by Siha | Mar 5, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
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,...
by Siha | Mar 3, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
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...
by Siha | Feb 28, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
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...
by Siha | Feb 20, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
…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...
by Siha | Feb 11, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
<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...
