You ripper. We downed another Serpentshrine Cavern boss a couple of nights ago. I had a bit of a premonition that it would happen after looking at our 25 man group makeup. We had 4 shaman, some evil dps’ing warlocks and our #1 hunter. My only disappointment is that my friends Sian and Michael weren’t with us that night. 
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Apart from the last 10% of his health or so, Leo came down so effortlessly and quickly, that the problems that we’d had over the previous week or two seemed puzzling. There is an enrage timer that kicks in after the fight goes beyond 10 minutes, meaning that everyone is dead by 10m 30sec. but this time, we just burned him bad! The last 15% of his health went down a lot slower due to his continual whirlwinds, meaning that our melee-heavy group lost a lot of time running away in fright. Once you get affected by a Whirlwind debuff, you just have to pray a nearby healer can keep you alive. Usually you’re dead. Hence our need to be so careful. A fellow guild member captured a 9 minute video of the kill (including what Kim called a surprising lack of audio) to a techno backbeat, with excellent picture quality. I was so excited to hear the dumb things I said and watch my little Cat run in and attack, that I watched it 3 times. My favourite part is when Kim says “Bridei has her inner daemon”. Bridei was the main healer for Humus our warlock – who happened to be the main target of Leotheris at the time, and that means that Kim is going to be totally proccupied for 20 seconds, trying to kill something instead of healing others. 15 seconds later you hear the fateful “Humus is down”. Talk about essential to our raid is my wife 🙂 I then tried to resurrect a dead priest and told everyone the wrong person. Doofus! Luckily there are a limited amount of player resurrections available. Here are the stats for the group. I am Jsbach. Kim is Bridei. Hetheria is the mage who captured the video. Humus has a green triangle over his head. 
We handed out the Tier 5 Gloves loot to worth recipients Abstruse and Humus, and went and killed an easier boss in Tempest Keep as consolation. The last boss in SSC (Lady Vashj) is supposedly terrifically hard, and we didn’t want to undo all the euphoria of our boss kill too soon. Here’s the link to the .avi file. Warning 225MB. It needs the Xvid codec.