Another successful night in Karazhan, for the Children of Stormwind, taking down The Curator and everything before in a bit over two hours. Only one wipe on Nightbane and the death of only a few DPS just goes to show we basically have the place on farm especially when we only take one group. We even survived when at one stage a few (read 8) extra elites got pulled. I guess you were just testing if Sando and I were on our toes.
Lots of guild members were visiting the PvP vendors last night picking up some new gear with their saved honour and arena points now that season four has hit. It is prime time to be an enchanter this week with a lot of people wanting to enchant their latest acquisitions (can anyone do Soulfrost for Squiggle’s new mace?).
Although we are constantly getting new members we have said farewell a few people recently. With no new content on the cards until Litch King I believe we are hitting the slump period before the expansions release. Once the Fire Festival is over and arena season four settles in I expect quite a few people will stop playing or at least cut back their play time a fair bit. It doesn’t help that as a guild we are still stuck between Karazhan and twenty five man raids with too many for one and not quite enough for the other.
The next few months is a great time to get some new things happening in the guild. Perhaps we can set up some premade battle ground groups and attempting some old school raids such as Molten Core and Onyxia.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Smooth Sailing - Some General News
Thursday, June 12, 2008
When we were first starting Karazhan I remember Stragoth saying “One day I would like to see our guild clear this in one night”. At that stage we were struggling to get Attumen and Moroes down in one night, so clearing the whole place in just over four hours last night is another milestone for the Children of Stormwind. It wasn’t an overgeared group, in fact a couple of the players had never been to the second half of Karazhan. On top of that I don’t think we were going at full speed, we did stop several times to explain encounters and Skyer and I could still save time by improving our chain pulling.
It was also the last time Alassiel/Airora will get to come to Karazhan for a while. She is starting a new job so attending raids is going to be tricky. I hope you enjoyed your last one for a while and no sorry I am not multi boxing and playing your character through Karazhan as well.
There may have been a previous occasion when Karazhan was cleared in one night but I haven’t heard about it so sorry if that’s the case.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Movment of the raiding front
On Sunday Children of Stormwind had two raid groups running simultaneously, one in Zul’Aman and one in Karazhan. This means we had a total of 20 level 70 players raiding at once. In addition to this a couple of people couldn’t attend Karazhan because they were already saved to a different raid ID. This raises the possibility of trying out Gruul’s Lair. We aren’t really in a position to run it regularly but we could give it a go. It will just be a matter of getting all of those people to again log in at one pre specified time.
Downing a 25 player raid boss is really the next step for Children of Stormwind, so it would be good to see us at least attempt it. Just having a go is how we managed to finally make some progress in Zul’Aman, perhaps bitting the bullet, setting a time and trying the best we can may be all we need.
However there was one difficulty, Team Speak. On Sunday night when most of raid groups were logged into Team Speak and the guild member who hosts it was attempting to play Team Speak collapsed. The Zul’Aman group reverted to using Skype but this indicates we may not be able to have a full 25 player raid using Team Speak at once.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Karazhan Finally Clear
Finally we have cleared all of Karazhan. With Netherspite's timely demise the Children of Stormwind have now killed every boss. We cleared it all in one week to boot. My estimates put it at six months assuming we stared in mid November. Heres to hoping we can get through ZA a bit quicker, though I hear even those completing tier 5 content can struggle with it.
Not that I am going to stop, but I have throughly enjoyed raiding. This is only the start of the fabled "End Game" content but it has provided great challenges and wonderful rewards. Now I might go polish my epics and get some sleep.
Karazhan and beyond
Children of Stormwind how now almost cleared all of Karazhan, with only Netherspite standing in our way (here is hoping for this week). It appears that once we have bested an encounter it comes under our belt pretty easily. This has happened for Moroes, Curator and now Aran who went down quiet easily last night with virtually no deaths. For reference purposes our strategy was to keep his health below his mana, CC/burn down the elementals and not have to be polymorphed. I think that using a Paladin or Druid as an off tank and then getting them to DPS/Heal on the one tank bosses is defiantly the way to go. Having Rogadodga along is pretty handy too as his healing set it quite epic.
This leaves the question “What next?” Well there is Zul’Aman which could be interesting but with 19+ 70s simultaneously online last night 25 man raids are within our grasp. I think we should lock in a time, call in a few favours and hit Gruul’s Lair or perhaps even Magtheridon's Lair. I can think of a few 70s I am friends with who might come and at least one smallish guild who might join us. In regards to loot, well I would consider winning anything a bonus so perhaps a master looter supervising a need before greed roll off.
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