Tonight, after what seemed to be near endless practice on the incredibly exciting and ever-so-motivating Hellfire Warders and Hellfire Channelers, we finally decided it was time to take a shot at Magtheridon himself... and he died.

Between ridiculously fast spawning and brutal trash, countless used consumables, and unforgiving luck-based wipes, we've had a lot of new experiences to get used to as a guild. Nevertheless, we learned, we adapted, and we did what we had to do to continue raiding together, having fun, and killing big, ugly pit lords.

Well done, folks.


Oh, and afterwards we all gathered at the bank to gawk at Andu's newly-obtained ugliness:

All I can say is: "It's about time". After our last set of Gruul attempts ended early due to certain key people needing to leave (stop staring at me), we went back today for some real attempts.

There were a few kinks to work out in the dry runs as always.

Healers: "But...but...the raid took damage WE MUST HEAL THEM"
**BONG** Tank Hiwrac has Died.
Healers: "Oh, right, Gruul does a lot of damage at Grow 14!"

Tehehe: "Whatever you do, make sure you stay away from Gruul until he is in position or you might get a Hurtful Strike".
+[Gruul] Hurtful Strike [Tehehe] 15,000 damage+
Raid: "Tehehe, why are you dead? we haven't even started DPSing!"

DPS: "I was able to stand in the cave in and DPS at the start, I can get in extra dps/be safe from shatter here!"
Tehehe: "DPS, how did you die?"
DPS: "Apparently the rocks do like 5k/tick at this point in the fight!"

The raid was able to work out all the kinks and the result:





Thats right, we bring a Boomkin to raids now.

Gratz to Rocked on his new trinket and Amalea on her new sword-o-death Also, gratz to Spoon on our first pair of Tier4 Legs.

Killing Gruul means a bunch of us are now attuned for SSC. Being the intrepid raiders that we are, immediately after Gruul we turned in our attunment quest and went to check it out.

First thing to see is a giant elevator of awesome. We spent like an hour playing on this thing, including jumping off it, attempting to jump off at certain points to rez people who died halfway down, and testing to see if bubble lasts long enough to reach the bottom (it doesn't).



After getting to the bottom and going up another smaller elevator, we get our first glimpse of SSC.





After playing around with the trash for a bit, we jumped and swam and rezzed our way over to where the Lurker Below lives. 10 minutes of fishing later....



He made short work of the raid.

Congratulations Lawn Pirates. See you all in SSC and Magtheridon's Lair. Be sure to pick up your SSC attunment quest from Heroic Slave Pens if you haven't already so you too can be attuned next week.

Lawn Pirates is officially looking for end-game raiders to join us in our adventures through Gruul's Lair and beyond. We are currently looking for the following classes/roles:

1 Holy Priest
1 Resto Druid
1 Resto Shaman
1 Hunter
1 Warlock
1 Shadow Priest
1 DPS Warrior

We are a casual raiding guild, but we do enjoy progression and group achievements. We are highly selective in our recruitment process, and we value friendliness and cooperation as well as understanding of the game and your class. If you think you have what it takes please check out our website for information about the guild and post an application.