It's over
You may have been wondering what has been taking us so long to kill Illidan. There is no definite answer, although one thing is sure; it's not the actual Illidan fight (which is disappointingly easy). More people are leaving for various reasons than we can recruit - summer time again. Raiding is on hold for now until Wrath of the Lich King. I would like to thank everyone who has been part of this guild for all the fun, and hopefully you'll stick around until then.
-Warlock
-Holy priest or
-Hunter,
YOU may be the person we're looking for! We raid on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 19.30 to 23.30. If you can raid at least 2 out of 3 raids a week, have at least early Hyjal/Black Temple gear and a working sarcasm detector, apply now! Don't worry if you are exceptionally bad at moving from fires and spreading out. You'll fit right in!
Illidari Council down
This is proof why the blood elves should never have been allowed to join the Horde. They're weak. I like this fight, although it's pretty mind-boggling that we managed to do it considering the 'movement' required (a concept that most of our raiders are not familiar with).
We also made a new friend!
Mother Shahraz down
Glorified trash mob that requires resistance gear. Next!
Reliquary of Souls down
Tonight we killed not one, not two, but three new bosses! Well I'm pretty sure we did anyway, because I saw three different health bars go from 100% to 0%. I'm also pretty sure this fight is about a million times better than Bloodboil. Really intense and fun!
About Bloodboil (who is dead... for now)
Allow me to whine.
This is the worst fucking fight in the entire game. This boss is a failure in game design in each and every aspect, and I mean that. I've seen some stupid bosses -Gruul, Morogrim and Hydross come to mind- but this gimmick douchebag beats them all. Besides requiring an absurd amount of healers for the fight that you wouldn't use in a normal raid, the tank transitions and especially fel rage are based on pure luck. It's like playing Russian roulette, except Russian roulette is less dangerous for your health because it gives you bigger chances of survival. Even if you lose with Russian roulette you can be sure that you had more fun than you would have had on this boss, which is the main reason why both my wall and my head currently have pretty big holes in them.
Fel rage on a mage is a perfect way to make sure that your chances of killing the boss are diminished to less than 1%. But wait, clothies aren't the only people in a raid, right? Too bad warriors can't even get the fucking fel rage - because it wouldn't be fun if someone with a chance of surviving could get it, now would it?
In the end we countered gimmick with gimmick. A shadowpriest specced to discipline for pain suppression turned out to be the key. Good thing that shadowpriests aren't any use in this fight anyway, because of the retarded aggro mechanics.
I'm not even happy this guy is dead, because I know he'll respawn next week. To whoever designed Gurtogg Bloodboil: thanks, asshole.
Archimonde exploded
As this fight is a retard check, I think it's quite impressive that we managed to kill this guy with several Norwegians in the raid!
Azgalor down
Now all the easy bosses are out of the way, it's time for some good cratering fun with Archimonde!
Teron Gorefiend terrorized
Key to this fight? Hope your only DPSers (read: melee) don't get the ghost debuff so the useless mages can waste their time being dead in the corner. Bwhaha!
Heretic and Morogrim featured in Games For Windows magazine
Someone decided that our Morogrim killshot would be a good addition to their column in Games For Windows magazine about large guilds in MMORPGs being impersonal and progression-centered. For reasons best known to himself, this man decided to go on a melancholical rant about his old Ultima Online guild and how it was so much better than today's Guild Wars and World of Warcraft guilds. I cry tears for you every night, my bespectacled friend.
He's right, too. We don't actually have officers in Heretic, we are in fact Third Reich sympathizers with a strong desire to make our members' lives as painful as possible. In any case, I suppose I should be honoured that someone thought my screenshot was of high enough quality for press work. And people always tell me I'm a terrible photographer! Say, Games For Windows, if I promise not to sue you for posting this invaluable, trademarked, copyrighted and patented screenshot, I'm sure you won't mind me posting the page upon which your columnist spouted this bullshit - right?
PS. It's the February issue if anyone wants to read it - thanks to Stomp for pointing this out!
Kaz'rogal deaded
Kazzak with more HP, not hard but at least it's fun. Not a bad progress raid I say, four new bosses in one night :D
Akama freed
Once we figured out what the hell was happening, this was another easy fight. Free loot!
Supremus down
Fucking hell. This guy is an insult to raiders' intelligence.
Naj'entus down
This boss introduces a whole new sport: killing mages with Spine! Awesome!
Anetheron killed
Hard boss. Tactics involve movement, tanking and healing. His Sleep ability was quite befitting - I'm pretty sure I did actually fall asleep during this fight.
Nice timing
- Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter Hyjal.
- Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter the Black Temple.
- You may now fight Prince Kael’thas and Lady Vashj without first killing all the other bosses in their respective dungeons.
Sigh.
Hi Winterchill, bye Winterchill
This is a boss?
Kael'thas Sunstrider strides no more
What can I say? Best fight in the game so far. Great job everyone!
Vashj rhymes with... dead?
A good night for Heretic! While I went out and got drunk*, the rest of the guild went out to poke Vashj. Yeah, it took some time, but the result wasn't bad: 25 players alive when the last mob left in SSC died. Of course, I'm not entirely sober at the time of writing so maybe I just fell for a large hoax set up by the guild to make me look like an idiot. If that's the case, they certainly made a pretty nice fake screenshot. Okay really then, good job everyone and thanks to Phantasia from Nifelheim for helping with the tactics :) Time to wipe on Kael!
*I do not advocate alcohol in any way. Everyone who's been guilded with me and Thrugg for more than a day will agree that it does nothing to enhance brain performance.
Al'ar shot down
With no proof whatsoever (the corpse despawned before we managed to get a proper lineup for the screenshot) I will try to make you believe that we killed Al'ar. Well you should believe me anyway, because this boss was easy.
Leotheras and Doomwalker deaded
After the obligatory 1% wipe, we killed Leotheras. Very fun fight!
After that we paid Doomwalker a visit. The hardest part about Doomwalker is positioning for a screenshot while mobs are spawning on top of you (or maybe we're just stupid).
Solarian moonfired
Easier than Attumen the Huntsman... until someone decides to blow you up. Our advanced tactic of 'running away' took some time to develop, but eventually got us a kill.
Karathress down
Yeah so this guy isn't hard at all, but the shaman add owes me a few gold for repair bills...
Morogrim deaded
After some weeks of slacking raid attendance we decided to kill Morogrim!
Doom Lord Kazzak down
Second attempt! Right click and loot, pretty much.
Hydross down
Wow, this fight is annoying - but he's dead and that's what counts. And yeah, I know I look hot in my resistance gear. Stop whispering me.
Magtheridon dead
Click click click click click!
I must say, even I was reasonably impressed that we killed this guy on the first night of attempts - and me being impressed with anything is not something that happens often.
The Lurker Below killed himself
That's right. We had nothing to do with this. The Lurker Below killed himself out of pure pity for the numerous people in our raid who were unable to jump in the water during Spout. In the end he just gave up and drowned himself because he couldn't take it any more. Oh well, we got loot all the same - not that it was worth anything. I'm sorry that the three of us who did manage to survive Spout (that would be me and two imps with phase shift) did not get any more attempts on him.
About the picture, apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to make an Underwater Screenshot, which as you can see, failed miserably.
Void Reaver dead
I was away when it happened, but I'm glad that the delicate task of moving from huge balls that travel at 2 km/h was in good hands with my guildies during the dark and frightening period of my absence.
Update: Kreel sent me a new screenshot which according to him is better than the old one, but he's wrong; I'm still not on it so it sucks.
Gruul pooped on
Uninteresting encounter, stack more DPS and don't let the tanks die, collect loot.
Netherspite down
Lame gimmick fight, not much more to say. Ah well, Karazhan cleared!
Nightbane down
Not a very hard fight once you get used to it, quite fun to do as well. Now I just need to find an excuse to be away so I don't have to do Netherspite...
Terestian Illhoof down
Prince Malchezaar killed
Epics!
High King Maulgar down
Somehow we managed to get 25 people online to try Maulgar, who was bravely tanked by the one and only fury, I mean protection warrior Matti. Very fun fight :)
Shade of Aran down
After many, many weeks of bad luck, silly mistakes and just generally crappy sub 10% wipes...
Romulo and Julianne also died quite a while ago but I don't think anyone bothered to make a screenshot :P
Crone and Curator killed
Moroes, Maiden of Virtue and Big Bad Wolf down
This is what happens when you leave me out of the raid ^_^
Attumen the Huntsman down
Horse no more!
Site up, bosses down
As you can see, Heretic-guild.com is up and running :)
Also, we killed all ZG bosses and Onyxia on our first guild raid yesterday.