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Over the past several weeks, Shining Alliance has proudly defeated several SoD Teir 3 raid events. The punishment started with Pallorax the Soul Slayer, who at first was reluctant to give up his treasure, but after a little persuasion (and lots of DPS) he's been placed on farm status.

After Pallorax, we turned to Showdown at the Crystal Core. It took a few attempts to get the mechanics of the event down, but after changing the way we dealt with the add waves, we were able to emerge from the Showdown victorious. We've since returned to farm those precious wrist/hand essences.

After Crystal Core we set our sights on the remainder of Korafax. First up was Venom Lord Ksathrax. After learning the tank requirements and the importance of placement for VL and VP (as well as healers and casters) we've placed Venom Lord Ksathrax on farm status. One event remains for Korafax: The Mindshear Avatar.

 While we continue to work on SoD Teir 3 raids we're also farming Old Man McKenzie Dragon Raids twice per week, which are arming our raiders up with even more Teir 3 raid-caliber loots!

Fun and phat loots are being had by all. Congratulations SA!

After spending the summer flagging for Meldrath's Majestic Mansion we finally got a chance to see the raid zone.  The whole thing was new to me having never raided there with another guild, so I ended up lost like Cherianna (or insert any other random cleric name here).  Eventually I figured things out.  So far we are 2 for 2.  2 weeks learning the zone and 2 boss mobs dead.  It probably would have been 3 boss mobs dead if I hadn't wasted about 1/3 our raid time telling folks 'Woops, I seem to have cleared the wrong area'.  We are also quickly learning that anyone besides the assigned person clicking a door is VERY bad.  We had a few unplanned add waves pop on us as Breakneck showed his face.
Week 1

'Doctor' Brinda Sprockets

Apparently the good doctor wasn't so impressed with our unscheduled house call since she immediately donned her battle suit and proceeded to attack us (I swear, I thought my health card was still valid).  While our sacrificial lambs (rangers) kept her snared and rooted in a corner the main raid proceeded to mez and kill her hordes of minions.  We would have won on our first attempt except for another 'woops!' from me as I forgot to /hidecorpse npc between the waves and gave the wrong password as a result.  In the end we found out that if you have good enough DPS this encounter is fairly straight forward.  Once we entered the 3 correct passwords on wave 3 the good doctor finally left.  Fortunately in her haste to go she left us this.


After Brinda we had a chance to take on Krond.  We did fairly well the first week, but didn't quite manage to get him down.  I was quite sure that the next time we met him he's be dead.