Alright.

Got a good makeup for the run. We should own this, let’s go ZA!

Hopefully I’ll have good news to report on later.

Update:

Ok, so went into ZA all set for three timed chests and got none. The problem? The first pull on the gaunlet went badly….very badly. Some people didn’t know what to do, and when one of those people is your second tank thats a problem for the gauntlet.^_^

After we got over that hump we did fine one shotting bosses one or two wipes mainly due to pulls while people were afk for drinks/bio and so on. Then we got to Hex Lord. I had never gotten to do Hex Lord – I’d done all the bosses before and Zul’ Jin but never him. Well the first pull had some issues, so we wiped, then I fucked the second pull by dotting my shackle target >_< – as a side note if any other priest ever makes the same mistake you can keep shackling to keep the shackles up after they come down with each tick of pain but I wouldn’t reccomend it. I was able to buy us some time but that also pulled me out of the DPS rotation meaning less DPS AND no mana/health being returned. Needless to say we wiped. Then I got a macro set up – and I discovere the beauty of focus target.

Yeah, yeah, I know – I should being using focus target seeing as how I’m in a guild breaking into T6 but I just had never thought to do it. Normally when keeping shackles up I just retarget the mob and recast. The beauty of focus target though is a) I don’t have to stop DPS on my main target and b) quartz monitors my debuffs on focus targets. The quartz monitoring alone is worth focusing because i dont have to refresh shackles really early in order to ensure he stays shackled. I can easily see how much time is left and when it breaks – yes, I know there are shackles add-ons that can keep me posted on this BUT I already have a metric shit ton of addons and more will lead to  bad lag in places like hyjal, where I REALLY can’t afford it.

We wiped again though, even after the shackling fix. Why? Because no one killed the sheep target (which was the healer) and there were issues with kiting Hex Lord when he stole consecrate and traps from our palies and hunters.

All in all I learned a lot on the run which is just as good as gear…though I would have REALLY liked to get the hex shrunken head or hood of hexing = (

Maybe I can get some peeps to help me down him tonight before our Hyjal raid – or maybe tomorrow – OR maybe we’ll get by the second boss in hyjal FINALLY and get into some leet T6 loots…..Yeah…..that sounds yummy!