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May 12, 2009
Ulduar updates:
-Nfar
April 17, 2009
After several snafu's surrounding patch day, we finally got on and into Ulduar around 10pm. A few minutes of vehicle explanations, lots of complaints from Iron Dwarves about hit and runs, and we pulled Flame Leviathan once and collected our loot. We pushed in further after distributing loot only to be kicked out of Ulduar as the instance server, then the continent server, then the world server went down for 3+ hours.
The next night we moved on to a little more exciting and challenging boss. It took a couple of pulls figuring out the right strategy and positioning and a little bit of figuring out our rights from our lefts, but we eventually put that annoying little robot voice out of it's misery. Grats to Catoo on your uber new hunter staff.
After that we went to investigate the big piles of guano we passed on our way to XT-002. Lo and behold we discovered a proto drake flying high and proud and some dwarves in need of assistance. A few pulls to get a feel for the timing and the best way to control the adds and we were making some progress. Blow a heroism at the right time and we had ourselves one dead dragon. Grats to Sukaze on his overgrown rattle of uber healing.
The servers decided to play a game of "ten little indians" with us after that and one by one people started crashing or releasing and being unable to zone back in. So we cleared the trash on the way to Ignis to further explore the Siege Area of Ulduar and give him a try. One pull with 18 people got our tank 2 shotted for 70k in under 2 seconds and then we called it a night.
So Ulduar is officially open with a few kinks, but we're progressing just fine.
Tired of Naxxramas?
Yeah, so were we. So when patch 3.1 deployed to live servers we were in a rush to get inside and start experiencing the delightful new content that we quickly logged on.
-Nfariessence
April 16, 2009
Flame Leviathan.
In other news we paid a visit to Archavon's big brother Emalon and snuffed his ass too. Congrats to the people who have started their T8 set's.
You will find some of us loitering around the Argent Tournament at time's aswell, all duel requests welcome!
Royal Militia encounter's the Old God's and some of their toy's
With the introduction of Patch 3.1, Royal Militia has delved into the mysteries of Ulduar, the stronghold of the Titans. Encountering sometimes unsurmountable pitfalls, they finally overcame the Lagbeast, Leapfrogged the Crash barrier, persevered through the zone locks and have laid to rest
Razorscale
XT-100
-Greywolfe
March 30, 2009
One of the coolest new editions in Wrath of the Lich King has been the concept of Hard Mode raids. And with Naxxramas, Malygos, and Sartharion +1 down it was time to add a little challenge to our raid week. On 12/2 we managed our first all-guild kill of Sartharion +1 and on 12/11 we decided to kick the difficulty up a notch. About 3 pulls into the fight learning which tank should tank what where and oh look out for that void zone and hey here comes a lava wave we ended up lining up the bodies of 2 drakes and one really big dragon, for another server first. Unbeknownst to us we ended up making it a little harder than we should have, as we killed Sartharion with Tenebron and Shadron up instead of Tenebron and Vesperon. Oh well, that served us well as we were still preparing for the main event in a couple of weeks.
With Christmas and New Year's looming and many of our officers and raiders traveling for the holidays we took a 2 week break from raiding and put together raids with alts, veterans, and a pug or 3. We celebrated our first night back to raiding on January 4th with another server first. This time with an actual kill shot!
Grats to Alassea on the mount and to everyone on their shiny new titles!
So RM, you cleared everything in the first week, what did you do next?
-Nfar
March 16, 2009
We had our first level 80 just 3 days after WotLK's release on 11/16 (Grats Kanaan!) and our first DK hit 80 on 11/19 (Grats Arioch!). Sadly none of these were world or even server firsts, so we consoled ourselves with a little raiding. We began our first organized 25 man RM-only raid on 11/30 and promptly cleared Naxxramas that week on 12/1. Grats to Zires and Akiina for their Betrayer of Humanity and Torch of Holy Fire. A very thrilling moment it was, let me tell you.
Later that night we waltzed over to the Obsidian Sanctum and kicked the crap out of Sartharion and one of his cronies for good measure:
However, apparently 2 dead drakes weren't enough to satisfy our appetites. So on 12/4 we broke into two 10 man teams and traveled to the frozen crater of Coldara and encountered one hell of a a self-aggrandizing blue dragon. After a discussion about positioning and what we learned from Aces High we decided to put Malygos.10 out of our misery. One pull was all it took and we walked away with a bright new Polearm and some other disenchanted items. It took us longer to loot our badges than it did to kill the boss >.< .
Would the corpses of 3 dead dragons (and one undead pile 'o bones) and a veritable tidal wave of purples satiate our adventurer's unquenchable thirst? It would seem not; we brough back 15 more friends and roughed Malygos up one more time to finally tide us over for another couple weeks...
It's been a long time since we updated our front page, so lets see what our intrepid adventurers have been up to:
* Note: The above Kel'thuzad kill pic did not necessarily happen at level 80. Nobody took a screenshot because, heh, it's Naxx @ 80 and ridiculously easy. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear and void where prohibited. Operators are standing by.
-Nfar