Syrio on 03.03.2010
We kept coming ridiculously close last week, and this week it only took a few pulls to get it down. Our first heroic wing complete!
Syrio on 02.21.2010
The Lich King is dead! This is one of the most epic-feeling fights Blizzard has ever produced, one that really brings you into the lore and the story. They can still make great raid encounters when they want to, but on the downside, the hard modes we've seen so far just feel like stupidly-tuned afterthoughts.
Syrio on 02.08.2010
We managed to completely screw up our raid locks this week, ensuring that we could barely fill a 25 man of unlocked characters—mains or otherwise—to clear to Sindragosa and beyond. Luckily we scraped together 25 people at the last minute on Monday and managed to get it done.
Syrio on 01.24.2010
It's always bittersweet to overcome an encounter days after the fight has been changed; we ventured in here on Wednesday and had a few good Blood Queen pulls, including a heartbreaking wipe to the enrage with about 400K health left on her, and weren't able to spawn her again until tonight. The DPS requirement has been heavily relaxed, and you can easily defeat it now without intentionally killing raid members...sort of a shame, as that part was somewhat unique. This should be a great heroic encounter, the mechanic is quite fun.
Syrio on 01.17.2010
One could pen a Shakespearean tragedy about our Trial of the Crusader experience. We started the instance three weeks late as we couldn't field a raid, and during that time went through two different main tanks, a variety of healers, and had pretty much an entirely new raid roster by the end.
On top of that, our failure at this achievement was epic: a month and a half ago we completed it with no real wipes, but lost our Insanity run when the server imploded during Jaraxxus. Since then, we've invented new ways to wipe on just about every fight, from disconnects to forgetting to change specs to bringing new people in at the wrong times. All in all it was frustrating, and it's somewhat embarrassing to get it at a point where we outgear the entire instance, but...hey, it's finally done.
On top of that, our failure at this achievement was epic: a month and a half ago we completed it with no real wipes, but lost our Insanity run when the server imploded during Jaraxxus. Since then, we've invented new ways to wipe on just about every fight, from disconnects to forgetting to change specs to bringing new people in at the wrong times. All in all it was frustrating, and it's somewhat embarrassing to get it at a point where we outgear the entire instance, but...hey, it's finally done.