Cho'gall DOWN!

Cho'gall down!


That stupid ugly two headed ogre is finally dead. He dropped some delicious purples, but the best part was coming together as a team and kicking his eyeballed ass. I am super proud of the guild as a whole, and especially of everyone who was there tonight.

It was our second and a half night of trying him. We'd had one night of 25man attempts before, and had a couple of tries in 10-man. But tonight we knocked over BH first thing and then reactivated a lock so we could go straight to beat Cho'gall up.



And even though we had a few pugs in the group, we still had enough people to make it a Darkfall run! So guild achieve too!



Now if you'll excuse me I'll go back to my chair dance of celebration. Squeeeee!

25man progress

It's taken Darkfall a while to build up to a full 25man raid. However I'm very proud to say that last night and Tuesday night we actually had full DF raids.

It was glorious!

Not only do I have to spend less time explaining every fight, but we are actually starting to gel as a team. And the loot is faster to give out as well. Though I'm not sure if that is an artifact of Earthen distributing it instead of me or it actually being faster.

On Tuesday We knocked out 5 bosses. We took out Argaloth and then the first 4 bosses in Blackwing Descent. We had a couple of attempts on Atramades as well, but ran out of time. We'll go back on Sunday and wipe the floor with him and then beat on Nefarian for a while.

Last night we plowed through Bastion of Twilight. We one shot both Halfus and the Double Dragons. And, the actual sign of progression, only had one stupid embarrassing wipe on the trash, when I didn't explain a new strategy for the last pack of trash before them well enough.

But the triumph of last night was that we finally killed Ascendant Council on 25man. We last killed them on 10 man in early April.



Even though we already had a 10man kill shot I made everyone stand in front of the corpse so I could take pictures. If you click through and look closely you can see the belt that is all that is left of those stupid elementals.

I'm Here to Kill Dragons - Update

Tuesday night Darkfall ran our second guild 25-man. We had to pug some people, but there were 21 Darkfall guildies in the raid. We hit Blackwing Descent and, despite patch day woes, we killed Magmaw and the Trons. We had a few good attempts on Maloriak, but ran out of time due to earlier problems with the Trons activating in an entirely random order.

Our first guild 25man was in Bastion of Twilight on Sunday. We actually had only one pug then. I remain super pleased about that. And in true Darkfall fashion we did quite well on the bosses and absolutely noobed it up on the trash. We one shot Halfus, and 4-shot the dragon twins with a new strategy. But the trash in Bastion is brutally annoying. There isn't much space and the packs are very close together. Also after the gauntlet before the dragon twins we had a group that didn't reset to the right location. So there was a fair amount of confusion as to where the extra mobs were suddenly appearing from.

I think we still need to do more recruiting, but we're in pretty decent shape. It turns out that a bunch of the people we'd pugged in on Thursday, had been in a guild together. However, their guild leader quit WoW and disbanded the guild. So we ended up scooping up a bunch of new recruits. We also had a few people see my forum post and join from there too.

So, all considered, I'm pretty pleased with our progress towards full DF 25s. I just hope that our progress continues tonight, with good kills and less trash wipes in Bastion.

Ascendant Council

Sunday Darkfall went into Bastion of Twilight again. This time we had the whole evening to work on Ascendant Council. It was a rocky start, since we had a bunch of people who hadn't seen it at all.

It took a bunch of attempts, but we got phase one down and I started calling out every single upcoming thunderstorm and quake in phase two. Then we started getting to phase three regularly. And of course in phase three we died horribly to start with.

But we persevered! Our winning attempt was a crazy mess of people dropping like flies to the gravity and the lightning. I was spamming every single survivability cooldown I had. Death Strike FTW! It ended with me and our dps death knight the only ones still up. The other DK had jumper cables and even managed to get them to work on Kuan after the dust settled.



Our phase 3 was a crazy mess of running about, but our phase 1 and 2 on that attempt were just about perfect. No one died in either of the first two phases, and we had both pairs of bosses hit 25% health at just about the same time.

I'm so proud of Darkfall. :D