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So since we currently have a slight phobia of Chimaeron we decided to kill some time on Magmaw heroic. Disappointingly enough this heroic mode wasn’t a very big bump, and we had him down in the first night of trying. I can’t really explain how we did it because I was stuck with the job of kiting parasites in circles so I have no clue what the others did, apart from making the big worm die. In any case we have the fourth heroic mode down, 9 to go and still time for Chimaeron this reset! Yayface!

After spending a lot of time celebrating Easter and having mysteriously bad raidsetups due to few signups, we decided to give Maloriak a try. We had been struggling with Chimaeron for a while without closing the deal, and it felt like the mood was going down and it was time for a change of scenery. So we went and looked at Maloriak, and lo and behold this heroic mode was more our cup of tea. This is so far the heroic mode we”ve spent the least attempts on overall before we got it down. Yay us! Third heroic mode down, 10 to go!

Halfus Wyrmbreaker with friends are dead! Once the shadownova interruptions happened as they should and we had figured out what to release and in what order it didn’t take long until we had this heroic mode down. In reality this post is posted a few weeks late due to artistic draught for the art department, so I don’t really remember what happened at the first kill… but he died at least and that’s what counts! Second heroic mode down, 11 to go!

Heroic modes have started! Chimaeron was first on the agenda, but due to circumstances beyond our control Worthie had to Mend Pet and we were left with only 9 in the group and around half the raidtime left. We went to try to 9-man Conclave and Al’Akir, but then we got a hold of Bartie who could come online and join the raid. After clearing Throne of the 4 Winds we had some time left so we went back to Blackwing Descent. Our desicion to poke sticks at Atramedes heroic mode instead of Chimaeron turned out to be a great one, after 2 failed attempts he was dead! First heroic mode kill, and hopefully more to come!

The Art department wants all to pay attention to the significant increase of evilness that this picture displays as compared to the normal mode killshot. Judging from this fearsome screenshot this heroic mode is not to take lightly!

Nefarian is dead! What we had left to figure out was mainly how to jump onto pillars without a functioning keyboard and how to kite the adds in the last phase without dying. The actual kill had perfect jumping (thanks to Zyfte’s buttonmashing) and good enough add-kiting, Rigr died around 15-20%, but with a bit of luck and heroism we zerged Nefarian down anyway with most of us still alive. Even if we spent more wipes on Al’Akir and Cho’Gall it still felt really nice to see Nefarian die and thus have cleared all the normal modes of this tier.

Speaking of tier, the Vanquisher headpiece dropped and for some peculiar reason the person who picked the raid was the only one that was the right class to loot it! What are the odds?!?!

We finally got the critter achievement, and can buy the long awaited armadillo pets from the guild vendor. Now we can parade with them around Stormwind to show off our imba fighting skills! Good job everyone who has killed a critter since the expansion came out! Special credit to Drsnuggles, battling bunnies with knives; Saidra, battling trousersnakes; and Rattie, battling turkeys on a killing spree; for their efforts last night when we finished off the last few thousand critters needed for the achievement.

Pull! Move here! Move there! Faster! Slower! Push now! Harder! Down! Up! More down! More up! After hours trying to get everything right we finally did it! We figured out that the key to push Al”Akir over the edge was to start at the top and slowly inch our way down, rather than the opposite. At least that was how we got our heads around this climactic encounter and finally recieved our mouthwatering rewards!

The first time we ever pulled him he pushed Lumines face through his ass, or so Lumines claimed, it went really fast so we all missed the push. Since that day a month and a half ago we have continously been back and wiped on Cho’Gall. It has really been a fight where we have stuggled with almost every element. Today he finally bit the dust, and we all deserve the credit because we have all been there and tried. It really was a guild effort!

For those of you that want to be nostalgic and remember the first raid in January the screenshot below is totally authentic and taken by Lumines on the first pull!

… but we didnt need very much time since we killed him on the second try. Atramedes down too! Two new bosses dead in less than an hour! Quite surprising considering how noisy we have been on this boss on previous attempts! The only thing we ever did well was banging the gongs exactly on time, whoever was in charge of that task have surely proven to be massively imba!

We had been to Chimaeron once before and concluded then that the fight seemed quite straightforward, if we could only heal through the feud properly. This time everything worked much better and it only took us a few attempts to kill him. We killed him so fast we had a lot of raidtime left to spend on Atramedes…

First raid to Throne of the Four Winds, and Conclave of Wind is no more. It is certainly the easiest encounter that we’ve seen, and counting that we by now have looked at all encounters but Nefarian, we assume this is this tier’s easiest bossfight. Luckily we even got loot that was usable, which might not happen every week, but at least we can get 2 maelstrom crystals for minimal effort. We are now more than halfway to killing all the bosses of this tier, 5 to go!

Disclaimer: The picture below is not 100% accurate because the conclave had hats of some kind. It is in fact not a screenshot from the game, rather a product of the artdepartment.