by Siha | May 3, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. Monday nights MC raid started off well, everyone was pumped ready to give Rags a good old thumping. Sulfuron, Golemagg and Majordomo all fell first up and we moved into have our first look at Ragnaros. First attempt with over half the raid never having seen Rags before was awesome, flat out dps and no pots netted us a 39% Rags @ first Sons spawn. Unfortunately the Sons pwned us in the face :) We reloaded, tried some different positioning, RL’ing Guru Isra continued with explaing the fight and new postions. This time we consumed FR pots for a better crack but could only manage around 50% Rags, Sons was a little bit better but still needs work. FR week has been announced and we will be revising our strat to get ready for this coming...
by Siha | May 1, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
It’s been a great week for Wardens raiding! After our successes in Zul’Gurub on Wednesday and Thursday, Friday night saw us back in ZG teaching Arlokk how to eat dirt. Ain’t no oversized housecat gonna make the Southern Wardens into pussies! An eventful raid and a new strategy saw Arlokk dying to a DoT after all the raiders had already died. Flawless Wardens work, as usual, and that means next week we’ll be taking a look at Hakkar himself. Flush with the success of our raids this week, we traipsed into Ony’s lair to give her a good, stern talking to. This was only our second Onyxia raid, and I’m proud as anything to report that on our second try we taught Onyxia how to die. Next stop Nefarian – who’s with me?! We downed her in flawless Southern Wardens style – which is to say, all the mages were dead and the main tank was barely held together with baling wire and bandaids. Verlyna got her [item]Quel’Serrar[/item] forged, and cries of “Not more hunter loot, someone fire the Master Looter!” resounded through raidchat as our lucky hunters found that Ony had dropped not one but two [item]Dragonstalker’s Helm[/item]. And a [item]Deathbringer[/item] for Verlyna, who will need to grow some extra arms to wield all these new weapons. Congrats also to Vikos on the Sinew required for his epic bow quest – remember, laddy, we want to see you wielding a bow that’s taller than you are. Naturally, we couldn’t stop there, so it was on to Molten Core and a satisfyingly clean six-boss run. Five hours of raiding...
by Siha | Apr 29, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Torkya. With a little help from our friends at UF and HC, Southern Wardens continued the relentless push into the Molten Core. Night one saw Lucifron, Magmadar, Gehennas, Garr and Baron Geddon all get the slapping they richly needed. Not a bad night. Lots of nice paladin, druid and warlock gear drops as well as some nice stuff for tanks. No speed records were set on the night but solid straightforward ass-kickin was delivered. This was the first night we had attempted to move past Gehennas and was a big test. With good planning and excellent execution we managed to not only down all five bosses on the night on our first attempts, we also finished the night without at wipe. Night two saw us return to Molten Core intent on slapping around Shazzrah, Golemagg and Sulfuron. Fighting our way in from the ZI was a tactical decision to try and get us more chances at BoE items and crafting materials. A good plan as it turned out. We worked our way back in, and proceeded to slap down Sulfuron in textbook fashion. Actually I think I saw Verlyna using a textbook at one one stage. On to Golemagg where again we engaged in a perfect slaying. We then headed back to Shazz. Yeah I know, usually you do Shazz on the way to Sulf and Gole … we felt like something different. Shazz was interesting. No wipes and a nice clean kill. But the prelude was a blast. We had repops between us and Shazz. No matter, we dealt with them and moved it on...
by Siha | Apr 28, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. Some awesome Zul’Gurub progress this week saw us take down Snake, Bat and Bloodlord (Whoa, talk about one heck of a fight!) on Wednesday then back it up Thursday night with Spider (1st go, one or two deaths I think!), Tiger (Second go) and some solid attempts for the first time on Panther boss. I think we have our strat for Panther pretty down now and we were only missing two dps classes for the last attempt where we got him to 8%. He will go down next week for sure and we’ll be seeing Hakkar for the first time as a guild! For lewts, Marshalrex got Warblade of the Hakkari and Verlyna finally got the Primal Hakkari Kossack for her...
by Siha | Apr 27, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
Originally posted by Simtr. Fast moving start to our Monday night MC raid had us dropping Shazzrah first go even with noob tank Wocca trying to hold agro. A slight set back with some uncharacteristic wipes on Sulfuron then dropping Golemagg first shot had us setup for our third attempt at Majordomo Executus. Isra bought the raid to a silence (without any teabagging) while he laid out the carefully planned strat, flares were used to mark out off-tank locations before we put out the last rune to summon Majordomo Executus and his 8 minions. The last few attempts we’d had didn’t end very well, usually time beat us and patience wore thin, this time there was a quiet certaintly about the job we all had to do. Mages were paused on their sheep buttons whilst dreaming of those lush New Zealand pastures, OT’s finished polishing their swords and all had their targets lined up ready to go. Isra made the call and Sayyun”Rambo”tow ran in to pester the Domo army then cheekily shield and run back to the raid. Team Hunter had their targets and pulled to the OT’s cleanly. Vikos the Virile pulled Majordomo to the green tank in Wocca who immediately found himself dancing on red hot coals in the pit of Majordomo’s fire. Climbing out and grabbing a heal from Eolhelyanwe and Wellard Wonker enabled him to pursue and taunt Majordomo back. The other part of the battle had Voluptuous Verlyna changing targets and focussing the attacks on the kill order, healers, elites all were dropped by her fierce mangina-like swordswomanship. As the targets dropped a confidence grew in the group until the battle haze wore off...
by Siha | Mar 20, 2006 | Blog, WoW Progression
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...
