In the classic Steel Legion way, we waited until our last attempt before respawns to take out Hydross. Tradition must be upheld.
We knew that coming into the evening we had to increase DPS and had a few goals. Get more resist to the tanks, tune up our DPS, and use the stay alive strategy. We made some neck piece resist gear for our tanks. This allowed them to stay tanking Hydross longer. We brewed up lots of resist potions, this helped keep them up towards the end of their tank phase. We had a good fighting chance at taking Hydross before we even began.
During the one set of attempts, we continued to improve our strats, we continued to learn the dance. We had a discussion about the adds and marking them. It wasn’t just one trick that suddenly propelled us to victory, it was a small improvement here, and another there. It all added up quite nicely.
The interesting thing was, that our 2nd to last good attempt had Hydross enraging while at 18%. We fine tuned the approach path to minimize adds, our frost tank had full rage, and before the poison phase we chopped Hydross down to 78%. Several cycles later, we were calling out for banish assignments on his last poison phase, but realized that we did not need to banish. We had him at 5% or so with one minute to go. So we decided to just burn him down. We did.
We rounded out the evening on a trip to our old friend the Lurker. Purples dropped like candy and we picked up a nice craftable recipe for one of our tailors. It’s going to be really nice clearing Hydross out, and not trying to skip ahead in the instance. We’re going to turn SSC into our new Karazhan. We apologize to the horde outside of Karazhan. We probably won’t be around to play as much.
Oh, one more thing. We now have the very first boss in SSC, the “Platform Lift Boss” on farm. That guy is easy once you know the strat.
