Finders Keepers
Carrying on with Blizzards new approach to gaming, i.e. lagfree, we went in and hit Ulduar hard. The farmed bosses (the first six, Auriaya and Freya) can now all be killed in one night easily, in fact, we went one step further and killed Hodir as well, meaning we are killing 9 on the first night of the week - which is pretty good going and leaves us alot of time to work on the other bosses.
First target was Thorim, who was, suprisingly, a complete pain in the arse. Previous attempts on him had been lagfests and yielded no progress whatsover, and neither did the first block of attempts on him - whatever we tried, the arena was overrun. Turns out the tactic that worked for us was not one other people seem to use - Ignore the Dark Rune Champions and just kill the Dark Rune Evokers as priority - turns out the champions are only a threat after they've been buffed by three evokers... anyhoo, with that Thorim went down fairly easily (though we did have a few interesting wipes involving chain lightning chaining through a summoned ghoul army and then one shotting most of the raid!).
As such our focus is now on Mimiron and the absolute joy his encounter will be...
Recruitment wise we may actually have our Enhancement Shaman now after 3 months of searching (hazaaa) but are now looking for:
1 x Shadow Priest.
As always, we will always consider solid applications from any class or spec.
No kitty that's a BAD KITTY!
Two updates in one month you lucky people! Carrying on from the success
of last weeks Ulduar reset we entered this week full of hope, and after
destroying Leviathan and XT we heroically lagged out and had to cancel (GG BLIZZ!).
Right - trying again in the next run we had slightly more luck and managed
to kill Ignis the Furnace master with little to no effort (go go nerfs).
After clearing the rest of the farmed bosses we headed over to the
Council of Iron, and after some fannying about with tactics killed them too!
Last raid of the reset and we head to Auriaya
http://yeoltest.ytmnd.com/.
With only one hunter in raid the pull was somewhat interesting and after a
few instawipes we settled on a nice way to do it.
Following this we messed around with tactics until again we found one we
liked and lo and behold, she went down - the loot ironically going
to Soda and Sgtpepper, our two standins.
With the last bit of the raid we went and had a look at Thorim, which,
from my point of view, is a stupid fight - but I suspect he will die next reset.
AK are still recruiting an ENHANCEMENT SHAMAN and would like another
healer HOLY PRIEST/RESTO SHAMAN/HOLY PALADIN.
Kill them all... before they kill you...
Time for another belated update of the front page. With Patch 3.1 finally here
we have taken our first looks inside Ulduar and Blizzard's first truly new dungeon
for a long time - and I have to say it's awesome! The bosses actually seem difficult,
heck, we wiped on trash!
First step in there and Flame Leviathan died with not too much trouble, but we cant
complain as the fight is FUUUUUUUUUUN.
XT-002 Deconstructor took a little more effort, including a 0.2% wipe,
a new AK record! But we took him down too after messing with the
positioning a little. Bonus points to Blizz for its creepy voice.
Razorscale also bit the dust without too much trouble -
again, kudos to Blizz for an interesting fight!
Our first real challenge was when we ventured inside Ulduar. After being beaten
silly by the trash (stupid leaping colossi) we then set our sights on Kologarn
(didnt fancy taking on the bugfest that was Ignis at this point). The fight itself
seemed ridiculously difficult at first but after playing with tactics for a while
we managed to turn him into a bridge! Again a very interesting encounter and very
cool graphics!
With the interior of Ulduar open to use we are now spoilt for choice on where to head
next so will have a peek at some bosses before going further!
All in all a pretty good start to the new patch and happily back to semi-taxing raiding!
AK are currently recruiting 1 x Enhancement Shaman and would also consider
applications from Ret Paladins, Holy Paladins, Disc. Priests and Death Knights!
And its only taken me 2 months to update the front page (sorry, sorry). Since the
expansion hit, much has gone on in AK - first grats must go to Hashey for being the
first 80 paladin on ther server and recieving the title!
After Hashey the rest of us slowly caught up, immediatly going into and clearing
10man Sarth, then 10man Naxx - following this we took some steps into 25mans
clearing Sarth and then Naxx.
The only things left for us now are killing Malygos (whose glitchyness has hampered
our progress - didnt realise dragons could make breath attacks out of their arse)
and then Sarth + Drakes, and hopefully these will be achieved within the coming weeks.
Recruitment: 1 x Elemental Shaman, 1 x Doomkin (Balance Druid)
With the new year it was time to move old news off the front page.
But fear not! You can still see the history of great ole AK.
Just follow this link :
Old News , and you can wax nostalgic.
Enjoy
