Divine Intervention: Sleepless Knights

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Hard Mode XT-002 Deconstructor and Heroic:Heartbreaker

Although I saw 2 achievements out of this kill rather than one,the one that truly stands out is our server first successful Heroic:Heartbreaker (aka XT Hard Mode).

Hard Mode
XT-002 Deconstructor's Hard Mode can be activated during any of the Add Phases. Destroying the exposed Heart of the Deconstructor will give XT-002 several new abilities:

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Heartbreak - Increases XT-002's damage by 40% and hit points by 100% (Heroic: damage by 40% and hit points by 150%).
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Void Zone - Causes Gravity Bomb to spawn a Void Zone, which inflicts 5,000 (Heroic: 7,500) damage to players standing in it.
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Life Spark - Causes Light Bomb to spawn a Life Spark.
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Life Spark - Casts Static Charged, which inflicts 800 (Heroic: 2,000) Nature damage to nearby players every 3 seconds.

I haven't posted as much content as i would like to lately,but raiding these conditions can take much practice and time.Between raiding at night,work,and making sure my kid comes first before any video game,time gets limited around my scheduale.The best I can do is post my progress.I'll save the thoerycrafting for the other 1000 warcraft blogs out there.

Hard Mode Flame Leviathon 4 Tower and Heroic:Orbit-uary

Last night was a fun late start to the raid week.Due to some attendance issues,the normal Tuesday start of Ulduar25 man was postponed to allow for 2 smaller groups to run 10man hard mode/achievements. The runs were flawless,and some more achievements have been secured from those runs.

The achievements that stood out from last night was our server first successful hard mode kills on both Flame Leviathan (Heroic:Orbit-uary) and XT-002 Deconstructor (Heroic:Heartbreaker). Also noted was another acheivement I must have missed on XT-002...Heroic:Nerf Engineering. This achievement is not that difficult to get,and does not constitute a hard mode kill. Only the Heroic:Heartbreaker constitutes as an official "hard mode" heroic kill.

I'll dive into XT-002 Hard mode on another post.

Some more random pics of phat lewtz always makes me happy.I mean if you think about it,we all go colorblind after years of play,except for the color purple.These were justa few more kills from the night.We raid hard and for long hours,but we are still laid back.Ulduar 25 w/hard modes is usually a 2 day job...leaving the weekend for family,the beach,and bruski's.

.Auriaya and Razorscale purplez

Yogg-Saron and Heroic:Drive Me Crazy

Tonight wrapped up my return from vacation with a great night of clearing Ulduar25 man and yet another heroic achievement down for the Yogg-Saron List.This time (in addition to completing my own Heroic:Descent Into Madness Achievement),the concentration factor was at 100% when it came to making sure no one got their Insanity buff out of hand or under 76%,earning SK the Heroic:Drive Me Crazy Achievement.

Heroic: Drive Me Crazy
Defeat Yogg-Saron without any raid member going insane on Heroic Difficulty.

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Yogg-Saron slain

Every single one of Yogg's abilities have something to do with Insanity.
You start the fight with 100% sanity, which goes down when hit by his abilities.

During the fight, Sanity Wells will spawn, which are used to restore some of your sanity over time when you stand near them.

When a person reaches 0% sanity, they become mind controlled by Yogg-Saron til either one of them dies.

Sanity, from what it seems, is the true challenge in this fight, rather than receiving large amounts of damage.

Heroic: The Descent into Madness

Defeat the bosses of The Descent into Madness area of Ulduar on Heroic Difficulty.
Criteria

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General Vezax slain

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Yogg-Saron slain

Yogg-Saron and Heroic:Kiss and Make-Up

Working on a recent Yogg-Saron hard mode attempt allowed many of us to leisurely get this achievement out of the way.Sara must be mad to activate this achievement,so don't count on it if you cant make it to phase two of the this 25man encounter.

Here's a simple macro to activate the kiss that will enable this achievement in the transition from phase one to phase two.

/tar Sara
/kiss
/targetlasttarget

Yogg-Saron Down for SK

As it would have it my well wishes before vacation came true. I was hoping to come back and find my guild finishing off Yogg-Saron,as we have been attempting him since the first week of the Ulduar Patch 3.1 Launch.

As it turns out the official kill date for Sleepless Knights 25man Yogg-Saron and the Decent into Madness Achievement was May 7th,2009. 2 1/2 weeks into the patch and Ulduar is cleared for SK...time to work on hard mode now and other heroic achievements.

Ignis the Furnace Master and the Heroic Hotpocket/Updated

Updated post
Ignis the Furnace Master takes a chill pill
update-
Ignis has fallen with some tweaks to the strategy.
Although the first day of patch wasn't as rewarding,persistance pays off in the following days.

.25 man Shinies

.WooT!

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3rd times a charm
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.First Impressions of Patch 3.1 Launch Day
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Recap for Launch Day of Patch 3.1
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So did we have fun in Ulduar the first night? You betcha. Highlights of the first night of Patch 3.1 included 4 brand new achievements(which also finally got me over the 4k mark /happy dance),2 boss kills(that's with the lost time and demoralizing effect an instance shutdown in the middle of a boss fight produces),and brand new Tier 8 shinies.The part I love the most is that some of the tier 8 was paladin woot!Pretty soon we will all look like freaks of nature with the ridiculous full Tier8 set.I happen to like it...but just a recap of it to haunt your memories...

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-and a little somethin to traveler's of this site who happen to come from SkeletonJack.com- =)

SJ can be killed ZOMG call the press.L2NOTDIE NUB

Here's to you bud.
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Emalon the Storm Watcher

Emalon the Storm Watcher 25man falls the first night of patch 3.1 Secrets of Ulduar yielding precious new T8 shinies secured for Bronzebeard and Sleepless Knights.Great work on everybody's part.