As you can guess from the title, this was not a successful run. I was pretty jazzed about this raid even though it ganked my exp group in the same area right short of level 58. GoB has tried Grummas a few times and failed. It seemed like confidence was high on the tactics this time. Killing Grummas and hailing the planar projection afterwards will get you flagged for the Crypt of Decay, a cool zone.

You start by killing Gryme the fat biker dude who drops a No Rent key that opens the castle proper. Then you kill trash and then Aramin the Spider Lord, more trash clearing to the guardians near the crypt. Once there, you have about 12 spawn points to keep clear with very, very short timers.

We had a full 72-person raid with several extras hanging with us for flags. We were going to go in level order for flags until all 72 were used. Assuming we won. Which didn?t happen.

As we were all set, a paladin wandered too close to the bottom of the ramp and agroed Grummas. Well, so much for planning, CHARGE! It almost worked too. The guards from he back room really blew it for us. We had Grummas down to 15% at wipe.

Reset. Lots of pissing and moaning. Some personnel changes and in 30 minutes we start clearing our way back in. Confidence was still high. We almost got him last time and we weren?t even really ready. This time, for sure, we would get him. Except, it was getting late and people were, IMO not very focused. Lots of chatting and emoting and such.


We get to the top of the ramp and rebuff, but for some reason, stuff just is taking too long, repops keep interrupting the buffing and all. Eventually, we charge. Bad idea. Repops right off the bat, clerics all die early, quick wipe. We barely dented him. I camped at 1:30am with Rez effects. Oh well?