I led Kara
This has been an insane week. I was going to post this on Tuesday, but 11.5 hours of overtime got in the way.
So anyway, on Monday, all of our regular raid leaders were AFK and I wanted to get the Prince down. So, I started the invites and called in some friends and spammed LFG in our alliance channel and we eventually got 10 and headed off to Karazhan.
We actually started on Chess having cleared up to the Shade the previous night. The first pull was a little shaky (tank ran into the room while I was still marking) but we lived through it. Had some trouble with the shades before the first room of ethereals, which was sad. But we regrouped, cleaned them out and made it to Chess without further incident. Followed up by clearing the trash to Prince with ease.
That, of course, is when the troubles start. Try one, the tank got knocked out of LOS for the healers. Wipe. Try two tank gets to close to rest of the party, shadow nova, wipe. Tries three and four, bad infernal drops, both wipes. Try number 5, the DPS just kind of gets destroyed some how (I don’t remember how), and we have 2 healers, the tank, and 1 hunter working the prince. They just ran out of time at 28%. Try number 6, lost the tank, I picked it up (but was in cat gear), and eventually the prince did back to back crushing blows…wipe. Try number 7 was another bad infernal drop.
I think part of the problem was that we just had too many melee for our gear level (most of us are in kara gear supplemented with badge, but we had a couple of puggers in blues). It happens. You take the hand you’re dealt and move on.
I recieved compliments on my raid leading. I guess, because I was and didn’t scream and yell, people felt that I was in control (I wasn’t. I kept dying, after all:D). But most of them said they’d be glad to run with me again, which makes me happy.
