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Sire Denathrius. Normal.

10 out of 10 would be the official count for us on the Normalist of modes. This fight was weird y’all and we wiped four times because of it. Ok, ok… it’s not that it was weird so much as Nerv couldn’t figure out how to go through the mirror. GO INTO THE LIGHT CAROL ANNE. Thankfully Sanka & I focused our inner <Force of Will> to keep some adds from spawning.

A special thanks to everyone who has been consistent the last couple weeks. It’s been pretty fun to slay foes again. My hope is that it continues as we adjust to the additional difficulty. It would be fun to be a Sinbreaker before the next content release.

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Stone Legion Generals. Normal.

This fight was a lot like the Sun King’s Salvation. We sort of talked about what we could remember from the guide and decided “aight let’s just pull once and see the mechanics for ourselves.”

One pull. One kill. Easy peasy.

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Sludgefist. Normal.

One down, three to go. That is true for both the amount of posts I have to make this morning (go team) and also the number of times we have to fully clear up to Sludgefist on Normal before we can just farm the last bosses.

When Katnuss said Sludgefist & Stone Legion Generals (on Normal) were easier than some of the fights we had already completed, I have to admit I was skeptical. She was right, though. Since no one will ever really read this, I feel ok admitting that.

Three wipes, one kill. Interesting. My OCD is happy.

Side note and true story: we joked that Sanka & crew (on Illidan) should rename their guild Kinetic so our screenshots looked better. Katnuss said “I’ll do it for $20” and I couldn’t pull up Venmo fast enough. Now we just need to work on Sorcia…

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Council of Blood. Normal.

Hurray – we qualify for another Great Vault reward due to being 7/10 Normal. In all seriousness (or at least somewhat serious), last night was a good night. We breezed through the first 6 bosses and tweaked this encounter to our liking. We went ahead and killed Heroic Shriekwing as a reward in advance of more progress tonight.

The biggest realization from the evening was that we don’t really need most of the loot that has been dropping from these bosses. The “skip mechanic” will be very welcomed after 4 Sludgefist kills as we begin to push Heroic… and dare I say… eventually… soonish… Mythic.

Casual in time only? Possibly becoming real.

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Sun King’s Salvation. Normal.

Well, well, well… if it isn’t ole Kael’Thas. Maybe it was the PTSD from TBC talking, but I was not looking forward to this fight. Maybe the rest of the group thought the same. We got to the encounter and realized no one really knew anything about the fight. Like good little raiders, we took a few minutes to watch a video. Afterwards, we decided to just pull and see what happens. Learn on the fly. What could go wrong?

Turns out, nothing went wrong and we defeated the encounter. I feel like a WoW Classic raider! One pull, one kill. No wonder it’s so popular! Someone decided to jinx us ahead of going to The Council of Blood. Spoiler alert: there is not a follow-up post (this week at least) despite how well we all danced.

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Shriekwing. Heroic.

Christmas came late for me. I had joked about going to do Shriekwing on Heroic for a couple weeks now for some ‘free’ 213 loot. It wasn’t as free as we expected, but still mostly free. As expected, the PUG we added to get to 10 (before we had some others join) got loot. Thanks Blizzard.

This kill marks the return of #TeamDekom as Truenoob finally joined the fun. It is also the return of Saji (Sajia) as a druid. If we could get a consistent group of folks we could probably do more of these things. Until then, we will continue the march through Normal as we are able to field groups.

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Lady Inerva Darkvein. Normal.

To the surprise of all of us, this is not the simple zerg it is in LFR. We did finally get our first, very famous “Kinetic Kill” on this boss. We found the soft enrage and managed to eek out a kill. Sure the last 2-3% of the boss was mad chaotic, but it instantly reminded the old timers (myself especially) of many previous boss fights from Vanilla on.

This kill took us to 5/10 (also known as half way). Just in time for the holiday season. Happy Holidays y’all.

p.s. Not that Starbucs will ever see this, but thank you for realizing you weren’t playing well and logging. A+ accountability.

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Artificer Xy’Mox. Normal.

In a stunning turn of events, Sanka followed through for us (love you bro, no pause). He brought his merry band of nerds so we didn’t have to list our raid to the world. Thank goodness Blizzard enabled this high level of casualness that allows us to group with people on any US server.

The skeletons prove it took a little more time to tweak our portals, but we did it. Let the record show there was one pull where my warlock (Dycus) was top DPS. Mostly because I just happened to outlast everyone, but still… you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

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Hungering Destroyer. Normal.

Disregard the skeletons on the ground. It’s from being super good at doing raid mechanics, I promise you. The RNG Gods rewarded Hads & Pdklol for coming to carry us to victory by giving them loot. Since when is this game fair?

Afterward, we cleared the trash to Lady Inerva like the LFR lemmings we are before deciding to switch gears towards Artificer Xy’Mox. We totally got two BOE drops, so at least that was something. We got pretty decent at the mechanics, but our officially scheduled raid time approached. We responsibly called it. Casual life, I tell you what. It’s nice.

Will we slay more foes on the easiest setting? Maybe. Stay tuned!

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Huntsman. Normal.

We did a thing again (well twice again). Despite frustrating efforts to even get enough people to zone in, we finally came back to Castle Nathria. Since the first, and only, night it seems as though Mish became a Warlock and Stirno became a Shaman (though under a different name). As expected, we hunted and poor Altimor died.

I know this is Normal and we even pulled two pugs in, but that’s casual life. It’s ok, right? Please tell me it’s ok…

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