Stuff gets harder now as we enter the final stretch. This past week was busier than normal with the new upgrade currency for weapons and trinkets. Although it was a big help, it felt like a big chore just getting all of that content done. I didn’t even get a chance to run keys on some of my alts. This season has felt like I didn’t get much of a chance to breathe because there was so much that I felt I had to do in order to maintain progress on my raiding characters. I’m hoping things can slow down a bit. My LC Shaman has all Mythic gear now, and I just need a few more Myth crests to upgrade the rest of my gear to max, then I don’t feel as compelled to max out my Mythic vaults anymore. I’ve got the Myth Crest upgrade discount achievement finally.
Let’s get to it, shall we?
- In Death Jesters, I got the call up to come in on my Shaman as our principal Shaman was away on day 2. I got some reps in on Bel’oren. I hate that fight. The first phase 1 is conceptually easy, the second phase 1 has a lot of stuff going on in there. As we come out of the first egg phase, we either go to the entrance of the room (south) or we move to the west end of the room. I have not quite figured out the pattern in determining which way to go, and I am relying on our raid leader to make that call. We did limp into the second egg phase a few times (about 30% there). I think we can get it down this upcoming weekend.
- Meanwhile, in Last Call, we’re able to clear and get Paladins down. Turns out the solution was just spacing out the Execution Sentences further than what we had. We kept about one Execution Sentence space between each one, and that allowed each group to not worry about hammers as much and focus on dodging Divine Tolls flying into the raid.
- Crown of the Cosmos progression started, and we had a full day on it. Most of the time was spent on the first phase as we were tweaking our damage, adjusting Silverstrike arrow times, and generally working on the ooze control. Two Death Knights helped in pulling them in. I did my best by Thunderstorming the adds in. We did end up being more consistent getting into phase 2, except we spawned the add into the wrong platform a few times, and we lost a few players during intermission. With two Shamans, we can do a better job staggering our Wind Rush Totems and using totem projection to throw them just ahead of us as we traverse around it.
- I did have a dumb pull where I got an Obelisk and just… backed off the platform, sigh.
On the recruiting side of things, Death Jesters is looking at some upcoming departures, and we’re opening up our recruiting. We’re looking to add another healer (any class), and another Disc Priest. The temporary measure is that I would play my Priest for now just to help with a Fortitude buff. My Shaman just can’t seem to maintain consistent damage throughout the raid. I think I’m hitting my spells too quick and am misfiring procs without buffing them accordingly. Too used to “always be casting” that I’m not taking the time to actually look and see what spells I have available, while dealing with all the boss mechanics being sent my way.
Have a great week!