Blowing the raid up… with one button!

So this weekend, our dps crew is either slacking, away doing other things, out of gold for repairs and consumables, or just afraid of the new bosses. Or all of them answers at once. ;) Meaning that we went again with the 10-man group and continued to free the Ulduar Watchers from Yogg-Saron’s influence. On Friday we killed Hodir again (after a bit too many tries for my taste, since we had to change the main tank to someone new to this), killed Thorim without too many problems, and worked on Freya. The next day we just executed our strategy on Freya, disposing of her quite swiftly and started on the last one of the watchers – Mimiron. We had to leave him be for now, but it seems we will most likely continue on Sunday’s evening.

I now like the Watchers area of the instance even more. The bosses are tricky, and that’s what makes them an awesome fun. They are not very hard (regardless of the “nerfs” and hotfixes – most of them were justified anyway), just very tricky. You have to know the strategy and you have to execute it well. What is even more fun, you have to do the same thing at the trash mobs. To be completely honest, I think they are fed up with calling them “trash”, and that is the reason that they can wipe the floor with a whole raid almost just as easily as the real bosses.

Now the Mimiron fight and the mobs before him – awesome stuff. Painful as hell, but I was able to jump into a gnomish spider tank and shoot things! As a melee with only some leather and Evasion for protecting myself, I was extremely happy to have range abilities and 300k health pool for once :] But the ride in the steam train after these packs, and the design of the Spark of Imagination area is a great reward for dying a few times.

Mimiron himself is a very painful fight though. I think it’s a bit beyond tricky – he does huge amounts of damage both on the tank and on the raid, and on top of that, half of his abilities are designed to instantly turn the player into a nasty stain on the floor. But working on him and getting further each try is awesome, and I’m pretty sure we will kill him next evening. It’s just a matter of doing all things the right way.

Oh, and the button pictured above? It’s a big red button that says “DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON”. And it was really blinking at me. Since I’m a respectable dwarf, champion of Ironforge and so on, I really had no choice but to go and push it. Of course that resulted in a very quick wipe, especially of the 9 people standing outside of the room, for which neither me nor the raid leader (“Ok, I’ve watched the video. Can I go press the button now?” “Yes” *the dwarf stealths and sprints away to the boss*) weren’t really prepared. Oh well, at least now we know what the button does. :)