Unity Path Defeat Al’Akir Heroic! (Realm First)Two weeks to the day of the Nefarian Heroic kill, the next end-instance boss fell – Al’Akir. Al’Akir is very front-loaded in the brutal phase 1 – giving an almost vertical learning curve and the impression of very little progress. So much so, that you could have passed the razor blades out after 4 days […] Unity Path Defeat Nefarian Heroic! (Realm First)And Nefarian fell, for the second time. We’ll ignore the Cataclysm Normal version, we’re referring to the 40-man raid boss and now it’s revised Heroic version. The history of the group stretches back to 2005, and a great shout went up when the old fellow was put away again. The fight is best categorised as […] Unity Path Defeat The Conclave of Wind Heroic! (Realm First)We probably made a bit of a hash of this boss chasing at least two different strategies at various points during the learning phase, rather than rote-learning a single technique. This was never going to play to our strengths as a team, which is why we left it as long as we did in the […] Unity Path Defeat Valiona & Theralion Heroic! (Realm First)We elected to go an alternative route to the common wisdom, and went after the second boss in Bastion before finishing off Blackwing Descent – and were rewarded with this fine kill. After a fair bit of work and wipes we might add. A well-tuned fight, with the pressure very much biased to those in […] Unity Path Defeat Magmaw Heroic! (Realm First)A definite step-up in difficulty, this was highly tuned and deserved it’s reputation as a gear-check. It took us a little under two weeks to put this one behind us, and the kill was highly rewarding. Again, a Realm First to add to our first kill of Atramedes – however the 10 man campaign now […] Unity Path Defeat Atramedes Heroic! (Realm First)Similar to Maloriak in that the route forwards was quite obvious from the opening night of action, but the final execution took a few more evenings to perfect. However, most notable for us was our first Realm First since finishing Icecrown Citadel Heroic. Cataclysm saw the whole structure of the team change, and we’ve been […] Unity Path Defeat The Lich King Heroic! (Realm First)After four months, with a three-week diversion to kill Halion 25 Heroic, the Lich King 25 Heroic finally toppled. And we thought M’uru was a long campaign – this was harder. It was a harder fight, but it was harder on the raid group – and some people lost their nerve. But the true backbone […] Unity Path Defeat Halion Heroic! (Realm First)It took a little over three weeks, and a complete reworking of our approach to the fight when we discovered we were going to come up short on the eight-minute enrage. But after an evening when it always looked likely, Halion finally surrendered and the Ruby Sanctum was cleared. Congratulations to the loot winners: Toban […] Unity Path Defeat Halion! (Realm First)Ruby Sanctum is a pretty instance, but the normal version of the fight isn’t all that an a bag of chips. Basically, run away with a bombs, don’t stand in fire, and avoid some beams of death. However, congratulations to the loot winners: Lavode with [item]Umbrage Armbands[/item], Codilia with [item]Phaseshifter’s Bracers[/item] and Toban with [item]Charred […] Unity Path Defeat Sindragosa Heroic (Realm First)We had feared becoming mired on Sindragosa after a couple of bad nights going nowhere fast, but after a revision of the ice block strategy and a general boot up the backside, the fight fell into place quite quickly. For the healers, it’s a bit of a nightmare, for everyone else there’s not a lot […] « go back — keep looking » |
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