Results tagged “Icecrown Citadel”

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 :( )