ASGA

Icecrown Citadel the final raid of the wrath of the Lich King expansion opened in early december and we approached things in asga with a new level of ready to raid stats. This forced many people to increase their gear levels and performance for the challenges that we assumed lie ahead. It turns out that this was a good thing, and if anything we have set the stats required for 25 man icecrown raiding a little low.

In the first couple of weeks we managed kills of both Marrowgar and Deathwhisper, although the later took a huge change in focus from players to increase our DPS and overall perfromance to the level needed to kill a boss like deathwhisper. We went from barely getting her shield to 50% to killing the boss in 2 days. The first deathwhisper kill actually included a monumental 2 minute burn down of her 13M+ hp and beating her just after enrage, after it took 8 minutes to destroy her shield.

Lord Marrowgar - 14th December

Lady Deathwhisper - 15th Dec

We had some dificulty with reduced days to raid over christmas and this caused us to only get as far as deathwhisper a couple of weeks in a row (pre-nerf she proved hard for us to kill, now shes straightforward like on 10 man). This meant we had no time to look at the Gunship Battle which rumour had it was both fun and easy, we had a couple of pulls at most to try and figure things out and as a result we didnt get too far.

Eventually the holidays were over and on new years day we went back in to begin some proper progress, within a couple of days we had beaten the gunship battle and worked out Deathbringer Saurfang. Eventually we settled on a startegy where people were paired up and the ranged DPS simply nuked the nearest blood beast and then switched to help on others nearby. The startegy worked like a charm and we got the kill to clear the lower spire before the plagueworks opened.

Gunship Battle - 1st January

Deathbringer Saurfang - 2nd January

We dont often report on 10 man stuff apart from the more important kills, however this one I think went largely un-noticed, and very few people will know that we have killed Yogg Saron at all in ASGA. Back in the autumn a few of us were going into Ulduar 10 man a lot at the weekends and trying to pick up some hard mode kills and also we worked a bit on Yogg Saron.

We finally managed to kill him (shortly after CotOO had managed it) - It really is a spectularly fun and varied fight and needs good co-ordination, but once you actually get around to learning it the huge complexity seems almost non-existant. Its a case of DPS, decurse and cleanse hard, move in the corect place etc just like any other boss.

10 Man Yogg Saron - 19th October