A Dog Day for the Wardens

Posted by Siha on Mar 20, 2006 in Progression | 0 comments

Originally posted by Malwyn.

Well our next MC venture was slightly less painless. Through sheer determination, an awesome stance-dancing tank and well-executed strategy, we brought Magmadar down like the dog he is.

On our first attempt no less! I forget what the loot was (it was a while ago unfortunately) but with our first big hurdle in MC overcome, we moved on to Gehennas. And..well, dead.

With Luci, Mags and Gehennas down, we now set our sites on Garr and beyond. Southern Wardens, alongside Unsorted Files and Heavens Cataclysm, are moving up in the world.

Take That, Lucifron!

Posted by Siha on Mar 10, 2006 in Progression | 0 comments

(Yes, this post is a trifle after the fact. I’ve been busy!)

We’re officially a proper solo MC guild now, after our successful start last Sunday. A slight miscalculation (how could we forget about Sunday afternoon server queues?!) meant that our raid group trickled online in dribs and drabs.

We cleared to Luci successfully and dropped him with a minimum of pain and suffering. We did see one wipe – probably inevitable given that we’re new to raiding MC as a guild – but we were determined to down Lucifron. And down him we did, on our second try! Congratulations to Azzure on shiny new Arcanist Boots and Unfalln on his Felheart Gloves.

Unfortunately we lost too many healers at that point to take down the big doggy Magmadar, so we trotted off to ZG to pwn some more bosses there. We’ll be back in MC this weekend for some more Lucifron action, and this time we hope to be facing Magmadar and Gehennas as well!

This is the start of great progress for SW as a guild, and we’re very excited about where we can go from here.

(And don’t forget: limited recruitment is currently open! If you’d like to join us, check out our guild information and recruitment page for more info.)

In which we have to pay all our own repair bills.

Posted by Siha on Mar 1, 2006 in Progression | 0 comments

It’s an exciting time in the Southern Wardens. We’ve just struck out on our own, after dissolving our 40-man raid alliance with another guild, and we’re ramping up to tackle Molten Core and Onyxia on our own.

We kicked off this brave new world with a foray into MC on Monday night — completely unplanned, but we had way too many for Zul’Gurub, and if we refrained from doing stupid stuff on the spur of the moment, we’d hardly be the Southern Wardens, would we?

No boss attempts for us, sadly; a number of the raiders were still saved to a prior instance with most of the early bosses down, and we thought we probably shouldn’t try to blood a new raid group on Golemagg. So we confined ourselves to clearing trash mobs and showing our newcomers how to get stomped by Molten Destroyers.

A couple of stand-outs from the night:
* congrats to Ror on Nightslayer Belt, our first piece of guild-only MC loot!
* thanks to Sayyuntow for running a super-fast simultaneous attunement run in an attempt to get a few more of our guildies into the instance.

Look for more fun and exciting news from the world of melty lava and big repair bills soon!