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 19, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
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by Siha | Mar 19, 2008 | Blog, World of Warcraft, WoW Progression
Two progression posts for the price of one! Last week it was Morogrim Tidewalker – first attempt saw him down to 24%, second attempt saw him dead. And this week it was Leotheras the Blind. Leo took a bit more work than some of the other Serpentshrine bosses, and we had some very near-successes in early attempts, but we finally pulled it all together last night to get him dead. That puts Southern Wardens at 4/6 SSC 3/4 TK. Not bad for less than two months’...
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,...
