Carpe Jugulum

Congratulations on your legendary daggers, our first set for guild.  Looking good.  A great effort for all the guild, on the night of our first 25 madness kill Theoldbag got her daggers.

edit: Just as a quick note, we were the 20th guild on server to achieve the daggers.  Great effort by all.

It's been a little while, but we're still making progress.  We're 2/8 in 10 man heroic with a couple of bosses within shooting distance.  Our 25 man raid is currently rebuilding, with 4-7 pugs filling up most weeks.  Each week we're adding in a couple of new members and hopefully we'll have the raid back on track and clearing out DS (currently 6/8 on 25 man).  We've taken a smaller set of people on the heroic journey and with the departures of Lami and Cake we're again actively looking at our roster to find people with the spark and self motivation to step up a notch.

Focus from here on out is to get people starting to think about MoP, which mains they want to carry forward into the expansion and which toons they want to give quiet time.  A number of folks are already in the beta (/shakesfistatbliz) and reporting many bugs and learnings.  It will be good to see the new class in action.  Anyways, with many months before MoP and a few more nights of learning we intend to go into MoP with smiles on our faces. 

Well done guys, much hard work by all.  We'll have to do a couple more.

Cake got his staff from the huge quest line.   Congratulations Cake and well done guys on a smooth run.

Congratulations guys, 7/8... now the mad bugger to go.

We've managed to clear the lower tower, not on 25 but if we get greater focus we'll get there this week.  It looks like everybody has taken on board the changes (our paladins can aoe heal!) and the melee are now pushing hard.  The world is looking good for more learning, more wiping and more entertainment.  I must remember to upload the pictures of us killing things!

With 4.3 dropping last night it's time to take the fun to a new level.  There are strong reasons to believe that the cow level has been ported from another game and been secretly implemented.  We've got a messy month ahead with Christmas parties and work dinners affecting attendance, hopefully it won't be too long before we're happily roflstomping the big chicken himself!

With three new heroics, a bunch of orange staves to finish and a cow level to discover, the world looks all sparkly!

This is very cliche for anybody who raided vanilla, but finally we have Rag down.  Now to convert it to a 25 kill!

We're progressing through the content, getting to 5/7 before the pre-4.3 nerfs hit.  We managed to get the bird boss after several nights of learning the fight and pushing to the dps curve.  It's an interesting fight, and certainly involves a lot of movement.  We went and spent the rest of the evening on Majordomo and learnt some valuable lessons.  With the nerfs to the content, we will certainly have a different time over the next few weeks.

We got some quality time on the walking boss and one shotted it.   Small changes, like only turning him one way and rdps/heals not stacking on the big add, made for a single attempt kill on the boss (screenshot soon).  It was a good night's effort, with one wipe on Beth and then 13 attempts working out the mechanics of the bird boss.  We're having a few issues fielding a 25 currently, with sign ups about 2-3 light and no-shows hurting.  We may need to go recruiting again.  Looking forward to this week's 25.  We should be able to get 3 bosses down and get folks to see the excitment that is the bird boss.

Jerok and Totty have made progress with the pvp group, getting our first victory (guess which bear forgot to sign up and missed out).  The average gear level for the pvpers means they're now only held back by their experience and skill... that only comes with time and many many deaths (theirs, not ours).