And Oblivion keeps raiding. Now that we have both Ulduar and Crusader Coliseum to progress on, there's going to be something to do for every day of the week. I do admit that one of the best things I have ever seen by Blizzard was to make the raids extendable - clearing through the trash bosses in Ulduar 25 is not that common anymore!
Yesterday Oblivion tackled down the first Hardmode encounter in Crusader Coliseum. Two tanks, six healers and rest DPS. Northern beasts gave us access for Jaraxxus and rest of the bosses that we start grinding on next... 37 tries this reset should give us a dead Jaraxxus, if nothing else!
In Ulduar 25 we have kept doing progress now. Almost every week - or at least every other week, as we extend the raids - we get something new down. This is pretty much the order we have done them now in:
Lose Your Illusion (25 player)
I Choose You, Steelbreaker (25 player)
Crazy Cat Lady (25 player)
I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning (25 player)
This means that we still have to get Mimiron, Freya and Yogg-Saron with three keepers out for the drakes. And Mimiron and Freya to get to Algalon. So we are on a nice timer for the drakes, still.
Also big welcome to the new members of the guild. Good work guys.
P.S. Oblivion can craft all blacksmithing (Scythe, Bat), tailoring (Rottkappchen, Noutroum) and leatherworking (Lunarleaf) pieces from Crusader Coliseum.
Please note: If you are applying, please read the PLEASE READ-area! And read it to the very END, HINT HINT WINK WINK HOW CAN THIS BE MORE OBVIOUS THAN THIS.
Long time since I have last written anything here, but this was mostly due to the fact that I seriously lack time to... well, post here. Too busy work is too busy and even now I feel the tendrils of time embracing my body, pulling me under the surface... NO NOT THE EYES NOOOOO!
Anyway - we have been raiding some. 3.2 25-man and 10-man instances are cleared, every 25man boss was 1-5 shotted and if I remember right number 5 is a bit more than what was the real deal. Hardmodes we have done up to Twin Val'kyrs in 10-man.
Hodir and XT hardmode are down in Ulduar 25 and we are working now on the next ones.
I will start taking some screenshots now that I got a computer that has resolution that can live sunlight.
Oblivion gathered up yet again to battle the God of Death and after changing tactics, getting more guaranteed training on Phase 2 and 3, we brought down the tentacle-monster. Yatta!
As we have now cleared every other boss in Ulduar 25 and 10, if not counting Algalon, we are now going to focus on hardmode encounters - and thus aiming to reach Algalon and save Azeroth!
Tier 8,5 shoulders went to Silverius and Scythe, Blood of the Old God went to Nightcrow and Ramoth got Sanity's Bond.
Well, Ulduar is obviously a lot, lot more interesting than the level 80 version of Naxxramas. The content is just vastly bigger than the one at the beginning of the Wrath. The challenge of the bosses is higher as well, getting to Yogg-Saron is nowhere as close to as beating Malygos or Kel'Thuzad.
While the harder and more interesting content is also harder to access, I just think that's just a good thing. The "nerfs" flying on and about the instance is something that worries me - I hope they don't go too far away with the casuals, even though the nerfs on the FIRST bosses of the instance are justified. I don't think the entrance level should be as hard as Razorscale was, specially in non-hardmode versions. (You shouldn't even mention pre-nerf Ignis compared to Razorscale and XT002, because it was a lot harder than those two encounters... in the end in my opinion harder than Mimiron as well.)
Well, Oblivion now took their first step into the Descent of Madness, reaching down into the ruined prison of Yogg-Saron after killing Vezax. First pull without tactics on Yogg-Saron was hilarious.
Alright so I haven't been updating any news recently, but that's mostly because of the new patch. After patch 3.1 we have been raiding quite a lot and I bow to those people, who have been able to join our raids and test out the new encounters, learning through them as well.
So far we have pretty much cleared everything up to Mimiron and gotten Mimiron now... steadily to phase4 after our first night of actual tries. The boss encounter is better than most (even in imho high Ulduar standards).
As most would have guessed, our attention is mainly at 25-man Ulduar, ignoring Ulduar 10-man pretty much altogether. We did form a few groups for few hours for Ulduar 10-man, but the place is nothing close to the 25-man version. It's easier, requires less gear and comp. Running off an almost full melee group up to Mimiron without any real wiping in one and half evenings is pretty much all that needs to be told, specially when that group included alts.
I will most likely include pictures of our progress, but those boss-kill screenshots are usually repeatitive. Hopefully I can whip my homeboy Phemt to form a new video, as he has been frapsing our wipes and kills as far as I understood.
P.S. Oblivion is not actively recruiting any classes. We are still going to look closely at our applicants and if we see something that shines, we are interested. We are like crows - we like shiny things.
Oblivion beat down the hardest 25-man raid encounter put into the game. Thanks for all who attended, tried, learned and beat the encounter. The most fun encounter in the whole Wrath of the Lich King.
Grats Witsaus for the first Reigns of the Twilight Drake in Oblivion.
Here's the video of the encounter, filmed and edited by Phemt.
