Archimonde 2: Judgement Day

Archimonde is fuqqing hard with a buncha first-timers!

Last night we dedicated about 4 hours to Archie attempts.  Our best attempt got him down to about 76%, I don’t think we ever made it to 3 fears.  Despite it all, I’m happy to report that, what with an extremely sweet and supportive pep talk from Angel beforehand (which was especially heartening cos I haven’t seen much of him lately as he’s been raiding Sunwell with his new guild), I performed pretty well!  The first few attempts I admit I did step in a fire or two, but the next dozen attempts I was really on my game.  Top on Decursing AND healing, generally one of the last few left standing.  /beams

Personally I would like to go back and get him down… but somehow I doubt Strategos will ever wanna see Hyjal ever again.  He was getting steadily drunker with each wipe, and can I just say, he makes a mean drunk.  Every time someone died he went kinda ballistic on them, which is understandable because each death really does matter in Archimonde, but still I was like, terrified he was gonna reach through vent and strangle someone.  Or strangle himself in a drunken rage.  He was alternately screaming at people, muttering slurred death threats, choking out garbled wordless howls of fury, and spamming increasingly misspelled raid warnings.  I thought briefly once of Mr. Moderate’s calm, modulated, Jesus-like patience in the face of incomprehensible idiocy & had to laugh.  The funniest thing about Strategos is his accent… I think he must be from Texas or something, he’s got this cowboy accent & occasionally yells things like “Hoo-eey!“  Heehee.

Anyway!  Yea I think Archimonde is loads of fun & I definitely wanna see him downed.  Since Strategos said in definitive tones last night that he would never be coming back there, I might have to look for another way to get back in there.  Angel says that there’s a very elite pug group that regularly full-clears on weekends, so I’ll have to look into that, although he says their standards for invites are pretty high.  Hopefully I can make the cut…