I have been informed my original post was “boring.” Therefore, I have replaced my original commentary on the fight with turgid RP prose.

We ascended up to the spires of Icecrown Citadel, to do battle with the vile wyrm Sindragosa in her very lair. With sword and spell we did battle against her mighty magics of frost and death. Back and forth the battle swayed, as we drove the unholy skeletal dragon back into the air time and again, avoiding her frigid breath with consumate skill. Finally, the blanched and exsanguinous beast descended to the ground for a final time, and began to unleash a diabolic wave of foul sorcery. The brave champions of Azeroth girded their loins, their mighty thews strengthened by the pure force of their heroism, and so valiantly overcame the dread fiend. Our shouts of victory shook the very Frozen Throne; the Lich King himself looked down upon the victorious champions, gathered about the massive corpse of his slain behemoth, and said “WTF? RP Shit?”

The Blood Queen is dead, finally. I like the fight, it’s pretty fun and it uses a mechanic that hasn’t really been used before. It’s also a fight where lag or a disconnect really, really hurts, and it’s one of those were pretty much everyone has to do their job right or they kill other people and/or themselves and/or otherwise make things much harder.

We also saved Dreamwalker on Tuesday; easy fight for the most part, and the healers had a lot of fun. At least, the healers who weren’t healing the raid had a lot of fun. So: now only Sindragosa and Arthas are left before we reach hard modes.

Just like in 8-World Super Mario Bros, Insanity eventually pays off. In this case, it meant that we killed Anub’arak with 50 attempts remaining. Great work, everyone.

Vanquish has murdered Professor Putricide and the Blood Princes. Putricide went down relatively quick and easy; the Princes were a very easy fight, once we got the hang of passing the balls to the Warlock tanking the Shadow prince. There really isn’t a lot to say - both of these fights are relatively simple, and downing them on Tuesday was pretty much expected.

Blood Queen Lana’thel is up next, and we’ll hopefully be posting another kill this week.

Long live Vanquish.

It was a very long time in coming, but hard-mode Anub’arak 25 has been killed. And there was much rejoicing. Eleven of the people in raid had been with us when we first started doing pulls on Anub’arak and have been along for the whole ride; fourteen people in the raid have been with the guild for only part of the journey, and their contributions helped make the difference. Thank you to everyone who stuck with this: it feels good to finally be here.

On to Icecrown.

The first four bosses of Icecrown were (unsurprisingly) easy. Still, it’s nice seeing loot that isn’t sharded en-masse and a few new fights – it’s been almost a year since this much new content to play through landed in a day.

While the fights were relatively easy, at least Deathbringer and the Gunship battle managed to feel new and interesting. Lord Marrowgar was an amalgamation of Leotheras and Naj’entus, Lady Deathwhisper is an improved Shade of Akama phase one combined with a simplified Kel’thuzad phase two. The Gunship used old mechanics for the most part, but it felt different than other fights. Saurfang is just a fun fight… at least for melee.

We’re also still recruiting! Our highest priority right now is for Priests (Holy/Discipline), Mages, Warlocks, and a Shaman (Elemental), but we are accepting apps of all classes.

Vanquish, post Deathbringer kill.