Written by Synister | 14 February 2010

Immortality at last

Our guild has been cursed with Immortal achievements. We got 10 man Undying of course but anyone that tried for that usually got it. When it came to 25 man Immortal though we couldn't pull it off. A guild full of high end raiders that down progression bosses in the top .5% of guilds in the world wasn't always full of good raiders. During Naxx we tried week after week after week after week to get The Immortal done and each week someone new would fuck up. "oops i fucked up on thaddius polarity" "oops i accidentally chained every single melee with iceblocks because I was standing in the middle" "oops i was high and forgot to heal my tank on patcherk" and my favorite "OOPS I'M A DRUID WITH KITTY SPRINT BUT STILL SOMEHOW DIED TO THE OOZE DANCE". Long story short we never got Naxx Immortal achievement even though over 1000 other guilds around the world did.

We did however come together tonight and finish ToC for good(except not really because we are still farming BiS cloaks, thanks blizz) by completing this achievement.

One major change blizzard implemented that I loved was taking the Immortality achievements out of the meta required for Glory of the * raider achievements.  So we never put any effort into getting this done. We just showed up weekly to collect our cloaks. If someone died oh well no biggy. But this week we made it to Anub'arak without any deaths. Everyone was pretty hyped and ready to hopefully get Immortality. I myself was very skeptical about it and wasn't getting my hopes up. With how the anub fight is gear really won't help hear penetrating cold if you react too slowly.  Needless to say i was very nervous during the last 10% with everyones health so low. But our healers did well and we pulled it off.

Thank you to all our raid members that are still around since day one of anub hardmode progression and to everyone else in between.

Written by Synister | 13 January 2010

Panic Mode!

Amazing fight. Although progression was quick on this kill for us it was still a blast to learn this fight. I can't say enough for how well designed it is. It puts a challenge on all of your raid members and is very unforgiving of mistakes. I am very proud of our raid group on this fight, we didn't struggle nearly as much on the transition phases or unbound plague as i thought we would at first.

The ending of this fight includes a great burn phase where your dps has to be top notch to kill him before the room is either covered in slime or the tank dots just get too high to heal through. It also requires healers to move from goo and keep the raid up through the tank dots. I was very afraid that we were going to have a repeat of normal mode Putricide after our 0.6% wipe. But we pulled it together and downed him cleanly.

Written by Synister | 04 February 2010

Ultimate RNG Boss down

There is not much finesse to this fight. You take the normal strat from non heroic version and add hand of protection on the early blood boils. Then you get down to 30% and hope your healers have what it takes to keep the marks alive. You should also pray that none of the marks get a tick of blood nova+boiling blood+mark hit cuz if you get that say goodbye to your attempt and have fun with 10 more minutes of The Saurfangs Role Play theater.

The only enjoyable part of this fight is how intense it gets at low percentages. But that wears off after you wipe 20 times to a mark dying. As a melee dps it's pure tank 'n spank nothing to do besides see how high in the world you can place on wmo. I was definitely happy to get this fight down as it is one of the harder hardmodes.