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Artificer XyMox. Heroic.

Seeds and traps and withering touch… oh my! It really wouldn’t be a good Artificer pull without Vuduz stepping into a trap. He survived this one and so did us (well mostly…). We killed the damn thing and that’s what’s important. Well that and we get to skip most of these bosses on Normal now that we finished the quest.

Kinetic in its continued hybrid server glory is now 5/10H in Castle Nathria. For context, a once server first and top 100ish US or World guild (depending on the content) has managed to make the Top 50. For Horde. On Frostmane. But, like, wut everman im liek alch90, ok?

raider.io shows the casual nature of this situation. again.

I decided to check-in on my fake nemesis guild and it appears they are now 8/10H. According to raider.io, they killed Sludgefist/Council on Sat 1/23, Sun King/Artificer on Wed 1/13, and Lady Inerva on Tues 1/12.

Reminder to like/subscribe/etc to Saji’s Twitch as he provided us with this kill video:

Totally disregard what happens at 3:12 as the healers watch my health expire (ignore that I didn’t use Unending Resolve, but at the same time give me credit for using a healthstone)

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Hungering Destroyer. Heroic.

I’m not sure what was more ‘fun’ last night: the one shot on Shriekwing, learning all the fun ways a hunter trap can be broken, or figuring out how much people like walking into traps. But that isn’t what this post is about… we killed a thing, again, and we did it on heroic. For those scoring at home, this makes us 3/10H (yay upgraded item in the Great Vault).

We should have killed another thing, but I guess this is what happens when you get older and it gets late. Very much looking forward to skipping most of the normal bosses so we can spend more time on getting heroic loots.

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Huntsman Altimor. Heroic.

Did you know that in the heroic version of this encounter, there are TWO Shades of Barghast? Good times! We technically had eight pulls, but the first one Hads was afk outside the room (virtually & IRL) getting a peach smoothie (I wish I were joking) and the encounter was reset when he was targeted by the boss. Laughs were had by all. This makes 2/10H overall since we didn’t kill Hungering Destroyer after 5 pulls.

I have to admit, though, I didn’t think all these posts in the last seven days would happen. I say that because one of the more active, consistent people decided to leave the guild to play with some friends from WoW Classic. He went from not knowing if there would be a raid to clearing Castle Nathria on Normal in one day (not to mention a couple heroic bosses). How could I blame him? I wouldn’t (and don’t), but as the Jordan meme says:

I’ve always taken things personally, though, and I have to deal with it. This won’t be the last time someone quits the game or the group unexpectedly. It also won’t be the last time I take it personally. What I am doing is watching their new guild’s progress in Castle Nathria. They are now 6/10H (though he is only 2/10H… just like us). I have issues, man, ok?

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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.

raider.io for posterity

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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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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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Shriekwing. Normal.

So we sort of did a thing last night. Nothing terribly special by current day standards or previous Kinetic standards, but a thing nonetheless. Nerv called dibs on MT. Former enhance shaman Killrog turned Monk? Yeah, OT. Two healers who are playing WoW for the first time? Sure. A majestic MFer clinging to his warrior and a terrible fury spec? Why not! The list goes on (sorry Stirno, Kalinaj Hads, Flaile Hints, Piusx Mikey, Zeitgeist Baddate… I ran out of semi-witty things to say).

Kinetic killed something that has happened in PUGs already. We killed Shriekwing on normal. But damn it was fun. We then wiped on Huntsman graciously for a bit before calling it very calmly at our regularly scheduled ending time. Is this casual raiding? Not bad.

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