While the quote does not exactly come from the particular Reaver we were faced with this time, it is still relevant. Still the same reset we killed the final boss in heroic mode and we are on a roll. Admitedly, learning that getting a hit in the face from a giant mechanical behemoth is not advised took some time, but eventually we got on top of that as well ways to deal with bombs of different sort. Not quite the most entertaining encounter ever, but it is still just the beginning of the road.

Kill video already available at our wowprogress profile, linked on the right side.

And so, doors blown wide open, the guarding Reaver taken out of equation, finally we set foot in the fel fortress itself. We still had some time left on our hands, so we tried next boss on our kill list, Kormrok. Did not seem too bad.

All the while, we have arrived to the absolute peak of the holidays season, very many people seem to be taking some days off the next few weeks. Likely not too much of mythic progression in near future, but worst case scenario we get all the gear we could possibly want from heroic mode. Then once the team is back, fresh after relaxation, the real game starts.

P.S. Those are some very green, fel screenshots, the last three!

Rumor had it the first mythic “boss” (encounter?) in Hellfire Citadel was in fact easier than the last boss, Archimonde, in heroic mode. As far as we are concerned, this rumor turned out to be very true. Not too many attempts needed for that; notwithstanding, fairly enjoyable baby-boss.

Kill video available at our wowprogress profile, linked on the right side.

A little bit of controlled chaos and by no means a clean kill, but at least it gets us going. The doors to the citadel are wide opened; next step, getting rid of the mechanical guardian known as Iron Reaver.

With Hellfire Citadel released just in the start of summer holidays, we have had our doubts as to how smooth we would get started this tier. Turns out there was no reason to worry at all. The bosses leading to the final villain went down mostly as expected, even if it was unusual for a re-kill on one of them to be harder than the first kill. That is what happens when an encounter gets fine-tuned after week one (Socrethar the Eternal).

Archimonde himself was a different ball game. We did not do bad against him as such, but we should have won the encounter earlier – we had a breathtaking 0.3% wipe and then never managed to get the job done in that reset, only got him the next week.

Kill video already available at our wowprogress profile, linked on the right side.

He is dead, true story! Not quite our typical situation, having killed the final boss on our first raiding day of a reset. Tension rises, let us see what the reset of the week brings.

Blackhand’s (also referred to as: Bluenose, Redface, Greyhound) cruel reign over the Blackrock Foundry is no more. We celebrated Children’s Day in style – after many near-death experiences on the day before, all it took was a grand total of two pulls to get the job done. By no means a smooth kill, hardly anyone left alive by the end, but that only made it more thrilling and memorable. Screenshot to prove it did indeed happen!

There are certain issues with the wipe counter for this encounter as we have been reseting a whole lot, but it seems that pull no. 247 was the lucky one. The screenshot above clearly proves that what was missing before was the gnome power! It is now a matter of hours until we get a few kill videos uploaded – if you want to check them out, look them up on our wowprogress profile (link on the right hand side).

On a more serious note – good fight, not extremely long which was a nice variation from the usual end-boss marathon. With the tactic we used, however, the raid composition requirements were quite extreme. Because of that a whole lot of good people was on standby often during the progression. These guys very much deserve the credit, just as much as those who got the first kill.

Having killed Blackhand we have now cleared the entire tier 17, so both Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. This granted us some nice little side-rewards:

All the good stuff shown above – from left to right: Blacksteel Battleboar (ugly boar for completing mythic tier 17), our first Faultline (Blackhand’s mythic-only mount), The Enigma Order banner, the raiders’ garrison monument and an alliance banner behind it.

With all that hard work done, with summer around the corner and with the next tier undergoing testing on the PTR already, now is the time to relax and enjoy some laid back raiding. Surely we will want to kill Blackhand weekly for quite a while longer to get us some mounts, but luckily we now have access to him directly, without the need to clear the entire instance first.

Second tier in a row we managed to clear in a timely manner with our reasonable schedule; tension rises. Over and out, but back in a bit!

Good job team.

Kromog has a reputation. A well earned reputation for putting dps to a test. And indeed so, having tried him few times after our somewhat surprising Gruul kill, things did not exactly look super-optimistic. We thought we had a pretty solid routine sorted out as far as damage cooldowns went. That got put to a test quickly and…

…it turned out we were not too wrong on that. Some fine-tuning, some trickery with positions and things started to look positive. Again though, the kill came as a surprise, with the both tanks dead for the last few percents of the fight.

First few pulls of Thogar, commonly referred to as the train-boss, show that it is simply a very fun encounter. Good stuff.

We knew things were heading in the right direction at Gruul, however it did not seem like we had the kill just around the corner. To our surprise one more reset of mythic gear proved to be all we needed. With the assignments set up carefully and a few people new to the fight we were about to get started with some solid attempts.

It turned out all we needed was a grand total of two pulls. Truth being told, we were not exactly prepared for that and so we spent the rest of the raid killing the bosses we have already slain previously. The very first few pulls on the infamous bridge keeper, Kromog, suggest we will need every last bit of gear possible.