Quickie right here. In the midst of 25m Naxx, just downed Patchwerk. 3.6k DPS, 4th in the raid in DPS. Who says BM can’t DPS?
Edit: Ok I’ve got some time now to expand this post now. Well yesterday in Trade chat someone from the guild <Deadman Walking> was looking for DPS for 25m OS. So naturally I whispered him that I’d DPS for them. I’ve ran a couple of raids with this guild and they’re very organized and know what they’re doing. So we downed Sarth no problems. And of course Hyaline Helm of the Sniper dropped! Luckily I was only rolling against only one other Hunter and I won! So I currently own the helm I’ve been wanting for a long time and am expecting to use well into patch3.2. Not too shabby. I kind of felt bad though because the person who invited me into the raid was this Hunter that I rolled against.
Then the guild (and 5 pugged individuals, including me) immediately went off to do 25m Naxx. We downed Spider Wing easily. No wipes, but the Aged Winter Cloak dropped and I supposedly won it with a roll of 91 but they gave it to someone else. It’s not that much better than the cloak I currently have so I didn’t complain about it, although the added Crit would’ve been nice… Anyway they decided to do Construct Wing second and that really made my day. Or so I thought.
Well the Construct Wing (both 10 and 25m) is where the majority of my gear upgrades lie. The thing is most Naxx groups I enter are afraid of the Construct Wing. This time though we were able to down Patchwerk, as my original post spoke of. We wiped once but that was because our MT dropped midfight. Bummer, but on our second try we downed him pretty easily. Like I stated up top I was doing a very solid 3.6K DPS and was forth in their mostly guild run. This was also with my new helm not fully gemmed and not enchanted! This makes me feel really good about my DPS. As most DPSers know, Patchwerk is Naxx’s “gear check” or as my track coach would put it, “gut check.” You have to down him in 6 minutes or else he enrages and wipes the raid. If the DPS isn’t there, you fail. If the tanks don’t know what they’re doing, you fail. Healers only have to keep the 3 tanks at full the entire time and you just burn him down. Patchwerk is a pure DPS race boss and many (all) Hunters use it as a fair, raid-environment check of their DPS. We managed to down him in around 4 minutes. I have no doubt in my mind that this raid could’ve finished Naxx in another 2 hours even though we were carrying ~2 other lesser geared DPS.
But alas, fait would have no such thing. Blizzard’s servers in the Chicago area decided to drop when we were about to try Grobbulus and 8 members of the raid dropped. We waited for around 30 minutes and then the raid leader decided to call it a night. Unfortunate, but true. All I have to say is that was definitely the smoothest run I’ve had EVER. I think I might have to join this guild in a couple days since my guild seems to be failing. Luckily I know someone in that guild who will hopefully invite me. I just don’t want to jump ship that quickly and seem like a jerk to my guild leader who I’ve been doing heroics and raids with since February. I also hope that they continue the raid tonight and I’m able to catch them when they’re about to finish Naxx.
