Ignis Likes Hot Pockets
June 30th, 2010 at 6:52
Yesterday marked a letter day for our endeavors. It was the first time under our new raid leadership that we faced a weekly raid boss, and just couldn’t take him down. There are a number of theories as to why, and a few hackles were raised by the perceptions that were shared during the raid.
We have the job now, of gearing up a little, looking at the strategy more closely, and going back some time this week to finish up. But oddly enough, the phrase, “Don’t stand in fire” was the one thing we didn’t repeatedly here.
Most folks were where they needed to be, most of the time.
This comes after one victory after another–the Obsidian Sanctum with Drakes, the Eye of Eternity, Hyjal Past (a personal favorite) and a shared event into ICC 25 in which every single person we sent in came out with something nice. So why does a boss from Ulduar that we’ve killed a half dozen times continue to elude us?
I look at the problem, and it comes back to “repetition.” We’re used to not fighting him, and so we don’t–even when he’s the boss we’re fighting. The preconception has been that Ignis is a boss that can be skipped without a problem, and the truth is he has some positively annoying mechanics.
But the preconception appears to be lending itself to the belief that Ignis isn’t something we can beat. Well, when Ignis is the weekly objective, we have two options–go get him, or pass him by. Passing him by has always been the easy answer in Ulduar, and the truth is he’s an “optional” boss, something you don’t have to fight.
But when he’s the only reason you’re going, you have to go with three things: the understanding that he is the purpose to the raid, the knowledge of the fight, and the belief that plans and mechanics well observed and plan well executed equals boss down. We will be going back.
