Many of our members are hitting 65 – so our progression raid force is coming along nicely. Since we are starting to get some decent numbers, we are making some laid back runs through Planes of Power raid mobs before we start our organized progression in a few weeks. Currently, we are doing these casual raids on Thursday night and Sunday afternoon. Our raid started this afternoon with Grummus in Plane of Disease.
This raid was pretty straight forward as we just cleared a bunch of trash and a few mini bosses before we arrived at our target. He was pretty much a tank and spank encounter. As we worked our way to this guy – our guild leader mentioned how many tells he gets every time our raid force hits a POP raid zone. Many people on the server are asking questions about why a raid force of level 65s keeps hitting these zones. We are generating a lot of interest in the guild and having fun at the same time so it’s all good.
Grummus went down without too much fuss. I can’t help but wonder what is up with all the nipple rings. The BOT giants have them and now Grummus? Bizarre. Speaking of BOT, our next target was to go after Agnarr the Storm Lord in the Bastion of Thunder. In order to reach him, you have to go through a series of portals where you find yourself facing a boss such as Evynd Firestorm shown below.
These fights are all pretty similar. You basically zone into a big circular platform with the boss in the middle of the room. A series of portals lines the perimeter of the platform and mobs keep spawning out of each platform. You either offtank / mez the adds while a ranger kites the boss around the room until all the portals are destroyed and all the adds are down. Once that happens, you engage the boss and before too long he’s taking a dirt nap.
Once Evynd fell, we zoned into the next area and fought Emmerik Skyfury. This guy caused us a little more trouble – mainly because half the raid got stuck at the teleport NPC because we couldn’t figure out what the correct phrase was to zone to the next area. Eventually, we succeed in downing this guy and moved into the last chamber to face off against Agnarr the Storm Lord.
Agnarr the Storm Lord means business. At least to a partial raid of level 65s who don’t quite have the flow down yet. We wiped on this guy and didn’t really put up much of a fight. Unfortunately, by the time we got back up to him the portal guy had despawned and we missed our opportunity for the day. This boss remains on our short list and the next time we meet he will not be so lucky. As we were fighting this guy, I had flashbacks of fighting him over 8 years ago. That’s nuts. If any of you are interested in joining us when we start progression raiding in a few weeks – check us out at this site.
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