Naxx25: The New Loot-Pinata for ET
The new milestone for ET (as of this Tuesday 06/23/09) was to ability to fully sweep Naxx25 in 'one single' night. Personally, this means Naxx25 is officially on farm status allowing members to inch out their side-grades. More importantly as ET grows, we can shower our new members with newer and better epics as we continue our beating upon Ulduar.
Ulduar deaths.
With spring blooming in full force we took a 3 week hiatus from 25-man raiding. As the Elders washed away the cold and grim from a dank and chilly winter, we entered Ulduar full of renewed vigor and force. Entering into Ulduar we see that we are not the first to set foot inside it's massive halls,Brann Bronzebeard and Explorer's League have already set up camp. Needing our help to traverse the Formation Grounds we quickly take control of the mighty vehicles and head for Mimiron's construction "Flame Leviathan". Having under estimated the power of the Elders we quickly make work of this deadly machine.
Moving forward past the the great door we enter into a hall that was build for the massive Titans. Taking a moment to catch our breaths in the wonders to await us we move forward until we come to a group of the Explores trying to take down the once mighty mount of Thorim, Veanus. This great drake captured and corrupted by Ignis himself is now just a former shell of herself and simply known as Razorscale. Working along side of the Explores we quickly work at getting her grounded so that we may relieve her of this torment.
Moving further down the hall toward the enter most parts of Ulduar. We run into another of Mimiron's construction,
XT-002 Deconstructor. Knowning that this machine guards the door to the great riches that await us further on, we slowy move in to remove the threat. Upon first enganging this thing, we are all stuned in shock as we come to relized that "it" believes that it is alive and a simple boy and that we are it's new "toys". The Elders quickly shake off the intial surprise and break into formation. The "boy" does not last long.
Over come with exhaustion, lack of supplies and wounds that needed further treatment, we decided to stop our advancment into Ulduar. We leave with a feeling of elation knowing that the secrets of Ulduar will not be secrets for much longer and that Yogg-Saron rain will soon end.
Ulduar 25 update
This past week saw us 25 strong and a forray into Naxx25 (Full Clear) and then Ulduar25. In Ulduar we downed Razorscale and Deconstructor for the first time ever. Two new bosses in one night!
New Year, Tears, Fears; Cheers!
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
-Frederick Phillips
Welcome, True Believers! It's been a few weeks since my last update. Rest assured that the Elders are busy as ever, even if I've been asleep on the job! A whole slew of new kills in both normal and Heroic raids have been accompanied by a hearty enjoyment of the Feast of Winter Veil. The Elders rang in the new year with blades in their hands, and strength in their hearts. Below is a gallery of our new kills...
Ten Man:
- Noth the Plaguebringer
- Heigan the Unclean (First kill 19m long, Chiyo, Chinto and Sanctum)
- Loatheb
- Instructor Rasuvious
- Gothik the Harvester
- The Four Horsemen
- Patchwerk
- Grobbulus
- Gluth
- Thaddius
- Sapphiron
Heroic:
- Sartharion
- Noth the Plaguebringer
- Heigan the Unclean
- Loatheb
- Instructor Razuvious
- Gothik the Harvester
- The Four Horsemen
- Patchwerk
This gallery will be updated as I find more of the killshots!
Webs Unwoven
Elder Tribunal has been very busy! In between saving Metzen and destroying the Greench, we've been visitting some of Northrend's most wanted, and gathering presents of our own. First, congratulations to ET on their full clear of the Spider Wing of Naxxramas! Two guild firsts in this wing...
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life...embrace it.
-Jim Beggs
Grand Widow Faerlina, the second boss of Spider Wing, unlike the first is not all about the tanks. This cultist demands coordination and output from the DPS, and they came through for us here, after one practice attempt.
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
-Michael de Montaigne
Maexxna, final boss of Spider Wing, is an enormous spider that gorges herself on the corpses of hapless adventurers. Quite the imposing figure for our rag-tag band. Healers and Tanks really came through on this one, to pull us out of spider's web at the last moment.
We also tried our hand at the Plague Wing and met with success. Noth the Plaguebringer was ET's first ONE SHOT in Naxxramas. Great job, everyone. No photo for this one, the Lich King recalled this servant of darkness before we had time to commemorate his demise. Loot will prove with photography fails. We also worked on Heigan the Unclean, and attempted to prove that white men can dance.
In other realms, the Black Dragonflight's days slowly comb to an end, as the Elders keep pressure on their breeding grounds beneath Wyrmrest, within the Obsidian Sanctum. On our first night in OS, we downed Sartharion, and have done so multiple times a week since!
Once there as the People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again!
-Rudyard Kipling
Finally, we returned to Outland to lay waste to Tempest Keep, and the false Prince of the Blood Elves. Kael'thas down!
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
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