So, the new weekly on Hydraxis is to take out Lord Marrowgar again. It’s 4:30ish Tuesday morning. We manage to assemble 10 folks fairly quickly. I remind people that although it’s a new weekly quest already, that it’s not a new raid lockout yet and to please check to see if they are saved. Three people quit the raid.
We refill spots, two DPS and one healer, within a couple minutes. I head toward Ice Crown Citadel and there’s somebody at the stone waiting for me to help summon. One of the new DPS to the raid zones in and asks “Where is everybody?” Great.. another one. He works out that he’s saved, he’s sorry, etc. Gate back to Dalaran, find a new DPS.. get two people back outside to summon us again. As soon as we are resummoned, we get the dreaded yellow text of a server announcement: “This server will be coming down for weekly maintenance blah blah blah”
Oh crap! I was expecting two more hours and the server to come down at the normal 7pm central time…time. Nope.. must be patch 3.3.3 is dropping today. (It is.) 15 minutes and we aren’t all inside yet. I make a plea to hurry up, buff up and start pulling!
I stealth ahead a little and find the first two traps fairly close and disarm them. There’s only a third that spawns randomly(??) if you trigger one or both of the others is the way it works I think. I make my way back to the massive pile of bones being exploded by the rest and throw my spinning hurricane of daggers into them over and over.
The tanks have tried to pull just the middle mobs but that effort failed, not due to the tanks fault.. it’s just not gonna happen that smoothly =) We burn our way to the threshold to the three headed skeletal monstrosity Lord Marrowgar, staring at him with just over 4 minutes left till the server boots us all off. A couple missing buffs go up fast and several plead to “PULL PULL!” and emphatic “GOGOGOGO!” yells and we charge the first of the Lich King’s lieutenants.
His health doesn’t seem to be going down very fast.. then it all just kicks into high gear (thanks bloodlust!) after the first whirling bonestorm. Everyone is doing well.. the bonespike is dying fast. The DK and I are both dropping to make sure it does as you never know if the ragtag group of people in a pug at 4:30am on Tuesday morning know what to do =) They seem too though and I whisper the DK to stay on the boss as he’s out DPSing me by 1k or more. (I guess if I wasn’t switching, my ramp up time to max DPS from max poison applications would have made up the difference.. I’m not QQ’ing really haha) I just wanted something to happen so it seemed easier to ask the switch of me than them. There was at least one ranged killing the spike too and they still got freed fast.
The boss’s health bar is dropping.. but unfortunately it’s now in a sprint with the clock counting down… and the clock is much faster. The clock easily passes the health bar and everything stops as everything in our world ceases to exist and the server is offline. 9% left on Marrowgar.
We all knew we had no shot of literally zoning in to boss kill in under 15 minutes.. but damn if we didn’t come close. It sure seemed like everyone was doing everything they could the whole time we were inside to make it happen too. If we’d not wasted that last bit of time with the saved screwball.. we’d have had it! I think it caught all of us unaware. I know I forgot about the patch probably coming today and the extra time that Blizzard would give itself for the downtime. The server didn’t let my low expectations down (the few people that ruined it for us, unintentionally I know) but it did entertain me still during the mad rush. It was actually pretty fun.
The first fun I’ve had on Hydraxis in a long time.
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