by Siha | Jul 14, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. Woot, another instance another first kill. Frawless Kurri take down, Lieut General died on Rajaxx encounter – but we stuck with it and downed him. Was good to give our resident Yogi, Reshiko a chance to do some bear tanking tonight and it worked really well. Buru took us a few goes while we adapted all over again to the strat, but it was only ever a matter of time and a few extra repair bills :) Isra lead us over to Moam, we got to clear some new Eygptian trash mobs. It was quickly realised after the first attempt on Moam that all out pwn dps was not going to get us through and the second and third attempts we backed up with mana drain from our ‘locks and priests. Was getting close to 11pm after the third attempt, we lost a raider or two due to that dreaded wife faction – but we knuckled down, pulled in another priest (thanks Alla!) and dropped Moam. Unfortunately, after we dropped him we still had the 3 crazy elementals to kill….. We managed to get out of it with some awesome rebanishing from our ‘lock team, some uber healing from our only alive healer Wellard and some nice dps from the other 5-6 members left standing hehe. Well done guys, great to see a brand new boss for the first time and take him...
by Siha | Jul 12, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. Hey yeh, we one shotted Razorgore, our first BWL boss on Sunday night. I think some screenshots are on the way. Cool eh?
by Siha | Jun 14, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. It’s all about the eggs as Southern Wardens take on Razorgore. Eolhelyanwe got some egg fever and in a very leeroy-esque display, got a bit too close to the Fat Controller at the start and wiped us in a few minutes flat :P Best attempt of the night goes to our uberWarlock tank Bellzebub. Who had one angry Razorgore chasing him around the room when we busted out with a phase 2, no more eggs attempt. Unfortunately he was the only person left standing after we lost around 20 people in the last 2-3 eggs. The night was also marred by lots and lots of lag…we weren’t able to try an alternate strat due to one of our MT’s getting disconnected every 5 mins, various others spent the night bouncing in and out of egg-land, wrestling with video settings to try and get some extra BWL fps. We’ll be refining our strat until we find that magical SW click, this Monday I’m expecting another series of very strong attempts. I’m really enjoying the fight and cant wait to get solidly into phase 2, Razorgore we’re coming to egg you! In other news we have MC down to a full clear in under 4 hours, so we’ll be racing the clock and having some fun as we refine it even more. I think we only had the one wipe on Luci (!) as Holli pulled the first Corehound pack while Luci and buddies were too close :P. Rags is now our gimp, he went down first go and Sons control was awesome. Well done guys, keep on smashing...
by Siha | May 23, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Frawress victory! Our plan to divest Ragnaros of all his worldly goods finally came to fruition tonight in a climactic battle between the forces of us (40 potioned-up raiders spoiling for a fight) and them (Ragnaros and his assorted minions). It was a fast, clean fight; a few inevitable deaths, of course, but we had Rags down to 39% when the sons spawned, we survived the sons, and buckled down to exact revenge for the untimely demise of poor Majordomo Executus. Okay, yes, it’s not like he was a close friend – but we’ll take any excuse. Six hours of Molten Core, from our zone-opening last night to Rags’ final blows tonight, and the Firelord was well and truly depantsed. The depantsing continued, literally, when we opened him up for loot – congratulations to Holli on her Legplates of Wrath and Ushaia on the Leggings of Transcendence. Pubert got his long-awaited Cloak of the Shrouded Mists, while Sayyuntow scored a Spinal Reaper Rags just had lying around. Congrats and thanks to all the raid group; we’ve made great progress in MC in the last couple of months. Ten weeks from our first tentative trash-clearing with 20 raiders, to a six-hour complete clear of the zone. Now onwards and upwards to Blackwing Lair! On a personal note, I’d also like to thank Holli and Isra for their hard work as raid leaders. We couldn’t have done this without you – thankyou....
by Siha | May 13, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Our progress in ZG has been a little slower than many of us would have liked, since we’ve been integrating an influx of players from Heaven’s Cataclysm and various new recruits. It looks like the awkward getting-to-know-you smalltalk is over, though, since tonight the Wardens pulled out all the stops together to turn Hakkar into a big feathery pile of dead. For the first time in a long time, we had a clean three-day run at the zone without any resets or significant server outages, and we duly took advantage of our good fortune to get the zone under control. The Aspects died on Friday night in a nice clean 2h 40m run, and we faced off against Hakkar for a good couple of tries at him. Unfortunately we lost too many raiders to the late hour, and came back Friday for another swipe at him. The experience proved invaluable, and we came back this evening with murder in our eyes. This was the result: a nice clean kill! Now we just have to improve our times; a three-hour clear is our goal, and now we’ve mastered Hakkar it’s definitely feasible. Congrats to Wildence on the Heart of Hakkar, Baros on Soul Corrupter’s Necklace and Allarielle on Bloodcaller. So, of the zones we’re currently raiding, that’s two end bosses dead. Ragnaros is the only one left standing, but he will bow to our might soon...
by Siha | May 5, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Just not this week. Wednesday night saw a frawress clear of the Aspects in 2h 40m – a record for us, and a sure sign of our raid group developing as a coherent unit. And then it was off to Hakkar’s Island to wave our pokey sticks at the big feathered guy himself. Unfortunately, Proudmoore chose just that moment to restart! We regrouped after the reset and had two good tries at Hakkar, but they both ended like this: Look at all those lazy raiders, lying down on the job! Thursday was earmarked for “Get Our Revenge On Hakkar” day, but unfortunately Proudmoore chose not to cooperate – it went down for emergency maintenance an hour before our ZG run was supposed to start, and came back up literally five minutes before our ZG zone reset. Which will make Hakkar’s inevitable death that much...
