Ahead of the Curve...

I love it when a raid night works out.

We had a goal, to kill Archimonde Heroic.

It started well, despite our new squishy warrior tank learning the fight and dying to everything possible on the first few pulls ;-)  
We just ressed him and carried on, pushing into phase 3 virtually every time. 

There was a sense in the air that this would definitely be the night!

Almost every pull resulted in us reaching phase 3 in a better position than the last as we tightened up our execution of the other phases.
And each P3 was cleaner than the last until we wiped at around 7% over and over.

Once everyone has fully learned the fight and executes it as well as possible, it seems to boil down to one moment.
Around the time the second group returns from the Nether, there is a combination of mechanics:
Chains that need to be broken.
Demonic Feedback that we need to spread for and survive.
Pushing the boss to 25% to trigger Rain of Chaos and the Infernals.

We held off dps so that we didn't push the boss until the whole group was there meaning all of these abilities needed to be dealt with at pretty much the same time.

Most of our 7% wipes were down to losing people in this 'moment'.  It was always worth continuing though to make us absolutely familiar with what was to come in the final few percent of the fight.

Survive this moment, in good shape, and we knew we would be close to the kill.

The first time we got through, it looked great.  Everyone was alive and we were pushing onwards.  We called for a 'suicide' group and our DK tank, Balance druid and Feral druid went in.

Our Feral druid is known for screaming for heals whenever he isn't on full HP but he had been told to shut up earlier in the night.  Of course this time he died before he could get into the Nether Banish, the boss healed and we wiped.

"You see?  This is what happens when I don't call for heals!"  he called, much to our amusement.

The second successful time through the 'moment', we had the second set of infernals spawn while a group was still in the Nether.  Our Warlock thought it would be really helpful to Banish one of them to buy us some time.
Oh dear... if you Banish the infernal, it still gains energy and casts the massive raid AoE.  Wipe.

The third time was the charm. 
We were through the tricky moment with everyone alive and a res in hand.
Archimonde's health was dropping fast but we started to lose people.
First, our Boomkin and our 'Void' hunter died to a breaking chain.
Another hunter succumbed to an infernal he was kiting which, with it's dying breath, also took out yours truly as I returned from the third Nether.

The infernals were dead though, we were on the final stretch!
I ankhed and we ressed the first hunter.  He had been doing an amazing job, virtually soloing the Living Shadows, and we needed him for the final push.

Suicide group for the last Nether... Kitty made it in this time!
6%
5%
Rain of Chaos started... Ignore it!  Blow everything you have and stay on the boss!
4%
3%
2%
1%
The cheers began!
We had him and we knew it!
0%
Woohoo!

An awesome night progressing towards then finally getting the kill!
This is what raiding is all about!

To add the cherry on top, I also won the Heroic trinket (with socket) and our Monk healers both passed to let me have my BiS weapon, the Mace.  Thanks guys!  :-)