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And with the downing of Rotface on Monday (after several weeks of wiping) the Shattered Ravens are are the half-way point in Icecrown Citadel. Of course, it's the easier half of the raid (and we can manage the lower four and Fester without too many hassles now) but it's the first time we've been significantly through endgame raid content while its current so I'm happy. The closest we've been previously was Zul Aman in Burning Crusade where we reached Halazzi (with two more bosses to go) before 3.0 and the nerf bat dropped and things became trivial (though to be fair without Wrynn's  ICC buff we'd still be in the lower part of the citadel)

It's likely to be tough going from here on in. Next up are Putricide, Dreamwalker and the Blood Princes, fight's we've "looked at" and died on miserably, but then it doesn't seem that long ago that Saurfang (or even Marrowgar) were wiping us as quickly. The trick, I think, will be maintaining sufficient impetus to keep interest in the raids as far as the Lich King. We've got 2 or 3 months for this (as I don't envisage Cataclysm dropping before October, and November would fit the pattern of previous releases) so we'll have to see ...

Last night the Ravens finally laid to rest one of the ghosts that have plagued us for the last month or so - Deathbringer Saurfang finally fell and we could push onward into the Upper Spire. Of course, it wouldn't be a Ravens kill without some oddity - most of us were going "damn, so close" when the kill message popped up. You can see how many of us were still standing ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

We took a brief look-see into Upper Spire (or should that be the Death Star , given teh rather strong resemblance) killing Precious and Stinky before being annihilated in our first clash with Festergut (before lag, communications difficulties and bad tempers prompted an end to the evenings fun).

 

You'll note that I'm not playing Andro but rather my paladin, Buliwyf, despite his being rather less well geared than Andro as we're a tad short of tanks at the moment. It's an interesting change from DPS (albeit terrifying at times) that on the one hand is less intense than DPS - stand at point X and hit the baddy, taunting at appropriate times - but involves a large degree of trust that the healers will keep you up. I'm not deadfully experienced as a tank, so people are placing a fair deal of trust in me but in many regards its less stressful than fights like HoR heroic.

Having just spent 95 badges on a shiney new (and very ugly) hat Andro is taking abreak from heroics too (while hoping for a fourth piece of T10 to drop in VoA). She'll occasionally come out to play, but Buli and Maebh, my hunter, can still benefit from Triumph badges and drops to some extent and so are the priority (as well as my mid-60s Druid and baby Warrior). After a couple of months of little in the way of ranged weapon drops, Mae spectacularly broke her duck this week, finally aquiring the Epic crossbow from Ingvar then the bow from Ick in Pit of Saron (the highpoint of a run that ended with a bugged boss :( )

 

Last night the Shattered Ravens returned to Ulduar (our second guild visit, though some people have done it independently), but first more important things: Andro's fashion sense.

 

For the last few months Andro has been kitted out in T7/T8 and then T8/T9, including the Tier 8 chest. While a nice piece of kit, it's a tunic and so Andro has (in the words of our gnome rogue, Rivelinho, been "showing off her legs"). Being a modest kinda gal she's not been too fond of the various flavours of tights she's worn during this time  but thanks to all the Emblems of Triumph she is finally kitted out in four pieces of T9, including the robe. Yep, back in a dress at last! Oh, and shiny new dagger, wand (x2) and staff!

 

The Ulduar trip was slightly delayed by work-related issues and so after some personnel substitutions we quickly visted Obsidian Sanctum and promply salughtered the inhabitants (with, IIRC, only one death). In addition to a super-speedy kill of Sarth Andro managed to get Gonna Go When the Volcano Blows!

With out group finally ready, we headed to Ulduar and had something of a mooch in vehicles killing everything and generally being chaotic before taking a pop at Flame Leviathan (which we failed at on the first attempt, but did handily on the second. next up was XT Deconstructor, who was a boss many of us hadn't fought before and who proved to be good fun (even though Andro died).

Next up was Ignis, who we'd seen on out previous visited and whom was promptly one-shotted. Following that we headed to Razorscale who, despite a little bit of harpoon confusion and Leafshine needing to force a reboot mid fight ended well for the Ravens with both the armoured drake felled and the "Siege of Ulduar" completed.

More personnel substitutions followed as the hour was getting late, but we wanted to see more of the complex and so pushed on into the Antechamber of Ulduar. After the trash pull from hell (prompting comments of "so that's why they leave those up") we paid Kologarn a visit. This proved to be the most troublesome fight of the evening (as fatigue and/or alcohol took its toll) but on the fourth attempt we got him down. A couple of notable moments here: the tank discovering that Kologarn really was sitting in a bottomless pit (splat!), a rogue following him in the next fight (oops!) and a mage who can't tell her left from her right (who, me? Looks innocent).

And that's where we left it for the night (it being gone midnight, not that that stopped us taking a quick trip to Pit of Saron HC) but with plans to return to Ulduar in the near future to continue where we left off.

 

On our second visit to Zul Aman, the Ravens finally took down out first boss of the instance - Nalorakk, the bear boss who caused so much grief last time out. We got to him in 20 minutes or so with no casualties and promptly burned him down, losing only 1/2 a person in the fight (saved by a druid combat-res) and netting me a shining new pair of bracers.