Great idea for an encounter, but hopelessly loopholed. What looked like a retarded battle for resist gear turned out to be a push for a sink drain. Poor Praetor and Granitor spent this fight picking their noses or quills out of their cat's butt.
That aside, the fight is really quite interesting for everyone else. There's fast incoming damage, aoes, interrupts, and a threat-table-less-esque boss; everyone is engaged and focused. Any method you use for this fight, it was definitely intended as a dps burn. After we spent about 5 pulls reconfiguring our healing (and blowing each other up during wipes), Solarian fell within the hour. Less than two hours total, Solarian marks our fastest pull-to-kill encounter in the Burning Crusade, next to Fathom-Lord Karathress.
We managed to finish with a bit of time to spare, and moved to Kael'thas. The trash to him is utterly amazing, representing everything that was the original Burning Crusade: "Why are there rogues in your raid?" Otherwise, Kael'thas's encounter looks to be on equal difficulty and individual merit as Lady Vashj, however twice as long. Cheers to the few attempts per trash clear.
On a more somber note, I would like to take a moment to thank both Arc and Sparkles for their long tenure in Reason. Without their devotion and inspiration, we'd have been lost ages ago. They have both recently found other scholarly pursuits and have left the game. Thank you both for the time you've committed and to the friendships we've all had the pleasure of forming. See you in the forums. =P
