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It’s been a little while since I last posted something on here. Our 25-man progress through most of Trial of the Crusader and Trial of the Grand Crusader was pretty swift, so it didn’t really seem very newsworthy. Yes, that is the excuse I’m going with – deal with it (that said, I probably should have posted something about DPC getting server first Glory of the Ulduar Raider (25 player) several weeks ago).

Anub’arak proved to be considerably more challenging than the rest of the Coliseum bosses, with several weeks of attempts to hone our healing strategies, not to mention getting the first 2 phases of the fight going smoothly enough to reliably get us to phase 3 in the first place. Helped along of course by the typical assortment of random disconnects and raid-wide lag spikes that were enough to drive even the most hardened raider to the brink of insanity…

One of the most satisfying kills so far, and also another server first for DPC.

As if that wasn’t enough, we also got this little achievement too (along with the associated loot):

Great work everyone!

That is all.

EDIT: rogue PoV video of the kill

 

 

 

(Yeah this naming scheme for news entries is getting challenging…)

10 brave members of Deeprun Pest Control faced and defeated the so called “raid destroyer”, Algalon the Observer in Ulduar:

Congratulations to the team for their alliance-first Algalon kill on Aggramar (and their shiny new Starcaller titles)!

• Video of the kill from ret pally perspective

A team of brave warriors (and other classes) of Deeprun Pest Control ventured into the 10-man heroic instance of the Trial of the Crusader, and have now achieved the server first clear of the instance, and gained the Call of the Grand Crusader (10 player) achievement!

The final kill of Anub’arak was at around 04:45 game time (now that’s dedication to the cause).

A video of the kill was recorded, though sadly this fails to reflect the nerdscreams that were heard on our ventrilo server as the beetle finally went down…

In other news, DPC also gained the server first 25-man kill of Anub’arak in normal mode, and we’re now working on the heroics.

Yogg-Saron, the Fiend of a Thousand (Ugly) Faces was slain at the hands of DPC tonight in the server-first heroic kill on Aggramar EU!

It took 3 full nights of tries to get the strategy and execution down, mastering such tricky feats as “moving away from cloudy things”, “not standing next to exploding things” and “looking away from the scary things”. A tough challenge to be sure, but one we were well prepared to rise to.

Some pictures:

Needless to say, some silly celebrations swiftly followed in Dalaran, and we learned a lot of fun things to do as a raid of 25 bunnies.

Anyway, moving swiftly on, congratulations to everyone involved in the kill! Now on to the hard modes…

Week 2 in Ulduar saw another 4 bosses (and a whole lot of fun trash) defeated:

Hodir

Hodir posed little challenge as we stormed back in on our second week. He was easily taken down on the first attempt despite a frosty reception.

Thorim

Adding a little more AoE and a little more control into the arena team, we soon slapped this guy silly, and he thanked us for it too.

Mimiron

Quite possibly the most awesomely fun fight in the whole of Ulduar, this mechagnoam was definitely the most challenging of the 4 keepers. But nothing compared to our next challenge…

General Vezax

…No, not the boss himself (though yeah, he was tough too), but those damned trash packs before him. Fortunately our stints in 10-man Ulduar taught us well that:

1. Those packs have a huge aggro range
2. Fear is bad mkay
3. Whatever you do, clear the room from right-to-left

But we soon also learned that:

1. Ulduar rogues can shadowstep all the way to the instance entrance (and they have 800 energy… WTB)
2. Staying up on the ledge above while the rest of the raid is pulling is a surefire way to get the entire raid toasted in just a matter of seconds
3. Packs not resetting properly after a wipe can result in a similarly toasty feeling on the next pull

But undeterred, we cleared it all and scored our latest kill.

Then we briefly peeked in to see Yogg-Saron. From what we saw, it would appear that moving away from clouds is beneficial to your raid’s survival. More useful tips to come!

DPC have now successfully completed the “The Immortal” achievement (completing Heroic Naxxramas with no-one dying on a raid boss).

In the words of Yakujim:

“Absolutely intense run, with quite a few heart attacks, bowels protesting due to rising stress levels and girly screams on vent when KT finally died, but an awesome job by all involved.”

Throw on your glad rags, roast the turkey and wake up your Gran, because Deeprun Pest Control (DPC) are hosting a festive celebration, and the whole server is invited! As usual, DPC will play host to a selection of events including a costume contest (with a TCG prize), firework display involving over 3000 rockets as well as a huge gift give-away for the whole server!

Date: Monday 22nd December
Time: 21:00 game time
Location: Kharanos, Dun Morogh

Trailer: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQPv86MXMw

See the forum thread on the Aggramar forums for more details!

Kil’jaeden the Deceiver, leader of the Burning Legion, was finally vanquished tonight by the members of the Deeprun Pest Control guild.

The battle with Kil’jaeden was pretty intense, but very much an enjoyable and epic encounter.

The loot dropped was:

• Cover of Ursol the Wise – Suture
• Coif of Alleria – Judith
• Hammer of Sanctification – Hyanii
• Borderland Paingrips – Syntanite

It’s been a tough ride through Sunwell Plateau, but I personally along with the other officers, would like to thank everyone in the guild for making this all possible. We stuck together where other guilds faltered, we pushed through all the way to the end, and in the end we achieved the goal (server first Kil’jaeden kill!), and that is something we can truly be proud of.

Bring on the Wrath of the Lich King!

After having reached 27% on Entropius on the Tuesday before patch day, we were somewhat disappointed that we weren’t able to achieve an actual kill before the nerfing (wtb just a couple more days of attempts). Regardless, a kill is a kill, and M’uru and Entropius have been vanquished in a server first!

Good job everyone, we deserved this kill! On to Kil’Jaeden!