Yes it’s been ages, no I still don’t PvP

I do, however - and predictably - blog on Tuesdays. Am excited about the new 5-man instance, not so much the 25-man yet as we’re yet again short on numbers for raid and have temporarily ‘paused’ raiding until our AFK members turn up again. Rather disappointing for many of our raiders who regularly show up, especially those in the US as we raid on Oceanic time on a US server.. hopefully the situation improves soon as we’ve been making solid progress thus far up to ROS.

Am rather disappointed that instances up to BT no longer require attunement, but it had to happen sooner or later. Enough said.

Not much being changed for rogues, so no QQs atm, until I find a reason to

Until then, time to redownload all my mods again…urgh.

Guild is currently on Reliquary of Souls having downed Shade of Akama, Teron Gorefiend and Gurtogg Bloodboil last week. We managed to get him to 17% in Phase 3 on the first night right before server reset. I like this fight despite it being a super busy one. Will probably down him next week after reset, we are still doing Hyjal Summit in the meantime thus only have 2 nights in BT. Teron has been quite decent, constructs were much easier in-game than on flash game (which i only passed once due to being non-WASD user and it’s upside down). Gurtogg down on 2nd try; was not in raid for Shade of Akama FTK.

New raiding rogue in guild; a belated welcome to Hide, and the rest of the new crew that just came on board, Trep, Exx, Wik, Bundy etc

Quest for DST has been epic failing. Still going for PUGs and the one time it dropped I’m glad it went to Zulu. I think it’s been about eight months now.. this reminds me of the Ragnaros dagger that never dropped. Meh :/

Still have temperamental router issues I need to fix and a Warlock I’ve just started leveling.

Anya is an awesome artist!

Sorta running joke I think Leo is an absolute hottie. Nice touch on the T5 head Which reminds me I need to change the banner above.. been a while since I wore those Mag’har shoulders. And um, nice arse ^.~

Thanks you <3

Archimonde FTK

We went back in this week before server maintenance with a slightly different raid composition and didn’t manage to take him down. For some reason it felt harder than our kill attempts. We wiped for about 2 hours.. GG.

Notes on the fight: After that many attempts I feel that CoS should be kept only for Doomfire. On Monday it felt like we were losing a lot of the frontline to Grips due to out of range decursers. Maybe our positioning was messy. Using CoS CD on a Grip meant that in situations when you get feared into a Doomfire or it runs through beneath Archimonde/spawns on top of melee puts unecessary strain on healers which are not usually assigned to frontline when you can’t remove it. Decursing Grips *should* be top priority for decurse classes anyway. Ideally. However having said that it is still situational.. if you don’t get decursed and are about to die you just have to pop CoS and pray for a heal and no immediate fear/doomfire.

Apart from a decurse and CoS, another way to remove Grip would be to pop a Purification Potion.. however it should be noted that it fails quite often. Restorative Potions does the same thing over a period of time but it takes a while before the first tick kicks in so it shouldn’t be used at all for this purpose.

Naj’entus kill

He looks like a giant hermit crab. The fight was pretty straightfoward. More of a healer thing keeping everyone topped up before we pop his Tidal Shield. His Impaling Spine move is pretty cute as well.. the first wipe was pretty funny. We had macroed the /use itemname wrong.. It is actually called Naj’entus Spine and not Impaling Spine.

A timed CoS will save you from taking the 8500 frost damage when the shield breaks. We found wound poison/mortal strike not really necessary as most guilds would have the DPS to take him down quite easily.. although it would speed up the fight for the healers. He heals for approx 1-3% each time without debuffs and he has around 3,600,000 HP.

Checking out Supremus

Didn’t take a screenshot of the kill. Only concern for rogues is the Hateful Strike (like Gruul’s) which hits leather for about 20k damage if you’re really that unlucky that your OT has less HP than you when that happens.

Haven’t been back since - did another round of SSC and TK clears to attune new guild members and have since gone into Hyjal. Finally got [Serpentshrine Shuriken] to replace [Nethershrike]. Also picked up [Gloves of the Forgotten Vanquisher] from Azgalor but the same thing happened to me that happened to Grimmer before. RL couldn’t master loot token to me so after about 72 hours and a few tickets I finally got it in the mail. Dammit, the excitement is gone already LOL!

Been slackin on the updates! RL work has caught up

The guild decided to take a year end break for about 5 weeks, so we’ve just only started raiding again a couple of weeks ago. Things are somewhat back on track though, we continued where we left off with an Archimonde FTK. Took us about 30 wipes to get there but it was an easy clear. The Malaysian lag made it harder than it probably was, well-timed Air-Burst landings might have been a little too late for some of us. Was initially using CoS for a preemptive fear resist (doesn’t really work) but found it to be far, far better used on Doomfires (or if absolutely necessary.. Grips). Both the guild rogues are back to Combat builds now after the Hemo nerf. Which is fun. Combat Potency, how I missed thee!

We went into Black Temple for the first time and chalked up two FTKs on Najentus and Supremus. Pretty easy stuff. Will blog more about the bosses later.

Guild in the meantime having issues with numbers. Due to upcoming holidays/chinese new year/start of new school terms etc we’ve been steadily losing numbers to various AFK reasons so Wad De Kao is recruiting members, preferably BT attuned. Our raid times on Tichondrius are pretty strange as most of us are from +8GMT so raids start at 4:30am server thereabouts.

Hyjal Summit is actually pretty easy(ish) with the right raid.. this week we seem to have crazy mojo. 4 bosses down! And that means Raptor has to get busy with the pot distro for FTKs.. hahaha!

Anetheron kill

Anetheron was pretty messy - on kill MT died at about 20% and we somehow managed to take turns tanking him while DPS burned him down. He was on me for all of 8 seconds. The Alliance NPCs were tanking. We had 7 or 8 people left up when he died Next kill will be cleaner.. I hope.

Kaz’rogal was a one-shot kill. Easy. Honestly that went by so fast I will probably have to read up again next week. I barely remember the fight.

Azgalor took longer. Day 1 we put in 3 attempts. Today at 3rd we got him to 6% and downed him 4th try. Had a bit of drama when me and Grimmer had doom and died near the tauren camps too far away to register kill so Zerul couldn’t master loot T6 glove token to Grimmer. Apparently the only two people who weren’t showing up on ML list were the rogues! GM sorted it out thankfully I love Tauren Warriors!

Wait.. does that mean I didn’t get rep for that kill?!

Next up.. Archimonde. Or maybe Black Temple?

Grats all, especially to Grimmer and Urzoo on new shiny T6 loot! <3

FTK!

Winterchill didn’t take very long at all to take down. We were having a blast (or at least I was) in Hyjal Summit. The trash will prove to be a pain in the arse in the upcoming weeks as we take down more bosses. We got Anetheron to about 50% - the infernals were messing us up but I think it was more because it was late and people were getting tired. We put in three attempts before calling it a night.

Our Raid leader Julz after two unsuccessful Anetheron attempts: “Check your gear, check your buffs, CHECK YOUR BRAINS”

Yes we weren’t very good with the infernals but the trash wave clears were pro!

Winterchill is quite easymode for rogues, most of the trash mobs are AOE. Assist train on trash waves and avoid Death and Decay from boss when its cast. He does an IMBA frost spell that you can’t CoS out of (maybe preemptive CoS? Not sure if it can be resisted) that does 10k over 3s but there’s nothing you can really do about it if you don’t get heals.

We got a ton of epic drops from trash o.O

The Alliance remind me of Lego horsemen!