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Next we went to Lady Inerva Darkvein. Very early we realised that there were specific windows where we wanted her to transition between phases, which would push back adds, or even eliminate them altogether. And it was also clear that if we didn’t hit at least one of those windows, preferably two, we wouldn’t kill the boss. This thus became one of the those fights where we forcewiped many times, just because we pushed to 75 % too fast or too slow. That also became something many people were annoyed at. However, we pushed through and; after a few pulls where we were bare seconds from a kill, but still wiped to a failed mechanic right at the end; we finally killed this boss. Great job everyone! It was definitely a group effort.

Next was Sunking. To manage to have six healers on this encounter we used Lexual and Terenis for much of the progress. We buffed Quinnspyro, and let Lex pump in the corner, and hoped for the best. In the beginning we failed on the shields. A lot. First the healer shields, and then the dps shields. And it took us a good three weeks, but today the King is alive! Long live the king!

The second mythic encounter we went to was Huntsman Altimor. It took us a while to get the Sinseeker’s right and a few times we managed to do bad transitions into the third phase. After the first night, yesterday, it felt like we had some way to go, but today he died almost straight away. Just like that! But we always get better when we have had time to sleep on it.

The first mythic encounter in Nathria is Shriekwing, and before tonight we had already had some time to wipe on this boss. Our main issue was phase two, where we kept coating the floor in blood instead of keeping it tidy. A few times we did well in the first 2nd phase, and then messed up royally in the second. Tonight we finally sorted ourselves out! Shriekwing is dead, more mythic bosses to come!

Next and finally we had Sire Denathrius. While progressing we have pretty much died to everything you can die to, and it has been the hardest encounter to learn, partly because the fight lasts so long. However we have slowly improved, and tonight we finally got him! Sire Denathrius is dead, and Castle Nathria heroic is cleared! Mythic next!

Two more encounters down tonight: Sludgefist and Stone Legion. Stone Legion presented no difficulty at all, we were basically disappointed in the fight. But Sludgefist we had to progress on and get better at not breaking chains. We ended up being very precise with positioning for the ranged and that made it come together. Good job everyone, only Denathrius left!

It’s a new year and we started off strong by clearing two new encounters: Lady Inerva Darkvein and Council of Blood. We didn’t struggle particularly on either of them, and we even had time for quite a few wipes on Sludgefist. We will have to return to him next reset, but for now two more bosses are dead! Only three to go!

It’s the middle of the holidays but we managed to find time for a raid, and went back to Artificer Xy’mox. The last time we were here we got to the last phase but we didn’t manage to kill him. Today we had more luck! We only needed a few pulls and then Xy’mox was dead! Ho ho ho!

Next on the agenda was Sun King’s Salvation where we first struggled a little bit with the adds. We kept doing bad transitions, where we would just be getting a new set of adds, and these new adds plus the Shade of Kaelthas and the phoenixes would be overwhelming. It took us a little while to sort it out, but once we did we got further and further into the encounter until finally he died – or lived rather! Good job everyone, Xy’mox is next!

Second week of Castle Nathria and back to Hungering Destroyer. We struggled a little with Volatile Ejections, hitting other people running with beams or hitting people standing in melee. But over time we improved and towards the end we were making big safe movements with the ejections. And then the boss died! More to come!

Today we came back to heroic mode and had another go at Huntsman Altimore. The fight wasn’t a pushover but it’s still one of the easier fights in the raid. After a few wipes Altimore was dead, and we went onwards to the Hungering Destroyer where we spent the rest of the evening wiping. Back for a kill next week!

We started our Shadowlands raiding last night on normal mode, and realised instantly that the raid had been tuned up for release. The bosses weren’t pushovers and it felt really fun! Today we entered heroic, and again felt the resistance. We wiped a bit on Shriekwing before we killed him. We had time to pull the huntsman who we’ll likely kill the next time we go heroic, but on Sunday we’ll probably aim to finish normal mode. Feels good to be raiding again!