition planning.
Onipallo - For being the most nimblefooted warrior I've ever seen.
This is far from a complete list, and I'm not doing everyone justice. So much work went into killing this boss. It is the very definition of team effort. Every single person in the guild contributed in a major way to strategy, to perfection of the strat, to execution. It is the biggest win we've had in Tyranny, and now, here we are, 18 months later, and we just have one fight left in the Burning Crusade...
