Our band of misfits heading into Kara again this past Monday. After Sunday night and with Curator down, we ran to the ramp above the "gazebo" and formed up. The run through the trash went mostly fine. Our main tank died a couple of times for unknown reasons. Just seemed to get hit harder than expected I guess. The off-tank was able to quickly pick-up the mob in these situations. I'm pretty sure the deaths were minimal on the run-in.
Since the Shade can't be tanked, our main tank swapped to his Warlock (for Banish and Fear) and our off-tank swapped to his mage. First shot went unluckily, I think. We were doing OK. I don't think we had any early deaths (maybe my pet, which hurts, but is mostly my fault). But... as luck would have it, we got hit with the polymorph and the elementals at the same time. There might have been a blizzard in there, too? Anyway... we were broken out of the sheep by the elementals beating on us. Without being sheeped, we couldn't heal up, so when he hit us with his fireballs, much of the raid went down in one volley. Wipe.
We had the right group, so we just formed up again, buffed up and went at him. This time, DPS was much stronger than the first time. His health was at least 10-15% below his mana for most of the fight. We managed to get the elementals early enough to deal with them, and our warlock did yeoman's work keeping them occupied. We managed to kill one, even, and the others were feared and banished. I think Aran was very low on health when the sheep came. This time we were OK and stayed woolly for long enough for everyone to heal up fully. By the time he broke us out of it, I believe he was below 10% health. Once I saw how many had survived the sheeping, I knew we had him. The last few percentages of health went down quick and he took the eternal (or at least weekly) dirt nap. It's a little hazy, but the Shade drops were Pendant of the Violet Eye which went to our main priest and Pauldrons of the Justice-Seeker which went to our holy Paladin. Everyone who could, got the book as well.
The best part was that we got this done fairly quickly and didn't have to worry about respawns in the library. We went on to the Chess Event and despite losing most of our pieces, we took out most of Medivh's, too, including the king and managed to win with about 3 pieces standing and everyone else watching. Drops were Legplates of the Innocent which also went to our Pally and the Girdle of Treachery -- hehe... a girdle -- which went to one of our rogues.We also had three random drops during the run. The same pair of leather DPS gloves dropped twice and our off-tank walked off with the Boots of Elusion. (Now... how come I remember that item and not the one that dropped twice?)
We waved at the Prince and called it a night. Well... OK... he killed us twice, but we were just trying to say "Hello". Jeez... what a grump.
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