There has been a slight delay in this update simply because there have not been enough witty comments in guild to warrant a decent update.

Brutallus is well named - this encounter is incredibly simple and incredibly unforgiving. A single death will likely cause a wipe (unless it is in the low %). While Kalegcos is a fight where you can admire the mechanics and the balance, Brutallus is a fight where you either have it or you don’t. Either you can do the dps or you can’t, either your tanks can take the huge beating or they can’t, either your healers can heal enough or they can’t. Only Burn is unpredictable and requires individual action - everything else is a gear check.

The ugly one has died 4 times now, giving us a nice feeling for the fight and to give Blizzard their due it is very nicely balanced. We appear to have been more fortunate than many guilds having seen a 1% wipe only once although we have had our fair share of “omg the tank got gibbed” wipes.

The one nice thing about the fight is that raid stacking is absolutely not needed and there are no essential classes (although doing it with 0 shadow priests might not be too fun). Indeed we have triumphed with a lock heavy group, a mage heavy group and both with and without an enhancement and/or elemental shaman. The healer mix is equally changeable with only the 2 shaman being highly desirable. The changing raid balances have made a difference of only a few second on the kill giving this encounter the feeling of being a well-tested and researched boss.

After Brutallus comes Felmy, a cute little dragon with a slight attitude problem. Aside from the entertainment of watching her gib mages who accidentally press their AE button while running around during a briefing the lack of trash makes this a far more enjoyable encounter. Indeed from Kalegcos to Felmyst is only 2 trash pulls (surely a new record low!)

Felmy again feels like an enjoyable encounter, continuing the excellent quality of bosses in Sunwell.

Elsewhere recruitment remains open in a few classes, we are especially keen to recruit a shadow priest (if only to shut up the mage class leader and fulfil his lifelong dream of having multiple shadowpriests in his group). We are looking for a focussed individual keen on high attendance and high performance. In return we offer raid slots!

Other open slots include a protection warrior/paladin (you should be geared sufficiently to tank in MH/BT at a minimum) and a holy paladin. There are good possibilities for other healer classes and we will consider dps applications although we would be looking for a very high level of gear and experience to get accepted.

We’d like to thank Blizzard for their "special occasions" it gives us a chance to indulge our maturity and wit…..

Elsewhere we discovered something out about some members and Ghorghor decided to mentally scar the entire classleader corps