We killed Vigilant Guardian in seven attempts with 20 raiders and an average iLvl of 254.8. We killed the boss with our friends from Horizon, which I’ll mention literally every time, because it’s jolly to know who one is raiding with.
Looking at that average iLvl, it’s pretty nuts to think that we already out gear normal raiding, being only seven bosses through normal. However, in true Blizzard fashion, there’s plenty of borrowed power in addition to raw item level that is heavily gated. Don’t worry, this isn’t my rant about the way loot works, I’m saving that for a whole different post.
We had a quick look at the boss the week before, but our kill came on the Wednesday now known as double legendary Wednesday. We had 5 raiders that had two 291 legendaries, 11 that had two legendaries including the wee belt, and 4 that had only one legendary. That’s pretty good going for patch day in my opinion. The other major power boost is of course, the tier set bonuses, for which we only had one lucky camper with their 2 piece bonus.
As far as the boss went, it was roughly 3/4 killing adds and 1/4 killing the boss at the end. Oh, and you picked up the little balls and tossed them into the door. A nice warm up fight for the bosses to come.