we gave alar a shot after VR with alot of people gone just to wipe and see how it goes, it really didn't seem too hard. For Hydross we've got a nature resist warrior and a frost resist warrior for him and a pally with 50/50 resist for the adds. Our first try on him wasn't bad but the healers need to get used to transitions (Whir needs to stop with all the HOTs hehe). We had a lock wipe us once or twice, and heal aggro killed us once or twice before we went over to kill lurker.
Our people are geared beyond what we're doing for the most part, it's just a matter of learning the fights and getting time to go do them.