Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Vashj Vanquished!

In our last post, I mentioned that things had been quiet lately for us because we had been working on Lady Vashj and that we hoped to have some news with regards to her shortly.

I have that news today.

We killed Lady Vashj tonight on our last attempt of the night (which should surprise no one who knows us).

We got to our first semi-controlled Phase 3 transition at the end of Sunday (the last time we attempted her) and knew we had a workable strategy and were close, but needed more time to practice. We deliberated on adding another night on Vashj to our schedule, eventually deciding to skip our regular TK night until we killed her. Tonight was the first such night.

We got better and better as we polished our strategy and execution tonight, moving from an uncontrolled Phase 3 transition to a 20% attempt, an 11% attempt and finally the kill (with only 1 person down).

She went down on our 4th full night of attempts, which is a virtual eternity for us since we only raid 3 nights a week, but is still ridiculously fast compared to many other guilds. This is a tough, tough fight with a ton of randomly moving parts and we worked really hard to get this kill. I’m proud of you guys, enjoy it!

See ya later Sea Bish! We’re off to work on Kael’thas!

Lady Vashj slain by Omen!

Kill Video (Feral Druid PoV)

Solarian Smacked!

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately as we’ve been working on Lady Vashj. We hope to have some news on her shortly, but tonight we took a little breather in the form of High Astromancer Solarian via an informal raid on what’s traditionally an off-night for us.

Wow. We hadn’t tried her before, but it’s pretty silly how easy this reworked version of her is. This was an off-night, so we brought whoever we had on-line. That meant 4 protection warriors and 7 healers (I can almost hear people familiar with the fight laughing).

We also brought in a little arcane resistance gear to help make things easier on our healers, but the healing was so easy we tossed the resistance gear and eventually even had a holy priest and restoration shaman peppering her with smites and lightning bolts because they were bored.

We also worried that our AOE teams would get overrun by the adds, but I swear I saw one of them meleeing an add during a portal phase, presumably because they were also bored.

I think our kill shot reflects our thoughts on the fight: snoozefest.

High Astromancer Solarian slain by Omen!

Kill Video (Feral Druid PoV)