Another guild aim achieved recently, we completed the 10-man meta achivement in ICC. Congratulaions to Thibbledorf and Boleuge, our sturdy tanks who are the first 2 people to get their drakes, and thanks to the whole guild who have helped with the various hard mode kills and achievements.

We have a load of people with only 1-2 achievements for their drakes, and the aim for the coming weeks will be to complete these

Ok, so the screenshot may be a bit rubbish, but the achivement is not, last night we finally completed the guilds second legendary, congratulations to Eräjorma who is the proud owner of Shadowmourne. It's taken us a while, especially given that we havent had a full 25 people in a raid for quite a few weeks now, but thanks to the determination and commitment of all the guild members, who turned out week after week to do easy farm bosses with low numbers, we finally hit the required number of shards, well done to every guild member who made it happen
We also owe a part of the thanks to several out of guild friends that have joined in our recent runs and helped us do it

That completes one of the targets the guild has before catacylsm, next up will hopefully be more 25 man LK kills, and the 10-man drake...watch this space for more updates

Well, what to say. After the most hideous raid in terms of DC's and individual and collective errors on Tuesday, we turned it on it's head from the get-go. From the start there was a marked improvement and even though it took us a while, the rhythm that was missing on the last raid night was back and evident. We scraped into Phase 5 a couple of times but the attempt was usually beyond us at that point until the last go when we went in with everyone still kicking. Ranged did a fantastic job, Melee DPS were vigilant, the healers prodigious and the two tanks steadfast. Never been so thrilled to see everyone die as I did at the 10% point.

Congratulations to the token winners and to Dave and Prizcilla who each received Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas.

Following success there we decided, with little better to do, that we would backfill some missing kills. Heroic Northrend Beasts and Jarraxxus fell as they have before before we moved onto my most detested fight in the game - Faction Champions!
After the first go, it felt different. We wiped but it wasn't all out carnage. The control was much better than it had been before and it just required some jiggery-pokery. We had a couple more goes and then they fell. People controlled, people DPS'd and most importantly - Dave ran!
I'm not sure whether to be proud or disappointed at the lack of Forest Gump jokes but Dave ran around like never before, a perpetual target for the melee FC train but a perpetual target that never stopped running!

More backfilling for the rest of this week and then next week, Hard Modes commence.

oh yeah...and have a killshot for Sindragosa while I think about it...

Killshot of Blood Queen and Wentha's video of the first kill. A little belated but eventually got round to posting it.

watch the video on Youtube

Just a brief update, not gonna ramble on today! Killshots from recent Valithria Dreamwalker and Professor Putricide kills. Working hard on Blood Queen now and soon we'll have a shot of that for me to belatedly post!!

An obviously overdue update: Blood Princes killed and it's such a while ago that I can't even come up with some commentary of the kill. Suffice to say, dead, killshot, grats on loot etc etc.



in addition to this, following a not-so-recent very good 10 man night in which we got our first Putricide kill, we decided to run Hard Modes in ToGC and see if we could finally get Anub'Arak down on 10 man. Well not only did we get it down, but we ploughed through without a single wipe and got the Tribute to Insanity achievement.

Well done to all that night and Congratulations to Ritsuka on his shiny horse.

We got there! Ostaker won his first Fragment of Val'anyr on 19th April 2009. On 17th January 2010, we got our first Three Lights in the Darkness kill and Ostaker finally got his Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings. It has taken 9 months, 2 sex changes for Ostey/Ostaker and a multitude of wipes, kills and patience but Ostey has his weapon and Adrenaline has achieved our first legendary weapon completion. It's fantastic for Ostey but also for the guild. Well done everyone, not those who were there last night, but everyone who was there for a single fragment-rewarding kill, enjoy your shiny DKP bonus =)

After some tweaks, some practice, some more tweaks and some more practice combined with a couple of 10-man kills, both Festergut and Rotface bit the dust on Thursday. Festergut is a big test of everyone. DPS need to perform, Tanks need to get the right balance of threat vs Survival and healers need to cope with one of the more stressful fights thus far in ICC for them. After a disappointing previous raid night on him, we upped the raid DPS and eventually we nailed it with about an hour to go on the raid. We went in to Rotface which is arguably the more technical and involved fight expecting some practice but not probably a kill with only an hour left, but damn it we nailed that too - Erä has both quest items and now Shadow's edge is crafted too. Onwards to Shadowmourne! 1 hour later, 2 first kills, a completely frazzled raid leader and ooze kiter and a hell of a good night. Well done everyone.

The Experiment: To Kill the first 4 bosses in ICC without tactics and without bossmods.
Result: Success!!

Well this was a nervy choice for the officer team, but we decided to go with the spirit of vanilla and take raiding back a stage or two. I can only comment from my own perspective, but I thought it was fantastic. We killed all four first bosses within the first reset and did it all with Adrenaline-only information. That's frankly awesome guys., We did it with what seemed to be a real sense of enthusiasm from all and it felt a much more social, team-centred affair so that, despite there being two stand-out leaders, I assure you everyone contributed in their own way.
So long as the feedback remains the way it is, we'll likely continue and take this into the next wing and beyond.
Congrats to all the winners of loot, far too many to mention in one article, but well done nonetheless.

Thorim Hard mode killed, was very messy and very close and something that no doubt we can do better.....but well done everyone...it's another notch and we are motoring....onwards.