We got down High Astromancer Solarian twice since my last post. She really is an updated version of the Baron Gheddon fight from MC. If you can run away when you are the bomb, you will win. If you have someone that is not paying attention, the whole raid will go boom. Her bomb hurts a lot more than the Gheddon bomb did, and is almost an automatic death if the raid eats one. Her other abilities are a weak AOE to the raid, which I just chain heal on the shaman. She also constantly throws arcane missles at a random target similar to Shade of Aran on steroids. This is countered by 3 fast healing classes using an assist macro to always get heals on her target. About every minute she vanishes and a bunch of non-elite AOE mobs charge in. Just have a pally pick them up and AOE them down. She then respawns with 2 priests, so kill the priests and have someone on each interrupting the heals before you resume DPS on her. Repeat until 20%, when she turns into a ginat Voidwalker. At that point you have won. She starts hitting like a wuss on a tank and just does an AOE fear which you can stop with fear ward.
Gruul is now dying every week, but tends to bog us down and most of the loot gets passed on. I think we will make that night dedicated to starting in SSC and Gruul will be moved to an off-night quick run. That is the approach I prefer to take anyways, as I feel people are not as motivated once we switch to the second instance. I want us all to be in the SSC mindset going in, and be prepared to learn the fights. We took a few Hydross attempts this week and got him to 60%. It is all in the transistions and as soon as we get that down we will be fine. Seems like his adds are by far the most dangerous part of the fight.
