A quick post

Apologies for the delays in posting, but over the past couple of weeks I've been carefully negotiating a job change. I'll be moving from my agency to a competitor in the next few weeks and so far, managing the shift has been somewhat challenging. Fortunately I have a ready stress reliever in the form of countless virtual villains to beat down.

The Asians (and Australians, omitted here only for the sake of brevity) have been quite busy raiding. Our first and last Asian Sartharion run surprised us immensely. We put together a 9-man group last Wednesday night in an effort to fit the Obsidian Sanctum into our raid schedule. Not only did we one-shot Sarth, we also managed to kill him in under thirty minutes. Our next Sarth attempt will be a Sarth+1 - without drakes up, it's clearly no challenge.

Also on the same night, we ran and cleared Archavon-10 (also with 9 in the raid) and downed Anub'rekhan, Grand Widow Faerlina and Noth the Plaguebringer in Naxx-10. Sunday afternoon, we put another group together to finish up Naxxramas. We downed Maexxna, Patchwerk, Hiegan the Unclean, Loatheb, and Instructor Razuvious, putting the Asians at 8/15 for Naxx-10.

Yes, that's correct - we're more than half done with Naxxramas.

I'm not entirely sold on farming VoA. It's certainly nice to farm the 2 badges a week that it can deliver, but the T7 drops are practically a lottery in which it is possible for no one to win. Given the time investment, I'd much rather be in Naxxramas or the Obsidian Sanctum. I've no compunctions about dropping it once Ulduar gets patched in.

So anyway, we have a run tonight, and I'm hopeful we can get 10 raiders together. I'm holding off on OS-10 until we can get a good group together, as I'd really like to start farming Sarth+1, so this will likely mean we'll start with Naxx-10 (Plague Wing). I'm also looking at a new strategy for Anub'rekhan, where the Anub tank basically just eats the Locust Swarm instead of kiting the boss.

Things are moving and I am glad.