Auriaya fell to our raid on Sunday afternoon. It was a somewhat technically difficult fight and we had a number of attempts on her, but in the end we prevailed. Hopefully the kill will just continue to get cleaner in future weeks.

In addition we got the chance to play with Hodir a bit. It’ll take a bit to get used to how the fight goes and how to get our DPS high enough to kill him without killing ourselves in the process. Hopefully we’ll be able to get him down this coming week!

Congratulations to everyone! We have now cleared half of the Ulduar bosses!

Raiding has been tough this week, it seems like we’re always LF1M Ulduar. Thankfully Booka has been kind enough to fill in with us two nights in a row. Wednesday we went back and two shot Razorscale and Flame Leviathan, so that’s going much smoother. Timmy (XT-002) took more effort, but we got him down as well. Last night we decided to try some of the newer stuff, so we went and nuked Ignis after a few attempts and figuring out our strategy. We went on to get Iron Council after a few tries and just before raid time ended, we also made a nice new bridge out of Kologarn.

Hopefully we’ll be able to fill one more raid this week and try our hand at Auriaya and Hodir.

Over Wednesday and Thursday evenings we had our first forays into Ulduar. On Wednesday we got to play with the vehicles and Flame Leviathan which went pretty smoothly and we bright him down after one wipe. We went on to Razorscale and had several good attempts on her before deciding to go spend some time on “Timmy.” XT-002 Deconstructor, or Timmy as I like to call him, has some very… unique voice acting. We made some progress on him, but didn’t get him down either.

On Thursday we came back with some new ideas for strategies. After getting some assignments down and finalizing our strategy, we got XT-002 down about a minute before enrage after several attempts. Next we went back to Razorscale with a slightly different strategy and after tweaking thins a few times we got her down as well. It seems like the hardest part is getting her down to 50%. After that she’s a breeze (relatively).

On Monday we head back in to see how buggy Ignis is and see what lies in the Antechamber!

The first major content patch of Wrath of the Lich King has hit live servers today. Take a look at the patch notes and take a few minutes to read up on all the new stuff that they’re adding over at MMO-Champion and WoWInsider.

Patch highlights include the new Ulduar raid which we will try to start on Wednesday and continue on Thursday. In addition there is a new world event called the Argent Tournament up in Icecrown with rewards from your home cities and new dailies and gear. Thankfully, the tournament grounds should be Sanctuary, so no PvP. Finally, there will be a new Dual Spec feature that will allow you to switch between two talent specs as long as you’ve paid the 1,000g to train it first. Because of the dual spec, everyone gets a free talent refund as well.

Some days it just doesn’t pay to do what we do as guild leaders and officers.  Day after day, after day, after day, we try to keep everyone happy.  Not today!  All done!  Poof!  No more!  Thanks for the memories.  It was fun while it lasted.

Those without a guild can consider applying to The Dafia.  It’s already a year old today.  Oh yeah, happy April Fools’ Day!