Happy extended maintenance today! This week was another solid week for both teams. It’s the big 20th anniversary patch today and some classes are in tears while other classes are ecstatic. Today we give our condolences to fury warriors. They ate well the past few weeks, so at least they had that. No big changes for Priests, which I suppose is good news. Anyway, let’s jump into it.
- Mythic Broodtwister: Definitely on the cusp of falling over for DJs. Our best pulls towards the end of the night pushed well into the sub 3% phase. We were trying everything possible to maximize damage as much as we could, even dragging Broodtwister all the way to the back of the room between the first and second container break just to make him have to travel more before going to the third break. We made a switch at half time with me tagging out and Holy Paladin coming in. With another vault slot this week, we’ll have the ability to punch through for sure and move on to Princess.
- Mythic Ulgrax: I had to bring in my alternate Priest for this one since we were missing a healer. Good thing I did though! We ended up killing Ulgrax in two pulls before moving onward to Bloodbound. I ended up making not one, but two life saving plays there. We managed to get Bloodbound down to about 30%, but we had some players who had to drop early unfortunately and we didn’t have the roster to push through. Recruiting for this roster is going to continue being a challenge here. We’ve also begun increasing our minimum requirements (item level minimums need to go up, along with enchants and gems being rank 3). Not only that, at least one level 10 key done per week.
- In DJs, positioning is one of the gameplay concepts we stress the most. You can underperform and naturally improve, but if you’re in the wrong position, you risk wiping the team which is a far greater offense. I haven’t had that talk with our Last Call guys yet on the importance of positioning. This isn’t a group of CE raiders yet, and positioning continues to be one of those raiding fundamentals that everyone needs to be on the same page for or else progression will be quite limited. So that talk might have to come up sooner or later.
- BRD Raid: The new raid is coming out this week and we’ll have it available for the next few months. How does your raid team plan on handling it? For us, it won’t be on the main schedule for either of the teams (DJs or Last Call), but it’s something that can certainly be done outside of our normal scheduled hours. I have a new source to gear up my alts though!
I’m really hoping for big progression kills next week for both teams. We’ll see. Speaking of next week, the new Dragon Age is being released! I can’t wait to try it out.