SWP burst onto the scene complete with its (stupid) gate system. Not that this was a concern for us as the first boss Kalegcos was enough to keep us busy for a little while. Before raiding got underway the great race for exalted with Shattered Sun Offensive got underway (otherwise known as the ‘I play too much’ competition). Worryingly it took Biitti until Saturday night to manage it.

The trash in SWP continued Blizzard’s policy of trying to stop people afking through trash. While not hard, it is difficult to slack through. On the other hand trying to do it with a single mage is in no way recommended. The trash drops are of high quality with the crafted items currently amongst the best ingame, superior to T6 in many cases.

The first boss, Kalegcos, is a brilliant fight. It continues the trend of “one retard = wipe”, and is certainly a fight along the same difficulty as the Four Horseman. Tank rotations, healer rotations and dps rotations are all involved and incorrect positioning and/or taunting dooms you to failure. The added twist of keeping alive a aggro-whore npc makes it challenging on many fronts. We would however strongly advocate more regulation on the portals (or removing some the bugs) and we just love the increased cast time on heals.

Still we always know how to motivate ourselves, and one cunning plan later we were good to go (while I would in no way promote the pimping of female guild members - sometimes leaders must make brave decisions).

Our performance on the dragon was not brilliant but it came together slowly as we rotated through people, giving everyone a chance to participate in the wiping. After a couple of close calls it was finally time for it to die, revealing the way to Brutallus.

An enjoyable little cut scene followed introducing us to the ugly little pit lord.

It seems however he did not enjoy his little levitation trick.

We’d like to thank Blizzard for their (eventual) release of new content, there were some in the guild who were getting a little strange…..

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