We didn't have much time left in our raid week so we decided to clear a few normals and try this guy out of order. It only took a few pulls to figure the timing of the fight out, and most of our wipes were people trying unsuccessfully to fly from a lower nest to an upper nest in one shot. Plus we ran out of bad apps, so Peach and Drhaze resorted to scaring actual members each time we wiped.

This was a difficult fight for being so early in the heroic tier; definitely a huge ramp up in skill required from Jin'rokh to this. We really shot ourselves in the foot for a few days on it, bringing multiple failed apps, poor composition, and bad assumptions about what our problems were. It was a lesson in raid leading and a reminder of how effective repeated strategy changes can (or can't) be if (not) executed properly.

From a DPS perspective, at least, Horridon was a pretty fun fight. Worst part? Stupid pink dino. Best part? My pink dino executing poor, defenseless Peach when he is least expecting it.

We decided not to push things the first week, so we didn't get a chance to push over this pushover until the third week. It only took us a little over an hour, but Horridon looks to be quite a bit more difficult, so away we go on the new raid tier.

It's all over! Normally this is where I'd post some nonsense about how this kill is bittersweet, because we felt like we had it dead something like, oh, 50 pulls ago...but no, I'll restrain myself. Really, I will. It wasn't like we wiped at 2% something like a week ago or anything. Nope, nothing like that at all.

In all seriousness though, we've come a long way this tier and I'm very proud of the group we've assembled. We lost a number of progression weeks to poor gear, not having enough people, and massive re-recruitment, but managed to finish everything on time regardless. When we moved to KJ and started this new guild our only real goal was to "defeat content while it's current" and with this, we achieved that goal, and more. We have a great, fun-filled raid environment with people who are genuinely nice, and we are all excited to keep cruising along in the next patch.

Along with the folks you see in this glorious screen capture above, I want to thank Mollikye and Xwn who volunteered to sit for Sha for composition reasons. I know it's never easy to sit on the sidelines for the final boss, especially when it goes on for a couple of weeks. Anyway, videos to come!

One more encounter left in the tier (or should I say tire?) and there's no question we can't wait to be done with it. Having a lot of content is nice, but it's been a long grind and there's a whole new raid on the horizon. Still, our group has been performing admirably these past few weeks and everybody is excited to check out Sha of Fear. Onward!

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