Voidreaver, something different

Our guild is getting stronger. We are still starting late while trying to find 25 raiders. But, last night we were only about 15 minutes late getting started which was a big improvement. We only had 24 people when we got started but that was ok.

For the first time since I joined the guild back in March we were headed for Tempest Keep – The Eye. Our mission was to pay Mr. Voidreaver and unfriendly visit.

I can’t express enough how great a job our raid leader did. He must have spent a long time researching all the pulls as well as the actual boss fight. Out march through The Eye was slow but steady. We had a few mis-timed pulls where we got 2 groups at a time so we had a couple wipes and a couple times at the beginning where those of us that were alive ran out of the instance.

Almost 2 hours later we were ready for the boss fight. Sure, that’s a long time to get to a boss but it was all brand new to us. I was having a great time seeing new content.

I got things started with the first attempt. I did a poor job getting Voidreaver centered in the room. I did a lot of moving around to finally get him there. I’m not sure if that is what caused all the raid deaths, probably, but we wiped at 90%.

The second attempt went much better. From my perspective, the fight is an aggro race for the tanks. We had myself, another warrior tank and a pally tank. The pally tank just had no chance to keep up on threat. The other warrior and I were leading the threat meters and everything was smooth. I kept pulling farther and farther ahead on threat and the second tank was getting slower. I think it was at about 50% when the mages over took him on threat. Apparently Voidreaver likes to switch to #2 on the threat meter because he took off from the center of the room and started smashing clothies into oblivion. At that point I had 100K more threat on Omen than anyone else in the room. We got him back into the center of the room and continued on. I think we still had about 18 of us alive. The second tank never got back to #2 on the threat meter. At around 25% Voidreaver again took off to smash clothies. I had nearly 170K more threat than anyone else. We got him back to the center but at that point there were only about 10 or so raiders left. We had control of the fight but at 10% the enrage was about to go off so we called it and ran to reset the fight. Voidreaver 2, GBU 0. But, 10% on the second attempt wasn’t bad.

The third attempt went just like the second for the first half of the raid. I purposely tried to slow down on building threat so the other warrior would have more rage. Somewhere around 75% I started my normal ability rotation and left him behind because the casters were starting to get close. At one point I called out in vent for one of the mages to slow down. He wasn’t happy about it. Lol, the raid leader told him to go bandage someone as something to do for a break. The hunters finaly kicked in with misdirects to help the other warrior keep up on threat. The warrior was also chugging rage potions. Slow and steady wins the race. The fight was all about watching Omen. Well, for me at least as a tank. Most of the raid was very busy dodging the arcane bombs. With the DPS’ers on a slightly held back pace we cut it close with the enrage timer. They all kicked it into high gear at the end and Voidreaver went down!!!! One night, 3 attempts and we got another new boss kill for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!!