May 23, 2009
Sauntering through Ulduar
So the last few weeks Sunder's been busy progressing and beating crap up in Ulduar. People may wonder where the killshots are and some even thought we went on hiatus due to my lack of updates here. But rest assured, the lack of updates here is not due to inactivity of the guild, but due to being an overworked, underpayed, overkilled, whipping gnome. And if you saw through that tripe as soon as I said the dreaded g-word and figured out that, really, I"m just being lazy at updating, you get a cookie. (See Tater for said cookie)
Besides being lazy, part of the reason as to why there aren't constant updates is due to the breakneck speed at which we were downing bosses. Some of the earlier bosses such as Flame Leviathan and XT-002 we tore through and moved on before realizing, "hey, we need a screenshot." It's usually at that point of realization that the boss's corpse was engineered for scrap parts like saronite bars and motorcycle parts rendering the possibility of a killshot moot.
The first killshot that I managed to get was Kologarn:
where the raid tried as a group to play soccer with his head. Didn't work too well.
This was rapidly followed by downing Auriaya: the boss that no one refers to by name but by the obvious title "Crazy Cat Lady"
The next four bosses didn't leave corpses since we don't exactly kill them.
Here's Hodir after we freed him, for example:
Hope you enjoy the crotch shot as much as I enjoyed having to look up his kilt to get a good image of him.
And here's is the trash tank that Mimiron leaves behind after we free him.
I was lucky to get this screenshot before some rabid engineer (me or Hadar, probably me in this case) quickly disassembled the corpse for more spare parts.
After freeing the 4 Titans (3 titans and 1 gnome-thing, really) we then proceed to kill General Vezax:
Kind of an amusing fight but can easily go from fun to "%!#$@" in a matter of seconds, especially if you get chain targeted for life tap then shadow crash then life tap and so on... Highlight of this fight, my incinerates can often go below GCD, wheeeee
Finally, the big nasty himself: Yogg-saron. Fight's very similar to C'thun of yesteryears, especially the Big (and Small) Tentacles of Various Dooms, with the chaotic nature of Vashj.
In the theme of going insane for fighting this boss, we all turned into rabbits after she/he died.
Some even stripped naked in the middle of their madness
So that was that.
Oh there were the optional bosses that we skipped at first and came back later for. They seemed rather irrelevant after killing the big bad insane-in-the-membrane thing so I keep forgetting to get kill shots.
Anyway, on to hard modes and the quest for the proto-drakes!
Additional quotes and screenshots:
April 07, 2009
Heroic Glory of the Raider
Congratulations to the following for getting the achievement:
Animalover, Dufusdwarf, Hadar, Holyness, Leahcim, Lightstar, Pravus, Priori, and
Twiddle
I suppose I'll need to take another picture, maybe with 25 of the mounts in some more secluded area or something.
More 310 mounts to come this week as the rest of the 25 Immortals clean up the rest of their achievement requirements.
January 07, 2009
I knew I forgot something
So yeah, according to my achievement record, it's been exactly one month since we killed Malygos. So here it is, in it's belated glory, the server's first 25-man Malygos kill:
We don't actually see the dead dragon because his corpse falls off into the infinite void. So instead, you get to see the raid on the drakes, with Alexstrasza somewhere back there, and some radical bear action
Anyway, since this is technically old news, I might as well throw in some old quotes that may or may not have made it to the front page at one point or another as well. We all love quotes, especially taken out of context, right?
Here's a classic. On a Doom Lord Kazzak pull, our main tank decided to dismount from his flying mount a bit too high...
December 02, 2008
Update on Naxxramas
I've been accused of committing a lousy photoshop job on the killshot. So here it is, delivered via the Phaj-canoe, the official (non-crap) killshot of Kel'Thuzad in heroic 25-man Naxxramas:
December 01, 2008
Belated Entry about Naxxramas
So last week Sunder ventured into the Heroic version of Naxxramas. Being that it was very similar to the old 40-man version, they had no problems pounding it down and getting the realm-first for heroic Naxx.
(Artist rendition of killshot. May not be based on reality. May be based on sleep deprivation and LSD)
Grats guys on realm first.