So long Garrosh and Thanks for all the Mounts!

We have 34 [Kor'kron Juggernaut] in the guild now and thankfully we're done farming - finally. This has been one long-ass Tier and we'll all welcome the upcoming expansion.

Thanks to all for persevering with the farm, despite the extreme boredom ..

Our raiders are so eager for Warlords of Draenor they've been sitting at the Dark Portal for several weeks now :)

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Garrosh Hellscream - Heroic 25 (14/14H)

This has been one long-ass Tier and we still have probably several months before Warlords of Draenor expansion hits. We have now defeated Garrosh 25 Heroic and are busy farming mounts for our raiders. This encounter was a fairly brutal test in perseverance between exams and holiday season starting etc. It also marks the end of 25 man Heroic raiding since the maximum difficulty raid-size will be 20 man in the upcoming expansion.

Thanks to all who contributed to learning and defeating this encounter :)

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Paragons of the Klaxxi - Heroic 25 (13/14H)

This is probably the most complicated encounter we've ever faced, at least in the sheer number of abilities the 9 bosses possess. We tried a lot of unorthodox kill orders etc. during progress. Sadly, we found too many bugs with e.g. using Strong Legs to destroy Korven's amber. Ultimately, in the interest of sanity we were somewhat forced back to a fairly regular kill order. We also found ourselves carrying Zang yet again on one of the hardest encounters of the tier. Somehow we overcame all odds and we're now ready to faceplant into Garrosh for a while.

Thanks to all for their hard-work and dedication.

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Siegecrafter Blackfuse - Heroic 25 (12/14H)

It's been quite a while since we had a non-end boss as challenging as this. Many punishing wipes and hard-work overall finally netted us a kill on a relatively clean attempt (yeah it went to shit at the end but such is life and we did have Zang in the raid, so .. )

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Thok the Bloodthirsty - Heroic 25 (Realm First) (11/14H)

Thok heroic is a pretty brutal numbers encounter. Massive raid damage, a solid DPS and execution check. Our first kill happened via some improvisation on a messy attempt. Congratulations to all present and thanks to all that helped.

Now for the real fun, Blackfuse heroic ..

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Spoils of Pandaria - Heroic 25 (Realm First) (10/14H)

While the overall design of this encounter remains virtually unchanged from Normal mode; the DPS check has become pretty extreme in comparison and the punishment for failure is swift and absolute. A very fun encounter to progress on and a satisfying kill.

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Malkorok - Heroic 25 (9/14H)

Wow. Definitely the most fun and challenging encounter so far this Tier. The heroic mechanics completely change the encounter (particularly for Ranged DPS and Healers). At the core, this is still a gear-check but with extreme penalties for any mistakes in execution.

Thanks to all for their patience with this one and congratulations on the kill.

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General Nazgrim - Heroic 25 (8/14H)

Not a whole lot different to Normal this one, more adds and more fail. Once certain people managed to avoid aftershocks this was a pretty straightforward kill.

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Kor'kron Dark Shaman - Heroic 25 (7/14H)

This was a pretty fun encounter in Heroic mode with the raid split in two, with each group handling different sets of mechanics. Mistakes are punished heavily as we found particularly in the Haromm group. On our actual kill that group wiped entirely late in the encounter - just late enough for us to finish the bosses thankfully :)

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Sha of Pride - Heroic 25 (Realm First) (6/14H)

This encounter features some pretty nice heroic changes and overall makes a nice little fight (between the addition of Pac-man, rifts and the fact you can no longer ignore everything as you would in Normal mode). What would have made this a truly great experience would be requiring the use of Gift of the Titans to make the DPS check. All-in-all though, one of the better heroic encounters so far this Tier.

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Iron Juggernaut - Heroic 25 (Realm First) (5/14H)

This encounter is barely distinguishable from it's Normal counter-part; unless you count the bigger numbers, or the fact you now actually have to try and avoid stuff :)

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Galakras - Heroic 25 (4/14H)

This encounter is a long-ass DPS- and coordination-check with a fairly simple boss at the end. It has a lot of moving parts but isn't overly difficult to learn or execute. It took us an hour or two to reach phase 2 the first time, the boss died on the same pull.

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Norushen - Heroic 25 (Realm First) (3/14H)

At launch this encounter was a pure zerg. Blizzard changed it recently into a tough DPS race with a lot of coordination requirements (For our kill, we had 18 DPS who needed to be coordinated in a tight time-line so that each DPS was killing his/her large Trial add ~13 seconds before the next in order for things to go smoothly). We also had some frustrating bugs that delayed our kill (multiple adds suddenly spawning simultaneously at the 30% mark, boss randomly one-shotting DPS players with his secondary tank attack while the tank was standing under him etc.). All in all; a fun, chaotic (10 man guilds have no idea how blissfully easy they have things on this encounter while they get their first-kills in sub-3 pulls) but pretty frustrating encounter that we're pretty happy to have defeated - finally.

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Immerseus & Fallen Protectors - Heroic 25 (2/14 - Realm First)

We started heroics this reset and defeated the first two. Immerseus was pretty straightforward and died in a few pulls. Fallen Protectors is a bit of a clusterfuck but mostly about not standing in shit and hitting the correct stuff at the correct time.

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