No fear in Blood Furnace

Last night our schedule was odd. We got home from work early, and had to leave at midnight-thirty to get a friend from the airport. So, we decided that was enough time to get a heroic run in.

I logged in at the same time as Rahlenti, and he liked this idea too. So we pulled together Walkietalkie (who is spec'd resto right now) and Tingprodu, a rogue from Dark Revenant, and decided to hit Blood Furnace.

Now in the past, when we tried to run with Isd, he refused to run BF without a warlock. I couldn't remember the instance well enough to know why, and by now we had all clearly forgotten why. We got there and tore through the first part of the instance. First boss, kept going. We wiped when a pat added on in that hallway with the icky dripping green machines. Then we kept going...

...and got to the room with the caged fel orcs. With no fears! But with 2 shaman. We assembled a plan involving Frost Nova and 2 Earthbind totems, but lo, they were immune to Earthbind! But then someone came up with a clever plan. It turns out there is a bug that can get the orcs out of the cages without triggering the event. After some experimentation, we ascertained: if three people walk up to the cage, they will come out, kill Kuanchichi, and then go after everyone else.

:-(

That experimentation was 3 more wipes, and now people were getting cranky about repairs. So finally Viljo convinced everyone just to try the event, since we knew our limitations. Let the rogue mark, as the tank needs to tank and not be going "hm, you get a Star!" at the mobs. We trid it, and got all the way to the last group. Then Kuan went down, and I think we still could have made it if I popped, but by the time the melee moved away from Kuan's corpse and he could pop, the tank went down too.

At that point people were mad and called it. "We need fearz" was the consensus. But really, I don't think so. The second time actually trying the event we got almost all the way through it. I think if we had just approached it with some discipline, which we didn't have since it'd been so easy to that point, we could have done it. (I do admit I was mad too. "Not only did I have to suffer the indignity of dying, but I was stuck with nothing but Bear Ass on my screen!")

But ok, I remember now, "need a lock for BF!" Well, I got a badge and learned that while a lock would make it easier, we can probably handle that event with no fears.