Since moving to 25 mans, it’s been hard scheduling the time to get much work on LK 10 man. In fact, we’ve been extending the same raid ID since the beginning of April and just hoping for the chance to work on him an hour or two here and there, every other week.
Tonight, though, the magic finally happened and we made up tremendous ground and put in the best effort to date. It was a guild project and we all came together and made it happen. Now we just need to work on getting more Kingslaying crows!!
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Though they’re visible on our forums in the News and Announcements, we felt it’d be a good idea to get the screenshots from WoW caught up here as well. Things were pretty rocky in May with the season change and lots of real-life stuff going on for many people, but our Tuesday night raid on June 1 showed that we’re still going to pull off some great raid nights. We downed everything up to 9/12 in ICC without a single wipe all evening long, one-shotting Putricide (guild first kill) and Blood Prince Council (also a one-shot). Here are all the screenshots from those two new kills and from the older ones we’ve not yet had a chance to publish:
Tags: 25 Man Raid, Blood Prince Council, Festergut, Icecrown Citadel, Putricide, Rotface, Valithria Dreamwalker, World of Warcraft
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We took our time, gathered the right people to make the run happen and filled our first 25-man raid on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. To say that the night was a success would be a gross understatement. I’m really looking forward to watching this raid advance. Festergut is on notice for Friday.
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Friday, March 19th saw us breaking through a couple barriers in one night. Everything fired on all cylinders and we made some great progress. For the past couple weeks, we had had some difficulty on Friday nights and had, in fact, had to cancel two of those Fridays because of real life bothering us too much. This meant that Putricide got to stay alive a little longer than we’d have hoped.
That problem, I’m happy to say, has been rectified and on our second attempt of the evening this past Friday, Professor Putricide got his ass kicked. Pleased with the way things were going, we ran over and rescued a green dragon for the first time as well and you know, she like gave us stuff, and stuff.
It was one of those raid nights that makes it all worth it. The feeling of a fresh, well-earned kill and apparently a bunch of new stuff for Morgraan, because that’s all these two bosses decided to drop. Oh, and Merideuss needs a better trinket.
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Recruitment to our guild on Whisperwind-Horde is once again open. Below is a copy of our recruitment message from the official WoW forums. You can find our forums via the side bar or just click here!
<Covenant of Crows> is Recruiting All Classes!
<Covenant of Crows> is an adult-only guild (ages 21+) on Whisperwind Horde. We are currently open to recruiting social players of all kinds and classes as well as those interested in raiding.
Currently, we run one 10 man ICC group on Tuesday and Friday nights and regularly clear 7/12 (Festergut, Rotface, BP Council on farm). We operate with essentially no backups for this group (attendance is very good), so the opportunity to be at least rotated in on a regular basis exists for one or two people. We also have a semi-regular 10 man on Sunday nights that has open spots for any role running ToC10 and up.
If we had to attach a label to our group, we’d choose “serious casual.” We run a relaxed and fun raid, but it’s also serious enough to get things done. Respect for each other is one of the foundational ideals for our community and we certainly don’t get off on the pushy/mean-spirited/yell-at-people mentality you might find elsewhere. We want our raiders to keep coming back and look forward to our groups (and our unusually high attendance is probably the result of that philosophy!).
The core of our membership is older professionals, many in our mid-30s with kids, etc. That in mind, we are a rather intimate and familiar group, so a moderate amount of off-color language should be expected. Some of us have been playing together for 4 or 5 years now, having transferred over multiple servers. We offer a fantastic community of friendly, helpful people and the usual guild amenities in WoW, plus an online forum with people whose interests expand into other games, books, movies, creative endeavors, you name it.
If any of the above sounds interesting to you, feel free to contact Morgraan/Aalistor or Zerr/Zyroth/Zerrie in-game or swing by our forums at http://www.covenantofcrows.com and introduce yourself (in my view, that’s all a guild application is–just a formula for an introduction so that we have a place to start talking).
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For March 2010, our reading group selection will be:
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Come into the forums and join us for this discussion!
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Being the supreme geeks that we are (and also that there’s more to us than just WoW), this coming month, we’re pleased to announce our new science-fiction/fantasy reading group! Participation is completely open to anyone interested in geeky stuff, whether you play WoW (or any games at all). We’re definitely interested in meeting some more interesting geeky grown-ups (and registration on our forums is very quick and very easy).
More details and discussion are available on our forums in the books section. Nominations for our book of the month for March are open from now until Thursday, February 25th, so hop in and get to reading!
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The healers were incredible tonight and The Blood Council suffered for it.
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Rotface is down and the Covenant is one step closer to Arthas.
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The first week that the second wing of ICC opened, Covenant of Crows were ready to start working on the new bosses. After spending a little time working on Rotface, we switched over and snagged this kill on our last attempt of the evening:
It’s remarkable how big of a step up the Plagueworks is from the Lower Spire, but we’re definitely chipping away at it. In the past week, we’ve spent more time working on Rotface and we definitely anticipate a kill on him coming soon. In fact, our best attempt saw Rotface down to a mere 1,150 hit points (yes, you read that right), so we’re clearly right on the cusp.
Oh and that near-kill? Probably one of the most edge of your seat moments we’ve experienced together. It’s great fun raiding this with a great group of people.
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