With no new post-worthy content for nearly three months, the front page had been looking a little dead! Why, with all the casualization of the game, I’d nearly forgotten how to chop a picture. No matter, you’ll really enjoy what I have for you!

After farming that terrible excuse for a raid instance ToC into the ground, we finally got some new content in the form of Icecrown Citadel. We’ve plowed through all the easy mode bosses, and with hard-modes still weeks out on the horizon, I worried I wouldn’t have a good excuse to update the front page. Luckily, clearing the second wing gave me some good material.

Here is a picture of our intrepid tank Ikonic sucking up Slurm, erm, Slime, during the encounter:

Loot was:

Rigormortis - Grats Smoothie
Two Vanquisher tokens - Grats Apeschat and Chickenfeet

The best part about having a raiding alt is I can put myself in twice as many quotes! Now, for the backlog you’ve all been waiting for:

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Luck and Comcast were on our side tonight, and we finished up this guy:

Nice job everyone!

Vereesa’s Dexterity - Grats Baltraz!
Clemency - Grats Leura!

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Yes, I know I haven’t been turning in my best work lately. I’ve been coming in at odd hours, with frost resist potions on my breath and discarded healthstone wrappers littering my floor. I’m not really supposed to talk about it, but its been pretty great. If you can keep a secret, maybe I can let you in on something bigger than you and me:

So after a couple weeks of carefully shepherded attempts (read: wasting half our attempts in any given week on disconnects and retardation wipes) and a careful honing of our strategy (read: learning a completely new strategy after a 3% attempts :D), we finally downed this guy. One of the harder (and hence, more satisfying) kills of the expansion, and some of our best work to date.

Loot was:

Bracers of Dark Determination - Grats Zadiel
Reign of the Unliving - Grats Acidreyne
Belt of the Forgotten Martyr - Grats Entru
Archon Glaive - Grats Aramul
258 Tokens - Grats Ikonic and Acidreyne

A substantial boss means more quotes!

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We steamrolled Faction Champs using our elite PvE server knowledge of PvP strategy, and progressed to the best fight in the instance. Black and white, balls, female twins and a healthy dose of innuendo? This fight is a comedic goldmine. Nothing my meager photo editing skills can muster could possibly do this fight justice. Still, I thought I would dig into the Blizzard archives and show you what the fight originally was conceived as: a vehicle fight where you ride a ball eating monster!

As someone who loves Ikaruga, this fight was a lot of fun. I’m all for Blizzard “paying tribute to” (aka stealing) mechanics from other games if they result in fights like this.

Loot was:

Chalice of Searing Light - Grats Shelendil
Greaves of Ruthless Judgment - Grats Xerel
Death’s Verdict - Grats Carisaa

THATS WHAT SHE SAID

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After one-shotting every single encounter each week on “normal” mode, we finally got down to a marginally challenging fight in the form of the Northrend Beasts hard mode. We called in an animal control expert and he helped us wrestle them into submission:

After that, we steamrolled Jaraxxus (one-shot hard mode, lol). He didn’t even warrant a kill shot. Faction champions remain due to the holiday weekend and the whole “PvP on a PvE server lawl” factor, but check back soon.

Loot was:

Steel Bladebreaker - Grats Baltraz
Shawl of the Refreshing Winds - Grats Shelendil
Flowing Vestments of Ascent - Grats Lifeforce
Bloodbath Belt - Grats Egokiller
Pride of the Eredar - Grats Ikonic
Symbol of Transgression - Grats Fowltempered

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