Ulduar Continued

Hey there, its Manick again.

Well, we went further into Ulduar last night. We took on Kologarn and Auriaya, otherwise known as the crazy cat lady, as well as Ignis the Furnace Master, for the weekly raid quest.

How did we do? Good question.

Well there's good news and bad news. (Don't ya just hate it when someone says that?) ;)

The good news is, we took down Kologarn and Auriaya. It took a few attempts on Kolo and a couple attempts on the cat lady. We had a great assist by our guild leader, Takaos, to explain the pull and the fight on Auriaya, so that helped very much.

Now the bad news. Ignis burned us to a crisp. Several times. This is a positioning fight that I'm still working on. I've watched the vids again today. I like the four point strat that Ciderhelm at Tankspot.com put forth. I think I should have reviewed it again before I started it last night. The first couple of attempts were not good. The last attempt before we called it, we got him down to 35%.

I kept freaking out when Ignis would go grab someone to put in the hot pocket. I lost aggro a few times, and that's really frustrating. I usually don't have problems with single-target aggro, but I think the combination of positioning and keeping up some sort of threat rotation at the same time was giving me fits. I guess its all part of learning to become a raid main tank. I think a little more communication on my part will help next time I try this one. If I call out where I'm taking him and where the rest of the raid should be for DPS and heals, I think we'll do a lot better. We'll see.

Until next time,
Manick