After the heroic firelands nerf -at which point we were stranded at 2/7-, we all cruised through the remainder of the bosses with only a legged Ragnaros to beat. Sadly, heroic Ragnaros requires a certain setup to facilitate the encounter, leaving us to wonder where on earth our Moonkins are hiding.

It has been far too long without a proper status update. That does not mean we have not achieved anything in the past two weeks. Quite the opposite, in fact. After two nights of learning the encounter, we have defeated Ragnaros and thus unlocked the heroic modes. And for good measure, we thought it would be a good idea to kill Heroic Shannox as well, after just two hours of practice. Good job guise!

As an aside, we have accumulated the 25 required Eternal Embers for the legendary staff. Depending on how lucky we get with the Cinder drops we may see our guild-first legendary weapon soon! (not counting Illidan's daggers or Thunderfury, which we got at least an expansion late...!) Stay tuned!

After killing Alysrazor we decided to check out Majordomo Staghelm as well. It did not take us long to get the hang of bunching up, healing Flame Scythes, spreading out and not standing in the fire. Once again, we killed two new bosses in a single evening. Congratulations Team!

Ragnaros awaits...!

Very fun fight to do and to learn. We struggled a little bit with surviving all the phases multiple times, but after we managed that we killed her quite nicely. Small surprise that she didn't go up again for a third time!

Congrats to all those involved!

After spending a week learning Alysrazor and Ryolith without getting them down, we started this weeks lockout quickly killing Shannox and Beth'tilac before moving on to Baleroc. It took us a few tries to get the hang of stacking healing buffs, balancing tank and torment healing and moving out for torments, but it did not take us long before we had a go where everything clicked. So before we knew it, we were looking at a dead baleroc.

We then went on and had a fresh look at Ryolith, with a slightly adjusted strategy: One tank tanking all adds, with three dps killing them, and three dps on Ryoliths' legs: One on the left, one on the right, and one steering him around, calling out swaps as needed to steer sharper. This seemed far more controlled than having dps swap from legs to adds and back. So there, too, we were looking at a dead raidboss before we knew it!

Next on the list is Alysrazor, again. Stay tuned!

This wednesday we made our first venture into the Firelands. First off the view from the entrance is amazing and I really like how this is an "outdoor" raid instance.

Since we hadn't tried out Firelands on the PTR we first struggled a little bit with the trash, which made some of us reminisce to Molten Core, but better.

In the end it took us 1 hour to clear enough trash to fight Shannox and then around another hour to kill him. The fight wasn't too complicated and on the first attempt where we had dodging traps and trapping dogs down reasonably effective he went down.

Then we cleared up to Beth'ilac which went down even more quickly, we rearranged a bit who killed which add and when and we killed her the first time she came down for the 2nd phase.

Good job everyone, and I'm looking forward to more progress in this new tier.

After a few tries over different evenings we finally got round to really putting some effort into this fight. After perfecting the way we like to handle the adds: Kiting them till their first Toxic Spores, get them out of the Soothing Breeze and aoe them quickly.

The whole thing was over before we knew it. Good job all!

After a few nights of practice on the Nefariously-enhanced Trons(tm), we finally figured out how to dodge Shadow conductors, kill toxic adds, get rooted in place, pulled into toxic slimes, run out of exploding puddles, and not damage Trons through their shields -- and doing all that at the same time. On the second pull of the evening, we found ourselves looking at 4 dead trons and a baggy of loot.

Congratulations to everyone who participated, and a massive thanks to the raiders who joined us in the wipefest but could not be around for the kill. We did a good job!

Once again progress! Valiona and Theralion made easy by having our resident rogue spec subtlety, I wonder what will happen the day we don't have him there for V&T.

Our 'trick' made the fight much like normal, although with much more damage going around and tanks that actually need to do something else than stand still and spam rotations.

Only annoying thing about this fight is how purple it is: Dragons -> purple, Aoe -> purple, Twilight Realm -> purple, Epics -> purple....phew...

We have killed the last of the stupid, incompetent and disappointing minions of Nefarian.

The fight itself is similar to the normal mode, except for the extra phase. I do feel however that Blizzard did a poor job of balancing this fight vs. the 25 man.

In all the video's that we watched you could see the aberration tank easily kite 9 aberrations for a long time, of course assisted by 3 hunter frost traps and 2 rings of frost by mages. On 10 man you don't have that luxury, we had only a single mage, and so we had to adapt our strategy on that, which was slightly frustrating.

We chose to do what many 10 man guilds do: try to get 3 aberrations in the first black phase. This means you (may) need to reset Maloriak a few times before getting those because of RNG.

This lead in the final score according to Keljin of: in Concordia 1, Maloriak 9, Draws: 87 ;-)