From the Druid's Lair Into the Dragon's Lair

Well, today was a very eventful day. For starters, it was nice to have Enok and Schaikera in Erie to visit and spend time with Shaloria and myself this weekend. We all convened at Shaloria's around 1pm, and went to Eat'n'Park for lunch while we were waiting for my tires to get changed at Sam's Club. We had a very nice time of fellowship, and they all got to meet Arystina who was working this afternoon. After lunch, we retrieved my car, and took Shaloria around to various places like WalMart, KMart, and such to look around, and then back to her place for more fellowship and pizza before we all left to prepare for the raid.

After last night's success in Naxx, Eternity Matters ventured back to face Sapphiron again. However, Sapph wasn't the major antagonist that we had to contend with. Apparently, server issues, high latency, and frequent disconnects were the biggest problem tonight. I was disconnected at least 4 times (once before I even got into the raid) and Enok and Schaikera had problems staying connected, as did one of our ranged DPSers, Fightre. I think Enok and Schaikera gave up after a while or else the server wouldn't let them log back in (someone else got DCed and said in Vent that it was freezing at the authentication stage.) So, they missed out on the eventual victory whenwe finally took Sapphiron down. Once we did that, we made one attempt on Kel'Thuzad, and got him down to about 54% before we wiped. We might have made another attempt, but we lost one of our offtanks Squeatus, and another DPS, so we called it a night and decided to try again tomorrow. In reflection, I'd like to say that everyone did a fantastic job tonight, despite the obstacles we had to face, and look forward to our next encounter.

(UPDATE: WoW Insider has confirmed the Authentication server issue here. I'm willing to bet that there were more issues with the servers than that tonight.)