For all the Bugs I've Squished Before

This was what one would call a very good week.

       With an overwhelming return of people I actually had to see if someone wanted to sit out of raid Tuesday, (thank you Lotauna for volunteering) and Wednesday we were full quickly as well.  Sadly, had to leave a person or two out of that one as well.  But we shook hands with our good friend progression.

My hunter Lazyeye who is getting geared now.  Mwha ha ha.

       Night one Jin'Rokh went down again, then we burned some time on trash (sadly) and got a few good hits off on Horridon.  It felt like a good start.

       Then Wednesday we stepped in to do Grand Empress Shek'zeer.  We had an issue with a DC on the first attempt that killed us.  Lag, had to strap his shield back on and hop in to tank, And we took that giant bug down!!! This means, we don't have to do Heart of Fear again peeps! No more HoF

       It was then a trip to Terrace of Endless Spring.  Now we had killed the Council before, but it had been a few months and I wasn't sure how this was going to go.   It did take a few tries... but we got our bearings and those Jin'yu breathed their last.

First two bosses we killed

     The next part is the part that makes me most happy.  We stepped up to the Giant Tsulong!  We had experienced tons of trouble trying to take down this dragon previously.  We hadn't attempted him for a few months either So with about 15 minutes of raid left, I wasn't expecting to take him down.  However we walked in and gave him a great smacking on our first attempt.  I said holy crap we decided to do another attempt with 5 minutes of raid left we stepped in, and went a little late while getting our first kill of Tsulong.

 It was a good night.

First Downing of Tsulong!!!!

      So that means, if we can down the last two bosses in Terrace next week, we can focus solely on Throne of Thunder!  I don't think that is an unrealistic goal after last night to think that is possible.  So off to a happy weekend and We shall beat things down next week!

       As a note, I probably won't have an opinion post this weekend like I try to do, since I will be at Nerdtacular on the 5th and the 6th at Snowbird, Ut.  If anyone else is there that reads this, I hope to see you.

Dizzty, Lag, Lazyeye.  Yes I am having an identity crisis.

Jin'rokh is dead... poor Jin'rokh is dead.

     I have a happy announcement for everyone.

     Woot, da Woo!, Yes folks, after months of fighting attendance, and having some headache pains we have finally started into Throne of Thunder.  First boss is down, and we had some great progression during the night.  We went from wiping in the first few moments of the fight, to consistently progressing, to downing the boss with half an hour to spare.  The trash defeated us after that, and I called the raid about 10 minutes early when I realized that we wouldn't have a chance to get to Horridon.  I am in high spirits though, because we have started some current progression.

   Credit should go to those on the team last night.  Shaqia, Gwyndolynn, Laroth, Magilla, Scorpiack, Badwulf, Easybake (and her insane deeps, she gets an extra call out), Amelmi, Khallon, and Dizzty (me).  It was great work tonight, and I will soon have all the boss fights up on our website (fearitselfofzangarmarsh.enjin.com) and I look forward to pushing through the rest of the fights in Throne of Thunder.

    So I am sticking to the plan now, we are going to continue on Throne of Thunder on Tuesday nights, and Wednesday nights will be progression through the rest of HoF and ToES.  As soon as all those bosses have been downed, we will be ToT every night, all the time.  Well, at least two nights a week.  I may look at opening up and starting raids a tich bit earlier, or finding a way to get more time into ToT because the raid is big, and I want to make sure we have the time to progress.  It will also help because from what they have released on the Siege of Ogrimmar, it looks like there are going to be 14 bosses in there as well.

     But, big ups to the raid team, and I look forward to downing the empress tonight and moving on through ToES.  If we keep our momentum, I think we will be done with that tier completely in the next couple of weeks. I also am going to look for a recording program I like so I can start posting recordings of our raids where out members can watch them, and review.  I plan on having this up by next week, so if anyone has any they like to use, please leave what it is in the comment section.

(This song dedicated to Jin'rokh, and hey, Wolverine can sing!)

      And hey, if you find them wandering around Zangarmarsh, give the members of our raid team Big Ups for their hard work.

Dizzty.

This Week in Raiding 06/20/2013 Un'Sok Goes down.

We kicked some trash! Also, a couple of Bosses.

      I am very happy with this weeks progress, insanely happy.  My priest Dizzty did a decent job healing, which is still a point of worry for me, but Disc seems to be in my wheelhouse of things I can pull off, and I plan on sticking to it for a while.

     First of all, Tuesday was not a great raid day.  We made progression, and moved against the boss, but the same little thing kept killing us as the end of the fight.  We hit a wall about half way through the night and couldn't get the boss down below 20% or so without blowing ourselves up with the wind bombs.  I left Tuesday night feeling frustrated and ornery... which due to running around earlier in the day I was already ornery and hiding it through the raid.

      Last night my goal was just to take down Wind Lord Mel'jarak, my brother Matt (Shaqia) gets a big shout out from me for talking to one of the raiders who was having a lot of issues with the wind bombs and helping her out.  Gwyndolynn helped her out as well, and between their help and everything else we managed to one shot Wind Lord Mel'jarak last night.

     I was excited, and ready to push against Amber Shaper Un'Sok for the rest of the night.  However, my raid team completely smashed my expectations and we downed Un'Sok in a few tries.  That's right, two bosses down with time to spare!!!  We even smacked the Empress across the face a couple times and I anticipate her going down next week as soon as we get her add phase figured out.

     The Whole raid team deserves a shout out for a Job well done.  The raid was Dizzty (me), Gwyndolynn, Shaqia, Magilla, Laroth, Cuin, Amelmi, Easybake, Fantaa, and Scorpiak.  Everyone worked hard and we managed to push through.  This means a couple things.

    Next week, raiding will be different.  We are going to spend one night on Throne of Thunder and one on Heart of Fear.  We are going to start working through the old stuff one night a week until we finish up the Terrace of Eternal Spring, and the other night, we are into Throne of Thunder territory.  Once we have downed all the old bosses, we are going to be doing Throne full time.  This is the plan, and I'm excited to see it move forward.

     I think with some hard pushing and some luck, we maybe close to caught up when the Siege of Ogrimmar comes out in a few months, and hit that one hard.  We had a good run with Cataclysm where we caught up right before Dragon soul came out, and we managed to down Deathwing before the expansion ended.  Hopefully we will have similar luck.

     Here are two things I attribute to the success last night.  One the fact everyone worked hard and pushed to get things down, and two.  Everyone was on time and ready to go so we were able to maximize out time in raid.  We had a short break midway through, but most the two hours was time well spent.

(This video has nothing to do with this post or raid, I just have Imagine Dragons in my head.)

     On to next week now, we will see what it brings us!

Dizzty.