Al’ar Down

Yes, the huge fiery bird that we passed by so many times on our way to wipe on the Void Reaver trash has finally fallen. Not much to this boss really. No aggro on the first phase + tauntable = win. The only real issue was getting back to the platforms after a Fire Quill. To help remedy that, we subjected yet another tank to sitting around twiddling his thumbs except when he needed to have precision timing to jump down. Second phase was a little messier, but our healers did a great job of keeping up with the random damage taken in a large room (which seems to be a bit of a theme these days.)

And we got some nice loot off her. Netherbane, Talon of Al’ar, and the damage cloth wrists. (Hm, Koi, did you get that linking code loaded yet?) All in all a very worthwhile fight.

And even though it was past raid time we went to visit Solarian. She was just as squishy as we expected, but some people seem to have forgotten the lesson that our dear Baron Gedden taught us oh so long ago. (Though I admit it’s hilarious to be dpsing away and suddenly have the entire group standing just next to me suddenly disappear.) Once we’re a bit fresher, she’ll fall and then we’ll be off to visit Void Reaver’s trash, who we haven’t seen since starting SSC.