It is a boss, it was in heroic mode and we did kill it, so yes, it ought to be on the main page. At the same time, it would be a vast overstatement to claim that the kill was particularly satisfying.

Total of 4 pulls put into it tells the whole story here. Just happens to be less than the first normal mode kill required.

Next step Durumu, from what we hear, that should be more challenging.

Great total of seven pulls put into this one. That’s nice of course, but also makes us regret we didn’t do this one so much earlier. Can’t even say the gear carried us through here, we had a great margin to meet the dps requirement, vastly greater than on our last new kill. 10 ilvls less for everyone in the raid wouldn’t make a difference.

Sure a nice surprise, more so assuming we believed we were now about to face the harder part of the instance.

That joke just doesn’t get old since Trial of the Crusade. New Twins, equally handsome, also with orb ish element to dodge. Exciting kill as well, very close call.

Bit of a slow-down in terms of progress recently, however that’s hardly surprising seeing as we’re in the middle of exams/holidays season. Bumpy ride activity wise.

Despite what can only be called a rather poor setup for this particular encounter, we scored a solid kill. Enjoyable learning curve here, no Horridon-like hicups – save for some small drawbacks each next attempt better than the previous one. Some small fine-tuning, more precise cooldown planning and down it went.

The fierce skull at the portal in the back goes as a proof this was indeed heroic mode. As per wowprogress, we are now at rank 337 in the Western division. Not too shabby for a strictly 3 raids per week schedule. Common rumour has it we have one more boss at the dificulty level similar to the ones we already did and then it gets somewhat harder.

Bring it on.

Commonly referred to as Megaera, but who on god’s earth is able to remember that. Yet another enjoyable experience in Throne of Thunder. Didn’t take very much time to get on top of it and the learning process was satisfying – from “damn, this is impossible” to some near-death experiences within 2 hours or so. Then some small polishing and we got it.

As a result, we advanced to fourth hundred of 25 man guilds. Not complaining.

Took a little longer than it really needed to, but after a week of fine tuning the big bad dino finally hit the wall for good.

Very wierd learning curve here, with near-kill experience on the first day and then severe issues on gate two in the following. Dead dino meat though, moving on.

Quite a few spinning shells kicked at the boss, many charged up shields and with endless amount of kges thrown at the bats, Tortos died. Pretty smooth progress on this one, didn’t feel like w spent a lot of time.

Also, the one thousand manner of flagging new heroic kills grew old sooner than anticipated, so next time we slay something, we will have to think of a smarter name for the post.

Second week of heroics and a second kill. We decided to skip few bosses and chose Ji-kun as number two on our kill list. Roughly 60 attempts later and a tad bit of irritation later on he (she? it?) was kind enough to die.

Much more satisfying pace of progress than previously but also a minor inconvenience as the bosus we plan to focus on next are already dead this reset, so again a little delay. Can’t have everything, for now first few of us has gotten heroic tier pieaces.

Two weeks after clearing normal mode, first heroic boss is down. It’s nice to get started, but that’s yet another kill that should have happened earlier. Sadly, we’ve underestimated the time needed to clear the instance and wasted a few hours that could have been used to get the kill.

Despite the kill, an even deeper drop in server rank. Unpleasent, but not great of a concern, raids are giving good fun and that’s what matters. Now that we are started, the plan is to commit more time to heroics at the cost of slower gearing up. Let’s see how well that works out.

Last Sunday we finally killed Lei Shen. Good fight, entertaining and well designed. Safe to say that the kill was late, we were very close to it previous reset, where it felt like we only needed some 30 minutes more to get it. We didn’t have that time however, so the troll king needed to wait for a whole extra week.

Now that the normal modes are done, we can finally move to heroics and face some proper challenges.