It’s very unlikely that this could have been closer.
We started the evening barely getting into phase two, but quickly retook the progress that we had made last Thursday. Soon we were refining the actions of the melee group inside the visions of Yogg and the tentacle killing priority of the group outside the old death god.
Quickly, we were well into phase three and learning the challenges of herding all those space elephants into manageable tank groups.
Our second to last attempt had him at 21%.
Still learning the fight, our raid leader told us that if it was close he’d pull all dps from the adds over to Yogg. Most of the healers had no idea of what he was talking about, given that they were busy mending wounds, decursing, curing diseases, dispelling magics, and cleansing poisons.
All of a sudden we knew what close was as dps was told to switch targets. We hit the enrage timer and the entire raid’s health dipped below 50%. A few raiders were killed by adds, but then simultaneously 25 people’s screens erupted in a flurry of achievements. Yogg was killed by dots and our vent server carried a cacophony of nerd screams across North America.
From here we’ll take a less frantic pace in Ulduar. Learning as many of the hard mode keeper fights as we can before the next patch, and returning to Yogg’s loot table as often as time permits.
Our eyes are now fixed upon Algalon.