Majestic dragon beating!

Our yesterday raid evening didn't begun all too well; we were attempting Naxx-10 with the The Undying achievement. We started straight from Abomination Wing (as we really didn't have the intent to continue the run should someone die in the process). Patchwerk was a piece, Grobbulus went down like a school-book example and Gluth went down smoothly, as well - even though I had 21 stacks of Mortal Wound at one point. :S I guess I'm just not a good kiter.

Anyway, it all boiled down to Thaddius at this point and things didn't start out very well: first of all Feugen died like 5-8 seconds later than Slagen (didn't matter tho, yeeha). Then we jumped off the ledge to the boss platform (and of course some ppl fell) and I was _THIS_ close killing myself as Thaddius came active and I was the first recipient of its hatred - gladly our tank was able to pick him up but I literally had like 10% HP left, that was a big hit I got. Ouch. Things are going well, we are switching sides with 4-point strategy until someone who had dropped during the initial jump come in, get completely confused by his polarities and make our mage die, thus negating the whole Undying-run. Oh well, there is no blame thrown around whatsoever or anything but just for the record: positive is to the right, negative is to the left and you always switch sides by going counter-clockwise around the boss. How hard that can be? Oh well!

We decided that our evening wasn't wasted and started heading towards Nexus in order to whack Malygos to another incarnation. It took us three tries, which all carried us to phase3 - the heart-breaking try was the second one, Malygos left up standing with 0% of health, only 1070 hitpoints left!! Awwwww! Anyway, we downed him pretty cleanly on our first try and at least now phase1 and phase2 are complete runthroughs to this group. Malygos is now officially on farm status!

Then it was time to head to Wyrmrest Temple - yes, we were going to attempt our first Sarth-1D encounter! First, we wiped twice due to the overwhelming amount of adds after Tenebron hatched all his eggs and fire elementals just kept adding. We had a druid tank with 50k HP tanking Sartharion and pallytank taking care of Teneberon and the adds. On our third try, everything started to click and the ever-spawning adds were tanked with the drake and DPS was quick to AoE everything down. After Tenebron is down, the fight is back to 100% ez-mode kill and you just finish off Sarth. We got our nice Twilight Assist achievement and everyone got to go to sleep with smile on their faces. The cheers in the Vent after Sarth went down were memorable. :)

Anyway, that's how those two encounters turned out for us. Sartharion with (only) 1 drake up is by all means no cake; the first 30-50 seconds you need to A) dodge the lava walls and B) split your DPS time between killing the Lava Blazes (and if you are a hunter, use Tranquilizing Shot on the ones that are enraged... no more!) and nuking the boss. Then, after Tenebron (or whoever drake you've decided to keep up) flies in and is getting tanked by the offtank, all DPS switches from Sartharion to the drake add. The priority is to dodge lava walls, kill fire elemental adds, kill Drake adds (in Tenebron's case a whole lot of whelps which can be easily AoE'd down if they are tanked on top of the drake, giving all AoE full potential) and then kill the drake itself. So you really gotta keep looking around what's happening; if you are shooting Tenebron and you see two Lava Blazes spawning, you should immediately drop your DPS on the drake and start bringing these down. Same with the whelps - when Tenebron hatches the eggs, off-tank should move Tenebron on top of his portal and be ready to use whatever means appropriate to grab aggro of those little buggers. Then quick AoE and even the boss gets damage in the run as the whelps are hopefully tanked on top of the boss.

Tenebron is down and here we go, it's a simple matter of dodging lava walls, killing Blazes and DPS'ng the boss down. At 10% or so he does a sort of enrage where these Lava Blazes will start spawning with such a rate that you probalby don't have any chance whatsoever trying to kill them. This point of the fight is simply a burn phase; pop all cooldowns you have and pump every bit of DPS you got and the Twilight Assist should be yours too!

That was really fun evening which COULD'VE been very bad due to the Naxxramas "glitch", if yuo can put it that way. Oh well, all well, ends well.