- RM News & Updates -
November 21, 2009
Even with ToGC cleared and Icecrown seemingly around the corner, it was a fun fight and an epic kill. Congrats to all of our new Astral Walkers and now we have time to finish up our Ironbound Proto-Drakes and prepare for Icecrown Citadel and the race to the Lich King.
Azeroth Saved, Purples Looted, News at 11 (11/19/09)
With Anub'arak dead and Trial of the Grand Crusader cleared, it was time to settle some old scores. Back to Ulduar we went and 3 shot Firefighter and completed our Heroic Celestial Planetarium Key. We paid a visit to Algalon that night but wasn't able to get him down. Another day we vowed and the following week we found ourselves facing his gorgeous room once again, and this time we were victorious for an Alliance 1st and server 2nd.
-Nfar
November 21, 2009
As we work on A Tribute to Insanity, collecting on some unsettled debts in Ulduar, and preparing for Icecrown, we share with you some of the bloopers from our time working on Anub'arak:
Certain druids deleting legendaries... countless zone in deaths to water not rendering fast enough... a pally saying he couldn't HoP someone because he (the pally) had Forbearance... trying to tank adds with a broken shield... consecutive pulls where someone lag ran into the boss before we were ready for the pull... Warlocks tanking Anub... trying to shoot frost orbs with a broken bow... countless WTF? moments due to Shadow Strike... and finally a disc priest dying to SW:D during P3... and the shadow priest who died to the same thing on the very next pull.
Congrats RM on a job well (and hilariously at times) done.
Azjol'Nerub was merely a setback... (11/11/09)
After much adversity and hilarity, Royal Militia has killed Anub'arak and cleared Trial of the Grand Crusader. Hats off to our raiding core for persevering, adapting, and executing to beat this challenging boss.
-Nfar
October 26, 2009
RM entered the Coliseum on opening day and rolled through the 'content' that was opened up each week, biding our time until the true challenges of 25 man Hardmodes were made available. Eventually our day came, and undeterred by wave after wave of lag/disconnect/bugs we managed to beat the first and toughest encounter the initial week.
The next week we got reacquainted with our old friend Mr. Fire and ditched him like a bad habit to kill the second boss, Lord Jaraxxus. Then we had to shed our "RM does not PvP" ways and after a night of tweaking strategies beat the Faction Champions on our first pull of the night without a single death.
The next challenge up was the Twin Val'kyr: Fjola Lightbane and Edyis Darkbane. After trying many different strategies we finally found one that worked for us and overcame the boss (probably 2 weeks after we should have). The real reward for us came in a 1 shot repeat kill the following week and reaching Anub'arak with 47 attempts left in the week.
Right now we find ourselves tweaking strategy and refining our execution on the thoroughly enjoyable challenging Anub'arak encounter. We're making good progress and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
Crusaders Coliseum: RM Edition
Another quarter, another round of updates!
-Nfar
August 14, 2009
We started off fairly easy by beating Freya with one elder left alive back in mid May, and then killing Hodir in less than 3 minutes on 6/4/09 (grats Arioch on 14k dps as a DK). Then we paid his neighbor, Thorim, a visit and found him taking some kind of strange hallucinogens and talking to a tentacle he thought was his dead wife. He completed his detox on 6/17/09 and was nice enough to give us some shiny purples for our troubles. We finished off our June by killing Flame Leviathan with all four towers up and then we loloneshot XT-002,'s heart and then the robot himself.
Towards the end of June our Fragment clock was ticking down and 7/15/09 we got our final fragment and thrust it into the open maws of Yogg+3 and completed our first Val'anyr. Congratulations to Akiina on your new shiny orange and to the rest of RM for their help along the way. Bubbles for everyone!
July seemed kind of empty compared to June, so we went ahead and killed Steelbreaker last and got a stokin' new dagger for Vixent.
August was upon us, and the withering heat started to really affect Freya and two of her companions, so we went ahead and put her out of her misery on 8/7/09. And most recently we forgot to pop a bunch of Saronite Vapors and was rewarded by a visit from
Grats to everyone on the team who made these happen and lets keep pushing our way to Algalon as we wait for the hardmode challenges of the Argent Coliseum to unlock.
Updates, updates, and updates
Never one to sit back and take it easy after killing Yogg Saron on May 12th, we began tackling the real challenges of the instance: Hardmodes.
High Astromancer Solarian the Saronite Animus, who we promptly dispatched and earned I Love The Smell Of Saronite In The Morning on 8/13/09.
-Nfar
May 12, 2009
Ulduar updates:
-Nfar