◊ Praetorian

Dead 'shroom, and the ADD kids jumping around to get into the picture. No flexing tauren, sorry -- Kaubel is really just a casual raider with a "job" that apparently requires him to get "sleep," whatever that means.

This one almost didn't happen. I came in certain that we'd just destroy him, after some dry runs earlier in the week. We had the execution down, so just a matter of some numbers, right? We didn't bother with the Onyxia buff or Hakkar buff or any of that. Just max craftable consumables and GSPPs and so forth. And.... 6% wipe. And... 4% wipe. Note to self: Save a Hakkar heart for this next week. This one is really precariously tuned, and I'd go so far as to say just plain not possible with a 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5 raid not using external world buffs. But hey, he's dead, and it'll only get easier going forward I suppose.

Huge, huge thanks to the herbalist crew and to our shard-farming warlocks (esp. Butts and Ironis, who were there in spirit, in the form of little green pieces of rock in our pockets), without whom we wouldn't have been able to keep going on our last attempts.

 

Veng

Grats guys, can't wait to give him some serious attempts next week :)

 

• Relwin

GET OUT MAH SPOT KALIA

This bear is cooler than you.

 

XI-

Gurg, you match again, I'm highly disappointed you have forsaken your clown roots.

 

newladin

Yeah! Who does he think he is after being away for a billion years to get into the front page "flex" screen shot.

Yeah, his job is to leave raids early to correct my awesome typing skills on these boards.

ps that helm doesn't fit you.

all your base, are belong to us!

 

Elendril

we wiped at 6% with max normal consumables, went and turned in a nef head and lost our tank in the first rotation to a lag spike, had everyone hearth, came back and killed him. i don't look forward to doing this fight every week, tho. good thing we still do alt bwl!

 

newladin

Onyxia...

all your base, are belong to us!

 

Elendril

all of our alts have pretty much all turned in ony head for a long time now :-P

 

Umph

Why is Kalia in that picture, he's still in tier 1 get him out of there.

 

• Arawethion

Nice work. I didn't realize it was that tight.

Also, I'm telling you. 200 Flasks.

Answers to Moonkin questions:
0) Read the TTT/use the spreadsheet: http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t66856-moonkin_pve_dps/
1) Maintain high DoT uptime. Use WiseEclipse.
2) Nothing beats 2T8.
3) Yes, sometimes you cast many Wraths and no Eclipse procs. Deal with it.

 

Oneiros

Congrats on the kill. Are there any other US Horde guilds who have killed Loatheb yet?

I believe in Harvey Dent.

 

• Wodin

Not that I'm aware of. It was pretty funny - within a span of 10 minutes last night we killed him, Afterlife killed him, and Exo killed him.

 

Oneiros

I was just checking around a bit, and there is a pic up on Overrated's site with them standing over a dead Loatheb. Was posted today, so it was probably late last night I would guess. Either way, an amazing accomplishment for both guilds.

I believe in Harvey Dent.

 

Rack

Just one of the herbalist crew checking in. Only put in 20 GSPPs myself, but congratulations!
Regarding the GSPPs, will you need them for every Loatheb attempt?

 

• Wodin

Oh sweet - they were doing the non-potted learning attempts while their healers got the rotation down when I logged for the night so they're pretty hardcore. :)

 

Elendril

yeah, one of our members was at a net cafe with an exo member when they downed him. we got him maybe an hour later i think - then again, i completely lost track of time yelling "group 4 get the spore....group 5 get the spore...POT AND BANDAGE NOW" over vent repeatedly. as i posted on our own site - world 11th i'm sure. we always seem to be right out of the sweet spot on every list when it comes to boss kills. boo for raiding west coast time :-P anyway, i'm rambling. grats!

 

• Fogbug

hopefully we'll only need 1/4th as many as we did lastnight for every future kill

 

Pheidippides

where I don't see any

 

Falcon24

a better argument would be that you're ugly and ruin the picture by being in it

i like this fight a lot

 

Xenicore

Curse downed him a few days previous to this, they claim to be the first Horde guild to do so. (curse-gaming.com)

 

Falcon24

Yeah I think Curse was first overall Horde but I'm pretty sure they are a European guild and the question was about US Horde

 

◊ Praetorian

Curse is an EU guild. This is all solid "months behind" territory anyway. I'm just glad to have just one boss standing between us and Sapphiron. (Ok, four bosses....)

 

Groglox

Grats :)

Good luck on the Equestrian Quad.

 

Zagzil

We killed him at about 3 AM after being so bad we lost half our buffs when the MT died early!

 

Xenicore

Did EU really get that much of a leg up on us? I've never really differentiated progress between internation and US guilds mostly because I figured 99 percent of the variables were the same.

In any event, grats, one of the first :)