The King is Dead! Long Live the King!

I logged in to do some levelling on Mabango only to find Navi in ICC. Quickly I swapped to Mab and was invited into the 10man achievement run. I was pretty excited as apart from occasionally walking in the front door and leaving, I’ve never been in ICC, let alone killed the King himself.

I joined as they approached the airship fight. I was instructed to stay on ours and repel boarders.

Enemy to Starboard!

Again it was mostly a case of follow, bash whatever came within reach, listen carefully to the brief so as not screw up people’s achievements (and my own of course). And the run went well.

Inside the Citadel

These guys are UGLY!

Helping Valithria Dreamwalker

The achieve with the green dragon didn’t work out.

Sindragosa arrives

I hadn’t realised Sin was a she, until they said the Queen was coming 🙂

And is slain

The Blood Queen

The Lich King

We declared our allegiance

I have to admit, I afk’d (RL issues) for the first run through this as we attempted to get 30 stacks (of something???) and came back to a dead body and a second attempt. I have a bad feeling that my afk killed them (though I did word them up I was leaving). So again, my record of dieing at least once (usually more) in every guild run is secure.

Battling the Lich King

Moments later I was thrown from the platform and died and I was convinced that we were starting again. Vent and chat opened up with Don’t Release!! so I didn’t, but spent the next couple of minutes staring up to the platform wondering what would happen.

My view

Eventually we were raised up and the KING WAS DEAD! The cutscene started and I watched most of it before the vent conversation brought me back. And you can view it in Dalaran if you wish.

Victorious

So a new title and a list of achieves. All 10 man

• Full House
• I’m on a Boat
• I’ve gone and Made a Mess
• Dances with Oozes
• Flu Shot Shortage
• Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion…
• The Plagueworks
• All You Can Eat
• The Frostwing Halls
• The Orb Whisperer
• The Crismon Hall
• Been Waiting a Long Time for This
• Neck Deep in Vile
• The Frozen Throne

Hmm, actually looking at the achieves I must have been ported in at Lady Deathwhisper, not the boat. I kinda thought that was trash. 8 or 9 Heroic DS geared toons (and me) makes short work of these dungeons.

A Busy Evening

WIth the kids actually in bed and asleep, and it being Friday night which is normally guild alt raid night I logged in wondering what might be happening. I didn’t find any alt raids (which is good, as I’ve banned myself from them) but a small group was running Black Temple. I was pretty sure Mabaho hadn’t done it, but I think Dasal had, so Mabaho joined in.

Turns out I had done it, but it was over fast and then they decided to push into Naxx. Now I definitely hadn’t done all of that, a check of achieves tells me I finished 10 man Construct qtr in May 2009, about 3 years ago! And I certainly never went there in Vanilla.

We had a group of 8 but with the rest of them geared for DS I knew my mediocre (by comparison) effort won’t be telling (as it is when we alt raid, hence the self induced ban).

So for me, a first time in 3/4 of Naxx and we were running 25man. Here is a few snapshots (though I reckon some of you might be well sick of the place)

The Four Horsemen of Naxx

Nice Doggy

Chaos! A problem with being melee in a run like this is that they keep pulling the enemy away from you, catch up Mabaho!

Heigan the Unclean

I was impressed by this room, Sapphirons chamber.

Sapphiron is defeated.

Kel’Thuzad

He seemed to like me, maybe he new it was my first time so gave me the full tour?

It was also a busy night for achieves, racking up the following (all 25 man) –

• Momma Said Knock You Out  (love that song!)
• Arachnophobia
• The Arachnid Quarter
• And They Would All Go Down Together
• The Military Quarter
• Make Quick Werk Of Him (I have this on 10man already!)
• Subtraction
• The Construct Quarter
• The Safety Dance
• The Plague Quarter
• The Hundred Club
• Sapphirons Demise
• Just Can’t Get Enough
• The Dedicated Few
• Kel’Thuzad’s Demise
• The Fall of Naxxramas.

I think that’s about the longest list of achieves in one sitting for me. Some more notes (to try and halt this wall of a post)

• I died once, just to keep my tradition going. It wasn’t to frogger though, Sapphiron smashed me with something (I probably stood in some ice or some such)
• No one died to frogger! Or the tunnel boss.
• We tried for Shocking, but didn’t get it for some reason.
• See how there’s no screenshots of Black Temple. I was halfway through Naxx before I realised. I’m terrible at remembering to take pictures.
• When the group is super powered like this they often run about collecting mobs, making really hard for me and my totems to get some serious head bashing in.
• Turns out Mabaho needs SSC, Kara and Sunwell to complete BC raids. Naxx is the only one he’s done in WotLK.

I had fun and it was nice to see all of Naxx.