… another one bites the dust.
Thursday night marked our first new boss kill since we took our initial and (until this week) only trip to the Bastion of Twilight. Having dealt with Halfus and the dragon twins on Tuesday, on Thursday we extended the lock and went to play with the Twilight Ascendant Council.
Reading the ability list/fight guide on wowpedia was more than a little intimidating. Handily, another guildie who also raids hordeside had already done the fight and was happy to talk us through it. As it turned out, it was a lot more complicated to explain and read about than it was to actually do the fight, so we were able to make the kill on our fourth attempt. We then spent a little time playing with Chogall, who has a couple of requirements we weren’t really prepared for, and ended the raid having learned a bunch about what we needed to do.
What makes this kill particularly pleasing is that it’s the product of only our second joint raid with another guild.
It’s a fairly common situation, I understand: between people amazingly choosing to go on holiday or to be busy at work rather than raiding, and a little bit of burnout in the ranks, we’ve been struggling to (read: failing to) assemble enough people to raid. Thankfully, in a “we need to recruit” thread I’d posted on our forums, the many-alts-person I previously mentioned suggested that I speak to the GM of the other alliance raiding guild she’s a member of (!) as they were experiencing similar difficulties and perhaps we could help each other out. So our past two raids have been made possible by borrowing a couple of people from this other guild to fill empty spots, and hopefully we can do the same for them in their times of need.
Perhaps the seemingly imminent patch 4.1 will be a shot in the arm, and encourage people to log in again. In any case, if you’re looking for a relaxed raiding guild on Darkmoon Faire EU, are happy with a certain degree of fumbling about and don’t mind the cake, send me a mail or /w Theanorak in game.