Second night in Kara... Moroes down

Last night was our second night in Kara. Due to people's schedules, it was the first night we could get our core group to go after our first night last Tuesday. I think because we are so small and somewhat casual, we aren't going to be able to go to Kara 4 nights a week. For now, I think we're shooting for 2 definite scheduled runs, with a possible third.

We had an interesting raid makeup for Moroes. We had three tanks, Jess as our main tanky tank, Wut as our pally off tank, and Adamas as our beary druid off off tank. Again, only two healers, myself and our holy priest Suzzy. Suzzy is definitely not a new healer anymore. She is a veteran healer, which is a damn good thing since its just the two of us. For dps, we had Veloreynn who is quite a scary fire mage now (I would not want to meet her in a dark alley), our hunter Nio (I still call his traps the freezy thing), and get this... three freakin rogues, Atania, Daihiro, and Suzzy's friend Fadeshadow. We were giving the rogues a bit of a hard time. When Atania died during trash, I said "Oh crap, sorry Atania" to which Jess replied, "No worries, its just a rogue... we got 2 more". Heh heh.

So... somewhat of an interesting group makeup, wouldn't you say? But K's lesson for today is that you don't have to follow those tips that say you have to have class X for fight Y. You make do with what you have. I know that at some point later in Kara we may really really need a certain class. We'll cross that bridge when we get there or figure out a way to get across with the group we have.

Now the four adds we had were the holy priest, arms warrior, ret paladin, and the prot warrior. Here's why it was good we had Adamas in a tank/dps gear combo. Jess pulled Moroes and tanked him along with Wut to the right of the long table. I stood on the table (my mother would be horrified!) and healed them. Whenever Jess got gouged, she'd yell out, then I'd immediately put up a dispel poison on Wut so that he wouldn't get blinded. Adamas I believe tanked the holy priest and arms warrior, with all dps on the priest first. During this time Nio had frozen the ret pally and Suzzy (when she wasn't busy healing because yeah, she had nothing else to do) shackled the prot warrior. (Disclaimer... I may have gotten some of this wrong... I was so focused on green bars, I'm not 100% sure this is what was going on behind me. I'm sure Jess will correct me if this is wrong). *edited after Jess' comment.

So there was our game plan. Now we wiped 5 times before finally taking him down on the 6th. It was funny (or not so funny) because we got Moroes down to 1% on the fifth try. Now remember my post on Attumen about how I should be quieter during wipes and not swear? Well... let's just say there was plenty of yelling, groaning, and swearing and it wasn't from me! Good thing because now I know I can let the salty words fly. :)

Our five wipes I think were due to a variety of reasons... I think once Wut somehow got stunned once when Jess was gouged and then Moroes came for me. I think another time someone came after Suzzy and we were down to one healer (yikes!). We lost Atania a number of times. With just two healers, one paying attention to a shackle, it was a bit difficult to heal. I tried to keep up a lifebloom stack on Jess as well as some on Wut, dispel poison before Wut would be blinded, put up lifeblooms on whoever was garroted (the 6th time when we took him down I had a garrote on me... it was hard for me to remember to heal myself), and heal whoever else needed it in my spare time (mainly Adamas, Fadeshadow, and Atania). So yeah, it was a bit stressful for Suzzy and myself, but we got it done.

In terms of drops we got [Nethershard Girdle] for our mage Vel (though she doesn't really need a girdle... she is quite slim) and [Signet of Unshakable Faith] for Suzzy. The off hand would have been an upgrade for me as well and Suzzy wanted to roll on it, but I insisted she take it. Here's my theory on loot. Yes, I would like to upgrade my pieces. But I'm not doing Kara by myself. Because the off hand was a greater upgrade for Suzzy, I thought it was more important she get it. A big upgrade for her means the group as a whole is better.

We are going to try to go again tonight for Maiden but not sure if we have a full group. We'll see. However in preparation for Maiden, I spent some time yesterday morning grinding the Abyssal Flamebringers in Blade's Edge. Why? So I could get [Recipe: Major Holy Protection Potion]. Now while I was grinding, wouldn't you know a damn purple dropped! [Depleted Cloth Bracers] which after 50 apexis shards turned into [Crystalweave Bracers]. Vel already had these bracers, so Jess' mage alt Aksana got a nice little gift in the mail from K. I did get the recipe to drop. So it was a nice little farming expedition for me up there since I got a good number of motes of fire as well. I was sort of sad to leave those Abyssal Flamebringers (they look mean and scary but they're really just big teddy bears in disguise) because grinding them was so successful for me!