Unity Path Achieve A Tribute To Mad Skill! (Realm First)Posted on | November 18, 2009 | No Comments
In fact, we were perilously close to taking the big one – 50/50 and A Tribute To Insanity, however we fumbled the ball at 11% on the way down with a silly error. However, there’s always next time! Unity Path Defeat Anub’arak Heroic! (Realm First)Posted on | November 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
We were feeling relatively confident of a kill after 7% and 11% wipes on Wednesday, however after five and a half hours, 25 pulls and running an hour overtime on the raid night, P3 continued to be on the wrong side of the knife edge – until pull 26 and the boss hit the deck with only 3 people left standing after a final 15 seconds of utter mayhem. The infamous 1% Unity Path wipe was looking likely, but thankfully avoided. Congratulations to the many loot winners of the night. Batory and Lavode who bag the first Tier 9 258 on the realm, both with [item]Regalia of the Grand Vanquisher[/item], Minbrah with [item]Signet of the Traitor King[/item], Kwis with [item]Legguards of the Lurking Threat[/item], Sehana with [item]Footpads of the Icy Floe[/item], and Amethyst with [item]Gloves of Bitter Reprisal[/item].
Unity Path Defeat The Twin Val’kyr Heroic! (Realm First)Posted on | October 4, 2009 | No Comments
Congratulations to the loot winners: Irisiri with [item]Twin Spike[/item], Lavode with [item]Lupine Longstaff [/item] and Sehana with [item]Cord of Pale Thorns[/item]. Unity Path Become Celestial Defenders!Posted on | September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
Such was our reward for the Realm First, together with the honour of handing in the first 25-man [item]Reply-Code Alpha[/item], to quite a crowd who had assembled in Dalaran. Like the Drakes, this was a fitting reward for the team after such a long campaign. Unity Path Defeat Algalon The Observer! (Realm First)Posted on | September 30, 2009 | No Comments
Congratulations to Zattanna who bagged the realm’s first [item]Reply-code Alpha[/item], along with Nasreen with [item]Solar Bindings[/item] and Illiath with [item]Sabatons of Lifeless Night[/item]. Unity Path Defeat Onxyia! (Realm First)Posted on | September 23, 2009 | No Comments
More nostalgia with the loot, and congratulations to the winners: Codor with [item]Bloodfang Hood[/item] and Shamizta with [item]Antediluvian Cornerstone Grimoire[/item]. Unity Path Defeat Faction Champions Heroic! (Realm First)Posted on | September 18, 2009 | No Comments
Congratulations to the loot winners: Ataluta with Justicebringer, Dorloni with both the [item]Bastion of Purity[/item] and [item]Boots of Tremoring Earth[/item]. Unity Path Defeat Lord Jaraxxus Heroic! (Realm First)Posted on | September 13, 2009 | No Comments
Congratulations to Minbrah with [item]Dawnbreaker Greaves[/item], Norinia with [item]Leggings of the Soothing Touch[/item] and Zattanna with [item]Ring of the Darkmender[/item]. Unity Path Defeat Northrend Beasts Heroic! (Realm First)Posted on | September 11, 2009 | No Comments
Congratulations to the first winners of ilevel 258 loot on Earthen Ring, Lothas with [item]Band of Violent Temperment[/item], Fornica with [item]Shawl of the Refreshing Winds[/item] and Naradien with [item]Belt of the Ice Burrower[/item].
Unity Path Achieve Glory Of The Ulduar Raider! (Realm First)Posted on | September 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
Congratulations to the entire team – the Glory of the Ulduar Raider has been a work in progress since Ulduar first opened, and achieving it as a Realm First is a fit and proper reward for all the effort people have put into the last four months. « go back — keep looking » |
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After narrowly missing A Tribute To Skill the previous week, we more than made up for that minor oversight by taking A Tribute To Mad Skill with 46 attempts remaining for the week.
It’s taken a month, but Anub’arak finally hit the deck. A number of the old hands were surprised by the sheer viciousness of the encounter design – this is a legitimate test. P1/P2 were sorted out to satisfaction after two weeks but P3, well P3 is something else entirely. There are some fights, and fight mechanics you simply remember – this is unequivocally one, and penetrating cold will give the healers nightmares for weeks to come.
After two total wipe nights, we started to make progress on this fight – making steady progress until we hit the obligatory 1% wipe. A couple later, the fight was in the bag – and is definitely the first of the “proper” fights in the instance.
The defeat of Algalon (below), was only one part of the story. As Blizzard have stated repeatedly, they regard the defeat of Algalon as a particular milestone in the history of a Realm and reward that achievement with a unique title to those involved on the kill, and broadcast the event to everyone logged in, on either faction, at the time.
The capitulation of Algalon received the loudest cheer of the expansion – since we landed M’uru in Sunwell Plateau over a year ago. 22 weeks, almost half a year, since we stumbled in to Ulduar with the messy defeat of Flame Leviathan, the final boss was defeated in one of Blizzard’s best ever instances.
It was nice to see the old girl again – over three years since we last saw the place – but the fight lacked any of the original’s substance. Back in the day, even in good Molten Core gear, the fight was still a focus check – this you could do with your eyes closed and wearing a bin-liner.
We went into this expecting to be messy and I don’t think anyone was disappointed in that particular regard! 17 attempts however saw a bunch of PvE raiders refine a technique just about good enough to incapacitate, shut down and otherwise kite the Faction Champions around, whilst doing enough damage to the primary targets to put them down. In the final pulls, it went smoother than many had feared.
Not quite as intimidating as The Northrend Beasts, this is a pure technique fight rather than technique coupled with a gear check – although obviously more gear makes things easier. 18 pulls saw us take the spoils – not insignificant, but certainly the first kill was looking on after the first hour or thereabouts.
We snaffled another Realm first in the Heroic Colosseum, however this was a proper fight indeed. The first week, we were given something of a bloody nose on the fight, and our damage was a bit off – also our technique in hindsight. We also had bigger fish to fry re: Firefighter and unlocking Algalon. Some significant revisions for this week, together with some patented raid leader “motivation”, saw us drop Icehowl, just as he enraged – and you don’t get much more on the wire than that!
And with Firefighter finally achieved, only Crazy Cat Lady remained to complete a number of meta achievements – which was added without fuss on the return trip as we’d deliberately left Auriaya alive en-route to Mimiron.