People have been asking for a video of Lich King heroic for a while. So I recorded yesterdays kill and strapped on some awesome music – enjoy!
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I’ve really wanted to write a blog post the last couple of days. There was a cringle to cover some bit of news, do a bit of gossip, anything. Problem is, nothing new and interesting is happening.
There has been no really interesting moonkin-related news to cover. Sure, they buffed our spells – just like anyones else. We have no way to know how it really compares once we reach level 85, so I find little reason to cover it.
And what’s been going on in WoW? Lots of things, I’m sure. On our first Lich King heroic kill, I secured myself Invincible’s Reins. Tonight, I stole the Royal Scepter. Also, we did Vault of Archivon. I guess that covers WoW related news.
To make matters worse, this is my 100th blog post. I know, time sure passes, right? One part of me said that I should come up with something super special. Then another part of me kicked the first part in the head and said “Who cares?”. So I didn’t.
I guess I’m just making this post to assure you that I’m not running away from the blog. I just generally feel like blog posts should have some content, some value to the readers – you guys – and if there’s nothing to really talk about, I don’t want to waste your time. If you do have some time to waste, I’ll let you read the rest of this post 
I consider myself an expert on Lich King heroic. Sure, I’ve only killed him once, but I have wiped on this fight more than any other in the game. After 200+ wipes, you pick up a few things here and there, and I’d like to share that with you guys.
This is not an easy encounter, and as you wipe and try again over and over, you’ll tweak your rotation, your movement and your general style on the fight.
I am going to assume that you know the general tactics for this fight – there is no need for me to go through them cause, after all, the main way to be useful on Lich King is to know what the hell you’re doing!
It has taken us probably, what, 2-3 months of hard work, sweat, blood and tears. Mostly tears. And a lot of gold. Also, we spent a lot of hours that we could have used on putting our genetals into other peoples genetals. But it wasn’t all for nothing!
Tonight, after another four hours of wiping, on our very last try for the night, Arthas Menethil, The Lich King, died on heroic 25 man. This week, we finally had several phase three wipes, and after some agonising 20% wipes to the enrage timers, he fell down and took a mouthful of ice to the face!
If you want to see the log from the fight, you can find it here! It should go to show that moonkins aren’t really that useless *wink*
Our guild is the 424th guild to kill him, and our world rank is now 397! That’s not bad, considering we were around rank 398 when we were at 11/12 HC. In any case, we are all very happy about getting him down.
Oh, by the way, regarding Invincible’s Reins…
You know, when I’m not posting blogs on all of the moonkin changes in Cataclysm, I play this little game called World of Warcraft. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
So I figured, it might be a good idea to give you guys an update to what I’ve been doing, what I’ve been thinking, what I’ve been messing with.
Progression, gear, professions, money making. This is getting crazy!
Last week, our guild finally managed to kill Lich King on 10 man heroic. This was due to an amazing effort over several weeks to get to know the fight and beat him down, and we had spent 2-3 hours on him each week. We did have a few weeks where we didn’t try him, but the 10 man group probably spent a full 4 weeks, 3 hours a week, and finally had some progress.
And let there be no mistake: Hard mode is hard. Looking at the tactics and a video, it might seem easy enough, but actually executing the tactics for such a complicated fight is more difficult than I’d care to admit.
I don’t want to sound elitist, but we are at a point where all normal-modes feel rather easy. Too easy, perhaps. But I suppose this is the natural progression when you are going for the hard modes; You get better gear, and as you get more accustomed to each of the encounters, everything seems to run more smoothly. That’s how its supposed to be. There are still some of the hard mode encounters that are very difficult; Deathwhisper and Sindragosa to name a few, while others feel extremely easy, like Festergut, Rotface or even Putricide.
But going from normal to heroic is a definite step up the difficulty-ladder.
