Our Challenge: Zul'Gurub.
This was a place we had ventured many times before and that all were familiar with. We plowed through the mobs with lightning like force. Work like a well oiled machine, we reached Venoxis first. Here, we found that Holy Wrath is a VERY painful spell and quickly reset the encounter. Our second attempt was much smoother and the snake went down like... well, he bit it as he had countless times before.
After Venoxis, the raid made their way to Bloodlord Mandokir. Valen decided we should try a new strategy, having heard Epics were more likely to drop when you kept the raptor alive as you killed the Bloodlord. It wasn't exactly easy, but with a lot of great healing and tanking, the Bloodlord found his home amongst the maggots. He didn't drop any epics, unfortunately, but Santi completed his Primalist ring set, and Dalin got some nice new shoulders.
Next, we decided that with this strong of a group, we should try something new. We headed for the Panther boss, Arlokk. After some strategy discussion, we made our first atempt. We took her down to 33% before wiping, better than any raid before. After more discussion, we made a second attempt and took her to 11%, and also a third, taking her to 13%.
Though we did not down her, we made huge progress on this boss. It is certain we will take her next time. Tomorrow we will enter ZG once more, and I believe, down the rest of the Aspects.
Pyralus
(SOL)Navy WoW Captain