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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of you from the nam guild.

Hope Father Christmas brings you a nice present. I know what I am wishing for… it rhymes with belt fun.

God jul!
God jul!

Entering the Icecrown Citadel…slowly.

Yesterday patch 3.3 was applied and we could start raiding the final tier in Wrath of the Lich King aptly named Fall of the Lich King. Having been on Stormscale for almost 5 years now, we were slightly apprehensive to what the server would be like at prime time and, as it turned out, rightfully so. We anticipated some fairly easy first bosses on normal mode, so in order to maximize the loot whoring we will run 2 groups through these early normal mode kills and fill up the raid with alts. This worked very well.

Zoning in around prime time we first met Lord Marrowgar. The lag hit pretty hard here, and killing Bone Spikes became quite hard. Luckily this boss is so ridiculously simple that even with lag ridden, horrible dps he died without inflicting much harm except to a few Poles, but no one likes them anyway.

Next in line was Lady Deathwhisper, and this is where the lag really became a problem. After a wipe we got a try with slightly less lag, and she died too. The Gunship Battle was a stupid and easy gimmick fight, except for being on a motherfucking boat, which was awesome. That only left us with good, old Deathbringer Saurfang. To much cries of “Dude! We loved you at the Wrath Gates!” we pulled. After an insanely long RP speech (they better make it possible to skip this!) he quickly died without much fuzz, and was dragged away.

This concludes the normal portion of The Lower Spire in Icecrown Citadel.

The few who could be persuaded to stand still for 5 seconds.
The few who could be persuaded to stand still for 5 seconds.

Alt-tastic!

Armed with extreme patience, Grayhorn managed to finish the legendary Val’anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings yesterday. Having run alt raids in Ulduar for what seems an eternity, putting up with all kinds of less than stellar performances by random pug members, the reward could finally be claimed from the gaping maw of Yogg-Saron.

Congratulations to what is most likely Stormscales only alt with this hammer.

The new Capt. Hammer!
The new Capt. Hammer!

Call of the Grand Crusade

Proper crusaders now, but no special chests. With 12 attempts left we managed to kill Anub’arak on heroic mode.

We got Protector and Vanquisher regalia that went to Faisst and Cardiz.

Somebody had a camera so we all lined up
Somebody had a camera so we all lined up

Drops:
Bindings of the Ashen Saint
Armbands of Dark Determination
Gauntlets of Bitter Reprisal

Our gnome attempt did not work that well… maybe we had too few?

Our gnome strategy did not work
Our gnome strategy failed when we ran out of wands