Ulduar - Second Week - Sunday

It is raid day again and today we continued our journey in Ulduar 25 and we started where we left it on Thursday, at The Iron Council. After getting the tactics planted in the heads of the newcomers of this boss we started off with a couple of fast wipes because of tank healer DC and some random big hit sequence on the tank.

After a while we got the encounter under control and we had a really close wipe. The next try we managed to have total control and have no one die until the last phase when a few died because we had to dps like mad before he enraged. About 1-3 seconds before enrage, the boss died. My guess is that we did not use the Rune of Power enough and it gimped our dps a bit.

The Iron Council Loot:

[Iron-studded Mantle] - Brzydal
[Radiant Seal] - Riperslo
[Runeshaper's Gloves] - Rename

Now it was time to have a showdown with the Crazy Cat Lady again. At this stage we had a long discussion and alot of tactic testing for different types of pulls so we could find out what was the best one to approach her with. We got a few tries on her at last but we did not kill her. So today we hope to see her fall with the tactic that we found most effective. 

- Skullycute

Ulduar - 10 Man - Fun Progress

On Saturday we found out that we should get a 10 man Ulduar raid going so we could get more experience of the bosses and some loot. We gathered a pretty decent team and ventured (kind of late) in to Ulduar. Now in 25 man we had only killed bosses up to The Iron Council/Auriaya so most of us had not tried out the bosses beyond.

The raid had a really high speed and we killed off all bosses flawlessly until council, where we tried out "Medium" mode killing off Runemaster Molgeim last. This did not go as well as we planned though, we got the first two down but Runemaster Molgeim killed us off too quickly when he was the only one left. So we stuck to the plan of getting as many bosses as possible down and quickly killed them off in normal mode.

Now was the time for our beloved Crazy Cat Lady which we had only scratched in 25 man and this went pretty well after only a couple of wipes. Then we started clearing towards Freya, which I found very entertaining because of the composition of mobs and abilities they had. We killed off the three guardians and took her down on our second try since we kind of failed in killing the packs of three mobs within 12 seconds of eachother the first try. The fight itself was a pretty fun fight and I like bosses like this that you just dont stand mindlessly and spam a few buttons and hope that you can do enough dps/hps/tps.

Now came the boss we really was not prepared to meet, Hodir. Hodir is one of the more enjoyable boss fights I have played (even though he owned us a lot). In this fight you really have to focus because there is alot to watch out for and to do at the same time. After alot of dodging icicles, freeing flash freezed allies, removing biting cold by running around and not getting ice blocked by the flash freezes we wiped again and again, until we called last try, and downed him! Overjoyed as we were we found out that it was for the best to quit while we were happy and content with a very well played raid, though it was 03:00+ as well.

All in all 9 bosses down and 10 happy raiders :)

• Flame Leviathan
  
• Razorscale
• Ignis The Furnace Master
  
• XT-002 Deconstructor
  
• The Iron Council
• Kologarn
• Auriaya
• Freya
• Hodir

- Skullycute

Ulduar - Second Week - Thursday

From now on I will do the raid overviews and loot lists in single posts for each day. The reason for this is that it will be easier to read and it gives a better post overview and less posts in general. I will post complete loot lists at the end of the raid week to give a nice overview of how we did that week.

So onward to the tales of the brave AMB members!

Yesterday we continued our conquest through Ulduar. We continued from where we left it on Wednesday, at Kologarn. We managed trashmobs a lot better today so we got to the boss pretty easy. After some refreshment of tactics and discussion about the positioning we started the wipefest. After a few tries people started to manage the evasion of the lasers pretty nicely and we started to get a good progress. After a few more tries we got some people with connection issues which left us idling for a while and sharpening the edge of our tactics. People got online again and after a few tries we downed him with great joy!

Kologarn Loot:

[Leggings of the Stoneweaver] - Arava
[Decimator's Armguards] - Quasimodo
[Malice] - Disenchanted (OMG? No Rogues in raid, and no one wanted it)

We even got an Enchant Formula:

[Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blood Draining] - Riperslo

After getting our loot we had a small break and then we continued down to Auriaya, the so called Crazy Cat Lady. We cleared out trash so we could have a good spot to fight her, went through tactics and buffed up. We went for the stack up around the corner and Death and Decay / Misdirection pull. We read that this was a tricky pull but... Damn we wiped in 15 seconds! So res up and get ready for another try. Same result. So we figured that we should go for The Iron Council because of the time. While clearing the trash to The Iron Council we found a random drop.

Random Loot:

[Belt of the Sleeper] - Darkflames

Trash cleared and we were waiting a while for disconnected members. We went for the normal mode starting with Steelbreaker. After a few tries we managed to get Steelbreaker down and then we started working on Runemaster Molgeim. All seemed well until he casted Rune of Death which pretty much killed most of the raid since we were positioned pretty near him and close to each other. After this the raid was over for today.

Another good day for AMB raiding in my opinion as we killed one boss and got to try out two new ones. Looking forward to sunday for more progress.

-Skullycute