Antihero on mattous.co.uk

Black Temple Cleared!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Well I never got round to saying we downed the Illidari Council (the day after we killed Mother Shahraz) and then Wednesday/Thursday re-cleared up to Illidan again. Sunday we spent pretty much all day wiping on him learning the fight — our best attempt was 8%. Monday one of our fire resistance tanks didn’t show, but Tuesday we had another geared up and after a few more hours of wipes we killed him! Black Temple cleared! Only 6 bosses left in the game that I’ve never killed! We’re not geared for Sunwell yet but in a few weeks we’ll be going and giving it a go. I’m well pleased with our progress — it took the guild about 2 months to clear MH and BT!

Side note: during our Illidan kill attempt, around 32%, my keyboard batteries died. When Maiev showed up I ran to get another to plug in. Thankfully while I was away I didn’t wipe the raid. Also had someone banging on the door while all this was going on — didn’t answer it, still no idea who it was! Even with all that I still managed to come second on the healing meters. Go me!

Illidari Council defeated 12/08/08

Illidan Stormrage slain 19/08/08

Drops:

Black Bow of the Betrayer
Zhar’doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer
Chestguard of the Forgotten Conqueror (x2)
Chestguard of the Forgotten Protector

Illidari Council defeated 12/08/08

Illidan Stormrage slain 19/08/08

Your mother!

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:12:00 +0000

Well it’s been a good week for Antihero! Tonight we killed Mother Shahraz! We only killed RoS yesterday so I’m pretty surprised that we made it so quickly. We didn’t have masses of Hearts of Darkness so could only spare enough to get everyone 3 parts of their shadow resist gear, which meant we were slightly gimped. I had around 254 buffed and there were some people who were a lot less. We wiped a fair bit because of the lack of resist and people failing on getting Fatal Attraction. Illidari Council here we come!

Mother Shahraz defeated 11/08/08

Loots:

3x Pauldrons of the Forgotten Protector
Leggings of Devastation

RoS down! Plus a nice upgrade

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:56:00 +0000

Today I finally got an upgrade for my Red Riding Hood’s Cloak from Karazhan. Gurtogg Bloodboil finally dropped some healing loot! Shroud of Forgiveness is way better looking than my old cape — for one thing — but it also gave me 36 more healing, 120 health and about 1.2 more mana regen! I guess those are the kind of upgrades you get when you go from Tier 4 to Tier 6! Best priest cloak until the twins in Sunwell.

Oh and while writing this post we had 2 tries on RoS and downed him on the second try of the day! That’s 6/9 BT! Time to go farm for Hearts of Darkness! Then it’s Mother Shahraz!

My new cloak — Shroud of Forgiveness

Reliquary of Souls defeated 10/08/08

Magtheridon Rocks!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:11:00 +0000

It’s been almost 2 months since my last blog post — I’ve just not been able to find the time for it! I’ve got loads of news though on what I’ve been up to since I moved to Magtheridon. Moving server was by far the best decision I’ve made in my WOW career. Magtheridon is such an awesome server — you can guarantee pug Karas will be running any time you need, day or night! They don’t fail. Out of the 5 or so I did, none had any problems doing a full clear in about 4 hours. Pug Gruul’s are just as frequent as Kara — again with no problems clearing the whole instance. Maggy raids also run fairly regularly and SSC/TK pugs do happen, but the ones I went with didn’t do so well! Pug 70 content aside, one of my favourite things about the server is the weekly level 60 content pugs. We’re not talking MC runs here (though they do happen) — we’re talking full Naxx clears, AQ40 clears and BWL. There’s a group of people that clear all the 40-man level 60 content every week. I have my Tier 3 ring from Kel’Thuzad to prove it — that’s something that, when the expansion hits, will not be obtainable ever again. So I’ll be holding onto that!

I spent my first few weeks trying out several guilds, none of which I liked. I applied everywhere I could and eventually found somewhere I liked. The guild’s name is Antihero — when I joined they were 4/5 MH and 3/9 BT. Since joining we have killed Archimonde 4 times now (and I got my T6 head — my first part!). We killed Teron Gorefiend without too much bother with constructs in the raid, and have killed Gurtogg Bloodboil twice and had some decent attempts on RoS (best being about 30% on phase 3). So now we are 5/5 MH and 5/9 BT. MH clears now only take us about 3 and a half hours — and that’s usually with about an hour of wipes on Archimonde because we still seem to have some problems there, and will continue to for a while I expect. This week they decided to make me an officer also, which is cool — all I really do is assign healing targets but it’s nice to be more involved.

So all in all I’m very happy with the move. I’m getting to see and beat content that previously I’d only seen in videos, and if we can clear BT before the expansion is released I’ll be one happy priest! There are still people back on Bladefist that I miss but actually a lot of people I knew from there were already here, came with us, or have moved recently to join us. It’s a great server and anyone looking to find a new place to call home — I highly recommend checking it out!

Naxxramas — the best looking instance in the game

Archimonde Down 07/07/08