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Heroes No More is an Alliance based World of Warcraft Raiding Guild of Moonglade-EU.
The Frostwing Halls: Cleared
Sindragosa has been killed in 25-man Icecrown Citadel, rounding up the last of the wings for us. A misleadingly difficult fight that really doesn't begin until 30%, though the majority of our wipes were spent trying to figure out our own strategies. But hey, it's more fun that way than reading about it a week later and just acting out a guide. Only the Lich King remains in normal mode now, and we'll be coming for him soon.
The Crimson Hall: Cleared
With the defeat of Blood Queen Lana'thel, we've now completed the 25-man version of the Crimson Hall in normal mode, that marks two out of three wings down. The 25-man lag has been extremely frustrating, but it's nice that we're at least managing to progress in spite of it, even though I'm certain we'd have killed her last week if we hadn't wasted around 3 full attempts wiping to the lagfest. One more wing to go and then on to face the Lich King.
The Plagueworks: Cleared
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The first properly difficult boss in Icecrown Citadel, Professor Putricide has been killed, after several near-misses caused by bad phase transitioning. All in all the plagueworks was an entertaining wing with some nice variety, and if the remaining bosses match up, ICC should prove to be a very interesting instance indeed. In other news since the last post, we also completed Mad Skill on 25-man in the Coliseum.
Heroic Anub'arak and a Tribute to Skill
It's been quite a while coming but after many weeks of slack time, getting people drakes, sorting our roster, acquiring the raid buffs we needed and gearing up, we worked out a strategy and finally started some heavy wiping to learn this challenging boss. Having barely made any attempts at all until less than two weeks ago, we expected to struggle to get the boss down before Icecrown was released and it became much more trivial, but here it is, Anub'arak 25-man heroic has been killed and Tribute to Skill completed. A huge thank you to everyone who worked on learning the fight and downing the boss.
Heroic Val'kyr, One Light & Glory of the Ulduar Raider
In the past two weeks we spent some time working on the last meta achievement for our Ulduar 25-man proto drakes, completing Yogg-Saron with only Thorim's help. After doing it that way, the easy mode fight never seemed such a joke. This week we then put some focus back into the Crusader's Coliseum and defeated the Twin Val'kyr on heroic mode on our second day of focused attempts. The strategy took some tweaking but once we found the right balance it seemed to go pretty well.
Heroic Jaraxxus, Faction Champions and Firefighter
Continuing on from our Beasts kill we went on and defeated the heroic version of Lord Jaraxxus, which seemed nicely tuned after the hotfix buffs to the encounter. After defeating him we continued on with our remaining attempts and also killed the Faction Champions after a few shots to work out a strategy. To round up the week we decided to lay off the extremely difficult Twin Valkyr heroic encounter and went back to deal with our unfinished business in Ulduar, defeating Mimiron hard mode in order to unlock Algalon. The amount of extra gear made it feel a little cheap, but the fight was still entertaining enough.
Heroic Beasts and 10-man Trial of Skill
The heroic mode has finally been released for the new Coliseum instance and thankfully the 25-man is not the incredible pushover that the original normal mode was. Last week we spent a lot of time on the 25-man heroic Northrend Beasts encounter, which was quite a huge step up in difficulty to anything in the normal instance. It doesn't even compare. Unfortunately, we ran out of attempts after some pretty decent wipes on Icehowl. The enrage timer was extended in the hotfix after the reset and coming back to the fight we downed it in the second attempt of the night. A shame not to kill it before the nerf/fix but that's life. In addition to this, we sent a group into the 10-man heroic mode. Most of the encounters in 10-man weren't a big step up from normal at all and we ended up one-shotting most of them. Anub'arak actually proved a challenge though, but after a small setup change we killed him with 30 tries remaining.
Freya Hard Mode
We have now completed Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood, the hard mode for Freya, in 25-man. After a number of messy tries it finally clicked and suddenly we had one almost completely flawless attempt that ended in a very satisfying kill. There are now only two more hard modes left for us to defeat in Ulduar for the 25-man Glory. In addition we've naturally been keeping up with the so far unsatisfying Coliseum bosses, killing the Twin Val'kyr on the first attempt.
Algalon, 10-man mode
After a painful 4% wipe last week, Algalon the Observer has been defeated. The fight itself was not particularly interesting, the only real challenge being the tight time-limit. The 25-man encounter may be different, but at least in 10-man the only reason it takes so long is that by the time you get there after a week of waiting, remember where you were at and get back into the fight you've already wasted half your time in just a couple of attempts. However the event with Rhonin in Dalaran was a nice touch, and hopefully lots of people got to see it. Thank you to anyone who whispered their congratulations after the event transpired.
Trial of the Crusader and Utgarde Keep(?!)
New patch, new content and... oh wait it was only one boss a week and we're so far killing them in around one try. The Northrend Beasts and Lord Jaraxxus have been killed so far with very little effort. In light of the extremely disappointing difficulty level of the new instance, some of us have decided to do things more worthy of actual achievement instead. And so I present to you naked Heroic Utgarde Keep (using weapons and jewellery only):
Val'anyr and General Vezax hard mode.
Been a little while since the page was last updated, but we have three new significant achievements to document. A little while ago we completed Conqueror of Ulduar, the 25-man Immortal-style achievement. According to WoWProgress, this is a world 19th achievement, which is a pretty nice thing to get. In addition to this tonight we finally completed 25-man hard mode Vezax, after working on the fight for one or two raids for the past few of weeks. Earlier this week we finally received the 30th shard of Val'anyr so afterwards we headed to Yogg and killed him with three keepers up in order to complete Val'anyr, the legendary healing mace. Congratulations to Almalexia for the server's first mace.
Flame Leviathan, Yogg.3 and 10-man Glory
Quite a few kills to report since the last post. In heroic mode, we completed the hard mode for Flame Leviathan, destroying him with all four of the towers up. After the recent nerfs, this hard mode isn't too tricky and only took us a small number of attempts, stacking up the pyrite is much easier now. We also managed to kill Yogg-Saron with the help of three keepers instead of four, which is a nice little jump in difficulty thanks to the phase 3 silences but again not a huge jump yet. Meanwhile in 10-man mode we defeated the newly nerfed Mimiron hard mode and received the rusted proto drakes for completing Glory of the Ulduar Raider. Though not a total cakewalk, its definitely quite a lot easier and probably more in line with the difficulty of the other 10-man hard modes.