Ulduar 25

<Fidelity> hosted a Ulduar 25 run this week, blasting through achievements and hard modes alike. Advanced signups through the Fidelity gulid forum gave us the bulk of the people required, and made the group creation nice and efficient. We had a couple of characters arrive close to the event, but mostly were able to get on Mumble without too much fuss.

A big thanks my fellow guild members who supported the event (and I can’t wait to have those who couldn’t make it, come along next time) and to members of <The Ancients> and <Wrath of Kaos> who made up the bulk of the raid.

A major part of my motivation to run the event was to obtain Jondayla’s missing [Fragment of Valy’nir]. Hopefully the drop rate was a little on the low side, with only one dropping all night.

We had a full group of 25 characters, and quickly realised that it was a little overkill for most of the bosses, hard modes and achievements in there. I was pleasantly surprised at the overall quality of performance, which was cemented in just how quickly some of the bosses died. Flame Leviathan was a blast, with some talented demo drivers just ripping into the boss, and even an expansion on the engineering loot was one of the most contested rolls of the night (did we forget to deconstruct XT?). Ignis practically exploded, and I realised that some of my time spent brushing up on strategies for the instance might be a little excessive. It was relaxing to have the details in front of me, so I didn’t strain my brain remembering the details. I know how much my guildies enjoy the phrase, “watch out for that boobalyboo”.

I expected Kologarn’s Disarmed achievement might cause some issues, just due to the level of DPS, but while certain rogues got a little nervous towards the end of the fight, the execution was pretty flawless. I was so glad that we actually got a flash freeze for Hodir, and it made me chuckle that because it came at under 5%, so many people blinkered themselves into getting frozen. Mimiron was a little easier than I expected, and fortunately while we missed out on laser barrage in the second phase, we did get to see it in last. Laser barrage just looks so cool.

Since the run was going so well, I wanted to try Yogg+0, which was a little ambitious given how many people hadn’t had experience with the fight before. Some unpleasant memories resurfaced for me in the first phase, with people just blasting the crapper out of Guardians that were no where near Sara, making things a little more difficult than they had to be, particularly with only two tanks ferrying them to and fro. We even had some spectacular cloud clipping on occassion, while using a strategy that kept the bulk of the raid out of harms way. It did improve over a couple of attempts, even with people manically kissing Sara throughout the entire first phase.

Brain link still manages to cause some issues, but I think that was people mostly new to the fight. I feel like I ought to have gotten that priests phone number and called them this morning after our brain link, since our in unison movement was just that synchronised, if felt more than a little intimate. The brain room team improved over two attempts, enough that we really should have gotten them to give the ranged DPS more time to finish off the tentacles before forcing the fight to phase 3 the second time in. It was some good experience for people new to the fight in only a couple of attempts, and we’ll certainly get Yogg+1 done next time before we go back for a chance at Mimi’s head.

All in all a great night with lots of achievements and gear for transmogrification. If you’d like to attend our next run, please sign up at this thread.

Comments (1)

  1. 15:53, October 8, 2011Ianthee  / Reply

    Hey Hey, thanks for organising the raid it was a huge success and great fun. The smooth and efficient run was partly to toons capability but, undoubtedly, the brain-melt preparation you undertook positively impacted leading and the night as a whole, allowing those of us who hadn’t seen much of the content prior to understand the fights and mechanics.

    In respect to Kologarn’s Disarmed achievement and nervous rogues, yes Moordenar can get a little anxious, I’d like to suggest self medicating on wine as a sensational remedy to ease those nerves. The night for me had amazing moments (the train, just incredible graphics that make you bow down to the Blizzard designers) coupled with ‘wtf am I doing’ (Yogg). I will certainly be more prepared for Yogg next time around.

    Participants from The Ancients accomplished many achievements toward the Reins of the Ironbound Proto-Drake, so no doubt we’ll be eager to get back in there and finish the required kills. Additionally, it was good to see Edgen in fine form on raid chat, I think he maybe concocting plans to make Jondayla some porridge in the future.

    Thanks again for a great raid, I had fun and I look forward to joining you next time around.

    <3 Ianthee

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