My very first Kara raid

Okay, so it was late a night, nobody was doing anything interesting, so I
figured why not try to put together a Kara PUG. I've never done it before,
and I found a shadow priest who also had never done it and was as crazy as
me. It took about an hour to put the pug together (lots of people wouldn't
join until we already had a nearly complete party). We ended up with 2 tanks,
2 and a half healers, one warlock, 2 hunters, a shadow priest, and some other
guy who I don't remember.

One of the guys was on my friend list, and had run kara before so I made him
leader. Well he wanted to do the groups one way, the healers wanted to do
them another, and the tanks had yet another idea. We end up with some kind of
compromised grouping and the healers keep griping, but they seem to accept
it. I pull out my imp and this only confuses things more, because we have a
discussion about whether we need to have both tanks in the same party as the
imp, so they can get the stam bonus. We finally enter the instance.

The very first thing I do is see someone called the "nightman" and think,
well I ought to walk up to him, after all he doesn't appear hostile and the
only thing around him are a couple of relatively benign horses. Wipe #1
ensues. Okay, not gonna do that again...

We manage to make our way to the first boss, surprisingly with no more wipes.
One of the hunters is having some lag issues, but I think he made it there
for the boss pull. There is some argument about which healer will be assigned
which tank. The tank pulls the boss, we get the horse to 95%, the rider
spawns, the tank on the horse is down, and I am immediately slaughtered. Wipe
#2.

We regroup at the boss. The guy who has the lag shows up a little late. We
see him being killed by respawn. Wipe #3.

One healer quits. We re-gear one of our DPSers as a healer, and pick up a
second shadow priest. Get part way through and have a bad pull. I think it
was a pat, a good effort, but we were fighting more mobs than we could
handle. Wipe #4.

Okay, we re-enter, make our way back to the first boss again and try the same
strategy. I don't remember what went wrong. Wipe #5.

We re-enter, and are caught by respawns. We run out. A few didn't make it.
Partial wipe #6.

Once more crawl through the respawns up to the first boss. A purple + shadow
dam necklace drops. Me an a shadow priest roll on it and I win (woohoo!). The
shadow priest was none too happy though. We discuss strategy again, swap the
tanks, and pull.

Doing better this time, one tank on horse, one tank on rider. The tank on the
horse goes down. Wipe #7.

By now it's really late (3am eastern), everyone is tired, gear is shot, and
we call it a night.

At least it was an experience though!

I'm not sure if the problem was bad gear, or if it was just that we were a
PUG, and didn't have any experience working together. Probably a combination
of both.

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On Dec 19, 11:22 am, ke... DeleteThis @spamsucks.com wrote:
> I'm not sure if the problem was bad gear, or if it was just that we were a
> PUG, and didn't have any experience working together. Probably a combination
> of both.

In Karazhan it helps A LOT if you know what to expect. When you go to
Attumen, you have only about 20 minutes of time to kill him after
killing the first trash mobs. After that the trash starts respawning
and you have to clear them again. You should also know how to boss
fights go. It is a good idea to check the strategy from wowwiki in
advance.