With the Friday ICC 10m pushing 8/12 in an evening, and with the ICC 25m pushing 5-6/12 in an evening, it is time to dust off some recent advice, immediately after which we cleared 10/12 in the Thursday ICC 10m and got Sindragosa to 16%. It follows:
We are squaring up to clear and gear 11/12 in ICC 10m in 3 hours of raiding. That goal simply cannot be achieved if we do not bring our best performance to every pull, every boss fight and every raid. It is not enough to ‘have seen the fight before’ or to ‘have done it in a 25 m or on another character’. Everyone in the raid group needs to be working to do their best performance on that character in that raid during that pull – trash, or boss pulls. Bring your A game, everytime. Do your homework. Know what you need to do every moment of every fight, every single time. Study the fight strategies well in advance of where you are now. Know how to improve your game. Talk to others performing your role in raid groups that are farther ahead than you are. Find class leads and mentors. Become better in every pull we do. Shave off inefficiencies. Lose bad habits. Hone your raiding play like a finely tuned piece of work.
People are going to make mistakes – it happens. However, mistakes should be the rare occasion, not the norm. At this point, wiping on anything less than Putricide, Queen or Sindragosa is not cutting it. It is unrealistic to plan to clear 11/12 in 3 hours by the end of June if we are doing multiple attempts on every boss after Saurfang.
If you want a care-free, not-interested-in-downing-the-Lich-King raid group, start a new one and by all means have fun! There is plenty of room in our guild for multiple styles and approaches to raiding. However, if you want to down the Lich King in a LR raid, you need to get down right serious about making each pull your best performance.
Efficiencies and effectiveness are the path to getting to the LK fight. Top end performance is the requirement for downing the LK. For example, during phase 2 of the LK fight, while everything else is going on, you HAVE to be watching to see who he is targeting his Defile cast on as whoever that gets cast on has TWO seconds to drop the defile in a harmless spot and everyone else has the same two seconds to get away from that targeted player. Two seconds or you wipe the raid. There isn’t even time to warn you in vent. There are no B game raid groups downing the LK.
Marrowgar and Deathwhisper may be boring to you now. Battleship may be child’s play and Saurfang may just be a small hurdle. Bring your A game to those fights as well. Use them to be as efficient as you can. Path to avoid pulling extra mobs leading up to Marrowgar. Help down boarding parties on our ship. Find new ways to take less time to get to the LK fight – the easiest of which is to one shot all the content up to his throne room.
We have the right players in our raid group. We can gear up the virtual characters that need gearing. We have room to improve on the speed with which we are ‘clearing and gearing’.
Let’s go get him!
