Not since Scholomance has a fictional name wrought so much uncertainty in the hearts of RP-obsessed nerds everywhere:

First hardmode fight we’ve spent any real time on that actually had some tuning to it. Even so, the biggest obstacle was keeping our healers online during the encounter.

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Vampires aren’t really a big thing in Warcraft. Really though, it was only a matter of time until Blizzard ran out of pop-culture tropes to steal. A single boss with some vampire-ish abilities would have been reasonable. A whole wing? Is one of the game designers a tweenage girl, scrawling encounter designs in her Lisa Frank notebooks?

With a legendary killing blow by our tank, we put this hard mode to bed.

We got some more Protector tokens, and grats Lifeforce on Dying Light.

Obviously, we’ve also done a few other hard modes, but nothing particularly notable. End bosses get front page treatment though!

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We completed our ascent to the top of Icecrown Citadel today, killing Arthas and getting a cool title and a server first! Here is an artists rendition of the citadel and our progression through it:

Congrats to everyone! Loot was:

Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas - Grats Xtermz
Heaven’s Fall, Kryss of a Thousand Lies - Grats Baltraz
Plus two Vanq tokens - Grats Shelendil and Smoothie!

On to hard modes!

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We finished up the normal-mode Frostwyrm Wing of Icecrown Citadel today after a bit of work on Sindragosa. I’m not quite sure how to feel about this fight: on the one hand, the mechanics of the ice blocks are pretty cool and the fight itself is a pretty cool fight. On the other hand, the debuffs prevent me from playing my class for like half the fight, which isn’t exactly fun. In any case, I sort of wished I were a mage for this fight: the potential for fucking with people is high.

Onto the Lich King himself!

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