Good Newsssss Everybody! Professor Putricide 25 down!

The fight against Professor Putricide concludes the plagueworks wing of Icecrown Citadel and consits mainly of add control and goo control. It is once again another fight which combines spatial awareness and communication, rewarding those with those qualities by not killing them in a pool of goo! We spent a couple of nights working on this boss in 25 before we finally managed to grasp the killing of the adds and getting used to the visual cues which lead to death! After several different tactics we settled on the hard mode tactic of sitting at the green adds spawn which greatly increased our dps time which made it easier to beat the beserk timer. Once we had the green and orange blobs sorted it was fairly simple with it only taking 2 attempts after reaching phase 3 for us to complete the encounter.

Congratulations to everyone on another job well done!

Andy.

Sindragosa 10 Down! The Frost Queen Defrosted!

The fight against the Frost Queen is a combination of high tank damage and once again lots of co-ordination. We managed to get this down on the second night of trying when we eventually got used to the low health of the frost tombs and getting used to the hectic phase 3 of this fight. Only arthas to go on 10 guys keep up the good work!

Andy.

The Observer can no longer be Observed! Algalon 10 down!

On to the big stuff, Algalon the Observer! We have been trying to get this down for several weeks, and it didnt really help that by this point it was 2 am due to me having exams so this was the only day we could raid this week. This boss as always, is about spatial awareness and fairly high raid damage and tank damage. In fact, algalon hits far too hard, things which have rogue swing timers just shouldnt hit T10 tanks for 20k anyways! After we sorted all the black hole usage and the killing of the collapsing stars this was easy! We went through several wipes with just little things wiping us, as thats just how the fight is, it just has to be done perfect! However by the last attempt with 7 mins to go the stars aligned! Starcaller all round and a pretty prestigous boss down for [TwSL]!

 Congrats to everyone! and seeya all after exams!

Andy.

Crimson Halls 10 Cleared! Princes and Blood Queen 10 down!

[TwSL] continue their rampant progression through 10 man ICC with the clearing of the new wing on the first day of attempts! This wing continues the ever increasing trend Icecrown Citadel of the fights getting harder and more complex, as well as being gear checks for either healers or DPS. The new wing is all about blood and vampires and such, enjoy!

First boss in the wing was Blood Princes, this is another council fight with 3 bosses with linked health pools. This fight takes alot of coordination and spatial awareness to complete sucessfully. It also requires a ranged tank, most likely a warlock which Jon enjoyed and got him remeniscing about the TBC days and Mint killing Illidan and stuff. Anyways after getting use to the individual boss abilities and getting all the tanks sorted and communcated the empowered skills, we has sucess and killed the first boss in the crimson halls after a few attempts!

Last boss in the Crimson Halls is Blood Queen Lana'thel, this boss is a very harsh DPS/Healer check. The raid damage his huge while also having to heal fairly high tank damage, with lots of moving and paying attention to the floor and debuffs as usual these days. The bite order being the complicated organisation, getting it correct we didnt even manage on the kill but we manage to get enough High DPS bitten early enough for it not to screw up the DPS check! After a lot of attempts and trying several different healing setups, we went with 3 healers and managed to kill the Blood Queen. Another week and half and we'll have new stuff to kill! Putricide we did 2 attempts on and even with a new pally have got it down to the point where we will certainly get it next week! 

Congrats to the whole raid team and to the guild in obtaining Top 10 status on 10 man!

Andy.