And just 2 months later.. then there were three

Its been a good summer. Clearing content regularly, making good progress on Putricide. We could use some new faces though so please apply!

And then there were two

It's been a typical start of summer month. Lost some long term members, got some new blood. Got some new kills. Note the extremely obvious visual clues that the kills were both on heroic mode and not normal...

Just a few more heroics to go!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me get this awesome weapon. The new members and the old members. The tanks who put up with my backseat tanking, the dps who yelled at me to get out of the fire and the healers who kept me alive when I pulled agro. I couldn't have done it without you!

Worst update ever!

We've been progressing right along at a good clip and are 7/12 Heroic ICC now. Hopefully next week will have some actual screenshots of boss kills :).

Best Wipe ever!

Huge grats to everyone

Yes I'm well aware that Im actually posting this update a bit after the official date, so sue me!. Tuesday we went straight to our most recent nemesis Saphiron err i mean Sindragosa. After 1 week of a bugged instance not letting us zone in, and a 2.7% wipe, we killed her on our 3rd attempt of the night. Way to go everyone! Yes the kill was with the extra 5% buff but we killed with over 2 minutes to spare, we would have been won without it.

We are working on Lich King now so stay tuned!

Weeks of disheartening attempts on Blood Queen including a wipe at 1.5%, Blizzard removes the attempt counter and.. we kill that vampire on our 4th try of the week. Listen carefully and you can hear your fearless leader saying we are 'way ahead of the timer' and we were! We killed 3 seconds before the beserk instead of 10 seconds after! :)

Estatic after our Blood queen kill, we headed over to Dreamwalker and first try, down she goes.. or up she went you could say perhaps.. This may be the closest try ever as there was only 1 paladin left at the end. Thankfully his hearthstone was on cooldown cuz I'm pretty sure he was trying to bubble hearth.

A new wing opened 2 weeks ago and while we cleared Rotface and Festergut on the first night, Putricide gave us a bit more trouble. After a 5% wipe on Sunday night, we came back on Tuesday, the week the new wing opened and killed him on our 2nd try of the night

We did a few tries on Blood princes and found out our warlock did not like getting melee'd. Blizzard agreed this was a bad thing and fixed it for us so they will go down no problem on Sunday.

After weeks of working on hard mode anub, getting to 9% on our best attempt, Ice Crown Citidel was finally released. To our horror, only 4 bosses were made available and we cleared them all the first night, and cleared 10 man with 3 groups on a 2nd night. Ardnalis as always got all our videos

Exactly 2 weeks after clearing faction champions, we used the awesome void reaver inspired strat of healing through the aoe. With a bit of practice and just a little RNG on our sides, down they went! We also once again have a movie thanks to Ardnalis with musical choices by your fearless guild leader!

Great job guys!

Oh and the next day, after singing a little bit of the 'You gotta believe in something' in vent, we finally beat 10 man Anub on heroic so we don't look so pathetic on wowprogress :). Turns out actually learning how to deal with 2 submerges was easier than trying to just cheat the fight with dps.

After 1 shotting heroic beasts on Tuesday, we could tell that the next 2 bosses would be the pushovers everyone had claimed. Hour into Thursday's raid, down went Lord Jaxx

And an hour after that, down went faction champions

And an hour after that? Well.. lets just say Twins will be a bit harder that the 2nd and 3rd bosses... Thanks to Ardnalis for the videos. Hope people enjoy the vent chat :)

After weeks of gearing up through normal Toc 25 and ToC 10, dealing with drama of Kara v2.0 and ToC 10 heroic modes, multiple sub 10% wipes and I believe 46 tries at last count, we finally cleared the first boss in heroic 25 ToC! Your slacker guild leader didn't even get a kill shot, so enjoy the movie.

It was lots of fun, thanks to all for pushing through :)

After weeks of gearing up through normal Toc 25 and ToC 10, dealing with drama of Kara v2.0 and ToC 10 heroic modes, multiple sub 10% wipes and I believe 46 tries at last count, we finally cleared the first boss in heroic 25 ToC! Your slacker guild leader didn't even get a kill shot, so enjoy the movie.

It was lots of fun, thanks to all for pushing through :)

So a new zone came out and we killed the new bosses in a few tries each which is nice. The new zone has some interesting mechanics and the fights look like they could definitely be fun when hard modes come around. We did a few tries on various ulduar hard modes with Thorim to 40% on our 2nd try and Hodir at 25% with only 24 people.. But then my wife got her 30th shard and threatened me with great bodily harm if we did not do Yogg+3. With just 30 minutes left in the raid, down went yogg!

Grats to Demarra and to all the people in the guild who have been with us for all the raids, and for those new people who will be there for those upcoming.

Up next, we will be raiding a very dark and strange place.. with many men in black tshirts and scantily clad women paid to be there. Thats right, Blizzcon!

Now that Yogg has finally been killed, we turned our eyes to a few hard modes. After 45 minutes of figuring out who is in what vehicle, and a heartbreaking wipe at 2%, we killed Leviathan +4 on Tuesday night.

Tonight, we returned to Ulduar and gave ourselves only 3 tries on XT hard mode to make sure we killed Yogg this week. That was all we needed as we killed the heart all 3 tries and after adding a 6th healer, finished him off with barely a hickup Ignore the dead night elf in the picture, it was a totally clean kill I swear!

After many weeks of trying, and summer vacations and tanks taking 'breaks', we finally pulled it together and killed Yogg Each phase was quite the learning experience but we pulled it through in the end. On to hard modes!

PS, killed medium mode Council in 3 tries on Sunday and then nothing to do for 2 hours. Can't wait for 3.2 when the hard modes are in a different instance so you dont have to worry about running out of time for Yogg due to spending time on hard modes.

After a couple hours of Verdigo and myself failing miserably on interrupting spells, I chickened out and asked for help interrupting spells. Very next try, with the help of Boejangles and Ardnalis, down he went. Wow I suck! Just imagine how hard I would have been on someone else screwing up like that. You were all way too nice to me.
After general, we did a couple pulls on Yogg. It looks pretty insane. Should be fun!

First an update to our recruitment status

Poseidon guild is open to limited recruiting. We are a semi-hardcore raiding guild. Pre-expansion we cleared BT/HJ prenerf and Sunwell post nerf. Raid times are 8pm to 11:15pm Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. As our raid times are limited, we try to run raids very quickly with as little time wasted as possible. We sit out less than 5 people per raid and run a very small roster.

In wrath, we cleared all content pre 3.1 and all achievements except for Immortal. All of this on a limited 3 days a week, 3.5 hours a night content. Raids are run quickly, with all content pre 3.1 being completed in just 2 raid nights.
We are currently looking for:
1 Balance Druid
1 Shadow Priest
1 Enhancement Shaman
1 dps Warrior
90% attendence required during 3 week trial period, 80% after

Expected gear is nearly full Naxx25 gear. Specs on raid nights are expected to be raid specs.

And now back to our regularly scheduled update

We've been very busy over the last month, clearing the first 3 wings of Ulduar. Unfortunately, I didnt take any screenshots so you will just have to trust me on our awesomeness! This week we cleared the first 3 wings leaving us a full raid night to learn General and hopefully Yogg Saron. Expect Ulduar to be clear soon!

First an update to our recruitment status

Poseidon guild is open to limited recruiting. We are a semi-hardcore raiding guild. Pre-expansion we cleared BT/HJ prenerf and Sunwell post nerf. Raid times are 8pm to 11:15pm Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. As our raid times are limited, we try to run raids very quickly with as little time wasted as possible. We sit out less than 5 people per raid and run a very small roster.

In wrath, we cleared all content pre 3.1 and all achievements except for Immortal. All of this on a limited 3 days a week, 3.5 hours a night content. Raids are run quickly, with all content pre 3.1 being completed in just 2 raid nights.
We are currently looking for:
1 Holy Paladin
1 Shadow Priest
1 Mage
1 Elemental Shaman
1 dps Warrior
90% attendence required during 3 week trial period, 80% after

Part time need:
2-3 Good ranged dps

Expected gear is nearly full Naxx25 gear. Specs on raid nights are expected to be raid specs.

And now back to our regularly scheduled update

Tuesday we spent 2 hours wiping repeatedly to the server down boss. Thursday we 1 shot Leviathan in a quick demonstration of superior tanking skills by Cor and yours truly as the only people alive at the end. We then pounded our heads against Ignis only to find out they nerf him 2 hours after raid end. To relieve some frustration we went and cleared the horde in wintergrasp and did a couple quick 20 man tries on the new vault boss. Sunday went better with a downing of Razorscale (got the achievement too) and XT. Finished off the night with 2 tries on Kologarn with the not so good strat of meleeing down the adds.

Expect a bunch more kills this week :)

First a quick mention

Poseidon guild is open to very limited recruiting. We are a semi-hardcore raiding guild. Pre-expansion we cleared BT/HJ prenerf and Sunwell post nerf. Raid times are 8pm to 11:15pm Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. As our raid times are limited, we try to run raids very quickly with as little time wasted as possible. We sit out less than 5 people per raid and run a very small roster.

Current progression:
25 mans: OS+3, Malygos, Naxx on farm.

We are currently looking for:
1-2 healers. Preferably shaman or druid, but we may take others
90% attendence required during 3 week trial period, 80% after

Part time need:
2-3 Good ranged dps

Expected gear is nearly full lvl 80 epics. Specs on raid nights are expected to be raid specs.

And now back to our regularly scheduled update

After about 6 hours total of learning attempts spread over 3 weeks, yours truly came up with the grand new strategy. 'If we kill him tonight, I will personally send everyone 100g', your fearless leader proclaimed. With great applause, the new strategy was implemented. Tenebron down before 2nd drake lands. Whelps dead and Shadron at 25% when Vesperon lands. Only 2 people dead and Shadron dies. Portal adds cleared and we're home free from there.

The checks in the mail I swear.

3 weeks after we started raiding in the expansion, and only a little over 5 weeks after the release, we have cleared both 10 and 25 man Naxx and OS. Great job to all involved. All that remains is Malygos and then we join the ranks of those waiting for the next content release.

On our 8th try of our last raid week of the expansion, we completed the expansion. With only 8 people alive, and 4 dying shortly after the kill, we burned through the end of phase five the second time we got to it. Meteors falling everywhere, fire blooms, mage dragons running around blinking and shielding us all... The fight was easily the most complex and most fun fight in the expansion. The cheers in vent, congrats from others in general chat and random tells from other players in other guilds when we finally downed him were just awesome.

These last 5 weeks we have progressed very quickly through what is still very difficult content. You should all be very proud of yourselves as we have done what very few people have done in this game. We have one more raid night before the expansion and then a new journey begins.

I'd like to thank all of the people who have been there over this last year since we started doing 25 mans, and even more so those who were with us back when we were struggling running 2 Kara groups. Thanks to those who stayed with us through the recruitment phase and all those times not so long ago when we had to pug to fill up those early 25 man raids. Thanks to those who switched servers to play with us. Thanks to those who answered our recruiting posts. Thanks to those who sat out fights, switched specs and made the team decisions that got us to this point. Lastly, a special thanks to my wife and family for putting up with this silly game :)

A quick update. We've been very busy these last couple of weeks, and have progressed very quickly through Sunwell in the race to finish before the expansion. First we beat the mass dispell boss
And then we beat the ledge boss And then we beat the reincarnation of Akama. And in the rush to get to Kil'Jaeden your retarded leader forgot to take a screenshot. After 4 hours on KJ, we have the fight pretty well understood, he should die tonight!

Quick update for those keeping track. Patch day came and after we rolled through BT in 2.5 hours on Thursday and got Neph an OH warlgaive. We sat around for 45 minutes trying to zone into Sunwell on Sunday, then got some serious attempts in on Kalecgos and killed him in under an hour from zone in. Brutallus took even less tries including the 23 man kill ;). Felmyst down to 57%, should go down soon too. The patch has definitely made things easier but its nice to be able to see the bosses we wouldnt have been able to without the nerfs. This week, We failed at the 15 minute RoS race to kill before the server shut down but still managed to clear BT without me having to tank! Best of all, Neph got his MH and we now have a set of warglaives!

The moment we have all been waiting for finally arrived. After months of blood sweat and tears we finally got to the last boss in Black Temple. It reminded me a bit of the Kael fight we beat just under 4 months ago with 4 different tanks and tons of different abilities to deal with. We knew on Thursday that Illidan would be going down after a disheartening 18% wipe, and on our 3rd attempt of the night, down he went. We spent the rest of the night fighting our way to Kalecgos only to have half the raid locked out of the fight (but we can still heal!) Congratulations Clyne on your mace, Palenn on your loleather helm and grats on the chest Yeme, Arlecchino and Bearamut.

The next 5 weeks is going to be very busy with the patch coming out, the nerfing of all the zones, Blizzcon and the expansion. More updates coming soon!

I'd like to thank all of the people who have been there over this last year since we started doing 25 mans, and even more so those who were with us back when we were struggling running 2 Kara groups. Thanks to those who stayed with us through the recruitment phase and all those times not so long ago when we had to pug to fill up those early 25 man raids. Thanks to those who switched servers to play with us. Thanks to those who answered our recruiting posts. Thanks to those who sat out fights, switched specs and made the team decisions that got us to this point. Lastly, a special thanks to my wife and family for putting up with this silly game :)

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