Progression stonewaller Zon’ozz has been taken down at least. Feels like the Sindragosa of this tier.
We tried using individual soakers with no luck.
Having one large group standing on Zon’ozz’s butt didn’t work.
We tried splitting into a ranged and melee group and actively removed debuffs. Nope, no dice.
Then we just rolled down our sleeves and brute force healed phase 1 without worrying about running out or dispelling. Amazingly, that did the trick.
Conquest’s next efforts will be focused on heroic Blackthorn on the gunship. We’ll be taking shots on it tonight and raid boss Logan has the strategies all laid out. Fun part’s going to be ensuring all the players have gone through it.
Any individual tips or pointers are appreciated (if you have any). We do have a few approaches in mind but we’ll be making our first shots today.
Phase 2 healing
When the raid splits into four different groups to handle the tentacles, there tends to be one healer assigned to each group to keep them all alive. DPS players have to do their part in shutting down and interrupting tentacles as best as they can. Your job as a healer is to keep them alive long enough to do it.
As a Holy Priest, I switched from Chakra: Sanctuary to Chakra: Serenity. I valued the instant, single target healing over the raid healing benefits. It felt as if some players were taking more damage than others. With everyone in the raid taking constant damage, I lit off Binding Heals targeting two different players and activating Serendipity for a hasted Prayer of Healing on the group. If one players got too low, I leaned heavily on Serenity to give me the buffer I needed to propel their health back up to manageable levels.
Ran out of steam
After we got Zon’ozz down, I felt this incredible burden just lift off my shoulders. I’m sure everyone in the raid felt the same thing. At this stage, I had to tag out and attend to some personal business. I felt the next few bosses were on farm and that there shouldnt’ve been much difficulty in getting by.
Nope, I was wrong. The crew had a hard time getting by Hagara.
Looked like the raid that night hit it’s peak against Zon’ozz and most of the players just ran out of energy.
I remember reading a study once where the idea of patience and willpower is finite. There were two groups of participants in a room that had chocolate cookies and other type of desserts. Some participants were allowed to snag some cookies. The people who were in the willpower test group were asked to eat radishes instead. After that, both groups were given a skill testing puzzle.
The catch? The puzzle couldn’t be solved. Those in the radish group gave up much quicker and easier than those in the chocolate cookies group.
I wonder if there’s a relationship.
I think its interesting, and I totally agree with the idea that clearing a hurdle can take the energy out of you (or the raid team). In T11, we got our first Nefarian killed towards the end of our first night of the week. We didn’t raid the next night at all. We were emotionally drained (we had been working on him for about 6 weeks). It ended up being a good thing for us. The next week we cleared TotFW and started on Cho’gall. Best decision I’ve ever made as raid leader.