We’ve been working quite some time on getting these tactics right.

But we kept running into problems, like setup for proffessor/council, unlucky nights on the before mentioned bosses or other stuff. So we never really got to play with the dragon.

But this raid lock out, we had an extra day in ICC10. So we spent all sunday night on the tactics – and we got phase 1 under control, but never managed to control phase 2.

But today we went back for our revenge. Most of the night was used on tweaking, and in the end, luck was finally on our side.

So I present to you: Sindragosa… dead!

Last nights goal was Professor Putricide and Blood-Queen Lana’thel.

We started out with the professor in his laboratory of fun and horrors. And fun and horrors it was indeed.

We had some good attempts on him earlier, but a server crash was in the way of taking him down. So after some hamster reputation turn ins at the Blizzard Offices, we hoped we could avoid further crashes. And we were right – the only thing that crashed was Professor Putricide.

After the professor we went to the Blood-Queen. Originally we aimed for Sindragosa, but we had been advised to take her on first, since she should be way easier than the dragon. And it was a good choice if you asked me.

After two attempts we had the feel for the fight, people were bitten, and Lana’thel was vanished from the night (sorry, I’m never going to be a great poet).

She went down on third try, and this means the only obstacle before Mr. Menethil is his pet dragon Sindragosa.

Really good job everyone!

We continued our ICC 10 man, in hope of even more success and glory, since we managed to get two new bosses down.

We decided to try out the Blood Council, so Darkbeaver finally could tank (not that he’s not doing a good job doing that already :P).

After the first few tries we quickly realized this was very doable, so a little tweaking later, the council had to go down.

So we continued to Professor Putricide, and when we finally started to get the tactics right, the server decided to crash. So sadly we didn’t get him down.

But very good job on the Blood Council! We’ll be back, and soon we’ll take a peek at Arthas :p

After an amazing night where we one shotted every boss (even our least favorites Festergut and Rotface), we continued to Dreamwalker.

After a few tries of tweaking, we actually managed to get her up in about 3 tries. I admit, it was a little bit messy in the end, but hey, a kill is a kill.

Congrats to everyone who was there, and good job! Was a fun night (I loved how Beaver died!) :)

We decided to try something new, so we wanted to try out TotGC. I knew it would be a good challenge, and I was surely proven right.

The setup wasn’t perfect, but we never the less got some pretty good attempts on the Northrend Beasts.

After some tries we finally manage to get the luck on our side, and got through it, without anyone being rammed.

So Arisens first HC kill is here by documented!

We had some decent tries on the demon, but unfortunately people had to leave. But we are definitely ready for some more heroic action!

After a nice first wing in ICC10, we went on to our nemesis, Festergut. And thoughts went back to the old days in ZG and the famous sentence: “We won’t do this in the first try”.

Festergut got one shotted, so we quickly continued to Rotface, our second nemesis.

We started off with running in just to die, but quickly got our tactics tweaked, so we had some decent tried. But some unfortunate disconnects made it even harder to get him down.

But we kept continuing, and in the end we got respawns right behind us, so we had to realized we had one last try left. So when three people were down at 20 % the tension was big, but everyone kept their heads cool, so even though it was a bit messy in the end, we managed to get the bugger down.

Good job everyone, we’re 50 % through now! :)

A few weeks ago we started to talk to Loot Inc. A guild some of our guildies have been in for a short while during TBC.

Loot Inc tried out with 25 mans themselves, but as Arisen, couldn’t keep the steam up, and that sadly made them quit the 25 man adventures. It ended with people going on breaks, quitting, etc.

A story that seems very familiar to how things have gone in our guild.

But now the core have returned (as it is with Arisen), and they decided to just go casual/social/friends raiding together (as in Arisen).

We started talking with them (in a random VoA raid where I won my tier 10 gloves, yay), and talked about the possibility to do something together.

So the last few weeks we’ve used to prepare, and talk to them, getting to know them, and last night the final test finally arrived.

The first 25 man, together. We ventured to ICC25 (together with three randoms), and the first wing was more or less one shotted. There was a few, probably too big pulls, but nothing we couldn’t overcome.

We met our challenge at Festergut, but it’s only a matter of time before he will go down too.

We’re all pretty happy about how things went last night.

So a big thank you to everyone who showed up!

We’re slowly getting back into raiding. And after having a fantastic Sunday night where we downed first wing, we Tuesday decided to carry on.

We managed to nail the tactics (and dps) on Festergut after a good amount of tries.

We tried Rotface afterwards, but we didn’t manage to get the tactics straight, before people had to leave – but we’ll be back!

It’s a long time since we had an update here on the site.

The main reason is that a lot of the key members/officers took a break, because of the stressing life in Azeroth. But we’re back now, and really enjoying the new LFG system.

We also decided that we wanted to do a last raid in 2009 – to finish it off in good manners.

We ventured to Icecrown Citadel, together with two former guildies and friends, to see how far we could get. Our adventures started at Lord Marrowgar – who we one shotted!

Lord Marrowgar down - Sorry Crashed, that we forgot to take a picture with out :/

We move on to Lady Deathwhisper – who proved to be a little challenge – but after three tries we managed to smash her under the elevator.

We moved up to meet with our allies, who provided us with a gunship and rocket packs. So off we went to fight of the horde, those bastards! But they didn’t stand a chance to the might of Arisen – and their gunship sank pretty quickly.

Then it was time for the last available boss, Saurfang. After a hilarious scene with Muradin (Shut up, Gigus!) we finally got to fight him – but he proved to be the hardest challenge of the night – but 4-5 tries and the deathknight had to bow to us.

So thank you to all the Arisen’ers who came to the last raid of the year – and a big shout out to Kangaroopoo aka Jazzonmyface aka Odour and to Saverok, for coming to help us.

Sounds like old news, but it’s actually not :p

The new level 80 version of Onyxia had to go down, even though it took a few tries to tweak the tactics.

Sleep tight, Brood Mother