We were bored; having just done a full Zul'Gurub the night before, with a new reset we weren't really keen to do it again tonight. Vael is still waiting for us in Blackwing Lair but as usual weekends are a bit slow for us, so fielding a 40 man raid for him was unlikely. Azuregos was up. 25 on, maybe a dodgy kill but should be okay. Kill turned out very clean, a few more had showed up so we were around 30. Taerar was up in Duskwood. We were a tad hesitant towards doing Taerar with that few since it's a somewhat DPS reliant fight but it went rather smoothly in the end. We wiped once, but it was only our second kill, so no shame in that.
Thirty five bodies on now, with a good number of them being healers. Emeriss was up in Hinterlands. Let's go.
First off, let me whine about the Hinterlands a bit. All the green dragon portals other than Duskwood have drakes that patrol around them; Hinterlands drakes are exceptionally annoying. Rothos vanishes then randomly reappears elsewhere in the raid; Dreamtracker fears the MT heavily. They're not hard to kill at all of course, just annoying. The worst part is that they're on respawn timers such that they seem to respawn in the middle of your third attempt. On Ysondre or Taerar this isn't a huge problem ... on Emeriss it's bad. Deaths will cause wipes very quickly since when someone dies to Emeriss they spawn little mushrooms that kill everyone around them too. So while we only wiped 4 or 5 times learning Emeriss it took several hours in which we'd spend 15 minutes waiting for Marks of Nature to clear then another 10 minutes at times so the trash wouldn't respawn on us mid-attempt. Frustrating and boring. We still killed Emeriss though so I guess I can't whine too much. :p
We wrapped the night up by one-shotting Ysondre in Feralas (a nice location with far more pleasant drakes than Hinterlands). Ysondre was fixed in the patch to actually chain lightning people other than the tank, which shakes things up a bit. The fight is still tremendously easy compared to the other green dragons though.
PS. Did I mention Hinterlands sucks? You better pray you don't pop in Duskwood next week, Lethon.
