On the 29th January The Shattered Ravens went to Karazhan and (for the second time) summoned Nightbane.
There were 5 wipes before, finally, we got him.
Particular heroism was displayed by :
* Gradjo, who tanked him from 100% -> 4%
* Monarch, who dps'd from 100% -> 15%, main healed from 15% -> 1% and then tanked the swine from 1% to his COLD GRAVE
* Valkarn and Cymoril for super healing
* The hunter trio (Balthor, Psia and Lymara) for mad DPS, mad traps and great survival
* Andromanche for judicious AOE
* Rivelinho for putting the boot in at the end
There is a name that is omitted from this list...
* Strobmoli - panic and ignoble dieing
Still, never mind.
To be honest we lost one party member at 50% which means that we have the goods to do him easily. The key learning for me is that I am not going to open up on any skelly until they are entirely killable by me alone and I can't survive even one wack from one and we seemed fine with them running round.
The loot was : The Shield of Inpenetrable Darkness and The Stonebough Jerkin
The shield went to Gradjo and will assist in his key agenda of "not taking a dirt nap" we had no Druid, so the Jerkin was sharded.
Later in the run I got the Ring of Recurrence on a greed roll, but you probably don't want to know that!
The Skeleton/Rain of Bones phase was just a tad chaotic so no great surprise someone died; we mages are eminently squishy (and hey, I'd died much earlier in the first attempt!)
The thing is that I'm very aggressive as a player and increasingly this is getting me killed.
I need to step back and let the rest of the raid do their jobs :)
Now we've seen the fight end to end I am pretty sure we will be able to one shot him in the future; there is nothing there that is too hard apart from keeping the tank up, and now that that particular tank has the uber shield of shielding I feel he will be much less challenged!
As it happens, I just switched from my "reliable but middle-of-the-road" Arcane-Fire build to a more aggressive Deep Fire build (with macro'd trinket/combustion popping) and spent the first couple of attempts with a very close eye on the damage meter fearing I'd insta-aggro. Thankfully without the uber-spike-potential that is a Pom-Pyro it didn't happen and I only had to hold back a few times.
As an aside, how're you finding Icy Veins et al?