A couple of attempts later and we had him to P3 before we all slowly dropped dead. It felt "doable" though. Then disaster struck. Element had to leave early and only had time for the world famous One Last Try! Strangely, a kind of Zen state of calm descended on the raid and everything went perfectly. Everyone was alive for P3,we popped Heroism and nuked the bejesus out of him. 20%... 10%... 5%... OH GOD WHY IS EVERYONE DYING WHO DO I HEAL?? HALP!!!!!

Kill him we did though and it was the most satisfying kill since Wrath for me personally. Lots of shouting on TS ensued and I'm sure that at least 10 of us will be in a great mood going into Icecrown (hopefully) on Wednesday!

Time for a news update.

Nothing much has changed in the 25 man world. We're farming ToC and waiting for Blizzard to put us out of our misery and let us go raid Icecrown much like the other 99% of our server are.

To try and not die from boredom we sent a 10 man team back to Ulduar to see if we could get ourselves some hardmode achievements (and some drakes of course!) before the next patch. Despite a pretty unbalanced group (not our mental state, although that's up for debate) we really had no problems at all. We had a few wipes on Orbituary as some of us hadn't done it before but quickly got that one in the bag. Iron Dwarf Medium Rare and Furnacemaster were both one-shotted.

There was some concerns at the start that two healers wouldn't be enough for Heartbreaker, however Heltzer and myself laughed at these claims as we oneshotted it with only one death (Ananchel, and it was probably his fault). Iron Council next and once again the brute force of our melee section was just too much (7.5k dps Shinrae, was that really necessary?) and Kervik bagged himself the quest item. Guess who'll be there on our first Algalon raid ;)

Disarmed and Crazy Cat Lady were next, both of which are stupidly easy with our current gear levels, although it could be argued that they were easy enough anyway. We never really tried them back in 3.1 to be honest!

Next up, Lose Your Illusion which we...yes you get the idea. It was one-shotted.

Hodir was a chance for our melee to once again /flex and I think we had a minute to spare on the timer for I Would Say This Cache Is Rare.

Next week we'll be doing Firefighter, Whatever Freya's hard mode is called, I love the Smell of Saronite. We'll also be attempting not just our guilds first Yogg+1 kill, but if we succeed it'll be our first Yogg kill period. Like I said, not a very blanced group ;)

It's been a busy time for us lately. Now that it's getting a bit cold outside people have flocked back to their PCs and we're back to raiding rather a lot.

After a pretty nippy 10 man ToC clear last week we decided to have a stab at the Heroic version and it went rather well. We one shot the Beasts and then surprised ourselves by doing the same to Jaraxus. There was talk of [Tribute to That One Where You Have 50 Attempts Left] but thankfully the Faction Champions slapped us around a bit and brought us back down to earth. We had our revenge though and went on to kill the Valkyr's as well before discovering that Hard Mode Anub'Arak is Hard.

In 25 man news we've been clearing ToC with ease and have decided to go back and finish Ulduar before trying ToGC 25. We got Vezax down easily enough but spent a full night wiping on Yogg. We'll get him though. Oh yes.

World of CasualCraft strikes again!

Last night saw us take a slightly more optimised group (ie, less drunk) than usual into ToGC and we managed to complete our first hard mode.

Go team!

Killshot coming when our lazy GM and official guild photographer uploads it :)

Last night saw our World First Guild First kill of Anub'Arak (who it seems is going to be the Kael'Thas of this expansion. I eagerly await "Zombie Anub'Arak" telling us that Trial of the Crusader was "just a setback" when we get to Icecrown...)

Well done to everyone who was there last night, it was a damn efficient evening of raiding with everyone playing well and some nice loot drops.

Next up, some Trial of the Grand Crusader fun or maybe we'll go back and finish Ulduar like we should have done over the summer if we hadn't all been busy getting sun tans and drinking beer.

Oh yeah, we're also still recruiting. We'd be simply delighted to hear from you if you're a:

• Balance Druid
• Elemental Shaman
• Restoration Shaman
• Mage

• 20 years old or more (this rule is not flexible).
• Able to put up with various forms of degenerate conversation in /g and /ra (and /w if you're lucky).
• Not afraid of a bit of wiping.
• The type of person that shows up for raids fully prepared and on time (ie has respect for his fellow raiders).
• Able to raid on wednesdays and sundays 20:30 - midnight. Attendance is not mandatory in this guild but as we are recruiting to fill raids it would kind of defeat the purpose if this conflicts with your weekly schedule.