Lady Deathwhisper. So our early ICC arch enemy went down on Wednesday after a 25% first attempt since the last time we tried it, around 2 weeks ago. I guess it's one of the fights the buff really changed considering we weren't closed to killing it last time. It's also worthy of a post as this fight really set us back initially in Icecrown Citadel heroic and it marks the return to our usual spot which means we can go back to pursuing actively, once again, a better world rank. Good job on the kill, fraps soon I believe.

Blood Queen Lana'thel. Green kill (+500) after killing her normal by mistake last week. I still don't get this fight and I'm pretty sure we must be doing something wrong. Server's usually ok but I do not recall a single attempt on Blood Queen, normal or heroic where we didn't have lag of some sort. It did become frustrating as we've had since the start of hard modes, around 10 attempts on her. We barely lost anyone during the entire progress attempts on her (ironically, we did on the kill) and we've been wiping to enrages as inconsistent as our connection on that fight. It was completely out of our hands and today that was proved after four 1% wipes in a row, we got her down with plenty of time to spare. Specially frustrating considering we have both Festergut and Saurfang down and they're definitely tighter than her (room for joke there, even if no pun intended).

Fraps of both, haven't really had the time to edit anything lately but expect some during the weekend. See you on Sindragosa! EDIT: Also, Neptulon is now ranked 11th in Europe. When we came here it was in the 77th. So in the end, we did end up helping, along with Clarity and other guilds, a low ranked server going respectable and more interesting for new players...which is why we're leaving for greener (server firsts) pastures. See ya! (This is a joke, don't go hatin').

Things seem to be looking up. After some really bad boss selection we finally seem to be back on track with the expected kills (except a bit of a silly Blood Queen situation, explained below) and with some experience on the ones that matter right now.

Valithria Dreamwalker. There's not a lot to say about this fight other than the fact that the change (extra seconds on the buff) reduces the whole random ups it hit me but it didn't hit me factor, once inside the portals. Other than that, could say it's a fun fight. Lot's of different adds lots of things to keep an eye out and while not hard at all, requires a bit of attention. Relative fun fight, died within the first hour on a pretty flawless attempt. Fraps will be up soon.

As for the Blood Queen fiasco, calm your horses, she's very much killable by us. However, being smart was never really our forte and on a very laggy night, we called for 2 extended breaks adding up to almost 1 hour of break. During it, difficulty was changed back to normal to allow people to get in as we had 30 minutes before pulling. Turns out lag was so bad we didn't even notice it was on normal when we killed her (in our defense, we did try to stop at 1%). Kill next week, provided for a few laughs at least.

See you soon.

Hey just a tiny tiny update. First of all, there's 3 more videos (or 2, one's divided in 2). It's our Lich King normal first (lol) kill and Rotface heroic from mine and Athanatos PoV. Don't miss it as it'll be the first of a very long series of Icecrown Citadel movies.

Also, we've created a Pwnanza group on Facebook since it's the absolutely best place to keep divulging movies and other information about the guild. It'll also be a nice place to gather up everyone that actually is part and follows the guild and see how many we can get. In preparation of any claims as to why Facebook is lame and we should not be there, I've prepared an official Pwnanza statement. Fuck you.

You can access it at: Facebook. Now, for the YouTube links:

First good raid in a couple of weeks, with different priorities and a brand new buff Blizzard decided to release way (oh so way) too early in this content patch.

Deathbringer Saurfang. We had done it in 10 man and we had watched the usual Youtube clips on this guy but truth is nothing really changes (you get one shotted by beasts but if they get to you you should be reconsidering who's in your raid anyway) so the whole fight is a big dps check (dps check - 5% being the new formula) and a healer check towards the end.

As you all know our healers are really good whereas the rest of the guild is absolutely terrible and we can't even kill Gunship (normal) so we took a few attempts to tune our DPS and then pretty much killed him cause there's nothing else to the fight. Rest of the raid went smooth on tomorrow we're gonna get put up against 2 bosses that are seemingly easy but that we haven't tried yet - Blood Princes and Blood Queen Lana'thel. Latter should be quite simple.

On another news, Rotface video is out. If you subscribed to the channel, you might have gotten 2 emails saying it's been uploaded. Reason for this was I didn't really like how bad the FX looked on YouTube's small window so I re-rendered it as a normal movie. Hope you like it, Festergut from Forsyth's PoV and Saurfang from mine and Alx's PoV to come. Anyway here it is (As usual, go directly to YouTube and watch the movie there if you want to watch it in HD):

So here's first report from our experience during our last 2 weeks of hard modes in ICC. Lots of motivation drops, people quitting, drama, Lady Deathwhisper and many, many more. So stay tuned.

Lord Marrowgar. I'll be fast on this one. Lag + early signs of a bunch of gquits equals a very very bad start of hard modes. Killed it pretty fast as expected but it was still pretty annoying specially considering until a month ago the server was pretty stable. Which reminds me, we'll be migrating soon to a dead end server in order to continue pursuing moar server firsts. You heard it here first. It also is a blatant lie.

Lady Deathwhisper. Oh boy. So, people weren't ready for this one and our one at a time approach cause we're good like that didn't really work out. I'm gonna go ahead and blame Blizzard cause god forbids I blame ourselves. Many of our members got used to clearing shit easily in ToGC and Ulduar a little bit too much, let's put it like this. Could say barbecue season started early this year and some of our long time members are already out enjoying the sun. "But Franc it's February". I know, that's exactly my point. Anyway, after a bunch of very long sessions of wiping and changing tactics to adapt a bit more, we had to deal with the consequences of having no time for the remaining hard modes, recover from the consequent loss of motivation, and be all happy tonight again once Festergut died.

Rotface. Easy, no changes in our tactic. Took longer than I'd want it too but he's dead twice now and isn't a big of a deal. Heroic actually makes the fight a bit fun unlike it's normal counterpart, even if the only changes are the numbers (Gas has really no effect on anything).

Festergut. Last one, downed tonight. The kill felt good because we kinda needed a win after Deathwhisper's fiasco and it seemed cursed. Several 2% - 4% wipes, lots of DCs, lots of ranged in the raid too. Our long time bane. Went pretty smooth today once we tuned the DPS and overall the kill wasn't anything special. Out of subconscious spite, we did forget to take a screenshot so opted for a panoramic view from Professor Putricide, PhD's summer appartment balcony.

As conclusion and once again I'll pretend Blizzard reads our posts and tell them to go fuck themselves. The buff was way way too early. I hope this is just sticking to plan cause after crabface's last interview I actually thought they had learned something useful from ICC and Trial of the Grand Crusader. We'll still be around for Cataclysm. We really are that stubborn.

More posts soon (2 fraps coming too).