Maligned
Maligned has taken down Nefarian to complete the normal modes for this tier and become the first guild to clear all bosses on twenty five man, not too shabby for a guild only raiding four nights a week although we were all done shortly into our third raid this evening.
So what does that mean? We wasted two days! We will now be shifting our focus to spending some time on the heroic encounters and will be lookin at making some good progress there, but now a little more about the dragon.
The typical Elec shot - so concerned about making sure everyone was facing the right way when suddenly I am pretty sure Nefarian moved. Fortunately, he hadn't.
Nefarian is - strangely for this expansion - a three phase fight with the first phase a dual dragon encounter, the second a test of interupts and not standing in lava (not all too disimilar from fire to be honest) and finally a test for a tank of controlling big angry mobs while the raid attempts to squeeze out every last drop of dps.
Recruitment is still closed, I can't get anyone to leave, but if you want to make yourself useful feel free to roll an alliance character and join the other idiots trying to PVP in Tol'Barad, it will make our work there much easier.
So what does that mean? We wasted two days! We will now be shifting our focus to spending some time on the heroic encounters and will be lookin at making some good progress there, but now a little more about the dragon.
The typical Elec shot - so concerned about making sure everyone was facing the right way when suddenly I am pretty sure Nefarian moved. Fortunately, he hadn't.
Nefarian is - strangely for this expansion - a three phase fight with the first phase a dual dragon encounter, the second a test of interupts and not standing in lava (not all too disimilar from fire to be honest) and finally a test for a tank of controlling big angry mobs while the raid attempts to squeeze out every last drop of dps.
Recruitment is still closed, I can't get anyone to leave, but if you want to make yourself useful feel free to roll an alliance character and join the other idiots trying to PVP in Tol'Barad, it will make our work there much easier.
We aren’t typically the type to post after every boss kill, but this is now another instance cleared on twenty-five man. This time Al’akir was in our sights and it got awfully windy.
The encounter is a three phase fight, each phase being radically different. The first phase needs some spreading out and careful awareness to avoid knockbacks, chain lightning as well as tornados.
The second phase involves killing small adds consistently to stack a powerful debuff on the boss while dealing with the same tornados.
In the third and final phase the fight takes off, with a race to see who will die first.
It is certainly interesting to see different aspects of old fights coming together for new encounters, but our raiders were definitely getting annoyed but I am glad our perseverance paid off for yet another twenty five man server first.
Nefarian next and we are already getting ourselves to the last phase of that encounter so hopefully not too long until we can sit and wait patiently for our exalted-only mounts.
The encounter is a three phase fight, each phase being radically different. The first phase needs some spreading out and careful awareness to avoid knockbacks, chain lightning as well as tornados.
The second phase involves killing small adds consistently to stack a powerful debuff on the boss while dealing with the same tornados.
In the third and final phase the fight takes off, with a race to see who will die first.
It is certainly interesting to see different aspects of old fights coming together for new encounters, but our raiders were definitely getting annoyed but I am glad our perseverance paid off for yet another twenty five man server first.
Nefarian next and we are already getting ourselves to the last phase of that encounter so hopefully not too long until we can sit and wait patiently for our exalted-only mounts.
The Maligned Cataclysm campaign has been underway for nearly a month now and progress has been steady with progress being made every single raid night.
We started in the Blackwing Descent instance and have cleared our way up to Nefarian but haven’t yet had a real play with our favourite vanilla dragon.
We have also taken a look at the Throne of the Four Winds beating down the conclave and making some progress on Al’akir.
Of course we have also completed the Baradin Hold boss several times as well, which provided both little challenge and little raiding loot, but our PVPers are certainly enjoying it.
Our main progress has been in the Bastion of Twilight in which we have now killed Cho’gall on normal mode.
The shift to Cataclysm raiding has certainly been interesting with few abilities to one shot our tanks, but obviously each encounter does have a few interesting mechanics to work our way around but once we have those worked out the challenge hasn’t been that great, but I am sure the heroic versions will be a substantial step up.
We started in the Blackwing Descent instance and have cleared our way up to Nefarian but haven’t yet had a real play with our favourite vanilla dragon.
We have also taken a look at the Throne of the Four Winds beating down the conclave and making some progress on Al’akir.
Of course we have also completed the Baradin Hold boss several times as well, which provided both little challenge and little raiding loot, but our PVPers are certainly enjoying it.
Our main progress has been in the Bastion of Twilight in which we have now killed Cho’gall on normal mode.
The shift to Cataclysm raiding has certainly been interesting with few abilities to one shot our tanks, but obviously each encounter does have a few interesting mechanics to work our way around but once we have those worked out the challenge hasn’t been that great, but I am sure the heroic versions will be a substantial step up.
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