Valiona & Theralion heroic are down, leaving us at a likely 6/13 for the release of tier 12. The screenshot isn’t our killshot, but instead it shows us assembling our army of killer penguins before we charged in.
We spent two nights working on the “one Subtlety rogue in the Twilight Zone” tactic, since we have a rogue and he was willing to respec Subtlety to try it. Our best attempts were mid-30%. Too much RNG: he’d be doing great then take a bomb to the face. If he died, it was a wipe. If he popped out for healing and had to spend anything more than 30 seconds out of the TZ, it was a wipe.
We ultimately succeeded with the usual 10-person raid tactic of sending 1 healer + 2 dps (preferably ranged) down in shifts. This put a huge burden on the 2 healers remaining topside to keep the raid up. Mind you, healing in the twilight wasn’t a cakewalk either. It took constant mana spew to keep people alive. I sort of enjoyed how difficult it was to move around in there, though. I might need mental health assistance for feeling that way, I realize.
It took a bunch of wipes for us to stabilize everything topside, learn to survive in the twilight, and then put together a solid attempt in which nobody died to mistakes. Log parse for the kill, maddeningly incomplete because it’s missing whatever was happening in the zone I wasn’t in. I have a kill vid, too, that I’ll upload later today. That’s more for my guild’s analysis, though.
