Our humble, mild mannered Sunday afternoon raid started on the old grind of SSC. We thought we’d fetch some more T5 gear for the crew. By the time we got Lurker down, a bunch of us needed to go. So we thought we’d throw together a team of twenty or so people for Black Temple trash and see what it was like.
A few of us had been in before, but got pasted by those speedy little patting water ads. Well today was payback time, and today was our first completely official entry into Black Temple.
Those watery pats? The twenty of us went in and clobbered them. With a renewed sense of purpose and a few more people logging in, we kept pulling the real trash further in. In a surprisingly short amount of time we stood before Naj’entus.
After 5 or so tries, and multiple rearrangements, we had solid healing and healthy dps. Lately we have been melee heavy, and in many of these fights its not optimal. But at the end of six attempts, we got saved to the instance by killing our first Black Temple boss. Shell boy down.
But we were there to explore, and wanted to know what was just around the corner, past the pack of small water elementals. That quick climb took us out into the Illidari training grounds and within sight of Supremus.
That encounter was much quicker to learn. In three or so tries we had him. The key was survival. As the old adage goes volcanoes makes your dps go to zero. As soon as we reliably deployed those life skills we won.
Earlier this week we put two full nights of learning into the Kael’thas fight. We’ve gotten into phase 4, but just barely. We are about to secure phase 3. We know that that encounter will be worth the few weeks of learning. But in the meantime, we’ll bask in this fun day of Black Temple blitzing.
