Moar ZA

We’ve gotten to the point where we’re one-shotting all of the avatars in ZA, and are working on Malacrass. I like that the Malacrass fight is decently straightforward, lacking in any significant gimmicks other than needing CC.

Best attempt last night, probably our 8th or 9th attempt overall, was 44%. Our healers were one Imp DS priest and two holy paladins. The groups were divided into the caster/healer group (shadow priest, ds priest, elem shaman, holy paladin x2) and the physical dps group (bear druid x2, marks hunter, sub rogue, ret paladin), so we were pretty low on the multi-target healing to compensate for the AoE shadow damage thing.

What we ended up doing was splitting our healing thus: healing priest in our group would cast Prayer of Healing (one or two of those would usually compensate), and the two paladins would keep the folks in the melee group alive.

It worked pretty well! The problems arose when our priest fell to his shackle target. In retrospect, probably a better idea to have the shadow priest do it. I’d say we’d work on that next time, but the group will probably be entirely different.

Also, we were about to make our first serious attempt at getting to three chests (we’ve pretty regularly gotten two, but gave up after that), but while I was tanking the eagles in the gauntlet I moved a bit too far forward and ended up pulling an extra pair of trolls. Wipe.

We still got that first chest, but were not left with enough time to get to the one from bear. Phooey. Maybe Thursday. There’s a nice healing rign with spell haste in the third chest that I’d take.