It’s really hard to lead and call a raid when you’re sick, you know? I’ve been coughing non-stop for over a week on a diet of lozanges, tea, and Buckley’s. Not sure if people outside of Canada are aware of it, but it’s a cough syrup that tastes really awful, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t effective and relieves symptoms for a while. Alright, lets get to it shall we?
- Death Jesters clears Vanguard. I was in for progression as relief a few times. This is a boss where it’s more ideal to play Farseer instead of Stormbringer. Ultimately, I wasn’t in on the kill but I did gain some first hand experience on it.
- Last Call crushes Midnight Falls on heroic, and we get that coveted Ahead of the Curve achievement. We’re basically done with Heroic for the tier and can now strictly focus on Mythic from here on out.
- After Midnight Falls, we popped back over to Voidspire Mythic to start working on Dragons. It’s much simpler than I expected it to be. Our best pull so dragons go down to about 23%. DJs killed it the first time within 13 pulls. I didn’t think we’d be as fortunate.
- We had a spirited discussion on dispels on Imperator. I didn’t think they were a problem, but one of my healers was disgruntled about it. I looked into it further. We get six debuffs, but only four need to be cleared (two on the first add, and two on the second add). I can’t see any consequence to leaving up the final two or even delaying removing them. Whenever the player gets dispelled, there’s a 10-second dot debuff that gets applied anyway. In my mind, it’s okay to leave the final 2 dispels up and stagger them a bit to spread out the incoming damage anyway. No real resolution here, and it only came up because I was trying to trim from 4 healers to 3 healers in order to accelerate out of that fight quicker. The next dispel heavy fight with Paladins at least has a Weakaura (or M33kauras) that can assign and dictate dispels accordingly for people, thank goodness for that. But if this discussion keeps up, a definite attitude check is going to be in order here.
- We’re going to need a second healing Monk for Vanguard. We’re fortunate that one of our healers is also quite alt-driven and happens to have a 280+ Monk lying around just waiting.
This is going to be a rough week for me. The new Diablo 4 expansion just came out last night. Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era debuts later this week. Not only that, there’s a new Two Point Museum DLC that’s releasing soon! There goes my time!!