Mr. Bigglesworth Won't Save You

I haven't done a lot of posting about my raiding (well, I haven't done a lot of posting in general). I did a post last week about my foray into Naxxramas and how much I sucked, but I've since deleted that because I don't like being so negative. Now that lag is cleared and I'm a little more raiding competent, this week in Naxxramas went quite swimmingly.

We (that is Aetherial Circle)do two 10-man Naxx raids on Sunday and Monday evenings. We have only done "official raids" for a few weeks. We're not hardcore raiders, we waited until January to do official raids so everyone had proper time to level, gear up, and enjoy the scenery. We've plugged along. Last week we cleared all four wings despite the lag, and as I said, I was quite disappointed with my performance. This week went much better. Both groups cleared the four wings on the first night, leaving only Sapphiron and Kel'thuzad for Monday.

The group that I was in trashed Sapph quite well. 1 shot, our first try. I personally didn't think the fight was difficult at all. Just stay out of the blizzard, position yourself correctly, and hide behind your frozen compatriots.

Kel'thuzad was a little shakier but we got him down in a few tries. It took a bit of time to just work out positioning and whatnot, plus we had some back luck/oopsies. Our main tank once didn't get out of the shadow fissure in time, so kersploded. Twice our add tank got frozen, leading to death. We repositioned our healers and that seemed to fix it. We got him down soon enough, with the second 10-man following suit a few minutes after.

So we departed Naxxramas with only one survivor.

Since it was quite early, we decided to do Sarth-25. We started it last Wednesday but that was before the lag was fixed and it was a bit too ridiculous. The drakes were still dead though so we just cleared the trash and then made short work of the dragon. Hopefully we'll do +1 next week. The only thing about that fight that annoys me is that I can't get the Gonna Go When the Volcano Blows achievement. I keep my spell detail up about halfway on that fight and still don't see the meteors until they pretty much hit and so if I'm in them there's no way that I can avoid them. I'm not sure if there is a better way to see them or what.

So goings are good. I think in a week we're going to start 25 man Naxx, for which I certainly believe that we are ready. From what I hear, a lot of those fights are easier on 25 than 10 and we've got a competent group of raiders so I don't think we'll have issues.

In other news, I'm fudging around with my spec a lot. With 3.08 I got a free respec so tried a spec using Static Shock and lightning shield. It upped my DPS a good deal but my mana suffered way too much. Perhaps once we're always doing 10-mans and I know that I'll be getting Replenishment and Blessing of Wisdom(we have approximately 42 paladins) it will be less of an issue. Though I'm getting ahead of myself, that will be a post in itself.