A few items of note:
We continue to delve into Black Temple. This Wednesday we repeated the work of Monday in clearing up to the Shade of Akama. Along the way most of our crafters hit honored with the Ashtongue. In so doing we’ve been able to craft the entire shadow resist set. Later that night, after the raid, we spent a good portion of the hearts in our guild bank towards making us shadow proof. These efforts are all geared towards making us viable against Mother Shahraz, yet they have other immediate benefits as well.
A few of the bosses in the Hyjal instance use shadow, and the second to last boss in Zul’Aman uses massive shadow damage. That last fight in particular was run through last night. Ten of us went in wearing at least 150 shadow resist. What a difference that makes. Almost to the point that the fight seemed illegal somehow. Well, we earned it.
Monday leaves us with a choice to finish up Mt. Hyjal or try the Reliquary of Souls. We’ll see.
We killed the Shade. Now we have this other quest to kill some guy named Illidan. I guess we’ll have to do that too now. GOSH! At this point we’ll be bouncing back and forth between Hyjal and Black Temple for a bit. It’s sort of like a DPS race until the expansion comes out. Time is running out, but we are getting more feisty too.
Azgalor one shotted. After a bit more planning than usual, and some hasty crafting of shadow resist gear, we defended the Horde camp and handed out our first taste of T6 gear.
As I post this, we are heading up the hill to greet Archimonde.
[Follow Up] We spent a bit of time having fun with Archi. The most important thing we accomplished was being somewhat familiar with the fight. Now the written strats will make much more sense. We have one more day in our raiding week, so it ought to be a good one.
The other thing, is that we should be able to clear at least 4/5 bosses a week in Hyjal now. Everyone will have a shot at T6 gloves anyway. And this is only the beginning.