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 Well, it took us a long time to get here and a lot of hard work, wipes and focus.
This just shows what can be done if we get the following:
1. Sign ups so we can do 25man tries on the harder / more technical fights;
2. Stable internet connections so we dont lose 1-2 people during the fight
3. Real focus and effort from all 25 people plus the other 15 or so who wiped on the other learning nights - is a real git that some people who invested a lot more in this boss killing did not get to see the fight where we actually killed the git.
4. Learning by all - I deliberately tried to keep people who did the Sunday tries in the same roles and positions, so we can keep the learning curve up. And was good to see people get up the learning curve faster than in previous weeks.
Screen shot of boss kill is below. I did Fraps the kill to an extent - I have not yet installed Adobe Premier on Windows 7 yet (it went on OKish but is running slow, suggesting there is some compatability issues as my Adobe Elelements version is XP age) so that may take a bit of time to do.
This wont be a one off kill. I want to kill him again so people who helped learn this fight but did not expereince the kill last night get to see it again. So keep signing up and dont slack :)
Good job and lets keep activity levels high on all 3 nights now!
Hok
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Posted by Castix on Tuesday, November 17 @ 15:18:57 EET (0 reads)
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Ulduar Progress - General down
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Well, we have some more 25man progress. Did a good clear of early bosses on Thursday so we were hopeful of having a good raid evening for General Monday, after a few General tries on Sunday night if all went to plan.
Sunday went very well and we got Mimiron down fast. I did not manage to fraps the Mimiron 1st kill so fraps the 2nd kill - here is the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_30Z9Uv_lY
We then killed the others and moved on to General V. Focus on General V was excellent. We got him to 24% first try with some dead and he hit enrage. 2nd try saw him dead.
The kill video does not show me in a great light (a good guide of what NOT to do as a Priest on General  ). I was going to edit out mid bit but would show a boss health sudden drop from 45% to 24%. Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DDRoJdVprY We now need to push for Yogg S and need as many Monday sign ups as possible. So lets get sign ups maxed so we can do more than just learn phase 1 again
Cheers
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Posted by Castix on Tuesday, June 23 @ 19:51:11 EEST (0 reads)
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Hokhealee wrote: Well, the last week has shown we can focus and keep progression going in Ulduar.
Last week, 10man activity picked up a bit and we got Mimiron and General V down. This provided a better understanding of the encounters for 25man and officers put a lot of time, effort and thought into how to do this.
This proved to be so useful on Monday when after wiping badly the previous week on Mimiron with phase 2 healing being just hideous, we adopted a more healing centric strategy for phase 2, more spreading out and low and behold, we got him down 2nd try. 
We then went to look at General V and spent 2 hours learning the process here, with the final try of the night getting him to 43% within enrage timer target - mana is horrible here and only having 8 mana spawns is a nightmare. But we showed we had focus and skill to start to master the encounter - is just careful use of mana and knowing the rotations. And a lot of focused interrupting!!!
Good job all and I can now say a clearance of Ulduar 25 (and Ulduar 10) will be soon on the cards
Gratz to all, esp Fry and Elata who have put a lot of effort into RL, learning tactics and helping get progress moving on these fights.
Cheers
Hok
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Posted by Castix on Tuesday, June 16 @ 12:28:36 EEST (0 reads)
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Posted by castix on Thursday, May 14 @ 18:38:11 EEST (1 reads)
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WoTLK - All Main Boss content cleared - Gratz!!!!
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Hok wrote:
Well, I was really impressed Monday night when we got our focused heads on and finally hit an evening of no lag / dc's and downed Malygos.
The learning curve has been hard work on Malygos as it is such a random fight but the practice paid off and the gripping / stunning / positioning of the sparks really came together and made such a difference in phase 1.
Malygos went down and it was good to hear the shouts and celebrations on TS once again! For me, Naxx 25 was OK but did not have the challenge - the boss kills that have felt like 1st kills has been Malygos and Sart with 1 drake up (and we will start to progress to Sarth + 2 and 3 :) ).
Photos of Malygos kill below
Keep signing up for raids as we need to gear up and prepare ourselves for Ulduar. The challenges there are bound to be harder and we need a good solid raiding base to start there.
But lets pat ourselves on the back and just acknowledge the achievement. This is Shadesway - we may take longer than the hardcore guilds to clear content but we go at our own pace, our skills are good and we have fun - that is what raiding is about for me.
SO cheers and lets get this all on farm so more people see the kills and we max ourselves out!!
Cheers
Hok
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Posted by castix on Wednesday, January 28 @ 20:14:59 EET (4 reads)
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Shades Northrend progress update.
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Hello,
Its been a while since we updated the front page news but WOTLK is so much fun and there are so many things to do that we were kinda busy doing other stuff.
Anyway my vacation ended and I'm back to work so i finally made some time free to update our guild progress.
Here is a list of what we have cleared so far:
Vault of Archavon - 10/25 man.
Obsidian Sanctum - 10 man (No Dragons). Obsidian Sanctum - 25 man with 1 dragon alive
Naxxrammas - 10/25 man.
Eye of Eternity - 10 man.
Atm we are concentrating on getting Heroic Malygos down, and we came close a few times but the lagg is immense and on this type of bosses its very hard to win the dps race,. so we hope in the next patch blizz would help us a bit with getting rid of the lagg.
Anyway here is a screenshot of our Naxx 25 clear:
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Posted by jadey on Monday, January 12 @ 16:15:50 EET (8 reads)
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Filling in the Gaps - Illidan & Kael'thas
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Hok wrote:
Well, this week saw us fill in some gaps. Time caught up with us and we did not manage to do everyting we wanted to do before the patch.
We were aiming to down Illidan and Kael without the nerf and we got close but no banana. The kill on Kael did not feel like an achievement (nothing like Vashj or Archimonde) and Illidan saw us sail past phase 3 and 4 which we had only just started to learn pre-patch. Achievements but not the full blown satisfying ones we were hoping for.
However, with the patch, the nerf in boss health and the uplift in dps, threat and healing, raiding has gone easymode and the challenge has dropped. Farming for T6 is now easy and now will let us gear up for leveling through Northrend.
What is clear is we have achieved a lot. For a casual raiding guild that does not subscribe to hard core raiding policies and behaviour, we should be very pleased with ourselves. People have put a lot of hard work in, learn new bosses, improved their skills, and generally made Shades an enjoyable place to raid and live!!
WotLK will bring new challenges and a new chapter in raiding, and Shades will rise to the challenges of Northrend, including Naxx and other places.
Thanks for all the effort guys and unless we decide to put some energy into SWP (which I am not inclined to do, which is similar to AQ40 Twins and C'Thun + Naxx for me pre-TBC), this puts a line under TBC progress raiding. I am proud to have achieved what we have done (most of which is pre-nerf!!) and am proud to have raid led (along with Iodra and Orphes and others!!) the progress we have achieved!! Salute to you all!!!
Lets rest up, enjoy IRL and WoW whilst leveling to 80, and start to build progress again at lvl 80.
Kill video is here for those who missed Illidan and Kael: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mJj6-3XdQ
Cheers and see you all in Northrend at lvl 80!!!
Hok
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Posted by castix on Saturday, October 25 @ 23:03:58 EEST (9 reads)
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Black Temple 8/9 - Illidan Next!
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Hokhealee wrote:
Well, last night certainly brought about the lows and highs of raiding with Shades
We have had 2 "end of raid - 1 hour left" and 1 dedicated evening on learning Illidari Council. Yesterday saw us show we had learnt the pull and we had a 40% try. We had the whole of this evening to beat the 6% try from last week and get them down.
The learning had showed this is a very demanding fight - it is a long, repetitive fight with little room for mistakes. The focus required to kill them is very high as people do need to do their jobs well and keep doing them well for 12-15mins.
We had a quick try and got them to 50%ish before we lost a tanking player. Next try, we looked so much better and they were going down. We lost some dps early on and some unlucky resists on healing interrupts(3 times  ) and with people dying, we had the most horrible 1% wipe ever (Spammo having died and been rezzed 3 times!!!!). We had done 117% of the damage required to kill them within enrage timer and just could not quite do it. Heads went down, frustration showed and disbelief on what had just happened was very evident........
We had a quick break, dusted ourselves off, put our positive heads back on, and repeated the fight. THis time, we got them down and delivered a very focused and comprehensive kill (albeit with 20 secs to go before enrage, due to us losing some dps early on!!!). The relief and feeling of success was immense!!!
Kill video is up here - it sort of summarises the feeling of the evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZM9v3yQtTU
In November 07 when I picked up RL organisation and latterly doing the RLing on TS, we had set a goal of 6/6. 4/4, 5/5 and 9/9 before WotLK comes. I personally wanted to see Illidan before the expansion and last night this goal was achieved. We did a few tries on him and can do Phase 1 OK - we just need to learn up on phase 2 and onwards.
We have 8 weeks to kill Illidan and also fill in the gap of Kael that I know we can also do if we can fit it into the raid schedule.
Congrats guys and thanks for all the hard work put in over the last month - progress is going really well and we will down these final bosses before WolTK!!! Keep signing up and lets do this.
Cheers
Hok
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Posted by castix on Tuesday, September 16 @ 12:18:01 EEST (10 reads)
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Black Temple 7/9 - Mother Down
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Hok wrote:
When RoS went down a few weeks ago, we put into action "Operation Guild Bank Shadow Res Gear" master minded by Castix. All CMs prio-ed their people by activity and role, and we sorted out 25ish sets of SR gear to get people above 300SR buffed. This took a lot of effort and hard work by Castix plus all guildies who farmed the materials as needed.
We are sort of set for Mother Shahraz but just needed a good run of kills on earlier bosses to create the window to kill her. Our 3 day raid schedule meant that MH went on hold to ensure we had time.
The last weeks raiding was a bit of a mixed bag, Thursday saw us take down Bosses 1-3 in 1hr 45mins, setting a really good pace. We then wiped on Teron for 1hr 30mins due to construct issues. Sort of frustrating..... We then went back in on Sunday and 1 hitted Teron, Bloodboil and 4th hitted RoS (only our 2nd kill on him/her). This gave us Monday for Mother........
We got a raid together and handed out SR gear to people who did not have 300SR but were available to raid. Was a bit touch and go, but we got there (thx to Castix's excellent gbank planning) and set off.
We took Mother Shahraz down 4th try, using experience from Lazycow and others to help guide us. We lost a few people via running and debuffs. but overall, it went quite smoothly. This shows that if people read the tactics, as a guild we prepare well (as showed by the SR gear worn by people), and we focus up, we can get reasonably fast progress.
Screenshot of the victory is here:
Kill video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ofA1_KH2A
Sadly the POV is not ideal as I was stuck at the back of the caster group against a wall and focused on healing Lepi and Sak (so did not think about making a good movie tbh) so is a lot of back shots. But the feeling is there and is our first kill.
Congrats to everyone for a really good job and we are getting close to the goal of cleaning out BT before WotLK arrives.
Onwards to Illidari Council (which based on the tries after we killed Mother S, is a little bit harder :( )
Cheers
Hok
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Posted by castix on Tuesday, September 02 @ 12:33:59 EEST (7 reads)
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Hokhealee wrote:
It was a very odd evening on Monday. We started
our tries on Sunday for RoS and we got phase 1 down to a good solid
routine with all 25 people surviving.
We then learnt phase 2 and by the end of the raid, had got a grip on phase 2 and was going OK.
I saw Monday as being a wipe evening as everyone told me how hard phase
3 was, esp without nature or Shadow pots. The plan for the evening was
to do 2-3 phase 1 & 2 reminder tries then really focus on phase 3.
"Well, I do not need to fraps all those wipes" I thought. I had taken
some fraps images on Sunday for the start and positioning of a kill
video and figured I would have to wait a while before it looked good
enough for me to load up fraps for phase 3.
I was wrong.
Along comes Monday, did 2 learning tries reminding us of phases 1
& 2 and Sak learnt the rage burning techniques needed for phase 3,
whilst healers sussed healing tactics for the SR tick. On the 3rd try,
we wobble on phase 1 and have a few deaths. We use combat rezzes and do
a flawless phase 2. Sak then does some perfect tanking, healing is good
and we lose 12 people by the time he dies. I was in shock. And missed
the Fraps kill. And died.
Was a superb effort and was really pleased with the focus and learning showed.
Gratz guys and gals, and we will kill the Mother S next as we are now distributing all the SR gear.
Cheers
Hok
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Posted by castix on Thursday, August 21 @ 01:15:13 EEST (16 reads)
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| Tuesday, August 12 | | · | Mount Hyjal 5/5 |
| Wednesday, July 16 | | · | Black Temple 5/9 |
| Wednesday, July 09 | | · | Shades goes 4/9 Black Temple - Teron down! |
| Monday, June 09 | | · | Some downtime again! |
| Tuesday, May 20 | | · | Hoks wrote'' |
| Monday, May 19 | | · | Shades progres Update |
| Tuesday, March 04 | | · | Vashj spanked & sent packing!! |
| Tuesday, February 05 | | · | Shades TBC Raiding Milestone reached: SSC 5/6 and TK 3/4 |
| Sunday, February 03 | | · | Zul'jin has left the building! |
| Friday, January 25 | | · | A Double Whammy evening for Shades |
| Tuesday, January 22 | | · | A whole new trinity downed |
| Monday, January 14 | | · | Another one bites the dust! |
| Wednesday, December 19 | | · | Hydross - annihiliated! |
| Tuesday, December 11 | | · | A fish gone bad! |
| Thursday, November 29 | | · | Shades of Fury - the 2 year ding! |
| Monday, November 19 | | · | The Lynx Avatar whooped |
| Thursday, November 15 | | · | Nalorakk and Akil'Zon downed |
| Friday, November 09 | | · | Progress in the cave |
| Thursday, October 25 | | · | Serpentshrine Cavern |
| Tuesday, October 09 | | · | Bulls eye - Voidreaver downed! |
| Friday, August 24 | | · | OMG |
| Tuesday, August 14 | | · | Magtheridon PWNed by Shades |
| Wednesday, July 25 | | · | OMG Gruul down!! |
| Monday, June 25 | | · | Shades Cleared Kharazan with the new People that recently joined our ranks |
| Wednesday, May 23 | | · | High King Maulgar DOWN |
| Monday, May 21 | | · | Wraith has merged into the Shades |
| Friday, May 18 | | · | The Shades Alive and Having a blast. |
| Tuesday, April 03 | | · | Gruul's Lair Cleared! |
| Tuesday, March 27 | | · | High King Maulgar down FFS! |
| Tuesday, March 20 | | · | Netherspite and NIGHTBANE DOWN !!! |
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