The raven god is slain.
Now we got two more proud druids who finished the swift flying form quest after a run through heroic Sethekks Halls.



Congrats to Shetzun and Asterion ! Now there is no more excuse to let allies escape ;o

Ok admittedly this was a weird Sunday. My original plans involved forgetting WoW for the weekend and snoozing in a beach somewhere, but a rather unexpected 2 day rainstorm put a damper on them. What's even worse, our usual ball buffing raid leader managed to electrocute himself and burn his phone plugs, so the onerous task of organizing peeps kinda fell on unprepared little me while I was busy ganking my icecream. To the credit of everyone present in yesterday's raid, people were patient and understanding enough of the whole situation, and with a minor delay and epic brooms at hand, the floorwipers set of for another adventure.

Well, the original plan involved paying Nightbane a visit, but due to server and phone line instability some of our healers weren't available for the merry slaughter there, so we decided to go to Netherspite, since the encounter is more co-ordination heavy but less dependent on healbots. We did some semi-naked wipe attempts trying to figure out positioning and beam tanking, and through solid perseverance we actually managed to go through the whole portal phase -> banish phase dance without anyone dying in a spectacular fashion (apart from me :P).

Sadly, the dragon proved to be craftier than expected, and despite managing to get him to under 10% with most of the raid alive, something was always going wrong and wiping the shit out us. Then the empowerement bugs started, beams lagging and other fun stuff. Needless to say, most of the raid got raped so many times by mr. Spite that we'll be giving birth to baby Onyxia's in a few months. Still, we didn't give up. After re-clearing trash, potting up and having our own captain Ahab chant "focus, focus, focus" (instead of the usual "moby,moby,moby"), we went in, did everything by the book and WTFPWNED!

And here's a screenie of the brave floor cleanign team. I think we got enough training on this boss to make future kills faster. It remains to be seen.

...and a scan of the secret document containing some splashes of ice cream and the secret dragon killing haxx.

One meanie to go, stay tuned.

It all began with a wretched envoy from one of the most oppressed ogre tribes of Azeroth, who, being unable to communicate in any known tongue, use some explicit body language to describe the plight of his people.

Armed with righteous fury, the hosts of Darkness and Shadow (along with a shadowy tax collector from the enigmatic 4th International) assembled at Blade's Edge mountains in a noble attempt to convince the High King of Ogredom that it's time he took better care of his people. Sadly, Ogres are notoriously irritable so a scrape ensued (the fact that we kinda wanted his epixx didn't help I suppose).

Despite having righteousness on our side, the King and his Cronies gave us a solid pounding but we carried on eager to win the day (note: I am not dead in the pic, merely lying on the ground for a better vantage point).

Things got even more hectic near the end, as both sides were exhausted from the titanic struggle. In true AoD/AS 1st kill style, the last bit of the fight spirraled totally out of control. It's good to have traditions and uphold them:). In the end, with a critical smite from Kaven, the evil oppressor of ogredom was toppled and his stash looted for charity.

After the usual rejoicing and jumping around, our merry bunch discovered a most horrible truth - the King was acting against his will, cowering in fear of an even bigger monster. Sadly, our supplies were running low at that point, so we decided to simply scout its lair and gank him at a more opportune time.

Greetings and salutations all, we interrupt your daily nap for a brief episode of Floorwipers(tm):Karazhan edition. Apart from establishing our farm status on the evul Prince, our intrepid raid managed to lock horns with Terrestrian Illhoof and feed him some moby yesterday without breaking much sweat. Apparently we should have paid him a visit earlier

Another pic of the DPS crazy team:

Spirits uplifted and mops ready, we proceeded to clear the trash leading to Netherspite, as promised last week. Then the fun begun. As the keeper of the mighty Orb used to say "some people think that tactics have minty flavor and hold only one calorie". Well, netherspite tactics definately had other flavor (abuse your imagination) and gave everybody a headache. But like true soldiers, we attempted a few mock ray tanking switches etc, as can be seen below.

What ensued, is best to remain forgotten, lest Benny Hill rises from the mists of obscurity and sues us for being funnier. Still after dogged persistence, we managed to get a fundamental grasp of the encounter, tank the beams, avoid the breaths and score a roaring 45% unflasked/unbuffed. Stay tuned for a kill next week.

And on a completely irrelevant tangent (apart from the fact that it happened at the same time with this raid), PYCC?

Howdy all! Unless you have been afk, living in a cave or learning russian and not paying attention to guild chat lately, you will have noticed the almost maniacal zeal with which we have pursued that egomaniac wipe machine that likes to yell it's name (i.e. "I am Niels Aran!" - screams on TS - wipe) the last couple of weeks. Yesterday, taking advantage of the labor day holiday and after making another small chinese village happy with our patronage (new rule:officers should get free pots :P) both Karazhan raids ascended through the doors of the Shade's study with murderous intent. I cannot speak for Raid 2, but I got the impression that they had some very narrow and frustrating misses. On our part, we managed to down him on the 3rd attempt in true floor wiper style, with a lone warrior hacking away that last 1% through willpower and greed alone, while the screams on TS echoed in stereo surround. Good times!

After the expected victory dance, and a short break for refreshments, we got a notice that the top of Medivh's Tower was in desperate need of scrubbing, cause the little Prince isn't really potty trained.

After some misunderstandings with the flesh eating security detail, our expert team of cleaners arrived at the destination.

The first attempts where met with mixed success, with some really hilarious exchanges going on on TS and raid chat ("Go right! - no infernal, go left, right, no center, move, the wall, aaaarghhh") and some singularly bad luck in the placement of infernals. Still, the task at hand didn't seem that impossible, so armed with a cunning plan the Prince yielded on the 5th attempt. For the Horde!

On a happy side note, I finally managed to wtfpwn someone on a loot roll :P

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