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TEO Weekly Update

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Raiding

So a week of practise has come to an end which posed some setup problems with key people going away on vacation.
This ended up resulting in some reorganisation of the raiding(how often do you start with the end boss), so we could maximize Nefarian practise.

We extended our old lockout on Thursday so that we could hammer Nefarian some before some of our key members disappeared, a full night of practise ended up with TEO being driven back from BWD.
But still in good spirit only more determined to kill the dragon!

Rested the lockout on sunday and went on a epic hunt through BWD killing stuff without a major effort and ended up being able to do a few tries on Nefarian before calling it a night

Tuesdays raid started in ToFW and oneshoted conclave, then it was straight of to BWD.
The beginning of the raid was lacking in focus, bad attempts with mistakes being done which screwed us over.
After some tries we had a small rearrangement in how we handle the adds in p3 and something just seemed to click with 3 good tries at the end of the evening.

Even though we did not kill Nefarian we left the instance with a new insight and a strong resolve to kill him next reset!

Community

The survey lead by one of the paragon members have produced its first round of results which can be looked up here.
http://www.paragon.fi/node/178

Some fun reading which was found by one of our members which involves a quite lucky guy.
http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/fc … o_but_its/

Peace Out!
//Garadien The Shapeshifter

TEO Weekly Update

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Raiding

So another week of raiding has gone by and BWD has taken a beat once again. Clearing everything up to Nefarian the first day relative easily, leaving the rest of the week for Nefarian practice.

Sundays raid we once again found ourself battling a dragon not willing to just roll over and ended up hitting phase three with about halfway to go on his health bar, setup wise screwing us some on the healer front but we’ll continue to push onward

Tuesday raid was good, and even though we didn’t clear it, Nefarian felt the wrath of The Enigma Order. He’s not sleeping well tonight, knowing we start at scratch tomorrow, shields polished, swords sharpened, mana  pools filled.  Things will definitely be interesting next reset!

The Twilight Cultists were stopped. Again.

The Twilight Cultists were stopped. Again.

Good stuff did how ever happen in a totally different instance, the 10man version of Twilight Bastion has been conquered by The Enigma Order poking the last eye ball on Cho’gall making him drop dead in front of us. Sadly no one bothered to take a picture, so you’ll just have to trust us.
So now it’s just wait and see what epic encounters we will find in this instance can on heroic mode and it’s new end boss.

Community

There recently was a few fun top-lists write by one of our members on the forum which holds a lot of fun reading
Chapter 1 http://enigmaorder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=12786
Chapter 2 http://enigmaorder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=12800

An intressting survey have started lead by one member from paragon which might provide some intressting results when
finished, so follow the link and participate if you want, you can check it out here
http://wowdemocracy.wordpress.com/the-survey/

Peace out!

Alive and kicking

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After what seems to be the end of the news site someone decided to cast a combat resurrection on it and look what popped up

We have been quite active seen the release of Cataclysm a lot of people levelled up quickly and the heroic farm begun.
With more and more people getting the gear needed we started to raid 10man almost as soon as there where 10 people with the gear and will (which was not a problem) to begin with, and quickly whopped up some bosses. Which has left us with basically only two bosses left on 10man mode

Some interesting encounters indeed and we managed to obtain quite a bit of understanding of most bosses for a lot of our players before the beginning of 25man raids which was ushered at the same time as the new year.
With most of the guys already knowing the encounters we yet again got some quick boss kills and we are now training for the somewhat more complicated fights.

Some of our most recent kills

Conclave of winds bites the dust.

Maloriak runs out of adds

We are now aiming towards the end bosses on normal mode and seems like we are in for a treat with yet again a bunch of interesting fights to deal with
The above leads on to the next point which is the need for expanding roster, we are always recruiting exceptional players so even if you are not the class we are interested in you might be the person

We do how ever have a few requirements listed below

  • Experienced in the game, in particular the pve aspect. Being an old timer from as far back as vanilla is a plus (our leading crew consists of such players).
  • Able and willing to raid 3 times per week, under stable schedule. We are strict about this requirement.
  • Oriented at hard modes, however not hardcore focused. We keep a balance. It’s sometimes hard, but in the end it’s always good.
  • Fluent in English. We have had cases of skilled players who simply couldn’t keep up in raids, simply because they did not comprehend the tactics explained in English. Again, we are strict on this one.
  • We expect you to be in time for raids and being prepared with consumables and good attitude. Also you are ready to raid for the whole duration of the raid.

It might be worth to state one more thing explicitly – we are less concerned with gear. We have had a few successful cases where a very poorly geared player convinced us with his application he was the material we were after, which ended up in a win-win situation. On the other hand we want the gear to at least show that a maximum effort was put in it.

Our immediate recruitment needs are reflected in the chart on the right hand column.
However let not this blind you as said above you might be a person we want anyway

If you are interested in joining The Enigma Order please visit our recruitment forum
http://enigmaorder.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=12

You can also visit to learn some more about our history which is quite vast
http://enigmaorder.com/forum/viewtopic. … 01&p=1

Peace out & see you in-game

Update on progress

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It’s been a while since frontpage news was updated. Meanwhile, we’ve been going strong.

We have been progressively learning and eventually beating Icecrown Citadel 25 man hard mode bosses. Admitedly, the zone wide buff made that somewhat easier than one would hope, nontheless some encounters posed a fair challenge to us and once we won them we did enjoy to good old a-job-well-done feeling. As at today, we are focused on finally showing Professor Putricide that neither his minions nor tricky debuffs are something we cannot handle. Safe to say we have the fight worked out and anything but a kill will be a dissapointment in this reset. After that, it’s only Sindragosa the hard way that stands between us and the adult version of The Lich King.

In our adventures in Icecrown Citadel, we have achieved one more significant thing – a few resets ago Cirotes looted 50th shard, thus allowing him to finally complete the long lasting process of crafting the legendary Shadowmourne. Common rumor has it he was the third person to do that on alliance side.

Glory of the Icecrown Raider, 10 man

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Today we have tamed ourselve the first pair of Frost Wyrms, a reward from 10 man Icecrown Citadel meta achievement.

The road to them was quite interesting – some bosses in heroic proved to be really challenging for us, while others went down without a second though. We could also clearly see how the scaling buff (Strenght of Wrynn) was simplifying some encounters.

Ironically enough, the last 2 part of the puzzle were not heroic mode kills, but normal achievement. Eventually we got this done so that two of out fashionable night elves (Insurer and Lamme) could enjoy their new frosty companions.

It is also worth noting, that with this we are now at 3 out of 3 Wrath of the Lich King meta achievements.

Lich King down, the Putricide Syndrome

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Point is, Lich King felt from The Enigma Order hands in 25 man version. Ass dead as a dodo for that matter.

By way of an introduction, let me refer to our first Putricide kill. It was still in limited attempts times. We had 3 attempts left and approached the fight semi self-assured. The first 2 attempts weren’t bad. The last attempt was insane, very much a kill, very few seconds left on enrage. The focus was so hard, you could cut it with a knife and serve in pieces. Unbelievable.

Now, back to Lich King. Sunday raid, so four hours. The instance was almost prepared, only had one boss other than the King himself. First try was insanely promising, last phase right away. Then it started getting worse. And worse. And I mean – worse, to the point where everyone and their mother would be happy if we called it. At some point, reaching phase 2 felt like a success and we had endless baths in Defile.

And then, the usual, last attempt. First phase, flawless (with about 1 sec time margin), second one, flawless. And then third phase, some small deaths and… 10%, aoe death, screams on vent. Putricide Syndrome all the way.

Not enough irony you say? Why sure, off to the loot part:

Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand
Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand
Protector’s Mark of Sanctification
Protector’s Mark of Sanctification

Still not ironic enough? How about that –
For whatever semi-quasi-funny reason, someone decided that we will not benefit from the zone wide buff. You hear me right, some joker sent King Varian and his buff away during the break. So yes, not only a first kill, but also totally legit way, no buffs, no saronites grenades, pure own by The Enigma Order!

10 man heroic progress

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Since we have gained access to Icecrown Citadel 10 man heroic mode, we have been steadily progressing through the hard modes and had good fun while doing so. As at today, only Sindragosa and Putricide separate us from the Lich King himself, this time even more fierce and dangerous.

We are yet to try the transforming and happy Professor, however we did have some tries at Sindragosa and it is only fair to say she served us some brutal treatment.

Sindragosa slain, Lich King awaits!

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The mighty companion of the Lich King met its destiny from our hand. While it was not the greatest challenge in Icecrown Citadel for us so far, it was a good encounter and practicing it was fun and had the good old taste of raiding, which is not uncommon in the instance. Emotions involved! With Sindragosa slain, we have now overall cleared all the bosses required to meet the Lich King himself, but we’re yet to see him.

Many things have changed in World of Warcraft since the first days, but some basics remain constant – dragons are cool and final bad guys have this special flavour we all seek. We are prepared.

Lich King defeated (10 man)

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It was a very effective day of raiding for us, which resulted in two front page updates on the same day! We have reached Lich King in 10 man version of Icecrown Citared with no great issues, however some tactical hiccups made Sindragosa feel harder than it needed to and ate our limited attempts. Lich King on the other hand was a formidable adversary and in hour memories earned his title of the ultimate baddie of Wrath of the Lich King the hard way.

Once we faced him, we developed our own tactic only loosely basing on common sources. This may not be most effective, but it for sure pushed the fun factor sky high. A few times we felt that we had the fight under control and only needed one flawless attempt to pin it, only to find out our approach needed further fine-tuning.

Ironically enough, our kill was a “one shot” in the meaning of first try that day. And well deserved, seeing as we were only squeezing an hour of practice before proper 25 man raid which led to the news above!

The placing, complexity, mechanics and RP background of the fight – top notch, Illidan league!

Heroic Anub’Arak Vanquished and Skinned!

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I’t was admittedly our greatest challenge so far in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, but now one of the greatest minions of Arthas lies dead infront of us. This was very important for us to achieve as a guild and I’m sure all members feel that we are now ready for the challenges that heroic ICC will offer for us later. Next time something as big as this happens will be the end of the Lich King.. and we are prepared.

Big thanks for all our members who spent endless hours wiping at this boss and contributed to the result where we are today.

Congratulations TEO !