Instances

Last week Kuan and Viljo went into Sethekk Halls with Rahlenti, and the other pair of trolls we've been running with, the resto shaman and hunter. Well, first we tried Mana tombs, but bear tanks have very little spell mitigation, and though we tried valiantly we just couldn't get past the first VW boss.

But Sethekk was fun. We tromped through the instance and handily took out the first boss and the summoned druid boss. Sadly, Anzu didn't drop the epic mount so we'll have to go back some other time. But at 4000 lower city rep per heroic clear I don't think any of us will mind, especially not Kuanchichi, who lusts after the Gavel of Unearthed Secrets.

However the tromping was reversed when we got to Ikiss. Ikiss is a bitch and a half on regular and his attacks are only worse on heroic. The only way I've reliably seen him taken down is to get him down to 20%, with only the (shaman) healer and tank left alive, then they take him out via the miracle of searing totems, sheeped mana regeneration, and the fact that he stops doing the AOE explode with only 2 people. So after several wipes we got that formation and took him down.

Teltanara cleared Sunken Temple. The group was interesting, we had a 69 rogue tanking, and Eeyan tanking as well? off-tanking? And a hunter and mage along as well. It was interesting to be the healer along on that run. Turns out that good rogues can be effective tanks when 10-15 levels up. They replace mitigation with dodge. :)

We had a slight escapade where we forgot to clear all of the green dragons before killing Eranikus. The rogues still managed to down him, but those of us who didn't have vanish were killed by the pat of 15-20 pissed off dragonkin. It was quite impressive to see them wandering around afterwards looking for the rogues.

And Teltanara got the first set of quests for BRD, including some of them inside the instance. Eeyan is quite the killing machine, especially with heals.