Kingslayers

 

Yes, plural. While I’ve been jabbering on about a few other things a couple more of my toons have taken down the Lich King.

Firstly, Zenborg grabbed a Lich King kill in the week following our guild’s first kill. 13th June 2010. For the first night, we were short a healer and we wanted to give one of our regular tanks that missed the first kill at shot at LK so Zenborg plucked up the courage to try some hard modes on for size. The following night, Kalus was able to come, so I breathed a sigh of relief and was able to pew pew.

DPSing the Lich King fight is a lot of fun. I gave myself the task of mowing down the orbs that drift towards the group during phase transitions. Given that devouring plague can one shot an orb, and mind flay ticks so quickly, it was great fun handling the orbs while pumping as much DPS into the raging spirits as possible. Having AoE that works for the vial spirits is awesome fun, and dispersion really comes into its own as well. Unfortunately I didn’t get soul harvested, and still haven’t been on any of my toons to this day.

Next up, Twitchie (the Gnome Warlock). 28th August 2010. For a while there, we were really struggling to put together a 10 man group capable of making progress in ICC hard modes. We had our usual core toons, but some of our favourite people were unavailable both nights, or away on holiday. In particular we had a massive void in the healing department, with Jondayla our only regular healer. So we put together some alts groups and tore normal mode ICC apart, usually leaving Jondayla to keep healing. Eventually, helping numerous people get their Kingslayer titles [and then watching them sail off into the night] I managed to sneak Twitchie in for a kill. Using a lock portal to render the Val’kry impotent was quite satisfying.

Finally (so far), Borgelmir. 3rd October 2010. Despite making his main spec Unholy DPS, and trying to stick to my guns... he has ended up tanking quite a bit. The week Borgelmir got his Kingslayer title, the 10 man progression team extended a lock out to work on the Sindragosa and LK achievements for the Glory of the Icecrown raider. When we managed to finish of both achievements in one night, we had a spare raid night left over. Finally we managed to get Jondy’s warlock Jossamine her Kingslayer title, and Borgelmir was tanking away when it happened. Getting Lich King twice in a week was very satisfying.

So that just leaves Wrathborg, who unless he can sneak in this afternoon, is going to be doing it post Patch 4.0.1. I’ve got about 800 1002 glyphs ready to go, Jondy has scarlet rubies and fire in the mail... and I’m rearing to go.