______________________________________________________________________________________________

We felt Zek’Voz was a challenge but it turned out Vectis would be an even harder one. For two months we’ve hit our heads against the encounter, and for the past weeks continuously felt like “THIS is the week he’ll die!” and then not quite gotten all the way. Tonight started as just any other Vectis night, but then the stars suddenly aligned and it looked like he would actually die! And lo and behold he finally did! 4/8 mythics down in Uldir, and seeing the next raid comes out shortly that will probably be where we end! More to come in Battle for Dazar’Alor!

Happy Holidays to and from everyone in Lazy Peon Tavern!

Next we went to Zek’Voz. The mythic encounter turned out to be all about positioning and planning. We were learning the fight 10 seconds at a time sometimes, and we kept repeating the same things to the point where i think everyone can do Zek’Voz in their sleep. At least the first half of the fight. Slowly but surely we were getting better and then finally we started getting to the last phase with everyone alive. Straight away it was clear that phase 3 wasn’t that difficult, and if we just get there a few times we’ll get the kill. And today it came! Zek’Voz is dead! Team effort! Onwards to Vectis!

Time for more mythic modes and M.O.T.H.E.R. was next on the agenda! Our first difficulty was deciding who should exit the room first and how to deal with the adds in the other room when we were only a few people on the other side. We decided to send all the AoE stuns we had and warriors, and then have the rest of the raid come through one by one. The next obstacle was the third room. Transitioning from the first to the second was a bit tricky but transitioning to the third was much harder. But in the end we managed to do it somewhat smoothly and after a 11% wipe, we finally got the kill! Good job everyone!

The final boss in Uldir is G’huun! While G’huun is clearly the trickiest heroic fight in Uldir, we soon realised he wasn’t going to be one of those endbosses that would takes us a month to learn the encounter of – like Kil’Jaeden in Tomb of Sargeras. We soon felt like the fight was very doable, even though we kept dying in phase 2. We changed tactics around the Bloodfeasts to make sure that not everyone cleared their stacks at the same time, and that we kept having a large add to deal with. After this alteration we started getting to the 3rd phase, and a few more pulls later G’huun was down! Good job everyone! Heroic mode is cleared, Mythic next!!

Only two heroic bosses left in Uldir, and first up is Mythrax the Unraveler. At first we had ideas about staying towards certain sides to not have orbs up where we wanted to fight adds in phase 2, but then we abandoned that idea and just spread out around the boss. We decided that Imminent Ruin wasnt that bad, and you didnt have to run a mile and be more than 100 yards away from everyone when it went off, and we assigned only one Sphere shooter, Actuarius. After these decisions were made phase one was going pretty smoothly. We still died a bit in phase two, but after some more practise we got better there as well. And then Mythrax the Unraveler was dead! Seven down, one to go!

We had the impression that Taloc mythic would be easier than G’huun and possibly also Mythrax heroic so today we went to have a look. And it turns out we were right! It didn’t take many pulls to get the elevator changes, and beyond that it felt like a free kill. Taloc is dead! A few more heroic to go before we try MOTHER!

It’s the third week of raiding, and again we had a bit of an issue passing by Vectis. Once we got through, we finally reached Zul Reborn. The fight was one of the harder normal fights, so we assumed the heroic mode might be tricky. It turned out that the main thing was to know when to transition into phase 2. After we figured out when to transition, we worked a bit on actually executing the tactic – and then it worked and Zul was defeated. Two bosses left!

We thought rekilling the first four bosses on heroic this week would be easy. But we were wrong. Vectis had recieved a sneaky buff, and what had seemed a little tricky last week now seemed really hard. We didn’t kill him on the Thursday, and we didn’t kill him on the Sunday either though we spent the whole raid. Today we finally got past him, and headed to Zek’Voz. Thankfully there wasn’t anything special to the encounter and we had him down without much fuss. Zul Reborn is next!

Last night we got stuck on Vectis and tonight we were back for more! We had the impression that maybe Zek’Voz would be easier, but since we had already started working on Vectis it seemed like the right move to finish him off first. It felt like we weren’t that far off a kill anyway. However, it seemed we were wrong. We spent almost the whole evening wiping from not having enough health to survive abilities, usually due to not having enough dps to quickly kill the adds doing the healing-absorb debuff. Towards the end of the night we however got it together and finished the fight! Vectis down, and we end the first week at 4/8 heroic kills. More to come!

New expansion and new raid! First heroic day and we decided to go counterclockwise in the circle area! All the bosses went down fairly easy until we got to Vectis. He turned out to be the wall of the first night, but we will be back tomorrow to finish him off! Three bosses dead, Taloc, MOTHER and Fetid Devourer!

Without much time left before a summerbreak we decided to extend from Varimathras to see if we could kill the Coven of Shivarra. We had some difficulties with crowdcontrolling the Army of Norgannon, since we didn’t always have enough CCers. However it still seemed quite doable, especially when we realised that the new lady, Thu’raya Mother of the Cosmos, wasn’t that tricky to deal with. We gradually improved in the fight, and then – just when we wanted to take our summerbreak – they bit the dust! Good job everyone, last raid of Legion and we stopped at 9/11 mythic encounters down! See you all in Battle for Azeroth!