by Siha | Jan 20, 2009 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
Sunday saw us taking a temporary break from slaughtering wave after wave of undead monstrosities to go and slaughter a dragon instead. Then we turned around and headed back to Naxxramas, to finish off Thaddius: and take a look at the Plague Quarter: Last night, we went back in to take a look at the Military Quarter. The pictures speak for themselves, really. We’d hoped to get the Four Horsemen down as well, and we’ve got the strat straight; once we can get a good attempt at them without a third of the raid DCing repeatedly, we’ll do just...
by Siha | Jan 13, 2009 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
As an encore to last night’s fun in Heroic Naxxramas, we hit the ziggurat again tonight in search of shiny purples and the righteous glow of a good monster-slaying. Tonight’s target: the Construct Quarter. First up was Patchwork; we’d had a couple of shots at him last night, but didn’t have time to see him off properly. We rectified that tonight, one-shotting him as the first boss of the night. From there it was onto the Frogger Boss, where the unwary perish and we Australians are heard to curse our 300+ ms latency. Thankfully, the raid (mostly) survived our encounter with this brutal and unforgiving boss, and – suitably buoyed by our success – proceeded to one-shot Grobbulus as well. After Grobbulus lie the fearsome Ledge Boss and Pipe Boss, and we can proudly say we lost no-one to their lurking dangers. Well… almost no-one. After these hazards we made short work of Gluth, the Ugliest Puppy In The World. (The kill shot is framed against his side, because people felt both ends of him were too ugly to stand in front of.) Unfortunately we lacked the time to put Thaddius to rest as well, but I have no doubt we’ll finish him off just as soon as the raid masters the delicate art of running in circles around him. Watch this space for more corpses! (Theirs, not ours, we...
by Siha | Jan 12, 2009 | Blog, Guild News, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
It’s been a while since Southern Wardens had any news to share with the world. After calling an early halt to TBC raiding, we took things easy until Wrath was released – alting it up, retro raids, PvPing our faces off, you know how it goes. That all changed with the release of Wrath of the Lich King. Everyone threw themselves into levelling with a vengeance, and our first group of level 80s have been laying waste to 10-man raid content for just over a month now. As planned, we fielded our first 25-man raid last night. Despite the new faces (and the fact that many of our group had never seen Naxxramas in any incarnation), the team did very well, clearing the Spider Wing with only a few wipes along the way. So, that’s the Spider Wing cleared – great work from all our team, and stay posted for more first kills coming soon to a Southern Wardens blog near...
by Siha | May 23, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
Well, this is rather late news, but I’ve been sick so please forgive. A week and a half ago, Southern Wardens ventured back into Black Temple with a raid full of gentle, learned heroes bringing peace and happiness to the world — or, depending on who you ask, a crowd of yahoos with big sticks and an urge to beat up hapless naga. Dear old Naj’entus, he of the Impaling Spines and the Giant Water Bubble Of Doom, would probably call us the latter… if he weren’t too busy saying “ow, ow, it hurts, make it stop”. Our first kill was absolutely textbook — no deaths, and a clear minute ahead of the enrage timer. Excellent work by all concerned, and we’re looking forward to brutalizing — er, meeting — more of the inhabitants of Black Temple just as soon as our server can stop falling over in the middle of prime Aussie raiding...
by Siha | Apr 2, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
In the midst of all this new content, there’s still raid bosses left to kill. Last week we took a break for Easter, and gave everyone a well-earned rest… which meant Fathom Lord Karathress got a week’s stay of execution. No longer! We caught up with him this week on Sunday night, and killed him on the second attempt after discovering that yes, Spitfire Totems really do hurt as much as people say they do. Monday night saw us taking a peek into Mt Hyjal – our raid leader has a thing for Jaina Proudmoore and wanted the excuse to hang out with her. Unfortunately, as soon as he tried whispering sweet nothings to her, the undead attacked! Thankfully we held them off, along with their master – a rather cantankerous lich with bad fashion sense and a bad attitude. Here we are with his “corpse”… a sparkly lump. (Dead on the first try, too!) Another good week of progression for the Wardens, leaving us at 5/6 3/4 in Tier 5 and 1/5 0/9 in Tier 6. Fantastic work from all our raiders, and it’s great to be taking our first steps in Tier 6 instances. … And then we went to explore Sunwell Plateau, and got smashed in the face by giant robots. But that’s a story for another time! Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention we downed Jan’Alai for the first time this week, on a non-raid night. Thanks to Swen for organising the group; that puts us at 4/6 ZA. If only we had enough time to finish the place...
by Siha | Mar 24, 2008 | Blog, Guild News, World of Warcraft
Southern Wardens, an Australian/New Zealand PvE raiding guild, are looking to recruit the following: Healers: 1+ Warlocks: 1 We may also accept exceptional players from any other class. We are currently working on progressing through Tier 5 content. We’re currently at 4/6 SSC, 3/4 TK. See this guild blog for details of our recent kills. Our current raid schedule is: Wednesday: 7:30 – 10:30 AEST (8:30-11:30 AEDT; 01:30-04:30 server time) Thursday: currently free, may have new raids implemented in future Sunday: 7:00 – 10:30 AEST (8:00-11:30 AEDT; 01:00-04:30 server time) Monday: 7:00 – 10:30 AEST (8:00-11:30 AEDT; 01:00-04:30 server time) The official guild raids are currently aimed at 25-man raid zones; 10-mans are often organised on a semi-casual basis on weekends. We are a friendly guild with a raiding focus. In other words, we raid regularly but we like to have fun doing it. We are looking for dedicated raiders who are interested in progressing through 25-man content. Raiders are expected to attend 75% of our scheduled raids. Ideally we are interested in raiders who are fully Karazhan-geared, and supplemented by quality heroic/crafted gear. If you’re interested in joining us, please follow these simple steps: Read our membership policy and raid schedule. Register at our forums and send a PM to Siha to ask for posting access. (This is an anti-spam measure, unfortunately.) Post a message in the recruitment forum, using the template and other applications as a guide for the information we need to know, telling us a bit about you and anything you feel we should know. Contact Sailan or Alinden, or another of the officers in-game...
