Halazzi Down!

Just a quick post to note that last night Halazzi died to our blades, wands, hammers, arrows and other sharp/blunt/magical instruments of destruction. Great work, guys! (No screenshot, as no-one sent me one and I, tragically, missed the raid.)

We may not be able to kill his spirit, but his body’s another matter.

With the holiday season upon us, we’re taking a break from formal raiding, and throwing together a few ad-hoc 10-mans to gear up some new recruits. Monday nights saw a couple of teams taking a bash at Zul’Aman – which normally gets short shrift in the raiding schedule – for some troll-killing fun. And lo and behold, Akil’zon the Eagle Avatar took a dive. One of the more fun fights I’ve seen of late, in my opinion, and his loot tables are very shiny. (I may be biased, as his first loot drop was Amani Punisher, which went to lucky yours truly.) Our ad-hoc ten mans will continue until mid-January, when our Christmas break is over, and then we’ll throw ourselves back into 25-mans. We owe Void Reaver a beating – our first full night in Tempest Keep, last Sunday night (our last night of 25-mans for 2007), was very successful and saw us getting Void Reaver down to 1% on our final attempt. One measly percent! Beaten by respawns, we withdrew and promised VR some SW-style pain in the New Year… he’d better be ready for...

Rocks fall, everyone dies.

Our progress in 25-mans has been slow to date, thanks to a tight schedule of raid times and a burning need to pillage Karazhan for all it’s worth (especially to help gear up our newer recruits), so we’ve not had much time to spend in working on Gruul. All that changed ten days ago, when our Gruul team ‘clicked’, and got him down to 7% before time constraints saw us off to Karazhan. We knew Gruul was not long for this world, the requisite saber-rattling threads were duly posted on our forums, and this Sunday we marched in there and splattered him. On grow 12, at that, which was very satisfying for our first kill. Next target: who knows? We’re currently still deciding between our options: Magtheridon? Hydross? Lurker Below? Void Reaver? More news as it comes to...

Maulgar down!

Sunday night saw our first whole-guild raid since The Burning Crusade launched, as we took a trip into Gruul’s Lair before our regular Karazhan raid. It took a few tries to adjust the pull, but after a few false starts we cleaned up Maulgar handily. Great work by all concerned, and congratulations to Swen and Amandrah on their shiny new Tier 4 shoulder...

YouTube vids

A few dedicated Wardens have been recording some of our kills for posterity, and you can find them at YouTube. Vortron’s Team 1 videos are here, while you can find Laylah’s … interesting … perspective on Team 2...