Well, finally, the 10 man version of TOC beasts have been put to rest. Moving onward to Jarraxas we whittled him down to 50% health. Grats to Jazira, Otome, Eliwar, Shymea, Gabrieal, Nelliepoo, Rudolpho, Hugeone, Dkaron and Kawaihae.
November 3, 2009
July 14, 2009
Yogg Defeated
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.
June 15, 2009
Keepers of Ulduar and Vezax Down
In a two shot attempt we took Vezax down rather easily. It’s helped greatly that we now have two solid 10 mans running Ulduar and glimpsing the fights ahead of time, knowing the fights even at a smaller scale helped out greatly. We used the healers cast-at-his-feet method to avoid the shadow bursts and had our sharp shooters out looking for saronite vapor clouds.
This seemed like a reward for working on Mimiron over the last few weeks. We spent at least an hour on him this evening and once we had our healer/dps balance set, we easily made it into phase 4.
We rounded out the night with a few attempts on Yogg, just to get to see the fight. Next week, its for real.
June 3, 2009
Thanks Thorim!
Last week we took two new bosses, Freya and Thorim. We required multiple attempts on Thorim to get the balance between the hallway Gauntlet and the arena floor just right, but were well rewarded upon finally getting the job done. On our last raid day of the week, we did go on to encounter Mimiron and made it into phase 3. With the experience of a few groups already downing Mimiron in ten man versions, this week will most likely have us freeing all the keepers.
May 28, 2009
Nature Contained
A very short story without an awesome boss kill screenshot: We freed Freya after a blitz through the antechamber on the first day of the raiding week. In a related story we were also very close to finishing the Thorim encounter. Stay tuned, same bat time, same bat channel.
May 7, 2009
Hodir Added to the List
First night of the raid week and we made a bee line to Hodir. Some had seen the fight on ten man so that helped quite a bit. The first attempt taught us about the frost circles. The second taught us when to jump in. The third brought our attention to the moonbeam spots of haste, and the fourth focused us on freeing the friendly NPCs. On our fifth try we nabbed him and secured two T8 chest pieces.
Tomorrow night is Freya and Mimiron.
May 1, 2009
Recently Evicted Crazy Cat Lady
The latest edition to our Ulduar resume includes breaking down Kologarn’s form into something more useful, adjourning the Iron council and having Auriaya pack up her bags. Along the way we’ve picked up two Val’Anyr legendary mace fragments for Jazira, our designated mace recipient. Expect more progress this Monday.
April 24, 2009
Who’s in the Slag Pot Now?
Not us. Last night brought us two new boss kills, Ignis the Furnace Master and Razorscale. This rounds out our Siege of Ulduar achievements having cleared the other two bosses in the area. As before Kologarn now stands in our way but we shall pass.
April 21, 2009
No, I Guess YOU Don’t Bend That Way
So after a full night of learning attempts and a small refinement to our strategy, we took out the child robot, along the way earning an unexpected achievement. Earlier in the evening while Wintergrasp was held by Alliance forces, Emalon the Storm Watcher also provided Steel Legion’s first piece of Tier 8 gear.
We rounded out the night with a visit to Kologarn’s chamber but got strong armed. We’ll get him to cough up some loot this next week.
April 19, 2009
Ulduar Breached
Wednesday we hit Ulduar 25 man. We tried Leviathan with the flame tower up and did it. Our only regret was that we should have tried it Tolkien style (two towers), right away. Well, that’s for next week.
We’ve been exposed to the Razorscale, Ignus, and the Deconstructor. We had Deconstructor to 8%. So we expect to get at least some real boss down by Monday. Overall the new raid dungeon is very fun. No one misses Naxxramas at all.