My guild ran ZA for the first time, last night. I was drafted in late because our number 1 rogue upped and /gquit during the week. So there I was wondering if I was good enough, thinking we'd probably ***** up and wipe multiple times on the way to Nalorakk but we didn't.
The chest timer was never going to be an option but we made it through the trash unscathed. We only had 5 minutes on the clock but this was our first time, a learning experience as the MT said. I'd read the strategy, seen the videos and I think everyone else had so we all knew the boss fight inside out. Nevertheless, like a good leader bringing fresh meat to an instance, the RL explained the fight for us and we started with about 30 seconds on the timer. 5 minutes and 12 seconds later, one dead boss.
Then Zul'Jin. We wiped a few times in the gauntlet but when we all stuck together, when the birds were targeted in between the elites, we got through. I think it was about the 4th attempt. Again with the explanation and then we started. The hunter who was doing the birds got distracted and missed an electrical storm so we wiped the first time. On the second attempt I took too much splash/AoE/whatever damage while standing behind the boss and died while the boss was on 60%. A minute later I got a battle rez and that's all she wrote. Another boss down, two badges in the bag.
We had two warrior tanks so the RL decided against Jan'Alai but thought we might have a chance on Halazzi. The trash died quite happily and then we had a couple of attempts at the big guy before calling it off.
Overall, I died more times last night than in a week of normality but goddamnit new content is a blast! No drops for me but the 3 badges were enough for me to buy
Ninja Boots so I'm dead chuffed. Oh and I came 2nd on the dps chart.