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We killed heroic Painsmith Raznal in 22 attempts with 10 raiders at an average iLvl of 235.4.

I’m writing this in December after our AotC, and I wish I hadn’t looked at the log to remind myself of our kill. The first thing I have to admit, is that on our kill of Painsmith… I died… to a Spiked Ball.

Otherwise, the most notable thing for our strategy is our awesome diagonal positioning of the traps so that the waves of spikes would explode them one after another with delicious timing, without further intervention. In practise, we didn’t always get the perfect alignment or spacing, so Velletara usually did the heavy lifting of defusing the time bomb by exploding a bomb early. Not the easiest strategy, but definitely worth some style points!

We killed Soulrender Dormazain in 24 attempts with 10 raiders at an average item level of 234.7. Having multiple teams to break chains was a nice twist from normal mode for Soulrender. Getting the first chain broken as fast as possible and then timing the remaining chains well was the major mechanic to master, aside from the dance with what I’d like to call rivers of blood, but probably has some lore related to anima I missed. Then the fight boiled down to efficiency of killing the adds (deathgrip certainly helps) and having enough DPS to power through the fight as mechanics get time crunched towards the end of the fight.