Finally, after a lot of hard work, Vanguard managed to take down Al'Akir 25 man last night.
As I understand it that was the first 25 man kill of Al'Akir on the server, and I can understand why.
Al'Akir on 25 man is very rng, at least at first. But even after knowing the fight it is easy to have 1/25th of your raid screw the other 24 up. Especially in P3 where a cloud at the wrong level leads to what I call the "electric sandwich". The recipe is one cook and 24 pieces of ham. If it wasn't for that this fight might be concidered fun.
What I found most annoying about the fight is of course P1. The reason I hate it is because I can only speed it up by so much. Since the tank can't really generate a constant high threat, due to wind bursts and tornados, I as a dps have to be really careful not to overaggro. This is trickier than it might sound due to the randomness of the tank threat "pauses".
My trick to combat threat at the start is to use pre-pot but start by just stacking up sunders and saving my cd's for the 3rd rend. This is not enough in itself but it certainly helps. I wish I could just throw everything I have at the guy, Rawrr.
Anyway, I'm very happy to have defended this shattered world and to have gotten the raids done exclusively on 25 man.
Looking forward to crying about hardmodes now ;)
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