Phoenix of the Sun

After we had 85 wipes it was finally Denathrius' turn to wipe:


Thanks everyone who helped push for this kill. It's been quite an intense focus on this for the past couple of weeks but the practice really paid off as the kill was nice and smooth coming in fresh last night. For those who missed it, sorry you missed the kill after putting in the practice but we will aim to kill him more!

As 9.1 and the next raid will still be some time off we will still be raiding but I would expect to see more alt runs and the like mixed in. If anyone has something they'd like to do, feel free to say!

I think we had a Pots-first with Castle Nathria opening as we had so many signups (37 on the busiest night!) that we had to split into two separate raid groups to fit everyone in. Thankfully this balanced out nicely and both groups killed bosses at the same rate, putting us 3/10 after the first night and 5/10 after the second. For the monday raid we had exactly 30 people online so we were able to run a single maxed out group for the 6th and 7th bosses. We also killed several of these before they got nerfed after, so well done getting through them before adjustments.

I want to say a massive thank you to New Guy for running one of the groups. It was a lot to do with 3 nights in the opening week where we had to learn all the fights and I know how draining that can be. It wouldn't have been possible to get everyone in without Feryla organising a group, so thank you

Also a thanks to everyone who stepped up with offspecs to help cover tanking and healing for the double raids. I know several of you had expected to be DPSing and ended up performing another role, so well done and thanks again - we also couldn't have managed it without that.

Without further waffling on I've seamlessly merged the screenshots from the two groups (for the first 5 kills) into a composite image below:

After thinking we'd need to adjust things through the evening while working our way closer to the kill we went and killed him on the first pull. Yay!



Much moo to everyone

The big tentacle overlord fell over last night which means Normal is now cleared That'll give us more time to push into Heroic now.

As the fight is one of those where everything disappears at the end I accurately recreated the death scene.

Phoenix of the Sun was created on February 19th 2005.

Happy birthday everyone! It's been a great few years, and here's to lots more!

Thanks to Terry for the Picture.