Steel Legion

Does it really matter how many attempts it took us? Does it matter who got what loot? Does it matter that ret pallies are over powered? No.

What matters is that we’ve stuck together, picked up new friends along the way and beat many odds getting to where we are now. That’s right, after killing Illidan, we volunteered to become infected and we turned Darkshire into the ghoul infested hell that it always should have been.

What’s next? Well, before the ghoul fun last night we cleared the alliance camp in Hyjal in preparation for another Archimonde hat run. After that we’ll poke our way into Sunwell, to see what its like. The next few weeks will provide us with more opportunities to get some guildies a chance to don tier 6 gear.

The Steel Legion steam roller continues.

Mother Shahraz in two tries. Illidari Council in three. We made about seven attempts on Illidan and got him to phase four. Prognosticators and magic eight ball say signs point to Yes about us getting Illidan this week.

OK, first up. These fights were fun. They certainly felt easier, but we also came prepared knowing the strats. Starting with a fresh instance we carved our way through Naj’entus, Supremus and Akama. Then we faced new territory going on to two shotting Reliquary of Souls, one shotting Teron Gorefiend and Bloodboil. Only Mother Stopped us (although we did get her to 49%). You know, that shadow gear might actually help out!

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.

Our humble, mild mannered Sunday afternoon raid started on the old grind of SSC. We thought we’d fetch some more T5 gear for the crew. By the time we got Lurker down, a bunch of us needed to go. So we thought we’d throw together a team of twenty or so people for Black Temple trash and see what it was like.

A few of us had been in before, but got pasted by those speedy little patting water ads. Well today was payback time, and today was our first completely official entry into Black Temple.

Those watery pats? The twenty of us went in and clobbered them. With a renewed sense of purpose and a few more people logging in, we kept pulling the real trash further in. In a surprisingly short amount of time we stood before Naj’entus.

After 5 or so tries, and multiple rearrangements, we had solid healing and healthy dps. Lately we have been melee heavy, and in many of these fights its not optimal. But at the end of six attempts, we got saved to the instance by killing our first Black Temple boss. Shell boy down.

But we were there to explore, and wanted to know what was just around the corner, past the pack of small water elementals. That quick climb took us out into the Illidari training grounds and within sight of Supremus.

That encounter was much quicker to learn. In three or so tries we had him. The key was survival. As the old adage goes volcanoes makes your dps go to zero. As soon as we reliably deployed those life skills we won.

Earlier this week we put two full nights of learning into the Kael’thas fight. We’ve gotten into phase 4, but just barely. We are about to secure phase 3. We know that that encounter will be worth the few weeks of learning. But in the meantime, we’ll bask in this fun day of Black Temple blitzing.