Profound Guild

It’s just like everybody says.

You get through Spine, and think to yourself “nothing can be more difficult than that, surely?” and you’d be right. We spent about a third of the time on Madness compared to Spine, and now it all seemed so easy.

Taste the Rainbow

The biggest problem with this encounter is the lack of working immunity abilities for Impale. Are we always going to be limited to using a DK? I’d like my Ardent Defender to do what it says in the tooltip, and Guardian Spirit was pretty annoying too. But after all the planning, the hours of wipes, and the log browsing, we finally settled on a group and went ahead.

A very well-deserved kill from the entire guild – we would not be here without all members past and present! This is for you; all of you.

Victory!

It’s always disheartening hitting a wall like this for a progression raiding guild. In fact, I would hazard a guess to say that half of the weeks since the Blackhorn kill, we’ve actually just been victim to real life issues. It has been hard to get the group set up, but tonight we had it perfect.

We didn’t even change tactics, and there’s the kill. That 5% nerf probably wasn’t needed – actually, I’m just gonna go out and say it: we didn’t need the nerf. It’s a shame, but say what you will.

I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your GOD-DAMN SPINE!

By the way, I loved this fight.

Hey, it's Thrall!

An extremely difficult boss with a lot of wipes to simple mechanics. We all did well, now let’s have a moment of silence for ourselves.

Now this is a story all about how
Zon’ozz took us time to get knocked down
If you’d like to take a minute and just sit right there
I’ll tell you how we wasted time wiping in his lair

In West Dragonblight, flown by drake
In the Dragon Soul is where I spent most of my days
Healing up, damaging, tanking all cool
Shooting some Void ball outside of the pool
When a couple of Eyes, they were up to no good
Started beaming the raid in my assigned north group
I got hit by one little flail and my R.L. got scared
He said “you’re moving with the tank and the healer on the claw”

I listened to the man and when it came clear the
Fight seemed best with me at the rear
If anything I could say that my DPS was rare
But I thought “nah forget it, yo homes, just stand there!”

I ran from the boss around bounce 7 or 8
And I yelled to the raid “Yo, homes, that was great!”
I watched the boss fall, we were finally there
To loot all our spoils from Zon’ozz’s lair 

I might have spent too much time on that. Also, incoming parody, if I can find the acapella of that song.

Let's Bounce

Forgot a pose shot. But you got a parody rap. GET OFF MY CASE.

Do you ever get that feeling like you’re a rodent in an experiment, pushing buttons for food within a short lapse of time from an event that a lab technician controls? You know, perhaps pressing Heroic Will two seconds before Fading Light and every 3rd rotation of some sort of Hour of Twilight?

I dunno, man. I smell a rat.

Faded Darkness

My bad. I dished out loot before we sorted the screenshot of the chest out, so here’s a generic lootship pose shot of us after finishing loot.

Ultra Pose

What do you get when you mix laser tag, a power plant, and an ice cream machine together in a Blizzard development team?

Hagara Heroic.

lol j/k.

(no really)

She’s iced. I’m shocked.

Iced that guy, to cone a phrase

You're not sending ME to the COOLER!

Well, no heroic kill is complete without screenshots. Right? RIGHT?

Mr Blobby

The Corpse Dance

We’re back from Christmas break, and ready to focus our efforts on the upcoming challenges: heroic modes.

We attempted Morchok Heroic way-back last year in the week before we stopped raiding, and it seemed obvious we (more specifically, I) hadn’t done enough preparation and it didn’t go too well. So we gave up and cleared Deathwing for the lootz.

So here’s the new year, and first on the list is already scratched out.

Derettahs

We’ll probably try Yor’sahj next, but I think Zon’ozz is worth more in the pointz so it’s up for consideration. Anyway, we like to gloat so here’s a pose:

Super Happy Raiding Club

We finally got our full 10man team together last night and managed to kill Deathwing in the second week of release. It really should have been Deathwing on Monday and heroic Morchok tonight, but shit happens and that’s where we’re at now.

Jaw-droppingly Fantastic!

We have the obligatory pose shot too, which we took while in an audience with Thrall.

Dude, you on steroids?

It’s pretty quick to clear Dragon Soul at this point but I’m sure that will change when we get to do our first heroic. For this week only we can relax and put our feet up. I just had surgery so I know that’s what I’ll be doing!

After 9 manning the first 4 bosses last night (while I went to a Skrillex gig, oh yes!) then killing Ultraxion when I got back home, we left with a few tries on Warmaster Blackhorn getting to the second phase on the first try.

We returned tonight for some more lootship action and finely tuned the loosely planned tactic for the kill!

Sailing Away

So, on to the Spine of Death Wing to see how far we would get. I honestly didn’t think we would have the time on him tonight, since we needed to stick somewhat to our raid end time. However, on our final “last try” we got it done and nerdgasms were a-plenty!

Thrall-beam Success!

Just t’old Neltharion left to kill and we are on heroic modes. OH MY GOSH!