Written by Gare
Friday, 18 November 2005

Haarrrrr! It’s the purple 35 years old virgin pirates again coming to you, live from their hidden deep underground batcaves located under their mommies houses! Phear us, we have made progress!
Ebonrock, or should I say Eboncock, is pretty much the fight that looked good on paper when designed, but proved out to be yet another "hey, lets abuse this drake by calling him bad names and hopefully he will be pissed!". Three taunt resists from offtanks and mocking blows on cooldown can create one hella healing I say. Deal with Ebonroc is that each time he hits the MT who has his debuff shadow of ebonroc you get screwed by 25.000 point heal. Oh, what happens if all oftanks get taunt resist then? This happens:

Notice the 2.100.000 healed! Whos saying that Warriors can’t heal? Hah!
Congratulations to us for healing Ebonroc for almost 5 million hitpoints, considering that he starts with 1 million. On the kill fight started very badly with several chain resists on row, increasing his hp to ~3.5 million. So we had to grind it down after tanking was back on its feet. Does this count that we killed him over 4 times? Atleast we got loot just for one. Blizzard is fucking with us again I say.

It was very bleasing to see all of our rogue-hunter damage almost within the same one percent in total dmg delt, meaning we have one hell of balanced and skilled dps crew considering that Ebonroc’s agro is fucked up due wing buffets. Damage delt from the same fight:

Obligatory kill shot of Ebonroc:

Next on the list was Flamegor, who isn’t really intresting at all. First pull, 90%, looked what abilities he had, how hard he hit and so forth, adjust strategy. Second pull, 32%, wiped due two healers going LD. Then we waited for about two hours while our guild spent joyfull time going LD and crashing. We didn’t even manage to pull him while 2-3 guys were constantly in LD cycles. When everyone got their connections back on their feet, we finally managed to pull and he lay dead before us. Gimp mobs are gimp mobs. (well, he still pushes out triple hits on 1 second delay for about 1.5k-1.8k crushing + slows healing down with AE, but gimp in BWL terms. Nice 8k peaks in one second intervall while he is in freaking out phase.)
Obligatory killshot of Flamegor:

Where are you neffie-boy! Not hiding behind your puppy Chromaggus are you?

Just purely savage boss this one. First pulls went in total chaos and mayhem when we tried to figure out Chromaggus 6 different broodpowers and what of his 8 AE’s are in use this time. Our Chromaggus was Frost Burn and Ignite Flesh. After several adjustments, massive planning and tactical conference, this happened:

69% One can’t complain about that! We are getting on right track here. Final adjustment where made, we were pressing very late compared to our average normal schedule and still decided to do the final try with 38 players in raid. We pulled and silence fell over our TS. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes and we start to reach 30%, 25%, 20% –> executes start to fly. Chromaggus gains Frenzy! Hunter retaliate -> holy shit 5 out 8 healers are stunned at the same time! Deck of cards start to rumble!

Look at that damage baby! From Frenzied Chromaggus with love!

We could not agree more with Jaze’s comment in guildchat as healing team stunned out of the fight and low in mana, helplessly watch how our Maintank drops down on it knees at 16%. In the only time critical moment we had, our hunter with maxed out to-hit gear misses, is just what we call Umbrage-luck. =) But what a hell of an fight! Nefarians little pet puppy will be buried, tagged and bagged next time we visit BWL after repop.

Few Loots from the past few days, all from the 3 drakes:

Band of Dark Domination - Congratulations Groghanlah
Dragonbreath Hand Cannon - Congratulations Majar
Handguards of Transcendence - Congratulations Asilla
Gauntlets of Wrath - Congratulations Tuoppi
Styleen’s Impeding Scarab - Congratulations Gare
Bloodfang Gloves - Congratulations Sil
Black Ash Robe - Congratulations Keeneye

Congratulations for winners on earlier Razor, Vael and BL loot too! Umbrage is going now for a well earned weekend rest and going to party like hell. Been a great week for us! See you guys back in the raiding scene on Sunday evening.

Gare, signing out!