We had a choice between Terros and the Primal Council as our second mythic encounter, and the choice was easy in favour of the council. The mythic changes did not seem very daunting; and we quickly got into the fight even though to begin with we didn’t really have the dps, probably because everyone was focusing on the mechanics. Today we were back for more, and finally things fell into place. The Primal Council is dead! Terros next!

After killing Diurna we had some time to check out the first mythic encounter, as we had a feeling heroic Raszageth would perhaps be harder than mythic Eranog. Turns out we were right and Eranog was a pushover! The first mythic boss of the expansion is dead!

Broodkeeper Diurna was next, and we immediately faced the “How to follow a path”-complication as well as “Who breaks which egg?”-issue. Clearly the best encounter in the whole raid, and we went in hard only to realise that this boss hits hard back! After some tank-deaths, and some bad egg-work, we finally sorted it all out and at that point it was just the last phase to live through. Today we managed that as well, and Diurna is dead!

We had some time on Dathea last reset and realised she was a bit of an obstacle, like Terros. Mostly we managed to mess up the platforms. This week we were back for more, and we immediately did better. A few more pulls and she was dead! Good job everyone, only two bosses to go!

Another holiday raid, and we’ve reached Kurog Grimtotem, which is a fight all about the floor. At first we messed up a bit on the stormy floor, and then we moved on to messing up a bit on all the other floors as well. And then the fight was essentially over, and the boss was dead! Happy New Year everyone! Only three heroic bosses to go in Vault of Incarnates!

Observe: The screenshot was taken prefight when the boss was contemplating what floor we would go for first. Clearly he didn’t read Method’s guide. Maybe because they write a lot.

Ho Ho Ho! It’s Christmas time but we still squeezed in a raid! Tonight we went to the Primal Council and it turns out we should have gone to them before Terros because they were a total pushover compared. After killing them we had time to move on to Sennarth, the Cold Breath, and after some sliding around and messing up, we sorted the fight out and killed her as well. Two bosses in one night! Merry Christmas!

Second heroic raid and we are off to see Terros again. We had a few pulls on him on Thursday and our dps seemed a bit low. Today we played a bit better, it was clearly a good idea to sleep on it, and got further with everyone alive. And then after a few more pulls there it was, a dead boss! More to come next reset, because tomorrow we are trying to finish normal mode.

The Vault of the Incarnates is finally open and we have entered! Yesterday we saw some normal mode bosses, which are perhaps the most appropriate for us to progress through first considering our gear, but still we entered heroic today just to see how hard it was. Eranog is the first encounter of the raid and it turned out that he was easy, as we killed him in very few attempts. Then we went to Terros and failed for the rest of the evening!

See you all in the new expansion!

After the fated affixes to raids came out we mainly spent time rekilling bosses we have already killed, on heroic and mythic, and didn’t kill many new things. This week we decided to try to kill Dausegne mythic in Sepulcher of the First One, and since we had some gear upgrades we thought it would perhaps be a lot easier than last time we were here. While that was probably the case, it still wasn’t easy. The first night we didn’t manage to kill her, but tonight we came back and tonight she died!

Observe: The artdepartment was on holiday when the boss died, and created the screenshot based on descriptions.

With two mythic bosses dead already it started feeling a bit strange to not yet have finished heroic mode and killed the Jailer! We have had constant progress but the fight is pretty long and it had just taken us a while to get to phase three with everyone alive. This week we finally managed to get it right and kill him once and for all. The final heroic mode of Shadowlands is finally cleared. Only mythic bosses left!

While working on the Jailer fight we decided to continue farming the first mythic boss. On the days we did that, we also went past Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener, and tried to figure out that fight. We changed our tactics a few times, to get less burrows, because we just didn’t have the dps. And tonight we finally got him down!

Observe: The art department stood quite far away when they took the screenshot and thus the picture ended up a bit blurred without much detail!