July 23, 2009

Orbit-uary Quadro Towers and Heartbreakers

Achievement,Ulduar — Kawaihae

After clearing Yogg now twice, we decided to really start tackling hard modes. We had been doing Leviathan with two towers up or no towers up depending on how fast we wanted to blow through there. Last week an attempt was made at three towers. It just happens that that attempt resulted in a one shot. So really, how close were we to getting Orbit-uary? It turns out pretty close. Last night’s four or 5 attempts had us steadily making progress on Leviathan until we got him.

On XT we just barely, and by barely I mean infinitesimally just so, got the heart killed to trigger hard mode. It really depended on death knight cool downs. But once there we got XT in a few tries.

So, onward to more complex fights. We’re ready.

July 14, 2009

Yogg Defeated

Boss Kills,Northrend,Ulduar — Kawaihae

It’s very unlikely that this could have been closer.

We started the evening barely getting into phase two, but quickly retook the progress that we had made last Thursday. Soon we were refining the actions of the melee group inside the visions of Yogg and the tentacle killing priority of the group outside the old death god.

Quickly, we were well into phase three and learning the challenges of herding all those space elephants into manageable tank groups.

Our second to last attempt had him at 21%.

Still learning the fight, our raid leader told us that if it was close he’d pull all dps from the adds over to Yogg. Most of the healers had no idea of what he was talking about, given that they were busy mending wounds, decursing, curing diseases, dispelling magics, and cleansing poisons.

All of a sudden we knew what close was as dps was told to switch targets. We hit the enrage timer and the entire raid’s health dipped below 50%. A few raiders were killed by adds, but then simultaneously 25 people’s screens erupted in a flurry of achievements. Yogg was killed by dots and our vent server carried a cacophony of nerd screams across North America.

From here we’ll take a less frantic pace in Ulduar. Learning as many of the hard mode keeper fights as we can before the next patch, and returning to Yogg’s loot table as often as time permits.

Our eyes are now fixed upon Algalon.

July 10, 2009

Yogg Update

Uncategorized — Kawaihae

We started the week with a series of one shots right up to Yogg, leaving last night free to work on the old one. After refining phase one a bit more we were able to put phase two under our belts. Our last attempt had us into phase 3.

Monday we are poised to finish him off.

July 6, 2009

It’s Yogg Time

Ulduar — Kawaihae

We’ve been working on Yogg now for a few weeks. A few of our ten man groups have killed him already, and we’ve been training additional dps’rs on the inner workings of old ones’ brain surgery and sanity saving methods. Next post here will hopefully have news and a screenshot.