Done. We settled on a strategy of using one tank and the aoe method of bringing the flowers down in health. Our next hard mode in Ulduar will be fire fighter with Mimiron.
November 24, 2009
October 27, 2009
Winner of the Red Drake
The Official first in the guild to nab the Glory of the Hero Achievement is Jazira pictured below. In other guild news we’ve carved out all the hard modes in Ulduar except Mimiron. That will come soon. This is all a stop gap though. We continue to press for more recruitment and getting back to 25 man content.
October 13, 2009
Thorim Rescued the Hard Way
We decided to change things up a bit last night and went back to Ulduar. After a few adjustments we defeated the Thorim encounter on hard mode. He is much more enthusiatic upon being freed in hard mode than normal. We also didn’t realize how close we were to beating Hodir on hard either. Next week, we’ll whittle those last few seconds down.
September 14, 2009
Normal Ten Man TOC Cleared
Anub’arak downed 10 man normal. Normally we would not even advertise 10 man content but that’s all we can run at the moment. We are in a rebuilding mode right now, knocked out of 25 man content until we recruit more players. But this was a good example of our resolve. This was our third night against the faction champions, we were having a difficult time. But we stuck it out and downed them trying multiple strats, talent builds, etc.
Recruitment is wide open.
July 23, 2009
Orbit-uary Quadro Towers and Heartbreakers
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.
March 12, 2009
Done. Three of Them, and Saarth.
At last. Done.
We mostly edged closer the entire evening, at one point rushing headlong into an almost victory, but narrowly missing it. That attempt in the middle of the series left us a bit tired from the burst of adrenaline and stress.
We usually stop raiding at midnight but decided since we were so close that we’d volunteer a last try. That final attempt was clock work perfect. Saartharian’s isle sure seems empty once all three drakes go down. Grats to Rudolpho on the drake mount and to all the Steel Legion raiders for a well earned title.
March 1, 2009
The Undying is Ours
This does make old raid content fresh. The only fights that were of real interest were Thaddius, the Four Horseman, and Kel’Thuzad. On Thaddius we had someone miss the jump. On the four horsemen, it is just a bit of a nerve racking fight with 10 people and being one lag spike and one void zone away from ruin.
The rest was mostly good. We had talked before hand about the possibility of the KZ add tank getting frost blasted and then eaten, basically an unfair slam. Its a good thing we talked about it because in the last 5% of the Kel’Thuzad fight, that’s what happened. But we were prepared. As revealed by the combat log our off tank immediately started getting heals, and a guardian spirit landed on his shoulders just 0.2 secs before he received the would-be killing blow.
Kel’Thuzad’s tricks would not pay off. We won mere seconds after.
While a nice achievement for ten people this is not what we are about. Our progress is measured in what we can do as a twenty five man squad. We were close in getting three drakes down last Thursday but had to stop because of a buggy vent server. This Monday we’ll have a good shot at that title and mark of guild excellence.
As the testing for Ulduar continues we’re still trying to better ourselves. Recent improvements and performance reviews are sure to make us stronger for the Iron council and beyond. Perhaps we might even stride into the Titan’s prison with Immortal titles.
February 6, 2009
What now Steel Legion?
Well, as we finished all available content in the first two of our three raiding nights, we wonder what do we do now?
Impatiently wait for the Ulduar patch for one. We’ll keep trying for more of the optional heroic dungeon achievements, some of us will even try to mirror some of the accomplishments in 10 man versions of the fights. Along the way we’ll pick up as much item level 226 gear as we can and be that much better for the new content that hopefully is not too far off.
There are some very interesting changes ahead for classes and the way raids work. We’ll adapt and have fun doing it. Oh yeah, we got Saarth with two drakes up.
