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We started the evening with clearing normal mode and killing Argus. Then we entered on heroic mode to continue on Imonar the Soulhunter. The fight was really easy compared to Portal-keeper Hasabel, and we had him dead almost straight away! Then we reached Kin’Garoth who we had felt was the hardest boss of all on normal mode. Turned out he was even harder on heroic, and we spent the rest of the night failing to kill him. Tomorrow we’ll be back and hopefully then we’ll get him down as well.

The last raid of the expansion and we’re in space fighting the demons on their own planet! Yesterday we entered on normal mode and tonight we started poking at the heroic modes. What we immediately liked about the instance is the fact that there are a lot of options as to what order you want to do the bosses in. It’s always nice when you can pick and choose instead of following a linear route. The first five bosses seemed quite easy, Hasabel being the hardest and we wiped a series of times before she died. We didn’t have enough time left to poke Imonar so we will do that on Sunday. Five down, six to go!

Just like Sisters of the Moon, mythic Desolate Host seemed like a harder but doable fight. We made some alterations back and forth with who would be on which side, who would be the 3rd tank – Soulone – and how to deal with the realmswitching. But for the most part we just kept pulling and trying to get through the heavy damage. Just like previously in mythic Tomb of Sargeras we had some issues with numbers that held us back a little, but mostly we just needed some time to get good at the fight. For a while it seemed like we didn’t have the dps required, but in the end we had a lot of time left for the last phase. Finally this week we got him down! With so little time left for Antorus we will not have time to kill another boss in Tomb, so we will have to end this tier with 5/9 mythic bosses down. Well done everyone!

Arriving at Sisters of the Moon we already had a plan of what to do and assignments, this however didn’t mean the fight felt easy. It was very clear Sisters would be the first hurdle in mythic Tomb of Sargeras. Our overall tactic altered very little as we progressed. The only thing we changed was how we handled the different “ultimate ability”-moments, the rest was all about not making personal mistakes. We had some raidnights cancelled due to low numbers, and we had some nights with questionable setups where we didn’t really get anywhere. But finally we had sorted out most of the kinks and suddenly we beat them! The Sisters of the Moon are dead, great job everyone!

We assumed Harjatan would be the easiest mythic mode after Goroth, and it looked like we were right when we first reached him. We had a plan for the eggs, and even if the first few pulls were a little chaotic and painful it still seemed like a very doable fight. The next night we had to start with only 19 since a recruit were late for the raid, and we decided to have a few practise pulls even if we were one short. Turned out we didnt need the practise because Harjatan decided to just fall over. With the 20th sorted we instead went onwards to look at the Demonic Inquisition. We had a sneaking suspicion that we would have issues on this fight as we felt we were always being a bit shoddy on heroic mode. But it turned out that all we needed was Exùra calling who was going into the prison and when – and suddenly the Inquisition was dead! Two encounters in one night – good job everyone!

Mythic modes, finally! Goroth is first and then we get options! We had an idea that the first fight wouldn’t be that hard, and once we started pulling it was a little harder than we thought, but it still felt like it would be doable. We gave Teldryn and Spaas jobs, as usual, to deal with the Rain of Brimstones to make less of us have to pay attention to them; and we had plans of when to break pillars and up until which point. And thankfully, considering our Kil’Jaeden progression, we got this down really quickly! Goroth is dead, and our mythic progression has started!

We reached Kil’Jaeden over a month ago. In this month we’ve swapped maintank and been very low on healers, and had a few nights when we couldn’t go to Kil’Jaeden at all because we didn’t have a reasonable setup. A few nights we went with only 11 people, making lots of dps sit out, just to be able to go even though we were low on healing. It’s also been a hard fight. We’ve died on practically everything you can die on, several times over. And once we’ve pased an “oh shit moment” we’ve found another “oh shit moment” just around the corner that we’ve had to figure out how to deal with. It’s been really fun, disregarding the issues with the group in general, to progress on a hard fight – but at the same time it’s felt like time has been running through our fingers and it’s been frustrating to just fall further and further behind other people. It’s been highs and lows, and it’s certainly been a team effort to push our way through this fight. Finally today we’re done! In the end we only needed a few good men to survive and finish the fight it seemed, because 6 people finished him off while the rest of us laid dead on the ground. Great job everyone who were a part of this one!

Only two heroic bosses left and the first is Fallen Avatar. We had realised already on normal mode that the fight was mainly tank-dependent. Since we were in the middle of recruiting a new tank, we had a few different tank-setups on the previous normal kills, and that made for some recalibrations every time. Once we did all the tank-movements right, and didn’t forget to dps Maiden during her Cleansing Protocol, we were already close to a kill. A few more pulls and Fallen Avatar was no more! Kil’Jaeden is next!

Only three heroic bosses left and Maiden of Vigilance is the first! Early on we realised that the fight was easy, and as long as we didn’t make too many mistakes we would get her down quite soon. For a few pulls we kept making mistakes with colours, accidentally touching the wrong balls, or being to close to people with the opposite debuff. But after a few pulls we sorted that out and wham bam the Maiden was dead! Avatar is next, and hopefully we’ll get him next reset!

The second week of Tomb of Sargeras and we’re back to the Desolate Host. We decided already last raid that we would have the spirit side move over to the incorporeal side during Wailing Souls, since it was hard for the healers to keep everyone alive without using all their mana. We made some mistakes with Soul Bind and with getting the armour off the Bonewardens, and we wiped a few times. But after a couple of tries, the Desolate Host was no more! Hopefully Maiden dies tomorrow!

After being stuck on Mistress Sassz’ine at the end of the last raid, we knew it would take a few more pulls to get her down. Tonight it didn’t feel as hard though, even though we were still losing people to Hydra shots. After a couple more wipes Sassz’ine was dead! Onwards to the Sisters of the Moon. On normal mode the fight seemed really easy, so we were prepared for more. However it turned out that the abilities we were prepared for were mythic abilities! It still took a few pulls to kill them, but in honesty – the trash up to the sisters were almost harder! We went on to the Desolate Host, and spent the rest of the evening there without getting a kill. Tomorrow’s raid we will spend on finishing normal mode Kil’jaeden, but Desolate Host should go down next reset!

First night in Tomb of Sargeras. We had already tested half the bosses out on normal mode. Heroic was a little bit harder, although the first three bosses went down pretty quick. However Mistress Sassz’ine proved to be the first bigger obstacle and we were stuck on her the rest of the evening. So after one night we have Goroth, Demonic Inquisition and Harjatan dead! More to come on Sunday!