He's not getting back up from this one...
What to do when you have the double whammy of being one short, and having to call a raid night early? 9 man some heroic bosses! We are a very small guild, and real life can really get in the way of filling up a raid group, but we roll with the punches and try and get as much done as we can. Sometimes that involves spontaneously finding a guest raider from the wider Dath’remar community. which particularly when attempting progression hardmodes can be a little bit of a lucky dip. We have at times found some great guest raiders, but as any guild does, we have stories about some nightmares too (even though they looked great on paper).
So rather than try and find that special someone, we put our heads down and got to work on a short raid night. First up, heroic Morchok… We decided to go with three healers, since at 15% nerf the enrage timer wasn’t going to be a problem. Since we had only 4 characters on one side, we decided to stack Jondy and Kal healing on one side, with Moordenar soaking. Looking at the healing required after the fight, this was complete overkill in dealing with the extra stomp damage being split between fewer people. On the other side we had Noondez both healing and soaking, resplendent in plate, with shield. One shot.
Next up was heroic Yor’sajh. We figured with the 15% nerf and about 1/6 (or 16.66 (repeating of course)) less DPSers it made sense we should be able to get him down. Yor’sahj turned out to be a relative non-event with a lack mechanics that involved a particular number of characters and we one shot him too.
Heroic Zon’ozz was a different matter. We did manage to have a few pulls on him before we called the raid, but with only 9 characters, split damage mechanics and a little hole in our DPS on adds in the black phase he got away from us. It was a fantastic challenge and great practise as we rocked up to DS and one shot him the following night.
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