Wyrmfoe Raids!

Note: we still have DPS slots available on the Wyrmfoe raid team (full on hunters). In particular we’d love to see a fury warrior, rogue, feral druid, or warlock but any dps that’s not a hunter is welcome to apply on the Wyrmfoe Website.

Wyrmfoe hit up our first couple of training raids on Friday, hitting Naxx, Sartharion, and a good chunk of Ulduar. Most of the raid team did extremely well with all of Hrist’s crazy shenanigans, and we were showered with achievements throughout the the weekend, including several that I didn’t have the 25-man version of, which was nice.

Our raid of 20 picked up Subtraction, Arachnaphobia, Momma Said Knock You Out, And They Would All Go Down Together, The Hundred Club, Just Can’t Get Enough, The Dedicated Few, Less is More, Dwarfageddon, Unbroken, Nerf Gravity Bombs, Shutout, and a handful of others that I didn’t notice ’cause I already had ‘em. In particular I thought And They Would All Go Down Together was a nice accomplishment, even horribly overgeared, for a raid of 20. We even had a few people who are still gearing up grab some upgrades too.

As always Hrist and I were monitoring our fail addon in our super secret channel. If you aren’t familiar with these addons, they just report every time someone takes damage they should have been able to avoid (standing in void zones, etc). I have my failbot left to mostly default settings – which means it does report on some insignificant fails, or fails that may not be someone’s fault (such as getting feared into void zones on Auriaya). But for the most part it’s interesting data to examine and can tell you a lot about why you’re wiping repeatedly, or where you raid team needs work in general. We often use it to determine what kind of things need to be called out over vent (ie: the kinds of things that many people aren’t noticing on their own).

One of the other fascinating things about watching failbot reports is you very quickly realize how often everyone makes mistakes. It is incredibly rare that you can run an entire instance of any size without everyone getting on the report in some form or another. In the past, the only exception to this was typically Hrist, who would often manage not to have any fails.

However, not last weekend! During the lava dance when no one was allowed to dps (testing situational awareness when you don’t have to worry about anything else) Hrist got evil and decided to test the melee guys by deliberately moving into the lava area to see if they were paying attention to where they were standing, or just blindly following him. The delightful result is that Hrist appeared on the fail report for it. Which gave us this exciting synopsis at the end of Naxx:

Woo yeah! Frostheim with the only flawless run! (Which did not happen in Ulduar, by the way).