Week 1 of Ulduar

I haven't written a blog in a while, but I figure it's always a good past time on dead server Tuesdays.

So, my guild has taken advantage of free transfers off of Antonidas (such a bad server) and has landed on Garrosh, a nice little EST server that is home to such favorites as Ciderhelem, manbearpig, tony, and dygrav. It's really nice being on an EST server that isn't massively overpopulated - AH prices are down, Dalaran doesn't crash our computers, mining nodes are everywhere, and best of all, haven't had a healer DC since we moved here!

Since my 25 man team is still forming up, we've started working on 10 man progression in Ulduar, and for not having experienced the fights before we managed to down three bosses (Flame Levi., XT-002, and Iron Council). These have been really fun and exciting fights with some pretty epic kills.

Flame Levi. was a push over, we pretty much zerged him down without an overload stun. I thinking about leaving a tower up and trying it out tonight, but I'm almost certain we will need to stun him and do a pyrite burn on him should we leave a tower up.

XT-002 took a little work, but we managed to pull off a 1 Tank, 2 Healer, 7 dps team kill. It was pretty insane burn, getting him to 75% before the first tantrum, and when his heart closed up he was at 55% and we burned him again - didn't get the first tantrum till 35% which we used a bubble/divine sac to mitigate, second tantrum we did a double tranquillty to counter, and the third I almost died a little inside when I saw 3 of my dps drop to 5% health on the last tick. Doing this, we didn't kill any pummlers and I was tanking the Xt-002 and 6 pummlers as he hit the ground... all I can say is a LOVE 5/5 Demo Shout and Imp TC... so much damage avoided because of that.

We spent some time working on Ignis (75% while bugged) and Kologarn (15% till eyebeam nuked my holy pally) but we settled on the Iron Council after Kologarn bugged out and refused to respawn. I *loved* the council fight, it made me happy to be a warrior again. I was managing my stuns and interrupts to keep the storm caller locked down charging/intervening to get out of the overloads and having a blast. Took us ~6 pulls to finally master and down them with about 20 seconds left on the enrage timer.

We walked away with 3 caster weapons, a few trinkets, and a big smile on our face... getting a progression kill on the last pull of the night makes you feel like a winner, and after a few nights of wiping, we needed that. Hopefully I'll update on this progression again later this week (and get my damn website up!) with some deaths of some more baddies!