Tonight was our first genuine attempt at getting The Immortal on our alts. We had a few mains left over from Tuesday’s raid that came along, but for the most part our group consisted of casual town and the alts. Naturally, the first four wings and Sapphiron go off without a hitch, I don’t think anyone even dropped below 50% health during the boss encounters. Kel’Thuzad goes great for the first 75%…and then he finally decides to cast mind control, Trizen and Optik both get MC’d and naturally attack the SAME TARGET, which happened to be Kloze, Klorox’s shaman.

Now here’s the question - was this just RnG screwing us over, or was this a failure on the raid’s part? I’ve had a few hours to think about it, and to be honest I think we could have prevented Klorox’s death. I know I could have polymorphed Optik faster, but in the same respect, the warlocks could have helped out with some fears. All the crowd controllers deserve equal blame I suppose. I am still shocked we came that close, everyone played exceptionally well, I really am proud to play with some of these people. We’ll keep trying for immortal until the patch comes out, and I suspect we’ll get it sooner rather than later.

I hate achievements like The Undying and The Immortal, because in my opinion they’re so dependent on getting good RnG. You can have the best players in the world and Kel’Thuzad could decide to mind control the two add tanks, correct me if i’m wrong, but tin that situation, nothing could be done. The new PTR build today revealed that Ulduar will have Immortal/Undying equivalents, so I guess we’ll just have to learn to embrace these types of achievements, because they aren’t going anywhere soon.