Kara Progress & A New Objective to The Quest

Ok, so last night I had some RL stuff to take care of before I could just on WoW. I got home at around 8:15, which didn't seem so bad as the night before we started Kara at 8:30. As soon as I jumped onto Vent, before I'd even logged it, Averie screamed "Raitin! Where have you been?!". Not such a great start. "Didn't Magikstix tell you I was going to be late tonight?". "He isn't on either!". Oh dear. For clarification, Averie is out Druid MT and Raid Leader. Magikstix is a RL friend of mine that shot me the invite to the guild.

So 30 seconds after logging in, I'm shot a Raid invite and I'm flying my way back to Kara. I'm there before they get a chance to summon me. We had a few bits of trash to clear, then we were going to attempt the Opera Event. Oh the drama!

We start-reset’d the event to see what we were going to get. Wizard of Oz was our draw for the night, no biggie. After a quick run-down of the strat for the 1st timers, we began. Dorethee goes down, Tito goes down, Strawman goes down, Roar goes down and finally Tinhead goes down. All no deaths and no issues. Crone spawns and Averie picks her up. There were a few shaky moments where chain lightning almost took out a few people (me included!) but we dropped her. A very successful 1st attempt at Opera for mostly Kara-nubs. No Rogue drops from this even, but I did get 2 badges.

Ok, now the really exciting stuff starts.

We took the back door and cleared the few trash to The Curator. We had decent heals and dps, so we were confident. 1st attempt starts and we were still getting used to the fight, so we wiped after the 1st evocation. Ok, so now everyone has the hang of it.

2nd attempt was the clincher. Everything was running like clockwork. Flares are dropping like flies, we are beating Curator's face in. Magikstix dies at around 6%. Averie tries to do a battle rez while Curator is Evocating, but things just didn't get timed quite right. Evocation stops and Averie is killed! DPS goes all out on Curator. 5%.......4%.......4%......2%...... People are dying left and right. 1%. I pop evasion, fearing the worst. Curator comes to me. Dodge, dodge, dodge. 0.0001% (I assume haha) and my evasion wears off. Wipe on 1%. "Nooooooooooooooooo!" goes the cry on vent. Oh well, we rez, repair, rebuff and have another go.

On the 3rd attempt, we were missing Magikstix's DPS and had trouble downing the Flares in time to pound on Curator. We wipe at around 19%. As soon as we dropped Curator below 20%, his 10-minute enrage timer ticked as well as his scripted enrage and we lasted all of 3 seconds. Ouch.

So now the 'what if' section. What if I had of popped my evasion 3 seconds later, before he started attacking me? What if Melee DPS had of ignored the last Flares during Evocate and pounded on Curator? These are things best left lying. Although I WILL be suggesting to the Guild that melee DPS ignore the final Flares before Evocation and hit on Curator. Even missing 1-2 melee DPS, 20 seconds should be plenty of time for 3-4 ranged dps to drop a Flare. It will help our overall dps and help us miss that nasty 10-minute timer!

Well, if anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know via a posted comment, or drop me a tell/mail in game. You should all know the name and server by now (if not, look slightly to the right of this page...). Take it easy everyone.

P.S. I TOTALLY forgot to tell you guys about the 'New Objective to The Quest' I was talking about. I plan on saving up my BoJ's and getting the new Fist Weapons from the vendor in IoQD. They are sexy! That is all.