Descent Into Madness

has been progressing steadily through Ulduar, we have killed everything up to Freya in Heroic Ulduar and we reached Vezax in Normal Mode last weekend after finally taking out Mimiron! The recent drive for signups has been working.

We got the last member of Iron Council to 0.3% - that's not a typo, 0.3% hit points left.

I expect that in the coming weeks we will see a Heroic Council and Freya and/or Thorim kill and a Normal Vezax kill as long as the signups keep coming!

Vezax - The new Malygos?

Vezax is a balance fight and we're learning the dance. Our best attempt was getting Vezax to 55%, not bad for a raid whose attentiveness seemed to slowly slip away after the demanding Mimiron first kill.

We had a free for all approach to who was allowed to go into the Saronite Vapors. Based on some more detailed strategy posts, I think the best approach would be to split into two groups like this:
Group 1 - MT, Healer, Healer, Melee DPS, Caster DPS
Group 2 - Strongest Healer, Melee, Caster DPS, Caster DPS, DPS
These groups will alternate Vapor usage so at most 3-4 people are in the green puddle at once.

If I am the MT for this night then I will try to make the kite paths as predictable as possible relative to the Vapor. For example - I could immeditely face him in the kit path direction and make sure I am ~25yds away from the Saronite Vapor at the beginning of the kite and the end so that the healers are not out of range of me at any time.

This encounter seems to be easy to learn compared to learning the keepers. Hopefully we can clear the last part of the instance quicker so that fatigue is less of a factor on Vezax and get some more serious attempts in.