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The Forgotten Experiments took us forever to progress. Some circumstances like being a bit low on numbers and cancelling raids are partly to blame, but the main reason is that we struggled incredibly with this encounter. Something that didn’t help the experience was the fact that pushing the bosses at an exact time was more important than anything else. For this reason a lot of pulls went to waste just because we pushed into phase two just one second too soon. Phase two and three were otherwise where we struggled, and changed tactics several times. The fact that we got a kill tonight was partly hard work for months, but also some luck. Thank you everyone who participated in progressing this boss. We did well!

Observe: The image above is a representation of our feelings for the fight rather than a screenshot of actual events.

Reaching the Amalgamation Chamber we followed a tactic which suggested to swap places with the bosses at specific times. After some time we realised it was not working for us at all. Tanks were dying and it seemed very hard to get the timing just right. It was also tricky for everyone else to clear the stacks in the way the tactic suggested. So we scrapped the whole thing, and decided to pop Heroism at the start and just zerg the adds as fast as possible. There was a big moment of death right around the transition, but tonight it became evident that phase two could be done with half the raid dead. The Amalgamation Chamber is defeated! Good job everyone!

As our second mythic encounter we went to the Assault of the Zaqali, as we assumed it to be significantly easier than the Amalgamation Chamber. We had heard of a zerg strategy that apparently everyone else was using and we assumed we could probably follow that. To begin with our dps seemed about a mile off, and the boss was jumping around forever. But with tweaks and just getting used to the fight we managed to finally get it working, and tonight the door was finally saved! Assault of the Zaqali is dead!

Entering mythic mode Kazzara the Hellforged was first on the agenda. The first night the fight seemed really hard. We didn’t do enough dps and we were failing most of the mechanics. There were better pulls, but mostly it seemed like a hard first mythic boss. Tonight we were back for more and to our surprise we played way better, like sometimes happens. You just need to sleep on it and you get better in your sleep sometimes! Anyway, suddenly the fight felt very doable and it didn’t take long until she was done! Kazzara dead! More to come!

The final boss in Aberrus is Scalecommander Sarkareth. Since it’s a longer fight it took us a while to get through it, though nothing like how long it took for the Raszageth encounter! We were unhappy with positioning in phase one, not killing adds fast enough in phase two, and then losing control of phase three. Tonight we got all the phases working and suddenly Sarkareth is dead! Heroic mode cleared, next up mythic!

We were back again to Echo of Netharion and tonight we decided to let the tanks be the only wallbreakers, and the rest of us would aim for the better built walls. This tactic worked a lot better as we got fewer stacks, and didn’t die as easily. There were temptations to dps your fellow raiders in phase two, but once we got past that we cruised through the rest of the fight and wham bam the boss was dead! Only one heroic boss to go!

It’s the second night in Aberrus and we first went to Zskarn and killed him in no time at all, then onwards to Magmorax, which was an even easier boss. We got a bit stuck on Echo of Netharion, and didn’t manage a kill there, but two new bosses down! Good job everyone!

Aberrus is live and it’s nice to have a new raid, though the entrance seems a bit far away to get to. Tonight we entered the heroic mode, after checking out some bosses on normal last night. It turned out to be fairly easy and we pushed through five bosses in one go. More to come!

With a choice of Kurog Grimtotem and Dathea, we decided to head to Grimtotem next. Right away we learned that positioning was everything for the ranged, and that everything was lost unless tanks crossed lines on the floor on the exact correct millisecond. Once we got these things working on the firefloor we started getting further in the fight. Today we had reached the icefloor and suddenly it all came together. Kurog Grimtotem is dead! Great effort everyone!

Newt we headed to Sennarth, the Cold Breath. We had an idea that the encounter would most likely be annoying, with all the sliding around, and we soon realised that it was. We kept losing people early for a really long time, and once we were consistently getting everyone to the second platform, we were struggling getting to the third. After a few weeks of banging our heads against the ice, we finally got her dead today! Good job everyone!

We knew getting to Terros that he would be a pain to progress, and indeed he was. The new mechanic Infused Fallout was very annoying, but we resolved it as best we could by letting the ranged spread and hold, while the melee would touch eachother straight away. We needed a lot of pulls to make everything work, but tonight was finally the night when Terros finally bit the dust! Back next week for a rekill!!

We have been working on Raszageth the Storm-Eater over the past weeks, and progress has at times been slow. It’s a long fight, with moments that are easy to mess up, and it’s taken us a while to get through phase one and two, and the intermissions. Today we finally got to the last phase and it turns out it was the easiest one, and now she’s dead! This was a really great end-boss, and it was a lot of fun to progress the fight. Good job everyone!