November 18, 2007 
Scythe Yes, yes. It’s been another long time since our last update. We’ve been busy though, we swear!
Since we killed Lady Vashj and finished getting her Vial for all of our people, we’ve been completely focused on completing the quest that would grant us access to Mt. Hyjal (and via that, Black Temple). That meant focusing on arguably the toughest technical fight in the game in Kael’thas Sunstrider. So, for 3 nights a week since then, we’ve focused on him and got him tonight.
We learned and killed Kael’thas in 7 total nights. We had hoped to get him down before Patch 2.3 nurfed the health of his weapons and advisors and we were close, taking him to 54% on our final raid night before the patch hit. One more night before the nurf and we would have had him, but sadly it wasn’t meant to be.
I think we took out some of that frustration on him tonight, because we simply tore him apart on our kill. We were pissed, he was squishy and suffered as a result. Consequently, we only had to punch through one shock barrier before Phase 5 started.
Looking back, I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that attendance to these progression raids were higher than to our regular raids. We always thrive on challenges.
I’m not surprised that people always came prepared and ready to go with new ideas, consumables and focus. That’s the expectation we have for ourselves.
I should have known that we’d beat our head against one of the toughest fights in the game, one that has frustrated (and destroyed) numerous guilds, and come away with a kill in a relatively short amount of time. We love doing in 3 days a week what many can’t in 5.
We worked hard and won where many others have struggled. If you know us, then you know that’s honestly no surprise at all.
Kill Video (Feral Druid PoV)
