The Heroic Spine encounter was cleared some weeks ago, but for a variety of reasons we have not been able to attempt Heroic: Madness of Deathwing solidly before this Sunday. We had some warm up tries last Monday. After being distracted by cookies we killed Deathwing upon reaching the last phase for the third time. So that is Cataclysm finished. A lot of the members will play Diablo III and then it is time for pandas when the time comes.
Crueldrool could not keep away and started playing WoW in nam once again. Going back to Blackwing Lair he was easily able to defeat the dragon, but to his surprise he found a new boss taking the empty throne, the Red Tauren.
Alternatively Crueldrool lost the musical chair game. You either win or you moo.
Saturday, mostly on a whim, Jee wanted to go hardmode EV to see how it differed from normal. Lacking enough level 50 player for a 8 man raid we got our regular stand-in Procch and someone from the general chat. Yes, you read the last part right.
The dreadful turret start got easier once we learned the turret could be cc’d. On the first boss we ran into the enrage timer a few times until at 2% the Operation seemed to fail once again, but Jee managed to bring him down very shortly after.
We went on to the second boss, and performed better cause here we had not one, but two people left at enrage. See, improvement!
The puzzle boss was pretty easy for a hardmode fight. The challenge was waiting for the other side to finish 😉 The remaining encounter was done on the second attempt once the positioning was corrected.
After the operation was complete we started on the project pink lightsaber, but got distracted by a datacron