Plaguechill has downed 25 man heroic Cho’gall!  Overall this was a very fun and intense fight.  It required a great deal of interrupts, raid coordination, interrupts, awareness, positioning, and interrupts…damn dirty interrupts.  Most of the fights this tier have a large interrupt component associated with them, but Cho’gall takes it to a new level.  Just like Nef, the adds have to be constantly interrupted, which can get tricky when one of your interrupters gets mind controlled.  However, your entire raid also has to become an interrupt machine to deal with the constant stream of mind controls.  This becomes especially important as Cho’gall hits like a truck.  A couple missed mind control interrupts + flame orders can easily one shot a tank.

The last phase was a fairly easy burn phase.  Kill tentacles, pop raid cds, and pray you down him in time.  Our entire raid team really stepped it up for this fight, but a special shout out goes to our resident Ele Shaman Raimos for doing an amazing job interrupting.

Sinestra, here we come!

Plaguechill has downed 25 man heroic Nefarian!  Overall, at least as a healer, this was a pretty fun fight and definitely my favorite of this tier (so far…).  Phase 1 is fairly easy, but things can easily turn south if people get complacent (stop healing, walk in front of a dragon, hit a portal, DC…).  The real party starts during phase 2.  Each platform needs a steady stream of interrupts which, combined with the cinders mechanic, can make for some frustrating wipes.  The healers are simply praying the phase ends before they go oom and/or get three cinders all on their platform.  Phase 3, while not as chaotic as phase 2, goes on for forever.  The nice part about phase 3 is that it is fairly predictable (tons of cooldowns, add kiting, and boss spinning).  A big ups goes to Wye for kiting adds like a champ on his alt Wai (now recruiting prot warriors, apply today!!!).

With BWD cleared out, we head to BoT to finish up this tier.  Also, we have openings for a prot warrior, a druid or shaman healer, and a couple dps.  Apply now before everything is on farm!

Plaguechill has downed heroic Al’akir on 10 man!  This fight was fairly chaotic, but as with normal mode, the chaos really only lasts through p1.  Static shock was not quite as bad as we were expecting, but it quickly became deadly when paired with windburst, icestorm, squall line, and ohh I don’t know…another damn static shock!  Yes, he can really drop two static shock fields in the same damn spot, making you want to punch a kitten.  The second phase was fairly easy once we got the debuff stacks timed right, while the third phase was trivial by comparison as you just have to pray you don’t do something stupid.

We had been pondering the idea of having a 10m group tackle this fight since the mechanics of static shock make it significantly harder on 25m.  Last week we finally decided to pull the trigger and get a 10 man group to go in on an off night and kill the bastard.  We were really happy that it only took two nights to learn and down.  Thanks to all our patient PC raiders and great job to all involved.

Plaguechill has downed the chaotic cluster F#*& known as heroic omnotron defense system!  This fight was especially fun since it pretty much changes every pull.  When we first started on the heroic encounter I thought “this is pretty cool, everyone has to really be ready for the random mechanics.”  However, that pleasant feeling quickly passed and I think we all became extremely annoyed at the RNG associated with the fight.  Certain mechanic combinations were incredibly tight and deadly, while others were fairly trivial.  Onwards and upwards!

Also we are still recruiting.  We have spots for a tank and a couple DPS.  Our healer team is fairly full, but if you are a godly healer, feel free to apply.