What 15% will do for ya

Monday night, we have our “last chance” ICC 10 that one of our healers runs every week for people who have not gotten around to doing an ICC 10 earlier in the week. I was slated to go as DPS, as by the time I signed up, there were already 3 other tanks signed up.

“Great”, I thought, “I could use some time on the ‘ole 2-hander”

You know, I was really looking forward to working on my DPS chops, because I have problems pulling the numbers I should considering my gear level. My Ret set has a 5520 GearScore, and I average about the same in DPS.

So raid time comes and goes, and only ONE of the three signed-up tanks is even online. 30 minutes later, I am changing specs and putting my EH set of gear on.

Ah, the life of a tank.

It is now getting close to one hour after scheduled raid start, so we start pulling trash with only nine in raid. No biggie, we are just gonna clear some trash while we wait for more people to logon. With a raid of 3-4 mains, and the rest alts, we commence to one shot Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Gunship, and Saurfang. Not a bad start.

Then our 10th (which is also an alt) logs on.

Next up, Plague wing. One shot all three of those bosses. We are on a roll! Then, we go to do Dreamwalker while we have the heals (you never know when someone will have to logoff, you know). Gravy. Then, the RL announces that we are gonna go ahead and head to Sindragosa. Another one-shot.

At this point we have cleared the first four bosses, Plague, and Frostwing without a single wipe in about 2 hours and 20 minutes. So we head over to the Blood wing, and Blood Queen is the weekly. As a side note, in our 25s, every time Blood Queen is the weekly, we wipe on Blood Princes. We can’t explain it. Any other time, we can one-shot Princes without issue, but if Blood Queen is the daily, we wipe every time. It’s some kind of mental block.

Anyway, so we get the weekly, and head in. Clear the trash without too many problems. Then we commence to one-shot Princes. I got to dps this fight as you don’t need two physical tanks on 10-man. So, curse broken, we move up the ramp to start on the trash leading to BQL and, BAM, wipe. Our first wipe of the night is on a trash pack.

Figures.

So we then down BQL without too much of a problem. Now it is 11:40PM and raid is scheduled to go until 12 midnight. So there is only one thing lift to do. Let’s go have a look at Lich King. Now, this is not the first time I have pull the Lich King, but it is the first time I have done it on 10-man.
So we pull it, get through phase 1, first transition, and into phase 2 before we wipe to defile.

Not too bad for a couple of mains, and a bunch of alts just looking to farm a few badges.