King of Nothing

I've been out of the blogosphere for a while, and for that I apologize; there's just been too much going on for me to take a little while out to blog about it.

First off - Naxx CLEAR. After a marathon session last weekend in which we ran Spider, Plague and Military wings on Saturday and Construct and Frostwyrm wings on Sunday, we downed Kel'thuzad. Most of our raiders were in Naxx for eight to ten hours; I wasn't part of the Sapphiron kill as I had a family function to attend; when I returned to my computer, they needed me to step in and offtank for Kel'thuzad, which I gladly did.



The blue circular blob next to Adamae is a dead Lich; his demise and the subsequent looting was much enjoyed by all.

In the meanwhile, this is probably one of the last screenshots I'll be posting with the Asians sporting the < Guardians of Veeshan > tag. Things have gone from bad to worse with GoV, and a lot of issues have been raised on the forums regarding the guild's inability to progress in its raiding and our role in the issues. I must admit that the drama is a major part of why I haven't been blogging; I was largely unhappy with things that were going on with GoV and worried that the unhappiness would make its way into this blog.

In any event, things came to a head last night and we've since left en masse. We haven't decided on a new Guild name yet - we're currently guilded together in our bank alt guild so we have the benefit of Guild chat and some kind of Guild tag. We'll probably set up a new Guild in the coming weekend, as raiding with the < Bank of NiHao > tag is bound to raise a few eyebrows.



So that leaves me free but thankfully not alone; still with the friends with whom I set out to raid with at the start of the year. We're looking forward to Ulduar, and we'll be farming Naxx on a weekly basis now.

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.