Every week brings distant goals that little bit closer, and a huge barrier was overcome last night with our first boss kill in Serpentshrine Cavern. The fantastic part about Lurker (a huge fish) is that he is effectively unfightable unless you have a person with 350 fishing skill in your 25 man raid group. And even then it can take 5-10 minutes to catch him. Sitting around a deep pool with 3 fishing lines out, waiting quietly for a hook up can give you heart failure the first time when he leaps through the air and splashes down again. In fact one of our tanks confessed he was too afraid to fish for him in case he couldn’t put his fishing rod away and equip his weapon in time before the fight started. Last night was our second night attempting Lurker. Apart from a 360 degree slow moving water spout that kills anything it hits, he dives deep into the pool every few minutes and spawns 9 Naga that you have exactly 1 minute to take down before he emerges and does another spout. That’s 6x30k health and 3x60k health creatures to obliterate without them killing you first. We had an awesome technique last night for the first 6. 3 hunters would drop freeze traps on them and use their pets to tank their twins whilst warlocks and mages took them down. The nastier other three were tanked and spanked, often with only seconds to spare before Lurker emerged. If you lose a melee dps or two in this fight you are going to have serious problems. Sorry – no fishing shot. 
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Then there’s the water which does 500 damage to you when you jump in it, and 500 every 3 seconds whilst you’re swimming/floating (which is the main way to avoid the spout). And then there’s the regular melee knockbacks (Whirl) and (Geyser) that make life as a healer so tough. When it was over at just after midnight and I won the Boots of Effortless Striking, I was buzzing so much I couldn’t sleep for an hour or so. All day I’ve been thinking about it. We are awesome!