Black Temple--First Experiences

Tonight we ventured into BT for the first time as a guild. We brought as many veterans as we could. The trash pulls were really easy, especially after handling the overwhelming waves of Mount Hyjal.

We started with High Warlord Naj'entus and downed him on our second attempt. That fight is a flat-out healer check. The amount of damage the raid takes is mind boggling. When you pop that bubble everyone in the raid takes 8500 damage. That's 212,500 worth of damage that needs to be healed up, and fast. If you take the bubble burst followed by his Needle Spine you're toast. The first attempt I ran with a combo of PvE and PvP gear to try and maximize my DPS while still being able to handle the damage. I didn't survive the burst followed by an unlucky splash effect from a local Needle Spine. I didn't follow my own advice: dead dps does no dps. Thus for the second and successful attempt I ran in all PvP gear except trinkets and weapons. We had a clean kill and got some great loots in the guild.

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Next we started clearing up to Supremus. His huge courtyard makes it feel like an endless amount of pulls, especially as we couldn't really figure out how to get the flying dudes to land. Eventually we realized they were leashed and moved up into their space. Again, easy trash. Hell the healers were DPSing.

Supremus isn't a complicated fight, just a heads-up fight. It's a ready-check fight. Stay out of the volcanoes. Run if he targets you. DPS as much as you can. It's possible to do this fight without taking any damage, not likely, but possible nonetheless. We downed him on our first attempt and moved on to Shade's trash.

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At this point we knew we didn't have time to get to Shade of Akama but decided we could at the very least learn the trash pulls. We killed a few, learned what to kill first, what to CC and what can be ignored until the end. All in all, it was an excellent night. Two bosses down on our first shot.