Well, after a little more than a month of serious attempts, we finally nailed the final 3.0 heroic raiding achievement!! (And all it took was not standing in fire ….)  Congratulations to everyone on their shiny new Black Proto Drakes!  We’ll see you all in Ulduar!

Ok, so it’s a little late. Well, pretty damned late actually but we now have killing Sartharion and all 3 of his cronies under our belts (3 times already, but people still seem to flock to the fire like misquitoes). As promised in the last article, below you’ll find some group shots post kill.

Now, we’re all getting ready for the upcoming 3.1 patch to be released and plan on doing some raiding (provided the server doesn’t crash all the friggin time again) on the PTR to see the new stuff. When 3.1 goes live, I’ll nag our Officers to start taking kill shots of our Ulduar kills to be posted for the News and show we’re still alive and kicking ass.

Since Eldreth fails at making a news post (<3 Eldreth), I'll do it as we need something beyond Nels awesome achievement from.. TBC..

So I decided to make some kind of post to show we're still alive and raiding. Now that the awkward moment of making the first new post in months is over, we should see more news from the Officers as to what's going on in the guild.
Last night, after a few attempts working out phase 3 we finally downed Malygos. Grats to those who earned gear and stuck with it learning how to ride those pesky red drakes.

Last week we did a full clear of Naxx 25. Yeah.. farm zone anyone? Talk about easy compared to old Naxx 40, yeesh.

Lastly, kudos to those who earned the title "Champion of the Frozen Wastes” after defeating every heroic 5 man, Naxx 25, Sartharion and Malygos.

The next time we post, we’ll include those trendy group pictures of the kills. They may not be our firsts, but we generally have the same people anyway, so it’s all good.

Congrats Farna on finishing the set!

After picking up the first OH a few months ago, our luck finally turned for the better and our first MH dropped tonight. 

Tanks are currently weeping for the agro they’ll have to hold now, and mages have collapsed knowing they’ll never touch the top of the meters.

So our trip through Sunwell begins, next up: got dps?

Loot:
[Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher]: Allev
[Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher]: Astrylian
[Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher]: Kylista
[Breeches of Natural Aggression]: Kylista

Gotta love that triple vanquisher, eh?

What an epic fight this is, definitely worth the work we went through to down him. Once everything clicks and you just start to drop him, very fun times. Thanks to everyone for showing up and getting this fight done.

I also want to especially thank our Main Tank Erren and our Flame tanks Daeros, Psysabrew and Therana for doing a great job learning this fight. Even when you did happen to wipe us – again and again. As well as thanks for all our various classes doing crowd control at the key times throughout the long fight. We wouldn’t have got this fight done without your effort and patience, thanks.

I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from our tanks:

Loot:
[Chestguard of the Forgotten Protector]: Czala
[Chestguard of the Forgotten Protector]: Nixie
[Shard of Azzinoth]: Keishin
[Memento of Tyrande]: Griftar

PS. No one was hurt in the making of this post. Aside from Daeros and Illidan that is.

We actually killed Archimonde the day after Illidan, but who wants to see Illidan get knocked down the front page after only a day? It took us longer than it should have to deal with Archimonde due to some unfortunate departures right after reaching him leaving us with limited decursers. Then with continued success in Black Temple we just didn’t bother to go back. It worked itself out in the end for us, gotta love killing Archimonde and Illidan both for the first time in the same week. It didn’t help that we had to put Eldreth on a diet so he could actually fit through the Mount Hyjal instance portals again. You try making him go on a diet sometime. I rather fight Illidan myself.

With Archimonde now defeated we have managed to finish the current content just in time for Sunwell. Leaving us a couple more weeks to gear up before we can get in there and get to work. Thanks for the great fun, work, and patience that got us through the current content everyone.

Loot:

[Helm of the Forgotten Vanquisher]: Eldreth
[Helm of the Forgotten Vanquisher]: Xoxiric
[Bristleblitz Striker]: Czala
[Leggings of Eternity]: Raiena

So after making short work of the Illidari Council (no kill shot because someone likes to talk to Akama early) we finally got to move on to the demon himself. Sadly I need to inform you that we had to put Keishin down for good this weekend. He was infected with a deadly parasite during our most recent battle with no known treatment. I know how you all must feel. We all here at Exile mourn this great loss as well.

With the holidays over we are once again looking for a few more people to help fill out our raid force. If you are one of the classes below and think you would make a good fit with us drop an application on our forums.

Druid: 1 (Resto)
Mage: 1
Paladin: 1 (Holy)
Priest: 1 (Circle of Healing)
Rogue: 1 (Combat)
Shaman: 1 (Elemental)
Warlock: 1 (Destro)