By the way, wanted to let you know. i got my 2.0. Funny in how it happened, if you wanna read a story.
In the morning before going to work, i logged in to see if he was up. He was, and yes, i was late for work.
I hollered for my wife to come down, figured we could get it, Shaman, boxing wizard, Paladin boxing Cleric. FYI we are in a casual raiding guild, that has just been in CoA for about 2 months. that means we are not highly geared.
To top it off, the cleric is a new box and way undergeared and a low mana pool to boot at this point, but we tried. Pally clears all the adds, and we med up and get ready for the named.
FYI Bloated Girplan has an ungodly number of HP's and we did not realize this when we started, fortunately we had popped the HP campfire just in case.
Now, not realizing how this would go, i had the shaman doing quick heals(in addition to usual stuff), and cleric doing CH's and group heals as needed, wizard nuking and Paladin keeping it otherwise occopuied and emergency healing. We were doing fine until we realized that the clerics mana was dropping faster than the Girplans HP. Not a good start. So the shaman, in additions to the panther on pally and pet and quick heals, added Dots, which further depleted the shaman's mana.
Great, gonna lose this in addition to being late for work now.
Ever hear of the calvary showing up at the last minute? i was just about to evac us when i see a /fs What you all doing on at this time of the morning?
My response was simple, take campfire and HELP.
45 seconds later pops in a 80ish level beastlord and pet and it was just enough DPS to take him out, plus he had a spell to help the cleric recover mana faster, so we all made it, all OOM, no one above 50% health, and the Bloated Girplan deaded.
I loot the shaman piece, and a chest spawned. I had not noticed that this was considered a raid mob(so much for being prepared) much less one of the ones hard enough to spawn a chest. In the chest was a
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=31651 so the undergeared cleric gets a freebie, to be a little less undergeared.
So yea, we popped him with a casual raiding group of 76th Paladin, Shaman, Wizard, 80th level Beastlord, and 71 Cleric.
I could not tell you what happened at work that day, but i was a happy camper all day.