It’s been awhile since the last post but ES has continued to muscle through content impressively while many guilds fail.  We’re now 6/8 on Heroic Dragon Soul, with lots of pride for having not changed our base morale and goals.  We bring everyone fairly without stressing the “perfect” makeup that a lot of sites recommend  Read more »

Well, it has been an interesting couple of months in Azeroth. ES has seen many changes. We lost our Guild Master, Raid Leader, Backup Raid Leader, Main Tank, backup tank, several officers, still more healers and DPS, and we transitioned to a 10 man raiding guild after being a 25 man raiding guild for around  Read more »

With 4.3 hitting last night, we took our first furtive steps into the new raid, the Dragon Soul. All the confusion of new content that we know and love was available in generous quantities, as we brutalized our way through the first three bosses. Admiral Morkchop fell over with barely a protest, feeling more like  Read more »

After many, many weeks of coaxing him out of hibernation to show up to raids to get his items, Sheepin has finally assembled the Horde-side 2nd Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest! As per new guild policy, we’re going to be referring to Sheepin from now on as “the staff”. Aka, “the staff is dead”, “battlerez the staff”,  Read more »

After a long struggle killing Alysrazor (which I neglected to write up because of the flashbacks), Staghelm progression was refreshingly straightforward. Despite the fact that this fight is stupidly more difficult on 25s than on 10s (we came in on Sunday after our first week of real progression and killed It in 10 man in  Read more »

Yes, we skipped Beth’tilac. I wasn’t actually in the raid for the Beth’tilac kill, which was accomplished through an elegant ballet of spiderling control, drone dps, and web climbing, or so I was told. Baleroc, however, was a boss of a different color. While we have decent raid discipline in terms of dps switching, staying  Read more »

After spending way too much time on trash this week, we were hoping to ramp up the efficiency, improving our “boss attempts to killing turtles” ratio and making our way further into Firelands. We got a little bit of a slow start Tuesday, but we then redeemed ourselves by two-shotting Shannox. We moved onward and  Read more »

… like a woman scorned by a sub 1% wipe on the second pull of the evening. One becomes overburdened with what-ifs when it’s that close. “ONE trap! ONE battle rez! A couple cooldowns! NORDIC IF YOU EVER FORGET TO FLASK AGAIN I’LL END YOU!” The upside is that we at least knew we could  Read more »

We are leaving Blackwing Descent with a bang, ending the tier with one of the most exciting kills we’ve had in a while. After downing Heroic Atramedes three weeks ago, we’ve been farming loot for Firelands and gradually chipping away at Maloriak. While raids have been fun and everyone is looking forward to new content,  Read more »

So, after last week’s kills, I was 1) hoping the Nef and Halfus kills weren’t luck and 2) hoping to think about further heroic mode progression, working our way through the encounters starting with Chimaeron, because I hate healers and tanks and because 90% of the raid doesn’t have to do anything differently on H  Read more »