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First day of hardmodes!
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Posted by
Lalaith at
2010-02-11 16:40 CET
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After unlocking hardmodes last week as you can see in the previous news todays reset meant the real race was on. As such, almost the whole guild was online when the servers came online (me saying they should be online if they could or they could look around for a new guild might have had something to do with it though) and we were off for the progress that we have all been waiting for for the whole expansion.
We started pretty decent with not an awesome quick kill on Marrowgar but at least a kill within 3-4 attempts, which we obviously didn't bother even screenshotting. We then went on to Lady Deathwhisper that we'd heard US had had some problems with the night before. Most US guilds that had hardmodes unlocked had steamrolled Marrowgar, been stuck on Lady Deathwhisper, steamrolled gunship and then gotten stuck at Saurfang so that was what we expected as well.
Deathwhisper did take us some time to get the tactic working out for us, we redid our whole "normal"-tactic (which pretty much was zerg the shit out of it anyway). To actually have to care about what happens in such a zergfest the normal version is took longer time than we thought but we did get her down, surprisingly since the previous attempts wasn't really indicating on a kill with 70-80 % wipes. Then all of a sudden we managed the p2 elements you'll all be familiar with soon! I got a shit of the shit screenshot that will be up for the time being, someone probably has a better one though.
Gunship was steamrolled and easily oneshotted and we went on a foodbreak to recharge the batteries for what we had assumed would be the first real challenge, Saurfang.
It turned out he did require quite some attempts, but it wasn't due to him being hard. He was just as "easy" as he used to be in a sense, only that the rng factor included in the encounter needed to be repeated until we got lucky, as well as some slight stacking (we did stack slightly, and I know at least one more guild did as well to down him quickly) was needed. Unfortunately we didn't down him before the evening lag broke lose which meant we called the raid for 2 hours during peak time.
When we got back we replaced our initial approach to the setup and went with some alts instead, mostly due to us wanting to minimize the risks. After what was the first lagfree attempt with the new setup we ended up with a kill. Not so much thanks to the setup though probably, moreso to the fact we actually had some luck (which we didn't have for what probably was the first 30 tries or something).
Saurfang being down we went to Valithria, zerged her down with a close wipe, not much to say.
Took about.. 2 hours or so if I remember correctly, hours are starting to get dull!
We then went to the plaguewing, and the Rotface-hardmode that had left some of us with nightmares ever since the ptr testing turned out to be a real piece of cake. That took 2 wipes and then he went down.
We did some attempts on Festergut and worked out a decent tactic but the majority of us had been raiding for about 13 hours and since we don't want to burn ourselves out the first day we simply called it a night!
Recruiting a warlock and perhaps a resto druid.
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Re: First day of hardmodes!
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yääz, helt ok första dag!, lycka till med resten
/Ivan
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