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With 9 men, and a big stick.

Last night the Ravens made their first foray back into Naxx in about a month (having held the raid IDs since we cleared the four wings) and promptly spanked Saphiron (for the loss of two characters, one of whom was me .. oops!).

 Kel Thuzand proved a bit tougher and we bounced a few times. We were getting closer though and despite one of our number having to drop out, we carried out trying, and on the fourth or fifth attempt (having finally sussed the spacing, target priority and add-pickups) we managed to down Kel and "complete" Naxx.

As it happens, I still have two bosses to do (in the Construct quarter) to be fully complete, but hopefully those'll be attained when we next come back to the floating citadel - I suspect the next few weeks will be The Eye, Onyxia and our first steps into Ulduar!

So, last night was the Raven's first trip back to Naxx in a while ... and looked very precarious for a while. Of the 9 sign-ups only 7 were online at the appointed time (the 8th had forgotten but got online as soon as he was called) and the ninth was called away by a family emergency. Never ones to ignore a challenge, we decided to take a crack at the Arachnid Quarter anyway, expecting to get brutalized. We were pleasantly surprised.

Anub'Rekhan took two attempts (as in the first the healers got silenced and it all got messy at that point) but Grand Widow Faerlina went down like a sack of spuds (as usual), thanks to the fact the dps and tanks were putting out about 8k of DPS, so with a full team we'd had sailed through. Maexxna proved a bit much for us to 8-man (we only had 2 healers) so we decided to check out the Obsidian Sanctum, the first time there for many of us.

This was somewhat harder work, but we 8-man cleared to the first mini-boss and then roped in another guildy for a the attempt. We bounced a few times as we learned how it all worked, but eventually prevailed. More badges for the collection!

Loot wise it was DPS-tastic - 2 pieces of caster loot (gloves from AR and off-hand from Faerlina), and 2 of melee loot (a dagger from AR and, if memory serves, some boots). Though I was the only clothy present, the caster items were only greed for me (having the Ebenweave gloves and the badge off-hander) so they went to our friendly neighbourhood battle-tree Leafshine. Our rogue, Almaron, got the melee gear (and very happy he was too!)

All in all a good night, despite the ominous start, and shows that we can get things done (and surely will once we get back up to strength). Go us!