EoE: My First Look

So my guild got adventurous, now that we've downed KT a few times, and thought we'd try out Maly.  Let me tell you, we were not prepared.  I know I for one will be doing my Wyrmrest daily every day this week until we go in again on Saturday.  I had done it before, but apparently not enough.  After the first couple of tries, getting used to the fight, we pretty consistently made it to phase 3.  Phase 3 was pretty consistently a disaster.

Anyway, some things I learned from this:

1) Everyone was right.  Strafing is very important.  Now I'm not a noob when it comes to strafing, but I'm not really a vet either, so this did present minor problems for me.  It has definitely moved my boot re-enchant to get a little speed increase up on my list of things I need to do.  I'm probably also going to find some trash with decent HP and just strafe around in a big circle, keeping up my normal rotation.  This will also help with #3.

2) I still need to learn my left from my right.  There were a few times when I almost turned my back to the boss because I was using the wrong mouse button to look for the sparks

3) good DPS + damage buffs = threat cap.  Even with vigilance on the highest sustained DPS in the group, DPS was getting threat capped.  I suppose this means I need to up my threat game (read as: "get a new, not awful tanking weapon").  I keep waiting for one to drop from Naxx10, but I just need to bite the bullet and run heroics more.  UP isn't so bad, and I need that sword anyway, even if I get the Naxx drop, 'cause you can never have too much gear.  I'm sure I could use it at least to enchant differently and put in different gear sets.

4) My guild has awesome healers.  Seriously, they were keeping me up through more damage than I'm used to taking.  I don't know how many times I heard my low health alert, yet I only went down before the group on a couple of tries, mostly while we were still figuring out the encounter.

In conclusion, I hope we nail him to the wall on Saturday, so I can achieve my new goal, clearing all progression raiding content (10 man) before 3.1, unless they decide to throw a curve and drop 3.1 this week :)