Game: World of Warcraft
Raid: Mogu’Shan Vaults
“Hey, Chavez, how come they ain’t killing us?” – Charley Bowdre (Young Guns) “Because we’re in the spirit world, asshole. They can’t see us. ” – “Dirty Steve” Stephens (Young Guns).
Awesome week of raiding. Making some real nice progress at the moment. Spirits and the spirit world are really a big theme in this raid.
I have some awesome screenshots Pop has taken and will post them up very soon. The group is gelling quite well and I really think a lot of our success is helped by the fact we have run together for such a long time. Even though a couple people have new classes (monks) there is still that familiarity which, I believe, counts for so much.
A one shot for the first 2 bosses (and the First Trash Boss – those stone lions) and quick progression on the next two sees us at 4 of 6 and currently working on the Celestial Dragon (freakin’ awesome effects – I feel like Starman when I step in the circle. I SO want a glyph or title or something so I can keep that form permanently)
So,
Spiritbinder – down. Pretty cleanly done in the end. Mastered the spirit world and hopping in an out of portals. We have the strat down. I forsee easy kills in the future. No longer much of a hindrance on our way to the Inner Sanctum. Although I would LOVE to know why the trolls are trying to bee down the doors. Maybe they want PHAT LOOTZ also.
Spirit Kings – Are you getting a sense that Mogu’shan Vaults has a lot to do with Spirits? I am… Anyway – the Spirit Kings are protected by spirit trash mobs. Knock them out of the way pretty quick and we found ourselves entering what I regard a really enjoyable fight in the Spirit Kings. Four Kings, multiple abilities each, random order except for the first King. Great fun, dynamic and VERY hectic by the end. Of course after a few attempts, by then end we nailed it (and by nailed it I DO meant running around screaming KILL IT, KILL IT, KILL IT as we lost raid members one by one for the last 2% health or so). I will also add, the shot before our kill was a 1% wipe… yep, 100k health left. Oh the agony! Realistically, this will also be an easy encounter in the future
Trash Boss Two – freakin’ heck! I don;t know why they put bosses in here, just add more of these bloody mobs. I can;t even remember the names – I’ll add them later. The have a knock back ability and I have to say it is HIGHLY entertaining to watch both tanks yo-yo back and forth across the room with a trash mob chasing them. I laugh (don’t hate me CD and Gamb because it is pretty amusing).
Celestial Dragon – Algalon Part Deux. Looks AWESOME. A star-dragon. And we get to look like star-people (or trolls, goblins, pandas, belfs, tauren, orcs. Strange we have no Undead…). Had some solid attempts and can pretty well consistently get him through the first ‘three phase’ rotation. Now to do it again. By far the most challenging fight in Vaults. Strat feels sound. Mechanics are good. We just need to up our positional play (which will come from experience and moving through the fight more) and we’ll get a kill. I look forward to besting it.
I will add one frustration at this point. WoW seems to have a bit of a disconnect thing going at the moment. We have experienced it every Sunday raid so far. Someone will get booted off and NOT be able to connect for at least 15 minutes. It is no ones fault, and fully the game server side of things to blame, but it ends up being a disrupted raid and hence our performance suffers. Just got to live through for now but really. Blizz. Fix your SH!T.
Until Next Time
Issi says “Be cool mon!”
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