Raincheck?

So, we went back into Zul'Aman today with the guild.  We were about 30 seconds too slow on Nalorakk to get the chest, but we got him down.  Then we went to Akil'zon.  I'm sure if you've read my blog before you know my opinion on him (Froth, rant, grumble, swear).

We got him to 1% again on our first try, and we had some new people in there so we had to shake things down.  We've been told to try the "sound" method, where you turn your ambient sounds all the way up and everything else down and then run in when you hear the rain.  The Deadly Boss timers are pretty much useless except to give a vague idea of when the storm is going to happen.

Well, it went very well.  We were running in and out at the right times, we just didn't quite make it.  So we released and ran back for another try.

And it started to rain.

Hard.

In game rain.

So all any of us could hear was constant rain.  "Oh well, let's see if it goes off when we engage him."

It didn't.  We couldn't hear the storm coming in.  The timers didn't work.  We wiped.

Thankfully, the rain stopped after that and we proceeded to whoop his feathery butt for a guild first.  But it's the first time I've ever seen a boss wipe us because of the weather.