Well, we did it! Last Call finally clearly Mythic Gallywix and the team get it’s first CE after the second tier of its inception. Oddly enough, our kill pull was the smoothest attempt we had. I ended up being the only death (as is tradition) really early on in the fight, trying to bait one of Gally’s blue beams, and I just wasn’t able to Gust of Wind out of the way early enough. We ended up with a 90 execution rating and managed to get Gallywix down before the final 4 set of ads at the end. It was great because the final set of those energy balls was pointed away from our Druid tank, who was carrying the bomb, and would have had a hard time getting to it because it was in the electric field.
Unofficially, Last Call finishes at US 582. It’s not going to show up on the official stat sheet.
- Over in DJs, we said goodbye to one of our long time Warlock players due to a scheduling change. While we’re not looking to actively recruit any class at the moment, we’re still open to anyone interested in joining the team for Season 3. We’ve started selling mounts and last boss kills on Mythic. Our guild bank has already been replenished, and now we’re doing cuts for the team to resupply going into next season.
- The new patch and raid schedule have been announced. It appears that all difficulties will be available starting August 12th. It’s right around what the public expectations were. I had hoped it would be delayed to later in August, because I don’t think we can get everyone on the team mounts before the end of the season.
- Does it feel like a shorter PTR test cycle to anyone else? It certainly feels that way to me.
- Next steps for Last Call is reopening our recruiting again for the next season. We’ve already started our end-of-season feedback form for class and spec change or reroll requests. We’re standing pat on tanks, but we’re open to DPS and healers, so come join! We’ll have some vacancies open as some of our players have opted to move on from us, and we’re truly grateful for their contributions in helping the team get to where they are. We wouldn’t have made it here without their efforts.
- Now that we’ve established a baseline for where we finished in US ranks, we’re already making plans to see what we can do next season and climb up that ladder. The goal here is to try to break into the US 400s.
- One of the things I wasn’t satisfied with was our knowledge management. Many boss changes and discussions will happen on Discord, and sometimes stuff gets lost. I’ve invested some time in having a Playbook put together using Coda as a single source of truth. It’ll have our raid plan maps, cooldowns, pre-set MRT notes, and other important boss information so players can reference it instead of getting lost in Discord threads. Any strategy changes can be discussed before it gets committed and saved into the Playbook.
- Week one of mount farming and I basically struck out. I sent something like 12 characters into Tempest Keep, and Ashes of Al’ar did not drop.
That’s all for our team updates.