Guild progression

After a series of disappointments, I think the guild is finally starting to progress in Zul'Gurub. Yesterday, we took down 3 bosses without too much difficulty and almost had the Bloodlord down. Venoxis was a piece of cake with no one dying.

Our strategy:
I tanked him while everyone took down the adds.
Range DPS on him until he was down to 50%
Once he changed form, I shieldwalled, popped some warlock candy and started moving around the fire.
After some time, he died. Easy as.


We also killed Jek'lik, though we had a few problems.
First time, we wiped because we allowed her to get off a heal.
Second time, about 8 people died from fire bombs but we managed to kill her.

Our strategy:
I tanked her out in the open.
The OT stayed nearest to absorb her charge.
Other warriors stayed with the casters to gather the bats together to be aoe'ed.
When the bats came, the mages frost novaed them, then aoe'ed them.
At 50% Jek'lik changes to a humanoid.
At those times, I just moved her about to avoid fire bombs getting dropped on us. The rogues , shaman and mages were then responsible for interrupting her spell casts.

Finally, we killed Gahz'ranka, the fish boss. He wasn't too hard, actually and just needed a warrior to be on him at all times as his knockback tosses you up quite a bit and takes quite a bit of health off you.

We also gave Mandokir a great attempt. We tried him about 3 or 4 times and got him down to 8%. We tried several strategies such as killing the raptor first and then off-tanking it and bringing the bloodlord down as soon as possible. It was quite successful except that the off-tank died, allowing the raptor to run around unchecked.

I'm confident that Mandokir will soon be taken down as well. Good things are on the horizon.

Platinum Storm On

We came, we saw, we conquered. Enough said.

It was a great game where we all had a lot of fun. Rob was out this week so Marc deputised for him while Veuga also filled in to cover for Christian. The first two sets saw me setting all around and it sure got tiring. Marc was playing opposite while Sym and Veuga were in charge of running in the middle.

We settled down pretty quickly and did pretty well. The passing was good while the setting was good enough to put in attacking hits. The middles got quite a few hits this time round and I think Veuga and Sym were happy chappies.

Fletch was a monster hitting outside and he definitely won us quite a few points while Chris was consistently putting the ball over the net. Midway during the first set, we got sloppy and allowed our opposition to get back into the game. At crunch time, though, we got things right and good hitting from Marc, Fletch and Veuga saw us safely take the match.

During the second set, we were all relaxed and played some great volleyball. Again, Fletch was unstoppable and I got in a few good dumps to keep the opposition on their toes. We ran a few good quicks and we easily won the match.

The final set was a formality and we just enjoyed ourselves. We ended up with a draw for that set but no one cared as we all had lots of fun.

So far, this season has been my most enjoyable by far. The team is great and we're playing some great volleyball while having fun and relaxing. I only hope that we'll continue having fun and winning when we move up to div 1.