by Siha | Oct 4, 2006 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
After a few more learning experiences on Nefarian last week, we came to BWL determined to make this week ‘third try’s the charm’. Armed with a new strategy, we warmed up our pew-pew and plink-plink (the hunter version of pew-pew) and got ready to give Nef the beating of his life. Did you know that wiping at 1% on Nefarian is really quite bad for the blood pressure? Next try we proved it was not a fluke, and replicated our efforts — right down to our MT disconnecting at the Phase 3 transition on both attempts and still managing to hold agro while offline. Now that’s tanking talent. Now we knew what expect, though, we carried it over the line and dropped Nef with a sweet, clean kill – no bodies on the ground except Nef’s, in fact! Congratulations to Causes on the Judgement chest, making him our first fully-T2-geared raider, and our MT Holli on the Wrath chest. Congrats also to Teh Isra on Mish’undare… just a pity some poor hunter felt obliged not to let loot from our first Nef kill be sharded, even if that meant taking Therazane’s Link. Wear it with pride, Nins, and pretend you’re a shaman! After we danced with glee for a while, we found ourselves with a few hours yet to kill — so it was off to AQ40 for our very first look into the place. New content is always fun, and AQ40 is very fresh and interesting after MC and BWL raids. Our best effort for the night was 45% on the Prophet Skeram, AQ40’s first poss, and hopefully...
by Siha | Oct 4, 2006 | Blog, World of Warcraft
What I Did In Azeroth on Monday, by Siha, aged level 60. First we went to see nice Mister Thunderaan in Silithus to ask him if he would please let our friend Wocca borrow his sword. He didn’t like that idea, and he got all angry at Wocca and hit him and Wocca fell over! Poor Wocca! We helped him get up again though and then Wocca went to tell Mister Thunderaan what he thought of his selfishness. Well! Wocca hit Mister Thunderaan so hard he fell over almost straight away! (Well, we all helped too. We thought he was so mean for not giving Wocca his sword, so we hit him and cast spells at him.) The trouble was, we couldn’t work out where he’d hidden his sword! We had to go find Mister Thunderaan twice more and knock him over again before Wocca found it behind the couch. So, congratulations Wocca on [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]! Now if Mister Thunderaan comes looking to take his sword back, you can hit him even...
by Siha | Sep 19, 2006 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
After last week’s unexpected success with Chromaggus we returned, primed for battle and full of determination and Hourglass Sand. (That stuff scratches.) Unfortunately Tasmania’s internet connection seemed to be on the fritz tonight – maybe someone was trying to run the toaster at the same time – so several of our most dedicated raiders were in and out more often than a hyperactive rabbit. Despite this, Chromaggus fell in the face of Wardens-style determination, grit, and animal...
by Siha | Sep 18, 2006 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. AQ20 has been a side project while we focus on BWL with our casual raid style, so it was fantastic to finally drop a new boss on Friday night, Ossirian the Unscarred. Took us about 4-5 wipes I think to finally get it all down and I’d have to say, was probably one of the more fun fights I’ve been involved with. Great for team work and moving around as a group. So that now only leaves us with one boss in AQ20 that we haven’t killed. A lot of raiders are working on NR gear so we can give Ayamiss the Hunter a good run for his money and get this zone teabagged, SW...
by Siha | Sep 15, 2006 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. Following on from an incredible week in BWL (Hi, Chromie 3%, 5% and 11% on Timelapse first ever attempts) the raid force from Southern Wardens laid absolute waste to MC. Full clear in a guild record 3 hours and 15 minutes! Having 45 mins up our sleeves, it was decided to go along and pwn up some BWL with the fresh instance. Razorgore was despatched smoothely with Holli breaking all the eggs for the first time. Not being a guild to call it quits, we decided to reload and have a shot at Vael. Sadly, 2% was as far as we got being a few people short. But this still gives us an extra 30-40mins of BWL time this weekend. We should be taking our first shots at Nef on Monday night, looking forward to...