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On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:34:30 +0100 (CET), Lancelet
<lancelet.nospam@merci.invalid> wrote:

>Since I was back to Anachronos to upgrade my ring, and still in a raid with 
>my deconnected friend, I visited old Hyjal. I was able to kill the waves of 
>mobs and get some rep, too (strangely, not on the first pack).  According 
>to my calculation before this try, I needed a clean of old Hyjal to be 
>exalted. But doing only the first wave will do it too.
>
>My friend joined me two days ago to try the first boss (the lich).
>
>First try, he killed us with his death and decay (15% of my total life as a 
>dot... ouch).
>
>Second try, my friend tried his healing spec. Everything was going fine, 
>until the 10mn enrage (we were not aware of that).
>
>Since there are 8 waves of mobs before the boss, no third try.
>
>I'll finish this alone someday, when I'm really bored.

Just gave the place a shot with my bf, and was surprised how possible
it was! Me on bear druid, him on 84 hunter most the time, tabbing to
his 85 priest when heals were needed.

First waves of trash, no issue really, abominations are a bit painful
(stun, stun, stun) but no real danger of dying so long as my bf kept
awake and nuked them down first, and healed me when needed (I fast got
in the habit of hitting Barkskin on cd). Having never seen the place
in my life, I hadn't realised we'd get no break before the boss to
check strategies so, oh well, here goes! No clue what we were doing,
but pretty selfexplanatory, once I realised the death and decay has a
rather wider radius than the graphic suggests, and it's wise to start
moving quickly (ouch!), he died pretty quickly (so did our unused alts
lol)

Next batch of waves, no problem, next boss, likewise, no problem, was
easy to pick up the infernals and tank them, generally I'd burn one
down when I had about 3 of them on me. After this, talked to Jaina
again, thought, nice, she's casting a mass teleport for us, then
realised actually it wasn't for us, bah. Didn't know there was a huge
wave of mobs coming till we were in combat, and didn't realise how
many there were till I'd gone bear and picked them up, and thought
"omg we're gonna die". Somehow, we didn't! Seems my bf is a pretty
good healer ;-) 500 rep in a couple of minutes mass tanking/aoeing,
thanks!

Next area was more annoying, since trash waves spawn all over the
place and rarely all come to me, so spend some time chasing them,
although it doesn't matter that much with the NPCs anyway. Didn't like
the flying mobs (word of warning - don't try this if you only have
melee in your group, unless you want to spend a long time helping the
NPCs kill the frostwyrms, the gargoyles at least could usually be hit
by my swipe and thrash), but it was all more annoying than tough.
First boss here is pretty much tank and spank, very easy one! 2nd
boss, not so easy with the doom debuff killing everyone other than the
tank, thankfully my bf lasted long enough to get him down to "only" 1
million health, and Thrall survived to help me, since I struggle to do
big dps on my druid (only got quest reward gear), plus the rain of
fire tended to hurt a lot, but still, worked well enough in the end,
phew.

Much surprised at how easily we'd got this far, we reached Archimonde
(having decided to run away from the previous area before the huge
wave of mobs arrived this time!) Checked up some tactics and it seemed
simple enough, don't stand in fire, and do use the tears item Tyrande
gives you when you get hit in the air (being the tank this wasn't a
concern for me, phew!). We rapidly discovered there's really no point
me decursing the shadow dot, since he'll reapply it fast while usually
whacking me for 9-10k before I get back into bear, sigh. So my bf
switched to his healer, since we were both taking a ton of dmg (all
very well not standing in fire but it's hard when you're feared). We
were getting it back under control, when I got feared too near the
Well (having failed to take in that part of the tactics lol) and bam,
we got oneshotted. Oops.

2nd try, we just started with my bf on healer, and it went much
smoother, however damage output was a concern, with the 10 mins enrage
timer. DBM was telling me 5 mins to go when we were at about 60%, 2
mins to go when we were passing 35%... hmm. Counting down the last few
seconds, it was getting really close to the magic 10% mark where you
get a damage immunity buff, but not quite close enough... he enraged,
oneshotted my bf, I realised I was still alive on about half health,
and hitting a few cooldowns might keep me alive long enough to tip me
over the edge... a few seconds of panicked button bashing later, I
suddenly realise I'm still alive and he's below 10%, and a load of
friendly wisps have appeared..! 

Still can't believe we made it, we were *so* close to a wipe, but we
did it, very very satisfying to be able to complete it with just two
of us like that! I honestly didn't expect that to be possible, we're
both very lowgeared but seems we had just enough :-) 8.3k rep from the
run, would've been more like 7.8k without accidentally clearing the
wave we were supposed to not kill after the 2nd boss, but still, 4-5
more weeks should do it, if I can convince my bf to hold his interest
long enough (big if, he likes trying stuff once, but not repeating
it!)
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