Rorshac’s Game of the Week

We finally cleared the 4 main wings of Naxx last week.  We had a good time and made made a lot of unexpected progress last Sunday.  We learned a lot in Naxx, we are a reasonably small guild with some limited resources.  Due to this fact we came up with some very interesting and creative ways to handle many of the bosses.  For instance we started in the Spider wing with only one tank, we had a pet off-tank the entire wing.  This posed us some unique challenges.  Against Anub’Rhekan we had a Rhino off tank the add.  While I would tank the boss and pull him around the room.  This only took us two tries to get a handle on.  We felt this was a great accomplishment.  We had some issues with hand the pet off-tank the adds, this did pose a big issue when it came to the enrage with Grand Widow Farlina.  We lost the adds before the enrange.  We were able to avoid wiping through the use of a front end burn, coupled with a staggering of the adds deaths.  I did have to divine protection at about 30% health left, the healers were able to top me of and keep me alive to about 10%, at which point I died, and DPS just burned her.  This also only took 2 tries.  Then comes the big spider, after plenty of wipes, we got lucky and beat her.

We then started some more clearing of the Spiders we now have the big old spider down a little bit better, we still wipe, but we use two tanks to make it a little easier.  We taunt after the enrage web wrap to help make life easier.  As our DPS gets stronger, that last 30% burn will go much quicker.

Our key to Patchwerk was two Pally healers, we had the bacon on the MT and the hateful strike eater, which was me.  That kept us topped off almost the entire fight, our first attempt we had about 25 seconds to spare before the enrage, now we can handle it with minutes to spare.

The ultimate point to this post is you can do somethings while short handed or different then the standard write ups on most Naxx advice guides.  You can find alternate ways to progress when short handed or have an odd class make up.  In fact, I am very proud of this, it added a new level to the game that was not there before.   One or two people in the raid were privately messaging other folks in the raid that this was going to be a disaster.  I was told about this after the fact and I smiled.  Needless to say those individuals are no longer in the guild and have moved on.  Guides on the internet are mere guides, they take some thought and insight to adjust them to your group makeup.  You will surprise yourself in some of the many ways you can accomplish your goal.

If you have any questions on Naxx or would like to know what other things we had to adjust for Naxx, please drop me a line and I will help you out as best I can.

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