Illidari Council Down....Illidan Your Days Are Numbered...

Hey guys'n'gals! Hows everyone this fine Wednesday morning?

Well what a week we've had in Rage!!

Monday night we cleared Mother Sharaz and moved for the Illidari Council - 3 tries later we got them down! Guild first and we cleared them in under 10 minutes (5m 7 seconds left on the enrage timer!) One of our mages who used to be in a guild who had already down'd them said that the first time they got them down they were 30 seconds off the enrage time-out!

Awesome!

So after we downed them we popped up the ramp and Akama opened the doors and we popped upstairs and finally we were there! Illidan Stormrage...

Here's a nice snap of me standing next to the man himself...er...night elf...er....um..demon? Anyway we had 3 pops at him on the night we took down the council and couldn't get through phase 1 as the majority of the raid, including myself, were in awe of him and the fact we'd finally made it! Last night we had no less than 20 tries on him and got phase 1 down perfectly but phase 2 is a bit of a nightmare.

Phase 1 - Tank and spank phase - Illidan is tanked by the Main Tank - the tank will have to move him occasionally due to a circle of fire that appears around the tank that will kill him pretty fast - he also has to make sure he blocks Illidan's Cleave thing that removes 2/3rds of his health (cant remember what its called exactly)

In the mean time the raid have to contend with shadow fiends popping up inside them - ticking 3000 damage per 3 seconds for 10 seconds or so - so that person has to run to some mages/hunters who have traps down so they can kill off the shadow fiends when they pop out of you. If these nasty buggers hit anyone they will get inflicted with the disease and will have to go to the mage/hunter area the same as the last person - so its imperative that you get to safety fast!

Once Illidan is down to 65% he jumps up into the air, throws his warglaves into the ground either side of the raid and we start...

Phase 2 - the warglaives spawn 2 fire elemental demons who have to be tanked by 2 tanks in full fire res gear - these guys leave a trail of fire and will pretty much one shot anyone having a go at them other than the tanks. From what i could gather - these 2 guys can NOT be any more than 30 yards away from each other or from other people in the raid or they will charge the raid person who moved out of range and then Enrage - thus wiping the raid.

While these 2 guys are being tanked, Illidan the lovely man/elf/demon thing he is is flying around chucking fire bombs on the raid - then he does his best cyclops impression and burns a straight line from one point to another leaving a fiery blue trail behind it which will pretty much one shot anyone other than a tank. He also does something called 'Shadow Barrage' (i think) in which he randomly targets a member of the raid with a purple nasty frikkin' lazor beam (said in best Dr.Evil voice) and nukes them down - so they need some huge focus healing on them to keep them up.

This was about as far as we got what with either the Fire-res tanks going down or too many raid members going out of range - or a combination of both - phase 2 = HARD! So 20 tries later it was 11:50 server time and time for raid over...

Illidan, your days are numbered my friend....enjoy your moonlit backdrop while you can...