Author: Laura Highcove

So the patch came out this past Tuesday and the servers didn’t come up until some crazy late time. Despite this we still got a 10-man raid together and went to play in the wonderful new Ulduar.

With those 10 people we engaged Flame Leviathon on 4 Tower Hard Mode, wiped on Ignis trash at least four times, got 20-40k meleed on Ignis, wiped on Razorscale with 30k health left (“He’s not so hard.”), wiped three times to XT-002’s unkillable linked trash, and attempted to kill XT-002 while thinking that any dps on his heart would tigger hard mode. New instances are so much fun.

A few hotfixes and updated strats later it was Thursday night. In we went with specific instructions to not touch anything. Vehicles were assigned, trash was killed, and [Heroic: Shutout] was earned, followed quickly by [Emblem of Conquest] for those of us who didn’t go to the sorry excuse for a loot bag before raid.

Razorscale was next. Had a few wipes on this one because people apparently had forgotten about the “don’t stand in fire” thing during the long trips through Naxxramas. But then we downed her with [Heroic: A Quick Shave] and big smiles on our faces.

XT-002’s trash was removed until they figure out how to make the separate pulls NOT come together. Yay for obscure programming. But without having to work around that trash and knowing that dpsing the heart is VERY important we set in on the robot with that GOD AWFUL voice. “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!” After some horrible attempts and some close attempts everything came together along with [Heroic: Nerf Engineering] AND [Heroic: Nerf Grabity Bombs] (Misspelling intended) on our kill.

The first two bosses were pretty nominal. XT-002 was the boss that took us a better part of the night. As such I fraps the kill and hope to have that vid up by tomorrow. Also, boo on wws for not having it updated for the ulduar bosses yet.

Edit: Vid up: XT-002 Killvid

So the two 310% speed protos are being taken out of the game in patch 3.1, which by all reasonable belief will hit us April 14. As such this week marks the last lock-out by which the two meta achievements can be gotten. Finally another group was pulled together for this. I think it’s only the second night we even tried it, and we got it on the second try.

Unfortunately, due to a severe lack of care on 10-man achievements, only four people actually got the proto tonight. But at least we got it done with raid the rest of the week and Easter on Sunday.

Now we’ll hold our breaths for the Immortal achievement and see if we get lucky. And if not, we know we’ll hit those achievements in Ulduar hard and get those drakes for everyone in the guild.

Oh. My. Mashed Potatoes and Gravy.

So this was 10 man Sarth with 3 drakes. Should’ve been easier than 25 man which we got months ago. It’s for ‘teh casuals’ after all. But nooooooo. There would be too many adds, or the adds would aggro and kill the healer, or someone would get tail swiped on a void zone, or someone would get dazed while running from a fire wall, or a tank would get double breathed and double meleed at the same time, or the tank would move too far to avoid a fire wall and range his healer, or the dps would miss cutting off the second wave of whelps, or the portal tank would click out of the portal and leave the adds aggroed.

I have never been so frustrated on the vast amount of stupidly annoying random things that could happen to wipe a raid since Archimonde. And that’s saying something. Four full nights we wiped on this stupid fight. But now it’s down. And I’m not going back in until I’m in full T8. (Next week the melee group gets their shot.)

So as with all weeks leading up to new raiding content, our raiders have gotten downright lazy about getting on. Yet despite that we were owning Malygos up and down, only just missing out on skipping his second vortex. These failed attempts did allow us to get the entire raid their Scion achievement, so that was something at least.

Then, as always happens, everything clicked. We got got good crits, the sparks came in right behind us, we skipped the second vortex, and got the last scion down with 2:20 sec on the timer.