Flying Circus @ Darksorrow EU

First (heroic) hardmodes done!
Posted by Magiwoop on Thursday 18 June 16:38

Another reset, another try, another kill.

Finally we got our acts together, got a good setup and we went prepared (you heard that before, didn't you?) into Ulduar today.
For the first time we actually entered with our minds set to hard modes and after only one wipe, Flame Leviathan with 4 towers was lying devastated infront of us.

Quick looting and we proceeded to the kid that is XT-002 Deconstructor... Well, we decided to be a bit mean today and we destroyed his heart. :(
He started to nerd-rage like Vectis can do on Ventrilo (hi vectis!) and after some screaming, the pile of scrap lay infront of our legs.

P.S. We got Fraps as well - coming soon!

Nerdraging aside, we are finally back in the race, even if it is indeed with a bit of a delay, but hopefully now with some excellent players joining, we are back in business and no more of slacking from our side!

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Yogg-Saron dead...finally!
Posted by Magiwoop on Thursday 14 May 17:19

(Don't ask, read up on it rather!)

So, after a few weeks of having roster problems, connection problems, shitty shit shit problems and whatnot, we finally got there.

Tto tell a real story however, one has to go from the beginning....

It was a long and boring Sunday when it was announced that 3.1 is hitting us on Wednesday that stupid week.
Of course, we prepared and were ready to rumble on that very same wednesday.

Lag followed us into the new instance from Naxxramas, with a myriad of disconnects, crashes and random resets of the instance, but we lived through it. Killed Leviathan and Razorscale pretty fast then came the stupidly bugged Ignis. After hours of learning the fight we fucked it and went to XT.

XT was a completely different story. Ones doing him today will probably laugh as he was nerfed into oblivion, but back then he was a different cup of cake.
Hours and hours of wiping, trying different positions and getting pretty tired, we finally got a kill on him at around 3.30 in the morning...and it wasn't just any kill... Flying Circus got a serverfirst once again, for the first time since Magtheridon died under our...fingers? and spells. It has never felt better to be back among the top.

Of course, the insanely gigantic roster of Ninjapartio was impossible to keep pace with them, but the point of us standing strong stood still. We still kept our serverseconds until we got to Yogg-Saron.

While my point for the boss fight was, that it was a very stupid and retarded encounter, which tops all the other retard checks before that and becomes a simple RNG fight with not being able to do anything about it.
We tried everything back then, more healers, more dps, extra tank, less tanks,.... Everything you can imagine. Nothing worked out.

Then came May 1st and it's holidays and our raiding schedule hit rock bottom. We couldnt get raids together anymore, thanks to random AFK's, but thankfully, our morale was kept high and we kept on going.

Then, there came yesterday and of course today. After our fastest clear of all bosses prior to Yogg (read: less than 4 hours including lag, disconnects, wipes and randomness of Ulduar we killed Mimiron with a oneshot). That all gave us high hopes for the next day.
Upon returning, we disposed of him quickly and then there was Yogg-Saron.

There has never once been a moment when we have really started to hate a boss, nor was there a moment when we wanted to kill a boss more than ever before.

I guess I'm dragging the story a bit long now, but to keep it short... we have vanquished yet another Old God and the green goo is still squirting from him and well, my opinion on him changed.

Yogg-Saron might just be one of the best made encounters ingame.
Everything from phase 1 to phase 3, albeit they repeat themselves just needs to be executed perfectly.
You cannot trigger an extra cloud. You have exactly 20 seconds to kill tentacles (hi satariel). You have exactly 20 seconds to nuke the brain as fast as possible... and you have exactly 9 seconds to kill a mob off.
So precise, yet so easy in theory.. but once you're there with all the confusion, you'll be begging for a break.

I can't wait to see hard modes now, Ulduar so far was amazing fun, even if it was a bit too easy to start off with. Overall though, it might even be up for the best instance done by Blizzard so far next to the original Naxxramas (no, the level 80 one isn't even close to good)... and I can't wait to see what they have yet to bring us.

Darksorrow, we're still here and breathing. Better late than never. :)

Flying Circus, our members, both old and new and those who have decided to leave us....I salute you all!
Thank you, goodnight and let's win! (or as we say it nowadays in raids, LET'S VIN IT!)

Disclaimer: Vin Diesel is our morale booster in raids, next to the good old 1% wipes and "last tries".

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