Joint top 10 man progress on Eonar…..pro as fuck!

Oh lord what a couple of weeks.

As everyone knows, summer brings slacking. Summer also brings our students to the end of their exams and a lot of partying, so for the last couple of weeks we’ve pretty much forgone progression in the name of farming for our newer 80s. Everyone is pretty good now so this week we went back to progression…..and how.

With a slightly modified raid team - including a Paladin healer who’d never seen Sindragosa 10 hard before, and a new Paladin tank (not that much changes for tanks…does it ever?) - we managed to down Sindragosa in 6 or 7 attempts. This is something that most people put down to Hellscream’s Warsong being so high now, and although it is kind of crazy, in all honesty this isn’t a fight that changes a whole lot. The raid healing is easier no doubt, but it still takes skill and co-ordination to pull this off, and again our somewhat lesser-geared (compared to most guilds) and much newer guild proves that we’re at least as good as (and most likely better than) the Eonar raiders that have been trying this content since day 1.

Naturally, not satisfied with overcoming Sindragosa, we took a walk to plague wing to try Putricide. We had to have a quick wipe up due to some bad unbound plague positioning on try 1, but on our second attempt (we do so enjoy killing new bosses in stupidly small numbers of attempts…) this was the result:

a dead Professor Putricide and a nice Facelifter for our new Paladin tank, Allerian.

Full steam ahead….ICC 10 HC Lich King server first kill shall be ours!

WE ARE RECRUITING! I say this in capitals, because we really do want YOU, if you’re a skilled player that is reading this newspost and thinking “gee, if only I was in a guild like this Bad Karma, maybe I’d be killing top end mobs in style too…”. Or more likely, “fuck me these guys are good. I want in”. So head on over to our recruitment forum and drop in an application. We won’t bite, unless you sound like you’re fucking awesome, then we just might.

Continuing on with the tradition of simply being better than everyone else, Bad Karma proved our superiority with a massive 7/12 kill in our first 3.5 hour run of Icecrown Citadel hardmode. Unlike many guilds who skip the ‘hard’ bosses such as Deathwhisper and Saurfang, we pushed on through all of the mobs we fought and killed them all in a few tries. Our kill list:

Marrowgar (2 shot, we underestimated his damage a bit…still easy though)
Deathwhisper (4 shot whilst we worked out the mechanics, and when we stopped mindcontrolled mages with Arcane Blast stacks oneshotting our raid members…)
Gunship (oneshot, obviously…)
Saurfang (like….10 shot, but most of them were resets not wipes, one of them due to my chicken combo turning up just as we engaged )
Festergut (oneshot, hilarious kill)
Rotface (twoshot, we assumed the Vile Gas we’d heard about was the same as Festergut, turns out it was a lot easier)
Valithria (two or three shot whilst we worked out the portal mechanics)

So overall, can’t say fairer than that really. Not many guilds make 7/12 in one night, a lot don’t make it at all, and people certainly don’t make it in 6 weeks from the formation of their guild from newly level 80s. Tonight’s raid members were:

Calmdown
Lyii
Marshall
Kane
Brisi
Rickdick
Nazdreg
Meatwagon
Shamuzo
Goldsnake

I won’t write anymore about the raid. We’re fucking good. That’s that. We’re recruiting, so you should probably join us if you want to see how pros steamroll content.

I’ll finish off with the tale of Festergut; we went into this fight knowing that it was basically Festergut normal with some extra DPS and Putricide throwing Malleable goos. What we didn’t quite take into account was just how hard a time the healers at Festergut would have of seeing incoming goos, so we lost our Druid and I called for everyone to wipe it up. After 10 seconds of 3 of the DPS standing at the door, Rickdick calls “why did we stop? We can still kill him”, so we go back to killing him with the raid in disarray. Obviously this didn’t make it easy, but thanks to pro DPS we wiped down to Kane (Shadowpriest) and Nazdreg (Prot Warrior) with Festergut at 150k hp. Naz blew all of his cooldowns, equipped 14 extra shields, and shield bashed Festergut over and over in the balls; Kane cast a Mind Flay. Naz continued to swing his sword mightily, dealing incredibly mortal blows to Festergut; Kane cast a Mind Blast. Nazdreg died with Festergut on 10k hp, Kane a second later out of fright, but the dots ticked one final time and Festergut died. It was pretty hilarious.

Edit: I just realised that I raided with my quest tracker on all night. Haha. I’m awesome.