Category: world of warcraft

So after we cleared out Naxx and Maly this week, we left Vesperion up in addition to Tenebron. A night and a half of wipes, and we had that down as well. Seems like a long time, but when you stop to think about how we would spend weeks on some of the pre-LK bosses, it’s actually not that bad at all.

In addition to that, a group from our guild, composed of Kanu, Koho, Jaidon (formerly Manaburnlol) Hypnotiic and Rosalind have been chipping away at the [Glory of the Hero] achievement. Even going so far as to stack their group with a shaman for heroism (Lesia) instead of their tank (Kanu) to get the soon to be nerfed “Gotta Go” achievement completed.

So gratz to Koho, Jaidon, and Rosalind who currently have the 310% speed red proto-drake from that achievement, with the hopes that we’ll see more soon.

So it was quite the busy week for all of us. We did two runs through Horde cities and got a fair portion of our members their Black War Bears. Lots of fun and lots of lag. Still a few people who missed a boss or two due to the laggy disconnects, so we’ll be going back some day.

Cleared out Naxx25 again and picked up a new achievement and had some fun while we were there.

Then we headed to Obsidian Sanctum and killed Sartharion while leaving Tenebron up.

And finally we got around to taking Malygos down, getting many people their Champion of the Frozen Wastes achievement.

With that done, we’ve finished all Lich King has to offer in way of progression, so now it’s a month (at minimum) of finishing off achievements for cool prizes and shiny epix.

Sartharion25 was finished on an off-night. Then for our raiding week, we ran through the rest of Naxx25 at nearly a sprint.

That done we broke into two groups to clear out Naxx10 just for some more gear. (I know…OOB farming gear. It’s craaaaazy.)

So Sunday I was off doing non-WoW things (Yes they are out there.) when I got a call from my brother saying we were doing Naxx-25. On I hopped, short on consumables, but higher on expectations. Maybe all the nerfs had been just for the casual 10 man… So in we jumped with all of the people who had made 80 since Thursday. And we cleared two wings and Patchwerk.

Despite the clamoring to keep going, or coming back Monday to try and get server first Kel, it was decided that we would wait until our normal Thursday raid.

So Wrath of the Lich King came out November 13th (Thursday), and for the next week it was not uncommon to see 30+ people on at all random times of the day. Our first people started hitting 80 on Monday and by Thursday we had enough for a 10-man jaunt into Naxx.

It was easy…like really easy. Most of us had only replaced a piece or two, and several of us were new mains, but the only boss that gave us more than one or two burp wipes was Grobbulus, and that was only because one of our paladins had a talent that cut the duration of his diseases by 50%. >.> After going into Karazhan @70 and having our tank get three shot by trash, it was a bit of a surprise, but I guess my expectations of the instance were too high…or my expectations of the guild were too low.

Either way, a three day clear. We got some great upgrades. (There was a *lot* of leather and I think I heard Alt had every appropriate weapon available by the end of the night.) And we actually did the Heigen dance! Despite the numerous comments of “man they really nerfed this place” throughout the nice, I guess it was mostly fun.

AND that wasn’t even the end of the weekend. After we had finished off Kel, we decided to jaunt over to the Obsidian Dragonshrine and take out Sarbagtherion. (Yeah, that name won’t stick…)

Another fun as heck fight made all the better by only spending three nights on it.

No bow, sadly, but he did drop some really nice loot and gave us all that coveted Sunwell achievement. As such, we now have something to brag about in the future.

Right right, picture:

And video:

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It always feels good to down new bosses, even with some of the pride taken away by the fact that the bosses lost 30% of their health and we gained 51 point talents. (It’s Bacon!) Still it was great to be able to take a few two-three week learning curves and toss them on their butts. M’uru is a fun and easy fight, made even funner by only having to spend a night and a half to learn him.

Our only issues involved bad timing in ending phase 1, and some positioning problems in phase 2. On our kill the first was a non-issue. We managed to down him seconds before the adds were finished off and in time such that no more adds spawned.

With M’uru behind us we headed down to the Sunwell. We got in several solid attempts as we worked with the dragons and making up macros to switch among dps targets. I see no problem with assuming we’ll get him down before the expansion.

So about four weeks ago, OOB ran into an odd problem. We didn’t have enough dps. Our tanks and healers were spiffy, but when it came to Brut we could no longer put out the raid dps. After a night of Koi wanting to rip his hair out, he called raiding until the patch.

Our raiders went off to do other things. We ground for rep, pets, mounts and we invited for LK. Some of us went to raid with other guilds for the break. It was a good break, full of beta and happiness.

So the patch hit. Many of us cleaned up with inscription, and Thursday we came back and started raiding again. Felmyst was much the same, fail because of encapsulate and someone was just learning to see her pre-breath movements. Anyway, death.

After that we learned the gauntlet in all it’s post nerf glory and wiped on the twins pull for the rest of the evening. (And a little conflag.) But after a bit more preparation we came back and downed them as well.

Then it was finally time to see the guild breaker M’uru and we beat in his face in as his adds beat in ours.