Glory of the Icecrown Raider

 

Last week (after a week twiddling our thumbs thanks to a heroic lockout bug (this itself may warrant another post)) we finished off Heroic Sindragosa for the Glory of the Icecrown Raider.

 

It was a great effort by all the gang, and when she finally went down our trusty engineers whipped out the mailbox for our drakes.

 

Oddox and I were decked out in full frost resist gear, which was made a lot more attractive with the removal of defense rating. With epic stamina gems, they offered almost the same amount of health, a ton of frost resist at the cost of reduced armor and avoidance. Reforging into mastery as a warrior tank worked well in this set up as the improved physical damage mitigation though the reworked blocking mechanic helped smooth out the incoming damage.

RNG still plays a large role in this fight, since often two of your healers can be out of action with unchained magic or ice blocked. However after successfully completing the achievement for Sindragosa, the tank taunt rotation and speed of breaking the ice blocks was very good leaving us to concentrate on the additional mechanics and more brutal damage output.

So for our first Heroic Sindragosa kill last Friday, we ended up with 4 drakes, and followed up on the Sunday with another pummeling of Heroic Putricide for another two. This week we are back in there again, and have blasted through 7 hard modes, and toppled the PP achievement for toons that were unable to attend in previous weeks. While some members of the team are a least another week away, we should complete some more drakes tonight, including one for a new friend from Greenstone who has been a regular part of the team of late.

Big thanks for everyone who has been a part of our 10 man progression team, and The Ancients for all your support.