P.S. I seem to have missed or misplaced the Malkorok screen capture. :/ Sorry! Rest assured he has died, as we needed to step over his body to get to the next boss. :)
Someone's been too busy with finding something to transmog that Cricket Cage into. /guilty
So, Savage Darkness has completed the normal ten-man version of Throne of Thunder quite some time ago, and here (finally!) is the evidence to prove it!
Having yet to complete ToT on 10-man Normal, the guild alternated between it and Siege of Orgrimmar shortly after the patch, just to stay abreast of current end-game and assuage the team's curiosity and blood lust. We extended raid I.D. for ToT and reset Immersius every week until we finished up in ToT and could progress further through SoO.
Immerseus (Sept. 24, 2013)
Sun Rook He (Oct. 10, 2013)
Skittles, Taste the Rainbow
For some reason, I have no screen capture of Norushen "defeated". Sometimes we get so excited we run off and forget to snap it for posterity. Rest assured, he's been taken care of and we've moved on to the next bosses.
Though it took many, many, many tries, Savage Darkness finally found the right combination to get down Council of Elders in the Throne of Thunder on 10-man normal last week. Here is the proof!
After clearing Vizier in Heart of Fear, our progression team went on to kill the rest of the bosses and their manipulative Empress.
Garalon
Blade Lord Ta'yak
Wind Lord Mel'jarak
Regretfully, I either a) forgot to mount the Grand Empress' head on a pike or b) I
accidentally deleted the screenshot. Those who know me will likely pick
option b. Oh well.
[Edit: I found the photo. I knew I'd taken one.]
Grand Empress Shek'zeer
Bugs squashed, check! Suivant, next!
Terrace of Endless Spring was an easy deal, considering the patch had hit.
Below, Tsulong rears his evil head after we killed the Protectors of the Endless, and as you know, he flies off and Lei Shi runs away giggling, so, naturally there are no kill shots. However, the mighty Sha of Fear fell at our feet as seen in the last screen cap.
After only three nights on this fight, we killed the Emperors on 10-man normal.
The Emperor(s) Have No Will Left
When these guys died, we tried several blind attempts on Vizier Zor'lok, and by our second night, he followed suit.
Vizier Zor'lok's (Rather Timely) Demise
(Apologies for the chaos and general disorganization of the above screenshot. The Guild Standard was put down randomly, and the boys were being unruly. To top it off, our GM was trying to be the boss of me.)
Now off I go to study the next two bosses, because we generally have no direction, no raid leader in our group, so the "top dog" tends to proceed blindly, and then half the group whines about mechanics being too hard and all the wipes, etc. Because I am a girl and often get lost in dungeons and a variety of other reasons, they never take me seriously when I try to take charge. :/
It is with pride that I display the following corpses:
Gara'jal the Spirit Binder
The Spirit Kings
Elegon's Treasure
For once, we are leaving this room.
You have to give our guys credit: They are willing to wipe between 34 and 38 times to get a boss down. Elegon took our guild roughly 4 weeks, and we finally downed him on Tuesday night. But what a feeling! You're sitting on the edge of your seat, 2 people are left standing, it's the last 8k hp left on the boss... and then... ACHIEVEMENT! And you let out your breath and you /squeeeeeeeeeeeee into Vent! (Korgak: "Anou, please clear vent.")
Wipe at 0%?? Are you KIDDING?!
In the above picture, note the time 10:01pm and how many wipes we had at that time, 34. We downed him within the next 20 minutes, so, proof of our team's perseverance.
Edit: I was reminded that I missed one night with the team on account of being very ill. So, say we tack another 10 wipes to these, although that night shouldn't count since the team was all backwards.
Just before the holidays, Savage Darkness got its first kill of The Stone Guard. WTG SD!
Then, last night (our first night raiding since the holidays), we downed them again (one-shot, woot!) and then we savagely slayed Feng the Accursed after several tries—once we all stacked it was a smooth ride, what with Darg and Korgak successfully trading off Nullification Barrier and Shroud of Reversal.
After a few blind tries on Gara'jal the Spiritbinder, we got the hang of the spirit totem and managed to get the boss down to 27%.
We're going to extend the raid I.D. (WOOHOOO! FINALLY!) and plan to get him down on Thursday.
First and most importantly, Savage Darkness got to loot Deathwing last night, and not vice versa. It's about time, you say? Yes indeed.
It was on our third try I think, the tank went down at about 4% hp left, but the dps kept bonking him on the nose and the healers went OoM keeping them up. Just when we thought it was lost--again--TADA! Achievements flashed upon our screens and great whoops of triumph filled the channels of Ventrilo.
Well-Deserved Victory
Thank you Mothia, for providing your leet editorial skill to create this video for the guild!! :)
Teniah was with us, not Taint, which was sort of happy and sad at the same time. Teniah doesn't usually get to play with us because he works, so it was wonderful to be able to offer him this achievement; and Taint, our off tank who's been there since the get-go, had a "thing" and was unable to feel the satisfaction of finally getting the black beast down after all our weeks of hard work.
Our GM and main tank, Darger, won the mount. This reminded me of a conversation with Teniah, back when we'd won the ICC achievement mount.
Three minutes before raid time, as the raid was assembling, Fereldin (a.k.a. Kuiper) decided to summon us to the Frozen Sea. I never remember what all the spots in game are called, and though I hesitated, I finally accepted the summon thinking it was somewhere inside DS (since it's in Dragonblight, a snow-covered zone).
-.- KUIPER!!!!
Low and behold, I found myself floating deep at the bottom of the center of the ocean with Pallyblood and Mothia who had also accepted the summon. Then Mothia, the mage, teleported himself to Dalaran, leaving Pally and I to fend for ourselves. Thanks for nothing. Plate weighs more than cloth Mothia! Pff! And he's usually the gentleman.
Luckily Viag saved the day and summoned us to the right place (KUIPER!) and we started the raid all laughing about the bottom of the middle of the Frozen Sea.
We were so thrilled about our victory against The Worldbreaker, that nine of us decided to mosey into Throne of the Four Winds to meet our glorious demise at the hands of the Conclave of Wind time and time again. It did allow Octavien to get some nice shots with his "Spirit Cam" after plummeting to his death on one of those occasions...
It's heart-warming to know Blizzard thinks of its members by working so hard on the details of these places "as seen from below".