Caverns of Time - Opening the Dark Portal

It turned out that a lot of us had to complete the Old Hillsbrad run first, in order to move on to the Drak Portal run in The Black Morass.
We had Anylrama, Trulsan, Vetenari, Vebolina and Myself, Obsidanse.
One of the smoothest runs we've had in a long while :)
Appart from an unexpected agro on our drop into the Orc holding area...sterling work by all concerned!
We dealt with Thrall's rather over-enthusiastic fighting with little problems, only initially struggling to keep thing organised.
We downed Captain Skarloc and his two lackies very easily. Vetenari's Fear move sorting out the ladies in the dying moments to buy us a little time.
And although we lost Trulsan near the end of the Epoch Hunter, he thankfully had a Soul stone, and bounced back to keep things organised in no time ^_^

On to the Black Morass....

Sadly, not so lucky on this one.
Lack of preperation for this one made the whole job very tricky.
This is NOT a standard run, where we take our time pulling in groups and desposing of Mobs in an orderly fassion..oh dear me no...
Anylrama sadly had to leave at this point, possibly totems would have helped too, but never mind.
Suddrik joined in at this point, and we were glad to have him onboard :)
We had to keep the Magician Medivh safe while he opened the portal. All the while he is being bombarded by wave after wave of level 70ish trash Mobs...
Sounds easy, but keeping them all under control was very tough, AOE would have been very welcome here!
There's no time to recover, and they come thick and fast in no time

Vetenari had an idea to take on the portal Elites which seemed to work well to start with, but keeping straglers from Medivh prooved very tough, and they wore him down very quickly while we took on the second portal.
After whiping again with this technique moral was a little low. I (rather unfairly) shunned the idea of splitting up for the portal, from vete. I felt we needed to go research this before going on further.
It seems we should have stuck with the strategy of taking on the portal elites one at a time while pulling in any adds as we went...
We'll do it next week! In the meen time, take a look at the vid ... Opening the Dark Portal Video