As those of you who follow our progress somewhat closely might know, we've struggled a bit with this one. But now why is that? Is it because he's hard? No, certainly not. He's really easy and we should have killed this one a long time ago (all the low percent wipes have been frustrating). But why didn't we kill this one at least last week then? The answer is easy; we've had a 4-5 keyplayers quit playing due to various different reasons, and most of them in the most shittiest way; simply logging out, moving the characters to another server and pretend like they never played with us at all.
So from all of us in the guild to all of you who just bailed (even you who actually said goodbye), a sincere fuck you!
While progressing on Putricide we've had the huge roster of 26 available guys (excluded an extra non-usable paladin on the side and a rogue who's visiting Dubai) and this means getting the raid up has been slow sometimes coupled with the feeling that ICC is almost over with an unkillable Arthas.
But we got our shit together and downed him, and thus got a look at Arthas 25 hc as well. He does hit like a truck that one, it's gonna be fun to see how we manage with our non-whatsoever fotm tanksetup.
Time to farm some shit and replace the old fucks that couldn't stand the immense pressure of 35 attempts per week.
Recruiting:
- One strong TANK that is not a Warrior is a BIG need.
- Could use a warlock..
- Awesome applicants in general.
Had a good time yesterday working out a tactic on normal mode and practicing not FAILING on bombs and shit. Then did the mistake of doing 2 attempts on heroic mode very early tonight which we brutally failed on so we went back to square one again and then finally after a couple of silly wipes she went down.
Only two more bosses to go in this instance and we're done for the expansion! (well I guess there is the Ruby Sanctum as well but this is what really matters for all of us)
We had three people recording the kill, here is one of them from Lalaith (Fury Warrior) PoV.
I doubt we'll get the Lich King down but at least we'll give Professor Putricide a run for his money tomorrow!
So after our first raid on Wednesday we were all pretty satisfied with the days work and went back to normal raid hours on Thursday and killed Festergut and Blood Princes before the lag and then went 10-mans.
Memento Mori unlike many guilds don't use our alts for a second raid to save tries on our mains so we wanted to run a couple of 10-mans first but had to cancel raid on Friday and Saturday is casual-day so..
We went back to ICC-25 today and one-shotted Blood-Queen.
Going Sindragosa later and hope to see another smooth kill.
After unlocking hardmodes last week as you can see in the previous news todays reset meant the real race was on. As such, almost the whole guild was online when the servers came online (me saying they should be online if they could or they could look around for a new guild might have had something to do with it though) and we were off for the progress that we have all been waiting for for the whole expansion.
We started pretty decent with not an awesome quick kill on Marrowgar but at least a kill within 3-4 attempts, which we obviously didn't bother even screenshotting. We then went on to Lady Deathwhisper that we'd heard US had had some problems with the night before. Most US guilds that had hardmodes unlocked had steamrolled Marrowgar, been stuck on Lady Deathwhisper, steamrolled gunship and then gotten stuck at Saurfang so that was what we expected as well.
Deathwhisper did take us some time to get the tactic working out for us, we redid our whole "normal"-tactic (which pretty much was zerg the shit out of it anyway). To actually have to care about what happens in such a zergfest the normal version is took longer time than we thought but we did get her down, surprisingly since the previous attempts wasn't really indicating on a kill with 70-80 % wipes. Then all of a sudden we managed the p2 elements you'll all be familiar with soon! I got a shit of the shit screenshot that will be up for the time being, someone probably has a better one though.
Gunship was steamrolled and easily oneshotted and we went on a foodbreak to recharge the batteries for what we had assumed would be the first real challenge, Saurfang.
It turned out he did require quite some attempts, but it wasn't due to him being hard. He was just as "easy" as he used to be in a sense, only that the rng factor included in the encounter needed to be repeated until we got lucky, as well as some slight stacking (we did stack slightly, and I know at least one more guild did as well to down him quickly) was needed. Unfortunately we didn't down him before the evening lag broke lose which meant we called the raid for 2 hours during peak time.
When we got back we replaced our initial approach to the setup and went with some alts instead, mostly due to us wanting to minimize the risks. After what was the first lagfree attempt with the new setup we ended up with a kill. Not so much thanks to the setup though probably, moreso to the fact we actually had some luck (which we didn't have for what probably was the first 30 tries or something).
Saurfang being down we went to Valithria, zerged her down with a close wipe, not much to say.
Took about.. 2 hours or so if I remember correctly, hours are starting to get dull!
We then went to the plaguewing, and the Rotface-hardmode that had left some of us with nightmares ever since the ptr testing turned out to be a real piece of cake. That took 2 wipes and then he went down.
We did some attempts on Festergut and worked out a decent tactic but the majority of us had been raiding for about 13 hours and since we don't want to burn ourselves out the first day we simply called it a night!
This kill was supposed to have come two days ago but due to one person not showing up (no names mentioned but his name starts with T and ends in elia) we figured out with our great minds that wasting attempts when you're up to an important challenge = bad and thus we called the raid to tonight. After a late raidstart since we reckoned the lag would be heavy (as it was primetime sunday) we took 2-3 attempts teaching our 7-8 fellas that hadn't been on the fight whatsoever how to play.
Then we fucked up some.
And then we did one of the cleanest first kills I have ever seen, it was pretty much perfect except from 1 player death from once again no names. But he buffs melee and he's big, blue and fucking ugly.
And for those of you who are still reading this shit we managed to get what seems to be world 1st Been Waiting a Long Time for This achievement, due to some rng with our tactic that I presume everyone's using to some extent. Best part being nobody noticed until the achievement flashed up when he died!
Hardmodes next week so stay tuned!
Currently very much looking for a Restoration Druid! (and an exceptional ranged)
