April 03, 2007

Order out of Chaos

Big Trouble in Little China is one of the greatest movies of all time. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. One of the prominent characters is a sorceror named Egg Shen, who drives a tour bus in San Francisco's Chinatown. I'll repeat that. There's a guy, he's a regular guy, who is a tour bus driving sorceror. It's cinematic genius. A tour de force. Really.

Anyway, Egg Shen offers this sage advice to Jack Burton, "...to bring order out of chaos."

When you face off against High King Maulgar and his four caster friends, you wonder what kind of mess you're looking at after you pull. People can toss out all the opinions they have and input every strategy they've ever read, but in the end you're still looking at a mess on the first pull. You have to see the fight to experience it.

And experience it we did. It became quickly evident where the raid shortcomings were. Who was supposed to pick up that shaman? Did you get the license plate of that ogre who one shot the raid on his way to a tea party?

After a planning session that looked like a horrible Madden playboard drawing gone wrong, things started to gel together. Mobs started going to where we wanted them rather than them shamelessly abusing us with tough love. The healers were giving their all just to be able to keep up with all the damage, so much so that I was willing to try and grease up a healing totem and shove this splintered suppository up Amish's huge cow derriere in the hopes that even if he died, he'd still be upright like a target dummy.

After the learning pains were over, and some fine execution, we finally killed this guy.

Now it's time to go see a guy about a Dragonkiller.

Brade

 

                         

Grats to the loot getters!!!! More to come!!!!

   

Nice job to everyone this week.  Both Karazhan groups made great progress, and we got our first big raid kill with only minimal attempts.  Let's keep the momentum going and have another good week.   /salute