The question of what to do once the content runs out is a taxing one. One fact is certainly true - we are glad that, like Nihilum, we did not have to wait for 10 months for new content.

As so often is the case when given time to reflect, thoughts turned to the past and in particular to Aq40. One guild message of the day later and we were off to Silithus to let our newer members experience the beauty of the fights there. Both the Twins and C’thun were brilliant fights and even at lvl 70 promised to be entertaining. Breezing through the first encounters boredom set in and someone had to ask the question of whether it was possible to pull all the trash between Fankriss and Huhuran in one go. The answer of course is yes. However if the question had been was it possible to survive if you pulled all the trash the answer would have been different.

The red beam of doom on C’thun provided entertainment, killing a surprising number of people who had died on it 14 months previously. Then onwards to Viscidious, a boss we had not killed pre-TBC due to a) our lack of mages and b) his loot table vs farming consumables to do it. We were happy to pop in and see him at 70 though, it is ‘slightly’ possible that Seed of Lol breaks this encounter. Still witness the triumphant team!

While there were no new 25 man instances we were pleased to receive ZA and the challenges of the timed run. Blizzard deserve congratulations for a perfectly balanced encounter - the first team to succeed had a little over 20 seconds left at the end. The raid balance was not perfect but it showed that the testing to balance the time was excellent. Since then we have ‘beared’ up, with the mount becoming the favoured choice for our raiders - a small selection of whom had a bear tea party under the world tree.

The rest of our time was taken up with advanced slacking, giant pets and gearing in BT/MH. Our loot luck remained perfect with Illidan coughing up 12 shaman (hunter/warrior) chests in the first 8 kills. While our shaman trials seemed to enjoy this, no-one else did. The increase of the number of tokens to three was greeted with reasonable optimism until on our first Hyjal clear after that Archimonde decided to cough up 3 shaman helms to compliment the two the week before. When your shamans have a t6 resto chest, elemental chest and flatspec chest as well as one banked for exchange for the pvp one you know there are problems!

Aside from that we took the opportunity to revisit one of the better quest chains in game. The encounter with the spirit of Eranikus. At this level it is not too challenging but I would recommend it for the fun. It should be relatively balanced for about 15 people

All in all we were rather pleased to see the arrival of Sunwell.