Our first wipe.

We started off Sunday with a trip to the Plane of Disease, with our sights set on Grummus.  We decided on this target to get some of our lower level players involved, as well as get them an early flag to Crypt of Decay.  Hopefully that helps them pull down some serious exp in the coming days!  Oh yes, Grummus was nice and dropped some new shields for Myself and Zevon!  Woot!

With Grummus down, we parted ways with our members sub-57, and headed towards Bastion of Thunder.  I had farmed our Agnarr key the other day, so we decided to give him a shot.  His event is a bit more difficult than the fights we have been doing, so we were prepared for the worst.

So in we went.  We only had one wizard to destroy portals for us (gogo Fadar!), but luckily we had a couple enchanters to take care of the adds.  We kited the boss around the room until the portals and adds were all dead, then pulled him in to Belgard.  From that point it was cake, and we brought him down fairly easily.

So now everyone was somewhat prepared for what to expect in the next Tower.  We zoned in with the same plan, tweaked slightly for efficiency, however our kiter was having trouble gaining the attention of the boss and we lost several members right off the bat.  I was able to grab him and started kiting for a while, but there was significant damage to the raid.  Our clerics began battle rezzing who they could, but it wasn't looking good.  Eventually, I took a dirt nap as well, around the same time we finished off the adds.

Most of the healers had very little mana from being battle rezzed, with the exception of one or two divine rez targets.  They are what very likely saved the raid.  Our numbers were low, our mana was low, and people were getting cursed (silenced/rooted), which was preventing a bunch of our damage from reaching the boss.  Somehow our mana (barely) outlasted the bosses health, and we were victorious, but by the skin of our teeth.

We rezzed, buffed, and went over our Agnarr strategy.  We gathered around Askr, ready to head in to our next and final challenge.

Unfortunately, this time, to zone in, saying the keyword didn't work.  A strange mob spawned to which we started hailing to no avail.  I eventually tried out a right click on the mob, which did the trick, and ported me into Agnarr's room.  I promptly died, which is why I have no screenshots of our brief time alive.  I relayed the information to our raid, but it was a bad start, and we couldn't recover this time.  Agnarr had defeated Visceral.  We ran back to give it another try, but while rebuffing Askr despawned on us, leaving us stranded and unable to get back to Agnarr.  We'll try again next week, and I'm sure we'll get him down with little problems now that we're used to the fights, they are all very similar.