High Warlord Naj’entus (still) dead!
Progression post by Siha at
11:44 on May 23rd, 2008
Well, this is rather late news, but I’ve been sick so please forgive.
A week and a half ago, Southern Wardens ventured back into Black Temple with a raid full of gentle, learned heroes bringing peace and happiness to the world — or, depending on who you ask, a crowd of yahoos with big sticks and an urge to beat up hapless naga. Dear old Naj’entus, he of the Impaling Spines and the Giant Water Bubble Of Doom, would probably call us the latter… if he weren’t too busy saying “ow, ow, it hurts, make it stop”.
Our first kill was absolutely textbook — no deaths, and a clear minute ahead of the enrage timer. Excellent work by all concerned, and we’re looking forward to brutalizing — er, meeting — more of the inhabitants of Black Temple just as soon as our server can stop falling over in the middle of prime Aussie raiding time!
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Karathress and Rage down!
Progression post by Siha at
7:40 on April 2nd, 2008
In the midst of all this new content, there’s still raid bosses left to kill. Last week we took a break for Easter, and gave everyone a well-earned rest… which meant Fathom Lord Karathress got a week’s stay of execution.
No longer! We caught up with him this week on Sunday night, and killed him on the second attempt after discovering that yes, Spitfire Totems really do hurt as much as people say they do.
Monday night saw us taking a peek into Mt Hyjal - our raid leader has a thing for Jaina Proudmoore and wanted the excuse to hang out with her. Unfortunately, as soon as he tried whispering sweet nothings to her, the undead attacked!
Thankfully we held them off, along with their master - a rather cantankerous lich with bad fashion sense and a bad attitude. Here we are with his “corpse”… a sparkly lump. (Dead on the first try, too!)
Another good week of progression for the Wardens, leaving us at 5/6 3/4 in Tier 5 and 1/5 0/9 in Tier 6. Fantastic work from all our raiders, and it’s great to be taking our first steps in Tier 6 instances.
… And then we went to explore Sunwell Plateau, and got smashed in the face by giant robots. But that’s a story for another time!
Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention we downed Jan’Alai for the first time this week, on a non-raid night. Thanks to Swen for organising the group; that puts us at 4/6 ZA. If only we had enough time to finish the place off!
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Recruitment Open!
News post by Siha at
19:26 on March 24th, 2008
Southern Wardens, an Australian/New Zealand PvE raiding guild, are looking to recruit the following:
Healers: 1+
Warlocks: 1
We may also accept exceptional players from any other class.
We are currently working on progressing through Tier 5 content. We’re currently at 4/6 SSC, 3/4 TK. See this guild blog for details of our recent kills.
Our current raid schedule is:
- Wednesday: 7:30 - 10:30 AEST (8:30-11:30 AEDT; 01:30-04:30 server time)
- Thursday: currently free, may have new raids implemented in future
- Sunday: 7:00 - 10:30 AEST (8:00-11:30 AEDT; 01:00-04:30 server time)
- Monday: 7:00 - 10:30 AEST (8:00-11:30 AEDT; 01:00-04:30 server time)
The official guild raids are currently aimed at 25-man raid zones; 10-mans are often organised on a semi-casual basis on weekends.
We are a friendly guild with a raiding focus. In other words, we raid regularly but we like to have fun doing it. We are looking for dedicated raiders who are interested in progressing through 25-man content. Raiders are expected to attend 75% of our scheduled raids. Ideally we are interested in raiders who are fully Karazhan-geared, and supplemented by quality heroic/crafted gear.
If you’re interested in joining us, please follow these simple steps:
- Read our membership policy and raid schedule.
- Register at our forums and send a PM to Siha to ask for posting access. (This is an anti-spam measure, unfortunately.)
- Post a message in the recruitment forum, using the template and other applications as a guide for the information we need to know, telling us a bit about you and anything you feel we should know.
- Contact Sailan or Alinden, or another of the officers in-game to discuss your application.
We look forward to hearing from you.
We are still, as always, open to new casual members who are friends or family of existing Wardens. If that applies to you, please ask your friend or relative in SW to get in touch with one of the officers.
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Another two bite the dust…
Progression post by Siha at
2:43 on March 19th, 2008
Two progression posts for the price of one!
Last week it was Morogrim Tidewalker - first attempt saw him down to 24%, second attempt saw him dead.
And this week it was Leotheras the Blind. Leo took a bit more work than some of the other Serpentshrine bosses, and we had some very near-successes in early attempts, but we finally pulled it all together last night to get him dead.
That puts Southern Wardens at 4/6 SSC 3/4 TK. Not bad for less than two months’ work!
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R.I.P. Solarian, R.I.P Doomwalker
Progression post by Siha at
12:30 on March 5th, 2008
With Al’ar dead and buried, heading on to say hello to Solarian was an offer we just couldn’t refuse. Monday night saw us encounter her for the first time, and what a fight! She and Al’ar are chalk and cheese - Solarian’s a fast-paced encounter with hair-trigger timing, and I think probably my favourite of the TBC bosses I’ve seen so far.
Also, she’s dead easy and therefore easily deaded, which we achieved with ease after a few false starts involving people bombing the raid.
After Solarian, we were going to head off to Serpentshrine for a farm boss or two when someone happened to mention that Doomwalker was up, over in Shadowmoon Valley.
We strapped on our killing pants, and… well, I bet you can guess what came next.
Doomwalker was our eighth guild first in 41 days, and a fun way to round off a very successful week of raiding.
Next up, Tidewalker!
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Ashes to ashes
Progression post by Siha at
16:57 on March 3rd, 2008
For a while there, we were starting to feel like Al’ar was cursed. Twice, the server went down for an hour or more, and even when we weren’t jinxed by mis-timed exclamations of optimism about server health, we were plagued with disconnects and lag woes.
Last night we overcame all of that to make Al’ar the Phoenix God our sixth new boss kill since Void Reaver in late January. Great work by all concerned, and congratulations to all on one of our most satisfying victories yet.
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A right royal pain in the face.
Progression post by Siha at
23:59 on February 28th, 2008
Doom Lord Kazzak is not only a nasty, ill-tempered and very violent demon, he’s not very pretty, to boot. Thankfully, we triumphed over shadowbolts, ill-timed add respawns, a pesky Horde mage trying to grief us, and Hellfire General Chat complaining about Kazzak’s zone-wide yelling fits… to put Kazzak in his place for another Wardens first kill. It’s been a good month!
Congrats to Amandrah on the shiny new cloak, and Philos on his new sword. Here’s hoping we’ll get a chance to do it again before Patch 2.4 hits, his epics turn BoE and every guild in Outland turns up to farm him for AH profiteering. It was a fun learning experience, and we look forward to killing him again!
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It seemed a waste…
Progression post by Siha at
4:03 on February 20th, 2008
…to keep trotting past Hydross every week to get to Lurker.
So we killed him.
First night first kills are very satisfying! It took us a couple of wipes to get the transitions down pat, but a couple hours after setting foot in the zone Hydross lay dead at our feet. Great work from all concerned, and congratulations to Ursuron, Swen and Rotorua on their shiny new loot!
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Magtheridon: “How long do you think this can hold me?”
Progression post by Siha at
2:20 on February 11th, 2008
<Southern Wardens>: “Oh, about five more minutes?”
After this week’s kill of Lurker, we trotted off to Magtheridon’s Lair - we’ve spent a few attempts there this week, learning the fight and mocking Magtheridon’s smack talk.
I have to say, I personally really enjoyed the Magtheridon encounter. Almost no trash (hooray!), an entirely mockable boss, and an interesting set of raid challenges. We killed him tonight for the first time, with only three warlocks on the team (a 50% improvement over a couple of attempts earlier in the week where our two little ‘locks were looking very lonely indeed) and loot rained from the heavens. Congrats to Swen and Ragoth on their new T4 chests, Alinden on the Head of Magtheridon (which makes no sense, as someone pointed out there isn’t actually a corpse left behind to get a head from…), Torqya on his pretty pink Barbie shield and Xaned on his nice new belt. And, of course, congratulations to all our new Champions of the Naaru.
Great work to all concerned; it’s satisfying to have completed all Tier 4 content, even if we didn’t do it all in the right order! Now it’s time to dig in and make some serious inroads into SSC and Tempest Keep - because you can never kill too many nagas or blood elves.
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