Unbearably HoT

I realized that I mentioned going to Naxxramas in my previous post and didn’t say anything else about it. We started very late for East Coasters and went to a ridiculously early hour in the morning (at which point all my fine motor skills went to shit), but we cleared out the Plague Wing, Spider Wing, and part of the Abomination Wing. Everyone was largely in T6 or Sunwell gear, and a few folks (namely Lycentia and a few from Drow) had had extensive experience in the original Naxxramas—which is a far greater boon than you might realize. It’s much the same as the original, except considerably simpler: challenging enough to engage the brain, but easy enough that we could still coast through most of it (while we were awake, at least).

I was reminded of how much I enjoy tanking content with serious individuals—and Lycentia. We really are a fantastic tanking tag team, both because we’re individually “good” and because we have the ability to communicate with one another in the same room without the hassle of headsets and push-to-talk keys. We watch each others’ backs. We give advice. It’s a joy watching him make tanking look effortless while kiting Heigan the Unclean through the fiery green eruptions of doom, always knowing exactly where to stop and when to start. It’s my favorite fight thus far, even though I wasn’t tanking. The difficulty lies within herding everyone into the same, muscle memory location rotation, and beyond that, he’s cake (and the visual effects are particularly enjoyable: fountains of green sparks and fire bursting through the floor).

Lycentia and I even managed to pick up a few upgrades.

The shoulders and boots are substantially better than the T6 pieces I was wearing, and couple those with the Essence of Gossamer that I picked up in Heroic Azjul-Nerub this evening…well, I think I’m off to a good start. Expect tanking guides to complicated Naxxramas boss sequences. You know, when I can remember to take good screenshots.