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First off, I want to congratulate all of the members of Bound on a successful LK 25 Man kill! All of the hard work paid off!

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming. After closing out ICC for the week, the guild decided to go back and try out some of the older WOTLK instances in order to pick up some trinkets and achievements. We made some nice progress in 25 man TOGC but ran into issues burning down the shield on the Twin Valkyries fight.

One thing became apparent as we tried again and again to burn down the shield; our raiders had begun to rely on the buff from ICC. DPS was not nearly as high as it should have been and execution wasn’t nearly tight as it usually is. We’d gotten lazy.

I’m not trying to say that the buff has been all bad.  The ICC buff has been the source of leaps and bounds in current progression. More players and guilds are seeing more end game content than at any previous time in WOW. In fact, if it weren’t for the ICC buff, I’d wager that my guild would have had a significantly more difficult time defeating the Lich King.

On the other hand, the larger the buff gets, the more players can phone it in while in ICC. I’d wager that raid wide damage taken has increased as the ICC Buff has increased since its no longer life and death to avoid many of the mechanics of fights in ICC. Take a look at your raid’s performance in Marrowgar the next time you’re in there and see how many raiders are actually moving out of the Bone Storm.

While the buff has opened the doors of end game content (and the completion of that content) for many raiders, its not without some consequences. Just a caution to raiders who are anxious to jump into the Ruby Sanctum when it comes out.