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Teir 3 Raid Killing Spree

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.

Pallorax.jpg Sa Pallorax Victory picture by Silverboltt

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!

NagafenRaid.jpg SA Nagafen Victory picture by Silverboltt

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

View/Add a Comment Date: 16 February 2010
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SA Enters MMM Raid Zone

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.

View/Add a Comment Date: 09 September 2009
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SA Is On A Roll

The last few weeks have been very busy for our raiding team. SA has moved forward and attempted several raids that are on the same raid tier as Meldrath's Majestic Mansion. It has become very clear that SA is more than up to the challenge.
 
SoF accomplishments include:
With all the crystals in his altar room, Ralkor is clearly very much into the whole alternative healing thing.   Unfortunately for him he didn't have enough of the pink healing crystals so he took an untimely dirt nap along with all his cronies.
 
 
Bimbalicus aka Bimbo didn't really pose much of a problem. SA proved again that even the already dead (undead) can be killed again and again. SA paladins cheered with delight as they were suddenly turned into the best DPS in the game. Unfortunately for this sorry fellow we will be back and I don't expect the outcome to be overly different from the first time around.
 
 
 
SoD accomplishments include:
This was one nasty dude. Apparently he was quite pissed that we interrupted his party (the gnoll dancing girls never made it and they only had time to drink half the booze before we showed up). The hardest thing about this encounter is enduring the boredom while setting up the raid groups. In the end he went down and we got to drink the other half of the booze.
 
 
And you thought earwigs were annoying! After spending an unsuccessful first week testing out strategies and getting a first hand look at the event, SA went back for some more. With a small raid force (36, we could have actually done the hard version) and a ton of bug killer spray we still managed to get her down. The key to the encounter is watching for the emotes which we handled extremely well. She will soon be on the SA farm list.
 
Evil raid day is fast becoming a guild favorite.

View/Add a Comment Date: 10 August 2009
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