This week brought us the final wing of ICC Frostwing Halls. This brought us 3 new bosses and one valkyr that just randomly drops a frost emblem (who knows but we will take it). Valithria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa and Arthas are found in this wing and Faded was ready to take them all on. Last week was a solid raid week but we were disappointed to miss downing Blood Queen by 4% we started the week confident we would be able to down her this week.

We started the raid week clearing up to saurfang then crashing. Hrmmm… then we did Gunship a second time (for a second round of loot) and proceeded  leaving only Putricide (who is pretty close to farm status) in plagueworks. We also got to do our first ICC weekly getting everyone badges and a few members BoE epics. Officers took us to Valithria as our first new boss. After a few tries we got a solid feel for the fight and felt confident we would have her that night. Now if she would just respawn…. anytime now.. respawn? Hellloooo respawn? She was done with us which forced us to be done with her for the night. We headed over to Blood Council we had enough time to kill them before raid end. If only they would stand up… hrmmm.. stand up? Okay so the instance was bugged for the night and we called it for 25M. Raid broke into 10’s.

Wednesday allowed us to return to ICC and Valithria. We knew from the night before we could handle this fight cleanly and did so. Happily another boss down and another server first. Next we went to blood council and cleared that without much trouble and moved on to Blood Queen. We had gotten incredibly close the week before so knew we had it in us. Clarifying a few specifics about biting each other and we were happy to wrap up the night with Blood Queen dead.

Thursday was another raid night and we started the evening on Sindragosa with 16 attempts left for the night so plenty of tries for the new limited attempt boss. After some fussing and longer down time than normal in raid …we got many tries on the new boss… until we were WTFPWND by Blizzard. Yup.. again respawn issues. This left us with quite a few available attempts and Putricide over in plagueworks mocking us. Soooo… we of course went to own. An exceptional kill on him.. left us with attempts for the week and sadly nothing to use them on… Overall and exceptional 25M raid week.

Ten man raids also made some progression, groups are getting Blood Queen and Putricide down easily now; I believe we had a group also take down Valithria (dont quote me on this) if not I dont doubt most of the 1oM groups will be clearing the same week the 25M groups are. I believe we are handling about 60 people a week in 10 man content so a lot of these groups are not made up of our raiders or core raiders but are also alts and community. Our secondary 25M run is hoping to move to plagueworks this week giving us a full secondary progression team made up of alts and community this is very impressive on this server guys pat yourselves on the back. Nice job as always guild.. more server firsts more progression. Next week Sindragosa and Arthas!!!

This week started with the new wing open and Faded facing Putricide and 2 new bosses. We are unable to access anything upstairs without clearing the first part so Tuesday raid brought us clearing and free loots. All bosses went down clean and smooth up to Prof. Putricide we then headed from Rotface to the Blood Princes. Since the mechanics allowed us only 15 attempts on both Blood Queen and Putricide it was determined that killing them first would be the logical step. A few attempts on them and we wrapped up the raid week. Wednesday we went straight to the Princes and were happy to claim the kill. Off to putricide we went… we gave several attempts to Putricide then wrapped it up early because of respawns. (anybody other than me miss the 5-6 hour respawn timers?)

Thursday being traditionally our weakest raid day turned out to be SOLID .. a few members had to sell their souls to their wives/girlfriends and negotiate the extra raid time but we happily walked into ICC Thursday with a full raid compliment. I know I personally appreciate those that went out of their way to see us through progression this is a great step for the guild and proved to be what we needed.

The raid started with Putricide and limited attempts left. We had a few bumpy starts some of us were having bad nights (*cough*) but in the end we downed Prof. Putricide in Faded fashion. Renbar took the hit to be the 25th man down (yeah we do better when one of our members dies in the first minute and “watches” the raid) so the other 24 members pulled it together and got the kill. Another server first keeping our tenacious lead as #1 on the server. However, it was noted and i think registered that Renascentia (on alliance) is solid competition and if we want to keep our illustrious title as #1 we should keep our heads straight and bring it 110% to that fight and every fight that follows.

Congratulations to the entire guild and raid team on two new bosses down this week and putting the other bosses in ICC on farm status. We did give the Queen a few attempts and got her down to about 30% we will have her down next week for sure. Finally the guild welcomed back a few wayward members, and added a few new people to our community. Keep up the hard work everyone its paying off!!

Short answer .. 2 of the 3 are down as of Tuesday… though some people like a little more detail so read on.

I don’t know about the rest of the raiders but this content is making me tired. These new fights are work and it really shows how far as a team we have come since the start of ToC. To me it seems it shows that skipping things like H. ToC would make this whole process even more difficult. I cant even begin to imagine guilds that cant kill heroic beasts dealing with these 3 new bosses effectively.

Faded hit this new wing around 8:30 on Tuesday. We saw a lot of lag on gunship but it seemed to clear about halfway through Saurfang. So we continued on to the new wing. The trash alone is no joke, we managed to get through it cleanly to meet our new friends Stinky and Precious. Killing these is what triggers the bosses Rotgut and Festergut (killing those allows you to get to the Professor).

The first boss we were going to take on was Festergut. This fight is indeed a bit of a gear check because of the short enrage timer; but without too many wipes we managed to down him very cleanly. Again these fights are not about stand still pew pew. Coordination as a team is mandatory and the only way to be successful is to have 25 people all on the same page. Faded has really come a long way to do this; perfect we are not but there is significant potential. After Festergut was downed officers wrapped up the raid for the night. Congratulations to the guild for another server first downing this boss in 25m.

Wednesday we took on Rotgut, this is the more difficult of the two bosses and again it requires a TON of coordination. Making sure everyone is accurately doing their part is critical. With a liberal learning curve we ultimately pulled off the kill again a server first. Surprisingly we arent seeing a lot of activity from other guilds on these bosses. These fights are tough and we stopped after Rotgut to get a handle on how to kill professor Prutricide this boss is going to be a bit tougher since we are given a limited number of attempts to be successful and as of Wednesday only 1 guild in the world had killed him in 25 man. Thursday we are going to in and  make some solid attempts on him every raider should make sure they know the fight and are ready to give 110%.

As most people know this wing also opened up the quest bosses for the Legendary. Even though the legendary “fragments” wont drop in this wing determination on who will get the quest items had to be made which also determined who gets the first fragments. Using loot council it was determined that Pronkie will be the first guild member to get the quest items and all the fragments for the legendary mace with Treeantis being the second. Congratulations to these members for this honor!!

Its important to note some of the off  time activities as well. There are a few Faded 10M groups that have successfully killed Rotgut and Festergut. I think the guild runs about 6 different 10M runs, this has helped the guild tremendously and has allowed our community and benched raiders to have some raiding time too.  It is also notable that the secondary 25M run that is done on Saturdays successfully killed all 4 of the first wing bosses. This run is made up of community/raiders (that were benched)/alts the guild as a whole should be proud of this as well since a lot of our peers are having difficulty having 50 different toons clear this content is very impressive.