So yeah, we headed into the second part of Flex last night, and we actually finished it without any issues!
This surprised me as I'd seen how horrific it could be in LFR and was expecting us to have to at least go back next week and finish some of it.
I even managed to remember to take a couple of kill shots!
Lots of guildies joined us and some very nice loot dropped! I got the bow from Galakras and tier gloves from Nazgrim!
I think the major difference between us zerging through it on Flex and LFR, is that we were all on vent, and so could communicate a lot easier (or share my ever growing frustration at things killing my pet on the Dark Shaman fight!)
One of our guildies even videoed our Nazgrim kill (one shot baby, Gamon Will Save Us!!)
So if any of you are sitting on the fence regarding Flex, not sure what people will get out of it, just look at it as a specialist LFR, but with people you like, and your own comms to make it so much easier!
We have much the same people showing up to our Flex raids, but we have people popping in and out as they need to, and even a few old guildies from SWC join us!
All in all, I think that Blizzard have got a monumental hit as far as Flex raiding is concerned and I can't wait to see what else it brings in the future!
It's been a good few days!
Managed to finish levelling my engineering on my warrior (with a lot of help!) and thus get my Master of All achievement :D
I also did some more pet battling and managed to beat the masters of Cataclysm! Pandaria, I'm coming for you \o/
Team Draf managed to raid last night, despite our stand in tank forgetting to log in early as there are queues *cough*nub*cough* and finally managed to down something \o/
I am so proud of my group for sticking with it (with the sad lack of our resident rogue due to, we think, internet issues) and congrats to all on the kill and to those that got loot!
I am now up to 19 Secrets of the Empire \o/
My brief foray into the second half of LFR last night proved unsuccessful as I joined a group with 2 stacks of determination on Galakron, and most of the team left, leaving 7 of us queuing at gone 1 in the morning. So I shall re-attempt that later today before Flex I think ^^
I feel immensely proud of my little group of raiders at the moment so it has been an awesome couple of days, and hopefully we can continue to kill bosses in Flex today!
As I mentioned previously, Team Draf (as I have decided we are called) had a bit of a problem with finishing Throne of Thunder as our team sort of imploded.
We had no raid leader, no main healer and offhealer (the raid leader), and a DPS had also gone, causing mass shock and astonishment by the guys they had brought over to the guild with them.
Guild drama aside, this meant we had almost a full team of people who were wanting to raid Normal difficulty (not including myself) and were now at a loss.
Well, we might not have managed to finish Throne of Thunder, but last night we did manage to make it into Siege of Orgrimmar! We didn't manage to kill anything, but we had a good night of practice against Immerseus, and I led my first proper raid (I've half led social raids before but this was a whole new animal!)
We do however seem to have a shortage of healers in guild which makes trying to sort raid lineups interesting! Though we had a lovely Monk join us the day before yesterday, so 2 man healing meant we were probably cutting it a little fine for most of the night (though both healers did an excellent job!)
I had the comedy death for the evening managing to die within about 5 seconds of pull (trying to remember to push the Bloodlust button on my corehound as well as my opening for DPS is hard don't ya know!) and one of our tanks didn't manage to beat the Log in Queue.
However, I wish to thank Team Draf for sticking with it and hopefully we can move forward and make things happen! (albeit maybe a little slower than before, but we'll get there!) Also thanks for putting up with my less than appealing voice on vent as I am suffering with the worst cold of the year so far ^^
