25man raiding update
After having some huge problems with attendance we managed to get the 25 attempts left achievement in Call of The Crusade. We had changed the tactic from the 2 tanks we used on the kill to the more reliable 3 tank tactic which caused a few more unnecessary wipes than what we wanted. Speaking of 25man raiding, currently recruiting:
10man raiding update
We had a pretty nice 10man week with 4 groups clearing heroic Call of the Grand Crusade. 2 groups got the Insanity achievement and a 3rd one lost insanity with a wipe on beasts of all bosses.
I Stab Your Face Update
More and more I stab members are starting to get heroic 10man experience. I stab is currently ranked server 12th and world 2264 (link) in 10man progress ahead of a few 4/5 25man heroic guilds.
Congratulations Navras on our 5th Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings
Screenshot coming soon
After way to many wipes Heroic Anub’arak finally decided to drop over.
Opening up the doors to Infamous once again. Take your chance to join the most successful guild on Outland.
Recruiting:
- 1 Resto Shaman
- 1 Holy Paladin
First test of skill is finding our forum and making a private or public application.
Finally some good news. Heroic Twins down with 39 attempts left this week
After a really bad last week were we had a 2% wipe with 32 attempts left then failed horrible we got back this week and killed Twins within 40 min of attempts. Heading for glory and fame on Anub’arak
Been a little slow on updates because it’s been mostly bad news and I don’t like bad news. Anyway we got our shit together and killed the 3 first bosses in Heroic. We had a few shots at twins but that boss is in a league of it’s own compared to the other, or we are just bad at moving out of orbs.
Wanted to share this screenshot with you. What’s so funny about this then. Well when we killed Faction champs we only had 1 death. That being scottw, for those of you that don’t know scottw he got 3 different chars all with 2.5k+ rated teams in all brackets. Probably one of the most gifted pvpers on the server, yet he can’t even manage to stay alive in this “pvp” encounter.
Those of you that are observant will probably notice that we only got 15 attempts left when we killed them. Well we did the mistake of raiding on Wednesday and Thursday and we had way to many attempts wasted due to lag. In hindsight we probably should have waited. What can I say, Infamous always start bad the first week of raiding. In Sunwell we started out with like a server 6th Kalecgos and in Ulduar we were like 7th guild to get Mimiron and Vezax down. With that said we are working on something special for tomorrow and hopefully I will have good news then.
As a guild that like to be in the shadows and haven’t actively recruited since the dawn of time I Stab Your Face have still managed to keep a position as a raiding guild to be recognised.
Only raiding 4h/week might be seen as a disadvantage for most guilds but not this bunch of happy raiders. Ulduar was a little to long instance and the guild never managed to get enough time on Yogg to get him down. Luckily blizzard in their wisdom released a short and slightly easy instance perfectly fit for this guild.
Starting at roughly 20:00 CET on Saturday these brave heroes made their way into ToC. One shot the 2 first bosses, wiped twice on faction champs, killed Twins in a hurry and by the time the clock was 9 they were standing face to face with Anub’arak. You could think Anub’arak would have been a easy task to beat, but no. Held back by the fact that half the raid didn’t even have ulduar gear made the enrage timer quite a nemesis with them wiping twice to it.
Finally the beast lay before their feet and they earned some well deserved loot. With plenty of time to spare on their 4h/raidweek the wise masters decided to head for the hills of Wintergrasp to defeat the indifferent watchers that guards the ancient secrets, but that’s another story.
Decided to have a go at the 10man heroic version and after a little more struggle than we wanted we cleared it with plenty of attempts left. While 50 attempts is not that much in 25 man raids it’s a ocean of attempts in 10man, they probably should have tuned it down to 25 attempts or so to make it more challenging. I realise that we are walking around in full 25man but even 10man guilds will probably struggle with even getting 50 attempts in their casual raidweek.
We’ll have our 2nd 10man raidgroup have a shot at the heroic later this week and hopefully they can do even better than the first group.
Not much to say. Still pretty laggy although playable. Tried some more on first heroic mode boss but gave up after a few attempts since one of our MTs have taken a short vacation and our offspec replacement is barely surviving most attempts and the other attempts he died.
Went and did VoA instead. Was thinking of doing the earth, wind fire achievement but decided to not do it and give the new boss a go. Apparently you need to move out of fire. Continued to wipe on Emalon! Apparently killing adds is hard. For those of you that haven’t done Emalon with us we use 1 tank and 2 healers which make the targeting of the marked add a little harder, especially when we are joking around and not paying attention.
Lag still being bad we went to Ulduar to see if we could get Navras our 3rd legendary mace(he got 21 pieces). Killed 7 bosses and disenchanted everything but 4 items. Spent the majority of that time listening to our Romanian super hero try to talk Norwegian. Not been the start I wanted on heroic mode but with a laggy server and one of our MTs on vacations you can’t really expect much more.
Day started off bad with the server being unbearably laggy the whole day. We started with a 10man to see if we could get some experience of the bosses before the raid started and had Anub’arak 10man normal version dead by 7 o’clock. We decided to not do the achievement linked to this boss on 10man seeing as it seemed to be almost impossible in it’s current state.
While getting ready for the 10man we decided to show off our new earned titles.
Cleared the first 4 bosses in the 25man without much issue and decided to wipe on purpose a few times to learn more about the abilities of Anub’arak. The achievement tied to him on 25man mode don’t seem impossible at all only annoying as hell so we decided to do a fast kill. Have to say I’m disappointed at the design of Anub’arak, it’s almost the same as Anub’arak in Azjol-nerub only with less abilities and easier.
As for the Heroic Mode, sadly lag pretty much killed it for us and we decided to stop doing attempts after 4 wipes. The boss itself didn’t seem to be that hard at all, we made the 2m30s phase switches pretty easily even with 1s lag on all abilities. In the end it wasn’t really worth it to waste 4-5 attempts on wipes because of lag so we decided to end it and kill it on a better night.
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