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Mar 1st
First of all, congratulations Silent Strike on finally clearing every normal-mode raid that Wrath of the Lich King had to offer! So we didn’t do it before Cataclysm, at least we can say we did it, and we did it together. Some may say it’s pointless to go back and do old content, but I think every raid encounter is educational, especially if you don’t circumvent the accepted tactics. I’ve seen aspects of a lot of the Lich King raid fights in the new Cataclysm dungeons, and having learned how to deal with them previously makes things easier now.
After reviewing the current roster of level 85 players it appears we have enough people to pull together our first 10-man raid in Cataclysm. Our first raid will be in Blackwing Descent in Blackrock Mountain. Our first targets will be Omnitron Defense System and Magmaw. The dungeon is laid out in such a way that we could do either one. If you signed up for the raid, please review both the fights at TankSpot. We’ll likely give both a try to see which one is easier for us to do at this point. Minimum gear score required for this raid is item level 340 (higher is recommended). I believe I sorted the invites so only people with the required score were invited. If you have the score but were not put in the invite list for this coming Sunday ( March 6 ) please tell me, Tilani, Klyse or Falconwing and they can add you to the list. We’ll need 2 tanks and I’d like to take 3 healers for the first run.
Another round…
Jan 2nd
…of Kingslayers! Congratulations to our latest Kingslayers – Jedrin, Mareritte, Nitaira, Smu, Tilani & Unnatural! It was a great start to a new year!
There must always be a Lich King
Dec 19th
But now there are 10 new Kingslayers and more on the way! After 8 months of battles, Silent Strike has finally taken out the Lich King! Congratulations to ALL the raiders in Silent Strike because it took far more than 10 people to get this far. We are by no means finished in Icecrown Citadel as there were some notably absent players who for one reason or another were unable to attend tonight. As soon as the holidays are over, we will return to Icecrown and make sure that everyone that has worked so hard will have had the chance to defeat Arthas.
Potential Kingslayers?
Dec 13th
Silent Strike has reached a point where we have a raid lockout with only Arthas left to kill. At this point we have quite a few people signing up to go, and only 10 spots. There are some people who have been working consistently for more than 6 months to finish Icecrown Citadel. These people put in a lot of time and effort to pave the way for others to experience Icecrown and I feel it’s important that they get the shot at Arthas that they have worked so hard for.
The next few Icecrown raids will have a pared down invitation list. I will be inviting the players who have killed at least 10 out of 12 Icecrown bosses with us. This includes the following:
- Unnatural
- Fraeoghlin
- Falconwing
- Elowynn
- Mareritte
- Sturage
- Tilani
- Aedarius
- Egan
- Litebody
- Nitaira
I will also include those players that have done 8 of 12 on Standby and will fill open slots with them first. These people include:
- Glimmersmith
- Brinnat
- Silvian
- Jedrin
If we still have spots then the invites will be open to whichever guildmembers are available and interested in going.
We also have another lockout available with Blood Queen, Sindragosa and Arthas. So we can conceivably have another raid to kill Arthas after one extra night of work. This will allow us to make sure everyone gets a shot at Kingslayer fairly quickly. Since many have extra time off during the holidays, I will likely schedule a couple of extra raid nights during the week between Christmas and New Years.
I really wish there was such a thing as a 15-man raid, as it would allow us to bring everyone that usually wants to go, but there isn’t, and so this is the best alternative I can think of to make sure that the people that have been working since May of 2010, get to kill the Lich King before we move on to Cataclysm content. If anyone in the above lists wants to bow out and and leave Icecrown unfinished, please let me know and I will remove you from the raid invites while we make this final push toward Kingslayer.
If there is interest in running a fresh Icecrown raid starting at the beginning, let me know that as well. We probably have enough alts that we can do so, but at the rate everyone is gaining levels, I have a feeling that Icecrown will mostly be a distant memory and we’ll be working on Cataclysm raids very soon.
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