Force Recon had an exciting fun run with TR last night, downing Lady Vashj for the first time. Yes, the nerf bat hit with 3.0.2 and lowered the HP for raid bosses, but it was still sweet to finally kill her given the heavy amount of teamwork and raid concentration still required to succeed.

Lady Vashj is a three phase fight. Phase 1 is basically just a tank & spank where you try to stay alive and dps her as fast as possible. At 70%, she encases herself in a shield that totally protects her and is created by 4 shield generators surrounding her. During this phase adds spawn on all sides of her platform and need to be handled by the raid. 4 times during this phase a special "tainted" add will spawn and must be killed within 20 seconds or it will disappear. When this "tainted" add is killed, he must be immediately looted. The looting player receives a "tainted core" that must be used to disable one of the generators. The only problem is that the player holding the core is immobilized and must throw the core to another player to get it to move up the platform and to the generator. This is where the coordination is required as players must pass the core like a football up the stairs and across the platform to a generator that hopefully has a player standing right next to it and ready to disable it.

We had been practicing this fight off and on for some time and last night things clicked and we were able to defeat her on just our third try of the night. She drops T5 helms, which Nestra and Falarelle were lucky enough to win.

Here we are with a defeated Lady Vashj:

The night was still young so we proceeded to kill more bosses in SSC. In the end, we defeated Lurker, Tidewalker, Leotheras the Blind, and Fathom Lord Karathress as well. Congrats to Maxtel for winning shoulders off of Tidewalker and to Sleepyeyes and Koriander for winning T5 gloves off of Leo.

It was a fun night to try out our new abilities and to get some good loot for Wrath. Thanks to all who attended and congrats to all who won loot.