Garrosh Hellscream At Last

A hard won victory but congratulations to all involved.
Heroics!

Controversy!

Ok – so we have a slight issue with a reliable, geared Off Tank (OT) at the moment so we need to address this.

Kassa’s focusing on his PvP spec so Cardo’s volunteered to OT for us – he’s done it before and knows what he’s doing so….

If any tank loot goes to OS, we’re going to give Cardo first dibs on it.

This is only because he’s stepped up – if anyone else has a burning desire to OT, let us know and I’m sure we can work something out.

8 bosses 1 shotted and no Trash Wipes

Really enjoyed tonight – was a fun raid and good flexibility.

Everyone did the jobs they were assigned and we had a nice clean run.

Keep up the good work and let’s get the Garrosh kill so we can start serving the good for Heroics.

Paragons of the Klaxxi Deprecated

A lesson in optimism. Good work :)

Pop quiz, hotshot! Siegecrafter Blackfuse defused 25N

w00t! Paragons are next!

Holy Thockin’ Sh!t

We got this now – one shot next week. Thanks to everyone involved – in the kill itself and the wipes that got us there.

Spoils of Pandaria 25N Down

Well done.

Malkorok The C*ck-Rot Cleansed

Bosh.

Norushen 25N downed – from now on? No Rush Then

Excellent – nice work.

Iron Juggernaut 25N – chug, chug, chug, chug

Text book – very tidy, well done everybody!

Galakras 25N

25 times the Pride before the Fall

Bosh. That is all.

Pride comes before the fall – Galakras beckons

4/14 – 4 bosses in our first week. Let’s keep this momentum up!

IT’S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG, BITCHES!

Norushen 10N Defeated

3/14 – onwards!

Fallen Protectors Slapped for their Insolence

Their reputation preceded them. We ignored it and dished out a slapping.
2/14 25N on first night – really well done everyone. Queues are a bitch so logging in early might be the order of the day for the next week.

Immerseus sorted

Late start but good work.

Twin Consorts 25N

Lei Shen is next!

Iron Qon – Tampooned on 25N

Solid performance on this boss – should be that easy every time.

Patch 5.4 Notes – 10 Things to Know

This is vital reading to prepare for 5.4 so head on over a.s.a.p.

If you’re lazy:

Make sure you have 50 lesser coins saved up for patch day so you can coin them in for Warforged Seals immediately – 3 bonus rolls on first week is a big advantage.

LFR = iLvl 528, Flex = iLvl 540, Normal = iLvl 553 / 559, Heroic = iLvl 566 / 572.

Siege of Orgrimmar LFR iLvl required = 496.

Save your Valor – they are carrying over.

Queue for multiple raid wings in LFR simultaneously.

4 new Celestial World Bosses.

Enjoy!

Patch 5.4 Release Date

 

10th September 2013 – Patch 5.4 lands.

Garrosh Hellscream – we are coming for you!

Additional note – DKP *will* be reset as we’re starting a new tier of raiding.

Veterans of Silvermoon YouTube Channel

 

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KFO3srMOtv7RY88v6UBuw

Bear with us while we figure out the fineries but there’s a brief clip from Jóckina of Iron Tampoon Trash to kick things off.

We’re gonna try to fraps more but the client seems a bit unstable so not all recordings are working out 100%.

Lei Shen–Ahead Of The Curve.

 

Ahead of the Curve – Great work everyone.

Going for the clear!

Great work to get Durumu, Primordius, Dark Animus, Iron Tampoon and Twin Consorts downed so we can get a whole night on Lei Shen.

Twin Consorts – One Shot FTW

11/12 – excellent progress over last couple of weeks. Congratulations everyone.

Lei Shen is next week’s goal so please sign up so we can do it on 25!

Iron Tampooned

10/12 – bring it on – almost there.

Dark Animus De-animated

Actually really simple once it clicked – good work all :))

Primordius - “He slimed me!”

Bosh. 10N and 25N progress is now evenly matched so really well done everyone – let’s push on with 25 :)

Duru-who?

25N downed – nice work, folks!

Ji Kun 25N

 

Nice work everyone – 25 progress continues! :)

Tortos 25 Man

25 Man Progress – hell yeah.

Mammoth Stomped Galleon

It didn’t stand a chance.

Primordius – not the ordeal we expected

Boom.

Primordius, Dark Animus Raid Guides

Click here for Icy Veins Guide.

Click here for Icy Veins Guide.

Durumu Who?

Excellent effort everyone – really well done.

Ji-Kun and Durumu Raid Guides and Videos

I am feeling ambitious for Monday night – it would be great to get both these bosses boshed so we can have a crack at Primordius and maybe Dark Animus on Tuesday night. We’ve already plucked Ji-Kun once before and we were nailing the tactic down for Durumu so I believe that we’ve got a really strong chance of downing them both if we’re all switched on and prepared.

Ji-Kun:

Click here for the Icy Veins Raid Guide.

Durumu:

Click here for the Icy Veins Raid Guide.

World Boss Macro

How can you tell which World Bosses you’ve killed each week?

Thanks to Shoé for this gem of a macro:

/run for k, v in pairs({ Galleon = 32098, Sha = 32099, Nalak = 32518, Oondasta = 32519}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cff00ff00Yes\124r" or "\124cffff0000No\124r")) end

Fat Boss 10N Durumu Raid Guide

Missed Megaera Screener

Didn’t post it due to realm transfer and changes to Twitter, Blogspot and FB but here it is!

Ji-Kun – bin’dun!

Big bird finally got roasted – Durumu is next on the list!

Megaera Video

Megaera Icy Veins Guide

Please watch this video – there are 2 key salient points I think can be drawn from it.

1) They advocate not avoiding killing one of the heads (e.g. Frost) as the damage dealt stacks and eventually kills the tank. We’re seeing this – even though the damage is not necessarily killing the tanks at this point I do think it’s putting a strain on the healers that could be avoided preventing OOM. They suggest killing whichever head was up in the last round so:

i) Venom/Frost – Kill Venom (Wong-Venom, Tri-Frost)

ii) Frost/Fire – Kill Frost (Wong-Frost, Tri-Fire)

iii) Fire/Venom – Kill Fire (Wong-Fire, Tri-Venom)

iv) Venom/Frost – Kill Venom (Wong-Venom, Tri-Frost)

v) Frost/Fire – Kill Frost (Wong-Frost, Tri-Fire)

vi) Fire/Venom – Kill Fire (Wong-Fire, Tri-Venom)

vii) Venom/Frost = Kill Venom (Wong-Venom, Tri-Frost)

This also means I will always be tanking the head to be killed so there will be approx 40k additional dps contribution towards downing Frost and Fire heads over Tri tanking them.

2) I’m usually focused on my own gubbins but they strongly recommend correctly using the Frost and Fire effects to remove the ground effects. They also make an effort to move out of the venomous ground explosions. We’re probably already doing this but I know we’ve had a few goes where there’s been fire pools in quite a few places.

This is just my £0.02 because I feel just as frustrated as everyone else with the difficulty we’re having with this boss. We’ve downed it once with the existing tactic but we’ve hit a wall since – we can’t rely on ‘good goes’ to down this boss – we need a solid tactic. I am sure I speak for El and Tri when I say please discuss, reply, contribute whatever your thoughts are on this – we’re committed to bitchslapping this boss on a weekly basis to get back into progression and all that juicy tier goodness.

Megaera – jealous much?

It seems this boss is essentially a penis-envy gag but Blizz – see Wikipedia.

Patch 5.3 Adds Off-Spec Loot and Rewards

 

Check out the blue post here.

Tortos Kicked

Boom!

Item upgrades are back in Patch 5.3

Costs have been greatly reduced too so upgrading entire gearset becomes achievable.

Check it out here.

Council of Elders Euthanised.

Getting Sul down fast proved to be the key in the end – nice work, everyone.

Horrid ‘Un is D.D.D.D.D.D.D.D.Done!

Hard fought but we got there in the end! :))

Sha of Fear? Not any more….

5.1 content completed – well done everybody!

Fat Boss Horridon 10N Video Guide

This is well worth a look. Clear and concise as ever and also clearly demonstrates tank positioning and how to handle the charges more effectively than we have been doing.

Jin’rokh? Ain’t no thang…

And we’re off!

Patch 5.2 Transmog, Valor, Conquest Summary

I know lots of people have had questions so this sums it all up fairly succinctly check it out.

Blizzard Blog on Throne of Thunder

Lots more info on Patch 5.2 straight from the horse’s mouth…. take a peek.

Sneak Peak at Throne of Thunder Loot Tables

Bear in mind this is still in PTR so subject to change but definitely worth a look to help inform which pieces to upgrade before the patch hits.

Enjoy!

Throne of Thunder Raid Guides

Icy Veins have posted up their first draft Raid Guides for the preliminary bosses in Throne of Thunder.

Take a look here.

Sha of Fear Fat Boss Guide

Lei Shi Defeated

On a roll, folks!

Lei Shi Fat Boss Guide

So long, Tsulong!

Pun-tastic!