After a few weeks of waiting for all our raiders to hit 70 as well as get a few pieces of nice gear we ventured into the first 25-man raid instance, Gruul's lair.

Riding high on our defeat of Nightbane, we overcame last week's near-kill heartbreak and downed the Lord of the Ogres, High King Maulgar.



Still having a full raid, we went and checked out Gruul just for fun. We got him to 82% before the last of the raid died to shatter.

Great job guys, I look forward to continuing our adventures into the new BC raid content with all of you.

More news from karazhan this week this week. After taking care of the bosses already on farm status, we buckled down to work on what was surely going to be the most challenging fight in the instance.

We quickly became re-associated with our old friend, the repair bill, as we wiped to this guy repeatedly and learned the ins and outs of the Nightbane fight.

The first set of attempts was plagued by "well, phase 1 is easymode now, but we immediately die when he hits 75%".

However, we pressed on, learning how all his abilities work and we quickly moved toward downing him.

Finally, after some "warmup" attempts on Monday night, Nightbane fell in a flawless attempt.

All our repair bills, potion costs, and headache were well worth it. The fight was a ton of fun and really tests your group.

Behold



Gratz to Nice on his awesome chestplate (not in the allakhazam db yet), and Corvac on his new staff .

A special thank you to everyone in guild, especially those who were there for other Nightbane attempts and those of you who helped forge ahead and kill the other bosses.

Congratulations to Lawn Pirates in becoming one of the first guilds on the server to completely clear Karazhan.

Onward to bigger and better things!

Not satisfied with our success so far, the Lawn Pirates made another push into Karazhan with great success.

To help us progress even faster we used our Druid Hax (tm) to summon an army of ghost mages to fight in our place.



After discovering that the ghost army were a bunch of pacifists and therefore totally worthless to us we forged on to visit the prince.

Despite some issues, including bugs where the Prince was stuck in "enraged" mode and yet another bug that caused him to become unattackable (that one required us to zone out and soft reset the instance) we dethroned Prince Malchezaar.



I got an amazing axe and I got some real competition in the silly looking helms department.



After our quick smiting of the freakishly huge space shaman Draenei we went back to visit a week-old nemesis.

After a few attempts, and the addition of a 2nd druid, Netherspite was crushed under the unstoppable momentum of dual smiling bears.



That finishes off Karazhan for us except for one boss.







Thats right, its a undead dragon, and its on mother f-in fire. Doesn't get much more awesome than that.

We made some excellent progress and we should bring him down soon.


In other guild news, Novinha shows us how to pick up women.



It's been an exciting few weeks and hopefully there will be many more to come as we continue our journey into the Burning Crusade.