We killed a Heroic Rock! (And forgot to take a kill shot....)

So, it's quite definitely a long and wearing fight, all the more frustrating when you have to give up an attempt 13-14 minutes in either because of a tiny mistake or even worse a small bug in the fight.

And it's definitely one of the most tightly DPS-tuned fights we've seen in a long, long time.

But we can now proudly say that we've saved the planet. Again.



From left to right, that's Shyam, Cherryo, Randir, Taqwa, Telluria, Mender, Anadra, Timber, Akatar, Deliena, and Maedbh.

Taqwa and Deliena were tonight's lucky puppies, pocketing as they did a DPS sword and a caster dagger.

Spent a few more tries getting this one right, but we got things together so that Thrall could wield the Golden Smartie and shoot down Deathwing.

...after a couple of test pulls on the 8th, we came back on the 11th and did the job properly of defending the gunship from Warmaster Blackhorn.

So, the wonders of patch 4.3 and the Dragon Soul hit us this week.

Something like thirteen of us joined an LFR raid on the Wednesday, and were suitably boggled by how easy that was.

Perhaps feeling a touch overconfident from that, is why on Thursday, we just got the one boss down - Morchok.



Can't even remember what he dropped now, and the guild activity log's been spammed senseless with folk hitting up the new dungeons (and old raids), so moving swiftly onwards to tonight's raid...

...where things clicked nicely.

Firstly, after one warm-up pull, we downed Zonozz.



We went on to one-shot his friend Yor'sahj.



Then we went on to play with Hagara - took us a few more goes, but she fell before us too.



And since we were having fun, we *cough* went about an hour and a half past normal raid end time by the time we finished off Ultraxion - huzzah for holidaying (and late-shifting) Finns!



Now, you're thinking ... usually these chaps drop some loot, don't they?

And they do. Zonozz brought a nice healing trinket for Ilthanian, Lotharemas got a pretty awesome axe from Yor'sahj, Taqwa got a nice belt from Hagara, and Anadra picked up a nice mace from the toybox that's left after Ultraxion get spanked.

Now, all these bosses also drop tier tokens. There's gloves, leggings, shoulders, and chest tokens. And, well ... we didn't have a warrior in the raid tonight. And we didn't have a shaman, either.

And that means that - since we got a truly staggering four Protector drops tonight - that this week is officially



Suffice to say that Telluria got absolutely no sympathy at all for having to do a lot of reforging, gemming, enchanting, and transmogging... (For the record, the tier 7 boots don't go too badly with this tier)