After our success in Black Temple last week, we decided to see how far we could get in Sunwell. And a beautiful instance it is, and great job on the "Non-Epic Dropping Yet Equally Interesting Non-Bosses". And indeed the Scouts proved to be a bit of a challenge. But a succesfull countdown macro later we started rolling up the trash and after what seems like an eternity we reached Kalecgos.

The Kalecgos fight has one of the most interesting mechanics we've yet encountered I think. And the coordination from tanks and groups required is refreshing. I gather from other sources though that is just the beginning of interesting fights and mechanics. I'm kinda sad that we probably wont see anything past Felmyst, if we see Felmyst at all.

Tonight we went back to Black Temple to continue our week of killing spree's to face the Lord of Outland; Illidan Stormrage. The prerequesites for the fight conisting of 2 fire resist tanks and a fire resist warlock had caused a few headaches the day before but we were set.

A most interesting fight with a very though phase 2, on which we wiped a lot of times. But after about 15 tries the fire resist tanks seemed to get the hang of it, and with a few adjustments phase 3 was reached consitently.

When we finally reached phase 3 with all the dps up it proved that the hard part was over and before we knew it, illidan was going down fast. And just as our Glorious guildleader decided to DC, down he went:

Today we re-entered BT, set to stand face to face with illidan at the end of the night!

The difficulty level of the later bosses in BT seems to have changed alot since before 3.0.2, Reliquary of Souls went down after 2 tries, Mother went down to 30% first try, then surrendered the second to a raid with barely any shadowresistance on the raid.

Then we seemed to have hit a wall, since after some 3–4 tries on the Council without getting very far due to tanks dying, a felhunter stealing the dampen from the mage (!) etc, but we decided to go for one last try before calling it a night. And down they went!

Then we had a quick peek at Illidan without any tactics, got him to 65%, and then we died horribly from the flames! Seems like great fun, and we hope to get a better look at him tomorrow when we go back, and hopefully we are prepared then!

We also got our first t6 set items, congratulations to Acrid, Moony, Lotuskiller, Quinton, Mortivous and Nhaya!

Last night we decided to see what we could achieve in BT after patch 3.0.2, and the result was slightly shocking, starting Naj'Entus down with only 1 shield, Supremus down second try, Shade of Akama down first try before we barely noticed, Gorefiend down first try, and last but not least Bloodboil down after 2 tries. After that it was getting late, so we decided to end the raid and say hi to the later bosses on sunday instead. All in all, a great raid, lots of fun encounters, FOUR new bosses down, all on first or second try, and ofcourse, some shiny epix to a couple of members :)

Illidan, in Concordia is coming for you!

We thought we'd change it up a bit and go to BT instead of MH and here's the result:

Dead Naj'Entus and some tries on Supremus. Looks to be a nice adventure as well.

A wonderful night in Mount Hyjal for us. 1 shotted first two bosses, went to work on Kaz'Rogal and whaddayaknow he goes down in 1 try also. Having those SR cloaks and neckies on the healers really did help. Granted a lot of ppl were dead at the end there.

A nice try on Azgalor as well, 54% is not bad for a first try.

Today we were a bit tired of all the BC raid progressing, so we went to do some oldschool raiding… MC!

Got some 25 ppl together in a raid, attuned a bunch, and off we went, altho a boring instance in itself, it was quite fun now when you could breeze through it, and around 80 mins after the raid start, rag was dead (no sons! /flex =P), for some of our members a first time kill :)

Keep an eye out on the RP for more oldschool raids!

Here we are back in full force and off to mount hyjal! After buffing and a lot of insecurity we'd thought: What the heck, let's just give it a shot.

Expecting to die on the first wave we started the event, but as we'd all seen some really nice movies about how to do this the first wave died quite quickly. And then the second and third etc., before we knew it the boss was about to spawn!

A quick “Hey who's gonna tank this guy anyway” and I was building aggro and trying to kite it to Jaina.

We were surprised about the split second reaction needed to actually trinket out of the debuf and so lost about a quarter of the dps, but we held fast and a few minutes later…

We started the night a little rough with a few wipes on al'ar but our new tactic of saving the phase 1 adds to kill in phase 2 seemed to speed up the killing a lot. Then we went on to the can of loot and 1-shotted him and so the door was open to go ahead and kill solarian finally.

After a few tries one of which was to 25% we we're at a decision point, it was getting late and a few people had to leave, but luckily we had replacements and so we dicided for 1 last go.

And there it was, perfect execution, almost no fatalities and one more dead boss. Congratulations everyone involved.

We have now cleared all T5 content up to the final bosses! Time to wager a venture into MH and BT.