It's business...it's business time!

Living in Japan kind of constricts your access to Western culture. Sure we get Transformers movies and Harry Potter and anything else with worldwide appeal. But I just got wind of the Flight of the Conchords, which I understand has been around for a couple years now. Funny, funny stuff. If you haven't heard 'Business Time' yet, look it up on youtube. Anyways, it was Business Time in Ulduar as we cleared many more bosses.

I take back what I said about my guild dying, it was just a bad slump for a couple weeks that I misread. I was being a bit too pessimistic as I had bad experiences in the past.

Auriya went down after about 7 attempts, getting the pull and movement down.
Thorim went down in 2 attempts. One of the easiest encounters in Ulduar so far.
Hodir went down in about 10 attempts, we all got our frost resist gear on and that helped a lot.
Freya went down in 3 attempts, it was surprisingly easier than anticipated.

We are now on Mimiron, and our best attempt was getting him down to about 25% on phase 4, which is like having the encounter down to 5%. He did an aoe shock and a laser barrage at the same time, which threw off some members of our raid who got gibbed.

OK, it was me >_<
I have to take the blame sometimes too.

My raid healing guide I wrote earlier applies to a lot of these encounters. Rejuv and Wild growth as much as possible, and swiftmend/nourish targets low on health. On Mimiron all healers need to help out with direct healing on Plasma Blast, which is 20k damage a second for 6 seconds. On Thorim you have to heal your group and your group's tank, its like a mini Heroic Dungeon wave (I healed the group that stays in the coliseum).

Alt Update:

My priest is at level 55, closing in on 56. I've gotten a lot better at skipping quests I know take too long when I can be off doing something more efficient. For example, there are many quests in Felwood that require you fighting past many demons to get to a pool or something, going back, then having to go back in again. And Felwood is all stretched out and quests are rarely clumped together. Not the best place to quest. I did the furbolg quests, made the trip back and forth twice, and then got the hell out of there. Winterspring has many more quests involving killing things in localized areas.

After that I'll do the Western Plaguelands and some Eastern Plaguelands and Silithus, and then I should be ready to head to the Outlands at level 58 or 59. My usual strategy would have been to go into Outlands at level 56 and farm high-experience mobs until level 58, but with the heirloom item XP bonus questing should be about the same or faster, and a little less monotonous. I'm committing the alting sin of playing without rested experience, but I'm having a good time and its a nice change of pace from raiding.