Raidzoring

I've not really covered raiding yet, and I think that it is important that I do, so I will. Makes a strange sort of sense don't it?

Anyways, The Oasis Contingent (TOC from here on in, is a wonderful, excellent, amusing, social guild. It is not really a raiding guild in any way, shape or form. Back in June of last year, shortly after 3.1 and Ulduar came out, we were in fact begin to progress into Ulduar, and repeatedly going through Naxx. We had even begun to take down Sartharion with some drakes still up. However, at that time our raid leader, and one of the guild officers, announced that she was leaving to set up her own raiding guild. It is now one of the better raiding guilds on our server and they are well into ICC. They are the fourth best 10 man, and third best 25 man alliance guild on our server.

TOC is 21st for 10 mans and 14th for 25, again Alliance side only. We're about 4-7 bosses into Ulduar, have downed Ony, and recently have begun to hit up the mobs in the Trial (which is ToC: note the capitalization differences).

Seperate from the guild I have run some pugs in ToC and ICC, but have never actually downed anything in either of those two instances. In Ulduar I've only gotten four bosses down and looted- FL, Razorscale, XT and Kologarn.

What I really enjoy about raiding tho, is our occasional retro raid. While they are generally walks in the park and we just bullrush the mechanics, its a load of fun. I've gotten the Classic Raider and Classic Dungeon Master achievement, and I only have Tempest Keep, Mount Hyjal, and Sunwell Plateau for the Outlands Raider.

The fun thing about older raids is that in many cases you can have much more epic battles. In Hyjal, in particular, it was scaled for 25 people, and you have waves of about 20 undead coming at a time. Twenty mobs is a huge amount of trash, but it is not as ridiculous when you have 25 people. However, if you only have 6, like we did, it becomes more of a last stand "I can't find my body amongst all these zombie corpses." kinda deal, which is really cool.

Yes. It is late.

These are late so I've decided to give you a treat- all of the screenshots that I took from last last nights Mt. Hyjal raid have been posted here (in reverse order).

LOL- AOE.

LOL. AOE.

LOL- AOE.

LOL. AOE.

Outside the horde camp. Hi Thrall! (that guy is one BAMF)

Seriously outside the Horde Camp.

On the Bridge from the Alliance to Horde Camp.

Riding up to the bridge.

On the road, leading to the house, leading to the bridge, leading to the Horde Camp.

In the Alliance Camp, on the road, leading to the house, leading to the bridge, leading to the Horde Camp.

Shock and Awe at the way it all looks. Its so GREEN. So FRESH. So not UNDEAD!

Flying down to enter the CoT.

Well... that didn't work

I was going to write about my wonderful new mount today, the Red Proto-Drake that one receives for completing Glory of the Hero. But that didn't work out. As you can see, I did not get the achievement. So tonights post is going to cover not quite making it.

Last night I was invited to a Battle for Mt. Hyjal raid. None of us knew what the hell we were doing- I mean, absolutely no clue at all. During the boss fights I was going AFK to read the strategies, because, well, we didn't know what the hell to do.

It was a wonderful experience, I mean- damn, the place looked nice and we didn't wipe at all (until the end) but it was confusing as hell. We were ten manning it, most of us were 80 (a 70 lock and a 78 hunter) so we were way overgeared but only four of us were in the vent they had set up. Additionally, none of us knew each other (except the two guys running it) from before so when someone called something out we didn't know who was talking.

We downed three bosses and wiped on the fourth at about 1:30 in the morning so we stopped then and agreed to eventually go back and finish the place.

Today, in my H-Gundrak run, we attempted the Moorabi fight five times. Each time he managed to pop into Mammoth, but the last time he was at about 3% and the dots we had on him killed him. It was saddening, but I'll try again tomorrow and the next day until I get it.