ILLIDAN DOWN!

After spending last Sunday teaching a new tank to tank phase 2 (one of our regulars was unavailable), we were ready tonight with 3 tanks who knew how to do it. Our first pull was a 29% wipe when our tank failed to get any heals when shadow prison ended. But everyone was in good spirits - we clearly had what was needed.

We made a few more failed attempts - always wiping AFTER phase 2, thankfully, and then we had the kill. We lost several people right near the end but we hung on and managed to burn him down just as he entered demon form again.

Of course, we didn't manage to *survive* the kill. Someone had parasites and they quickly mopped the floor with us, especially when people tried to melee them.

But at least he was down, and we got our loot.

ZA Timed Run Complete

Another milestone accomplished by OoT. Rawr?

Council + Shahraz down! Illidan points out that we lack preparation.

Wednesday night, after killing Bloodboil for the second time we went to Mother Shahraz. We geared up in SR, talked about the pull, and then... I don't know. There was a large tornado warning for my area and my boyfriend was giving me a "You're an idiot if you don't get off that computer and away from the windows" look, so I had to run. At that point it was late and most of the backups were logged off so they just decided to pull Shahraz with 24 people. Naturally they wiped. But then they figured they'd pull her one more time, for two times total, and they didn't wipe.

Obviously I don't have a kill-shot since I wasn't there.

Last night we went to Illidari Council. After some problems on the pull (one of the trickiest parts of the fight), and about 4-5 "real" attempts, they also died. It was still tight - we had a lot of DPS die, but we got them down before the enrage timer. Sadly, they're kind of unimpressive as corpses, especially scattered around the room, so they don't make a very good killshot either.

However, it was now time to take on Illidan. First, we talked to Akama.


Akama led us upstairs and tried to open the big door leading to Illidan. He wasn't prepared either, but he was able to get some help from some old friends and get the door open.



And then we stormed up, ready to face Illidan, furious in our wrath. And he... kind of ignored us.



Luckily Akama was there to piss him off and we got to fight him. He kicked our ass, mostly with his fire elementals. But we'll be back. Oh yes, we'll be back.

Archimonde Down!

It was a stressful night. Pull #2 had him down to 25% when our tank died, and no pull was as good as that one until the very last one. People were getting tired, I was taking doomfire damage without even the excuse of getting feared into it so we weren't going to run late. 3 hours of wipes will beat anyone down.

But we pulled together, activated that biggest of all buffs "Last Pull of the Night" and got him down. Until about 15% nobody died, although despite telling everyone else to play ultra carefully ("we have 2 minutes to do 10% damage, so just be safe"), I still managed to eat a doomfire. Luckily our healers saved my ass and I didn't die.

Very embarrassing, and 100% my fault, not lag or anything else.

But, we got him to 10% and knew we couldn't wipe at that point. The player who died at 15% managed to take out 2 more people just as the invincibility buff was coming up, but it was still a good kill.
Here's a shot just after 10%:



And here are the victorious Thrones standing around the body:

Bloodboil down

Apparently I needed to post the Reliquary screenshot to get Bloodboil down, so now that we have Bloodboil down I'm posting it so we can get an Archimonde screenshot.

It was a night of good attempts, and we didn't have any aggro pulls until about 8% on the kill so we were able to get him down. Only took us one hour and 15 minutes of tries tonight (based on my flask timer), so we had time to go get Reliquary down again and start on Hyjal.

Reliquary of Souls Down - Belated Post

I was hoping to post this with a big "Archimonde Down!" or "Here We Come Shahraz!", but both Archimonde and Gurtogg have proved a bit trickier than hoped.

We got Reliquary of Souls down for the first time on April 16th. The key was keeping the interrupting in phase 2 simple - just 2 rogues, alternating. We were also short a healer for that night, which made phase 3 more dangerous, but certainly made phases 1 and 2 go faster.

The kill was a little chaotic - at about 30% Vast told us to go all out on DPS, he was shieldwalling. Unfortunately someone forgot to watch aggro and at about 6-10% he started wiping the raid. Of course, at that point we're all doing tons of damage due to the aura so he dropped to 1% really quickly... and stayed there. All 3 shamans ankhed, so they had the debuff reset, and Deque, our other prot warrior tanked it with a huge debuff stack while 2 shamans healed and our enhancement shaman slowly took him down from 1%->0%. Very exciting first kill.



We also got Gorefiend down, but his kill story isn't as exciting - we learned how to handle the ghosts, and we kicked his ass. We've been doing it for several weeks now.

Azgalor down - Our first T6

Hyjal is a zone that doesn't really encourage repeated wiping and attempts on a boss. On two other nights we had tried Azgalor and had gotten through his trash only to have the tank get killed at > 70%. The silences, low number of druid healers on the tank and low number of druid tanks being the tank were not working for us. So we called it both times after only 2 attempts (each second attempt ending in the trash).

So we farmed Magtheridon a bit. Man that fight is easy now. I didn't realize that if you killed all the channelers before the two-minute time limit on phase one that he broke out, so he caught us a bit offguard that first time when he broke out about 20 seconds early. Luckily after only two kills on Mag (one last Sunday and one after we killed Shade of Akama on Tuesday) we got the fourth piece of T4 for our druid tank, and we were ready for Azgalor.

So Wednesday night we went back to Hyjal and had a fairly smooth night. We had one wipe on Kaz'rogal trash when our vent server went down at a bad time and too many people alt-tabbed at the same time to fix it. But we got him down and started to get ready for Azgalor.

But it turns out we still weren't ready so we did some quick portals/summons to get SR bracers crafted for the healers to resist the silences and we got ready to go. And then my internet went down.

I rebooted the cable modem, no luck. I ended up texting Vast to tell him to replace me, but apparently it was too late - they'd already started the trash. As soon as it came back up I logged in to find myself surrounded by wave four infernals. Luckily I hadn't died during my connection outage so I didn't have to wait around for a rez.

We had a bit of a scare at the end of the trash when our prot. pally died but we burned a battle rez to get him back up (instead of saving it for Azgalor) and hoped that we wouldn't pay for that later.

Once the trash was down we fought Azgalor himself and... wow. With a druid tank(he doesn't crush) and some extra SR on the healers it seemed really easy. We soulstoned the first 3 doom victims and just let the others stay dead. His enrage timer was fairly generous and at the end, we had three shiny new T6 gloves.