So on our way to Lady Vashj yesterday we decided to take the scenic route through Morogrim Tidewalker’s haunt. He has not been on our priority list but getting him is something we knew that we would do eventually.
Before whatever patch it was, we would have been forced to kill Tidewalker just to get at Vashj. But now with the new patch rules we have been granted early access to Vashj. Perhaps it feels a little better to say we are at her, engaging the fight by old school standards.
We had our 2nd full day on her yesterday and now are at the point of trying to manage the adds and get 3 generators down. We need a bit more practice on Vashj. That’s our goal now, a full clear of SSC and having the ability to farm some T5 hats.
A nice surprise after killing Anetheron: we get more epic gems. This was our 2nd try of the afternoon, and our third night of attempts on him over the last four or so weeks ago. We finished the raid day by testing our skills out on Lady Vashj. We got one shield generator down. One more day in the raid week for us to try things out…
After taking her loot the first night we had a full crew, the question running through our minds is, “Why did we take so long to get here?”.
Well the answer is that Leotheras held us up for way too long. But along the way, we built up a lot of good gear. As we face the weeks ahead, Tempest Keep: Al’ar, Void Reaver, and Solarian will most likely become a one night show. We will clear SSC at least up to Leo on another night, Leaving Karathress and maybe Tidewalker for another day of the week.
That’s two more nights to work on new content. We’ll keep chipping away at Mt. Hyjal, but soon, very soon, we’ll begin focusing our efforts on Lady Vashj and Kael´thas Sunstrider.
On our second serious series of attempts on Al’ar (ever, just one set was needed this evening), we brought our count in Tempest Keep to 2/4. From our last attempt we had a few things to improve upon. We identified them, and fixed’em. Job done.
We rounded out the night by clearing Void Reaver again. It sure is nice to gear up guildies with three shoulders rather than two.
Sunday afternoon we look forward to attempts on Solarion.