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Unity Path Defeat Putricide Heroic! (Faction First)

Toban — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:30:56 +0000

Ugh. Putricide Heroic is now completed, which is the positive, but we made a real hash of this particular fight – using a strategy which was fundamentally flawed, but which looked initially promising. This took us down the wrong path for two weeks, and there was minimal euphoria on the kill – a two shot with a completely revised tactic – more a cold realisation that we were two weeks late and hadn’t done a good job.

However, congratulations to the loot winners: Naradien with [item]Protector’s Mark of Sanctification[/item], and Irisiri with [item]Astrylian’s Sutured Cinch[/item].

Unity Path Defeat Deathwhisper Heroic! (Faction First)

Toban — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:00:40 +0000

This took a bit longer than it should have, largely due to using a questionable tactic which just didn’t offer enough stability in P3 and Earthen Ring deciding to take a vacation on two of our raiding nights during the previous weeks raiding.

It’s certainly the most challenging fight of the opening 11 bosses in the Heroic instance – only the big three of Putricide, Sindragosa and The Lich King offer more challenge.

Congratulations to the loot winners: Illiath with [item]Blood-Soaked Saronite Stompers[/item], Kayel with [item]Ring of Maddening Whispers[/item] and Sehana with [item]The Lady’s Brittle Bracers[/item].

Unity Path Defeat Blood Princes Heroic! (Faction First)

Toban — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:30:42 +0000

In truth, we should have taken this fight the week before, but we chose to go to Festergut and stay on it until it was dead. When we eventually went to the Princes, we found it to be a very straightforward fight in real terms and one which didn’t put up an awful lot of resistance. As such we can only claim a Faction First on this boss – our own mistake.

However, congratulations to the loot winners: Sylivia with [item]Shoulders of Frost-Tipped Thorns[/item], Irisiri with [item]Geistlord’s Punishment Sack[/item] and Rhoanna with [item]San’layn Ritualist Gloves[/item].

Unity Path Defeat The Crimson Hall! (Realm First)

Toban — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:30:07 +0000

Whilst it has to be said we made a complete mess of the fight the previous instance reset, the highlight being wiping at 2% in a night filled with new and wonderful ways of self-destructing on the way down, the return bout this week yielded a kill within four pulls. An excellently tuned fight, completely centric on damage this will be a block to many.

Congratulations to the loot winners: Sehana with [item]Blood Queen’s Crimson Choker[/item], together with Giggles and Woltarius who both bagged a [item]Vanquisher’s Mark of Sanctification[/item].

Unity Path Achieve A Tribute To Insanity! (Faction First)

Toban — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:00:05 +0000

This had to be one of the more annoying achievements.

Two months ago, we blew it at 11% of the Anub’arak takedown due to an incredibly vexing oversight by a passive healer (the group died), and since then there’s been week after week of random disconnections of MT’s, a couple of questionable errors or just plain misfortune.

Of course, it had to be this week. From rescuing The Northrend Beasts from a near certain wipe due to massive lag trashing the movement from two Icehowl charges by the skin of our teeth, the rest of the instance was on rails, including the nastiest possible version of the Faction Champions.

Unity Path Storm The Citadel! (Faction First)

Toban — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:09:50 +0000

Icecrown was released with 3.3, the server was a laggy mess – virtually unplayable for the first two hours of our first sortie – but we got the job done without too much fuss.

The difficulty seems very similar to the non-heroic Colosseum, and we await the real meat of the heroic versions of these fights in a month or three’s time with some optimism. With a bit of luck, the Ulduar lag will have died down then as well, as it’s putting a serious crimp on us putting Yogg+0 on farm.

Unity Path Defeat Mimiron Firefighter! (Faction First)

Toban — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:30:58 +0000

The fight has a horrific reputation, but I think the team did very well – five wipe nights total and the boss hit the deck with quite a bit of margin to spare on the ten minute enrage – in relative terms of course! Big kudos to the healing team – we pulled the fight off with zero Priests on the night, which is very much against conventional wisdom but “faith manages”.

Congratulations to Codor who bagged [item]Delirium’s Touch[/item].

Unity Path Defeat Freya+3 (Faction First)

Toban — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:25:29 +0000

We probably should have done this last week, but we decided to just mop everything up in a couple of days and have a couple of days breather after the exertions of the weeks before. And within 5 pulls on the night, we cleaned up. In real terms, adding the last Watcher – the ground tremor – wasn’t a very large step after we’d already polished the technique until it squeaked on Freya+2.

It didn’t feel an epic kill, +2 felt better. However, congratulations to Nasreen who pocketed [item]Dreambinder[/item].