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Stone Legion Generals. Heroic.

Thank goodness for… nerfs? Superior knowledge of venn diagrams, I guess? We had 5 total wipes across two days before we got our first kill. Oh boy, was it a classic Kinetic kill too. It’s much more fun to sacrifice a majestic cow and clench the collective butthole of the raid to see if we can manage to take down the final 6% after all.

This closes our first official-ish Illidan raid week. That’s right, folks, nearly all of us are back together on one server again. For those scoring at home, Viri is now Drviri, Mishima is now Mishhima, and Stallone is now Rudeboy. Want to know who “Purple Layla” is? Another story for another day. We do still have some hold outs *cough* Polinator *cough* to peer pressure… there’s plenty of time for that!

Kinetic. Of Illidan. Casual in raid time only. 9/10H. There were some really good Sire Denathrius pulls (like 5 out of 14? 4 of the last 5?), so maybe “week 2” in a new city will reap some additional rewards.

For now, pop over to Saji’s Twitch channel and give him a follow before watching a throwback first kill:

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Lady Inerva Darkvein. Heroic.

Hi friends — welcome to a special edition of an upgraded Great Vault item! Yes, this kill makes us 7/10H. I am sort of burying the whole story down in the Council of Blood post, so you’ll just have to read that one as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We only wiped once and that was because we forgot about the whole bouncing bottle situation. Oops. I don’t really have much to say except this: did you see that recruitment post you conveniently scrolled by? Last I checked, you didn’t message us to join… get on that. We want to do Mythic… and also beat “that guild” to Heroic Sire (they killed Stone Legion yesterday). They are 9/10H now. Probably too late for that, but join us anyways.

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

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Council of Blood. Heroic.

Mashanu, dear friend, if you are reading this: you were right. Going into Heroic with 10-12 people is not fun. We knew this, but we now REALLY know this. We decided to PUG a few people to get to a 2/3/9 raid composition and uh… good things happened.

First of all, I have to stop and thank our Layla boss mods for a heavy assist. She judged all applicants harshly, but fair. I learned that Ragnaros was not only a dumb end boss, but also a shitty server. Sorry for your luck there ole chap. Second, we one shot Artificer…. and third, well, I hope you aren’t shocked to now know we killed the Council of Blood.

It wasn’t a one shot by any means, but we had some fantastic input on going back to a kill order we had only tried once. Thank goodness for killing Freida last. Also many thanks to our PUGs for being patient and helpful with feedback.

Oh, and, look at that sexy Tauren living in 2006 with all that Dreadnaught. That shit can legally drive with an accompanying adult.

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

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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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Sun King’s Salvation. Heroic.

I suppose it had to happen eventually. We wiped to the Sun King’s Salvation encounter for the first time. Hopefully it’s the last time until a theoretical world in which we increase our numbers to run Mythic content. In case my wording was not clear enough, we killed it on the next pull and we collected purples. In my case, I traded my purples to Vuduz (something about BIS). With this, we moved to 4/10H for Castle Nathria. I feel confident it isn’t a spoiler to say we weren’t done for the night since you had to scroll past the other post to get to this one.

For your inconvenience, here is the kill from Saji’s Twitch (like/subscribe/etc)

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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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