WoW: Gahz’rilla plays hard ball
We returned to Zul’Farrak and gave Gahz’rilla a couple of tries. We were successful the second attempt. We died just before the swimming pool area when we tried to sneak past a group of 5 mobs, three of which were Shamans. Multiple healers are just a pain for our little group. After Mike and I went down, Mark tried to make it to zone, but didn’t. Luckily he moved two of the 5-group out of position so we could take them as singles on our return. There were only three of the original group of 5 when we got back to their spot. We can take three, but decided to practice our mind control system. Frankly, it’s a crappy system, but it occasionally gets us past large groups we can’t manage otherwise. I mind controlled one of the shamans and let the other two mobs kill him, leaving us just the remaining two.
Gahz’rila seemed harder than we remembered. His knock back is terrible. The view, while flying through the air, is great, but you are worrying if you’ll survive the fall. If the Priest or Mage is at less than 3/4 health, we won’t survive the knock back. That’s what caused us to die the first try. On the second attempt, I managed to keep us alive till the end when I went down. The boys were able to kill Gahz’rilla without me and we were all able to loot the scale needed for the carrot on a stick. As much as I enjoy playing healer, there is no doubt in my mind Mark is better at it. Gahz’rilla made that clear to me tonight.
With the carrot on a stick, and the spurs Mark made us, we are traveling at high speed. I think the spurs are 5% and the carrot is a 3% boost to mount speed.