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It took us a while, but after we went to two-healing (me and Lyann) we got a lot further everytime, as close as 6% several times. We just needed to hold out long enough in the orb phases but once we got that, we got him.

Congratulations on a job well done!

On to the next boss!

This fight wasn’t so bad as the only difference was mostly the meteors with the firestorms and a longer phase 1. The whole fight took about 15 minutes, which is comparable to the lich king fight. All in all it looks like we can have this heroic on farm already.

Good job all!

See the forum posts:

Baleroc heroic:

http://ravencouncil.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3379&p=33299#p33299

Alysrazor heroic:

http://ravencouncil.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3378&p=33298#p33298

Prepare for baleroc for sunday and alysrazor for next week. We’ll also take a look at beth’tilac, but that’s probably still the hardest before ragnaros.

Vid:

Differences with normal mode are explained here:

http://www.icy-veins.com/lord-rhyolith-detailed-strategy#sec-8

It doesn’t look like we’ll have to change much as 1 tank 2 healers is recommended for heroic and we use that for normal already. Now we’ll need all the dps we can do, both on the adds as on the legs. The faster we get him to phase 2 the better, meaning we might even have to burn cooldowns at some point to just get him into phase 2.

We might have to assign 3 dps to the adds, who should also be ready to do damage to liquid adds and be ready to knock them back or slow them.

Vid:

It seems like an extreme healing fight with people even out of the group during scorpion phase to do as much damage as possible. I wonder whether we have the gear for this already (especially on our healers).

Basic differences are described here:

http://www.icy-veins.com/majordomo-staghelm-detailed-strategy#sec-6

After a well-deserved raid break, we took it upon us again to tackle our first heroic boss and we delivered straight away. Without relying on exploits we simply got him down slowly but certainly. Luckily by the time I died, the boss was already almost dead and we burned him down with only 1-2 more deaths.

A very well done job all! On to the next heroic kill!

We’ll focus on rhyolith and majordomo heroic next. Since we already killed rhyolith on normal, we’ll try majordomo on sunday/tuesday. So, read up on the changed tactics. I’ll try to update it here and in the forum the next few days.

Forgot to make a picture again! Oh well, we can make one next time.

With the vacations and to allow some time to regroup to replenish our ranks for those that sadly had to leave us indefinitely, we’ll be having a break until 08/09/2011. Feel free to sign up as backups for raid group 2 which is just starting up now on wednesday/sunday/monday. You are also free to pug firelands e.g. and/or baradin hold during this time.

Although he’s not leaving us, Ametsuchi has found a new job which sadly doesn’t allow for a raiding hobby besides it. Therefore we’re looking for a replacement shaman or similar type of dps.

A guild has been created for the new MMO The Old Republic, so head on over there and apply for a spot if you intend to play this MMO when it comes out. We need 10 people at least to apply for guild testing so be quick!

You can find the guild here:

http://www.swtor.com/guilds/153236/raven-council

Discussion thread:

http://ravencouncil.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3377

Vid here:

Basic difference is that rageface will also have to be trapped to get rid of a buff while having the raid move away while he’s trapped to make sure noone’s meleed again before it drops off. For riplimb it basically stays the same.

For the rest, the dogs won’t have to be killed at all and once the boss is down to 30% we can mostly nuke him down while still trapping the dogs all the time.

This boss is a pushover on heroic and should be easy enough to kill on the first raid.

With over 80 wipes and perhaps only surpassed by rhyolith in number of wipes, we finally got him down after excruciatingly close wipes (the 15th wipe even got counted as a kill by world of logs for being too darn close).

We got him just in time too with people going on vacation soon. That’s not to say that the rest of the raids for the month are cancelled. We’ll have shannox heroic this thursday already so read up on him!

Thanks all for sticking by until 23:30 to get this one down and a special thanks to those that backed us up while we had many not available!