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Battle for Azeroth has come to an end. See you all in Shadowlands!

Finally we had only Il’gynoth left to kill before we could open the gate to the last 2 bosses in mythic Ny’alotha. We started off with the “do not dispell”-tactic that we had heard good things about, but which we soon abandoned. Instead we chose to dispell and do our best dealing with the mindcontrols. After realising that mages are very good at oneshotting people by accident (as well as on purpose) we still stuck to this tactic and slowly made progress. For a little while we fell apart in the last percentages, but tonight we finally sorted it out! Il’gynoth is dead! Onwards to the last 2 bosses!!

Seven (or eleven?) pulls was all it took for us to clear the Dresta’gath mythic encounter. Even if it was a chaotic encounter we were going with the flow, dancing with the devil, and it was easier than we expected. It’s all a game to us. Next we’ll push up the ante and head for Il’gynoth! Nothing else to say really, read it and weep!

We knew the mythic Ra-den encounter would be significantly more difficult than heroic, with a new Nightmare orb to deal with. To begin with it was a complete mess, and we were wiping really early in the fight. Then we changed the tactics, of having a half the raid rotate on jobs, into having almost the whole raid doing one job each. That worked much better, even if it involved melee dps. Soon it started to look like we would actually get into the second phase! And once we did the end of the tunnel was in sight, because the second phase was fairly easy as long as we were all alive going in. Today we finished the fight! Ra-den is dead! Great effort everyone!

Next was Vexiona and one of our first obstacles was to decide where we wanted to position ourselves, the boss, the adds, and pools on the floor. We made several changes until the tactic was sorted. The fight itself wasn’t all too complicated, we instead suffered from a lack of tanks, as well as from not having too much time left each reset for Vexiona, since Hivemind and Xanesh still wasn’t fully on farm. This week we finally sorted out the last phase and she died! Too bad she hardly had any loot we wanted.

The next mythic encounter was Dark Inquisitor Xanesh. We knew going in that the ball-aiming would be the main part of the fight and that it was a “nobody can make a mistake”-fight. To begin with we wiped a lot to the first team messing up their balls, and we thought it would take us ages if every group needed equal amounts of practise. But it turned out that it was mainly the first pattern that was tricky, and once we had made group 1 and 4 learn that pattern, we seemed to be close to a kill already. And tonight we sorted it out! Xanesh is dead! Good teameffort everyone, and nobody made 50 mistakes and had to be taken into a separate channel!

We had an idea that mythic Hivemind might be tricky, since chaotic encounters are usually not what we do best. As expected this fight took us a while to master, while we had the tactics down almost immediately it was the execution that was lacking. We kept being rolled over, or not killing the Darters on time and getting behind. But after a few weeks of practice we were doing better and tonight we finally got the kill! Hivemind is dead and we are half way through mythic Ny’alotha!

We went to Shad’har next, thinking we would have an easier time with him than any of the other available bosses: Hivemind, Xanesh and Drestagath. While that might have been true, we still struggled a while with the Shad’har fight. We felt low on both dps and healing, and the fact that we had tank-trials in the middle of it (when the boss hits like a truck) didn’t help. But we slowly worked it out, got better at dealing with feeding the boss, and soaking orbs, and not taking damage in general. And then it started coming together. Tonight Shad’har finally died. Good job everyone!

After the Skitra freekill we went to Maut and used all the worldmarkers to make assignments for every part of the encounter. We decided to use three tanks, and made Anagalf tank adds by the blue marker. The new decurse mechanic was fairly easy to deal with, so it was mainly business as usual. Soon enough we stopped killing ourselves in phase 2 and instead killed the boss! Good job everyone! 3 mythic bosses in one reset!

Last week we entered mythic for the first time, and this week we were back at Wrathion. The encounter felt really fun, a step up from heroic, and not a zerg-boss but where we had to actually learn the fight properly. We were close a few times today and then finally we got him! We managed to get one of the top 300 slowest killtimes EU, but Wrathion is dead! We had some time left and went over to Prophet Skithra and imagine our surprise when we oneshot the boss! Skithra mythic also down. Well deserved everyone!

The final boss in Ny’alotha was N’zoth. We struggled a little with learning the different parts of the fight, and doing enough damage to get through. Primarily we had issues in the second phase to push through the visions in time with half the group on the outside. But we improved with practise (even if Luria still hasn’t learned to not pull the boss) and today it was a done deal. N’zoth the corruptor is dead and we can move into mythic! Great job guys!

After a whole raid of eyes and tentacles, we finally reached the second to last boss: Carapace of N’zoth. A tentacled boss who brings us through layers of the carapace of N’zoth while spawning tentacles (with and without eyes) and cysts. Nice! The fight turned out to be really easy, and it didn’t take us very long to get the boss down. The Carapace of N’zoth is defeated, or penetrated maybe (?), and to clear the raid we only have N’zoth himself left!