The Undying

For the past few weeks, the Naxx set team has been working on getting achievements in our weekly Naxx run. Each week we've started with trying for the Undying, which is the achievement and title you get if you kill all the bosses in Naxx in the same raid reset without a single member of your raid dying on a boss. So we would head in, kill a few bosses, and as soon as someone died on a boss, we'd switch to working on other achievements since we'd lost that one already.

Well, yesterday, Sunday March 15, the Ides of March, we never had to switch to other achievements! We just kept on keeping on with the Undying. We had a few scary moments, like when some people missed the jump in Thaddius, or when Brostin and Nath both got frost tombed near the end of the Kel'Thuzad fight, but other than that it went perfectly.

We tried to keep the mood light during the run by joking and laughing and only referring to what we were trying to accomplish in a lighthearted manner, but we could all feel the tension mounting as we downed boss after boss. We all knew that everyone was very serious about it despite all the "Brostin jokes." :) By the time we were on KT, vent was extremely quiet, with people only talking when they needed to. But after KT fell and "The Undying" achievement splashed on our screens, we all started babbling and talking in vent at the same time. It was a great moment!

This was a difficult achievement and title to earn, and we were all very proud and excited to get it. Not a lot of people have done this. In fact, we're the 20th guild on Argent Dawn to achieve it, according to GuildOx. Congrats to the whole team, which was comprised of Brostin, Falarelle, Koriander, Mixtel, Narlexia, Nathelien, Nestra, Sleepyeyes, Terreis, and Valasca.

We took a screenshot with our new titles. Kori was so excited that she forgot to change her title for the picture, but she got it too. :)

More open team Naxx success

The open Naxx team headed out on Saturday for its second try at Naxx. There were some last minute personnel changes so the team had a bit of a "warm up" period in Obsidian Sanctum. But things settled down and we got Sarth and then headed for Naxx.

This week we started in the Military quarter, which is a much more difficult quarter than what we had done previously. The first boss in that quarter is Instructor Razuvious. Razuvious hits hard and it's not really possible for us to withstand his blows, so the fight is done by mind-controlling the understudies he is training and tanking him with them. Naturally, it was a little rough at first as our tanks, Floradelle and Metaxa, needed to learn to use the crystals to mind control the understudies. But after a few practice tries, they were able to get into a rhythm and we defeated the boss on the 4th attempt.

Here we are with his body:

Emboldened by our success, we continued on to Gothik the Harvester. We split into two groups and moved into the two separate rooms so we could kill what spawned on both the "live" and the "dead" side. Even though it was our first time seeing this boss as this group, we were able to handle the entire fight pretty easily and we one-shot Gothik with no deaths!

At that point, time was getting short so we ignored the taunting of the Four Horsemen and headed back to the Spider wing to finish up the run by clearing those three bosses. It was a good second run and we all look forward to achieving more there in the weeks to come. Congrats to those who attended: Blueberi, Caritheri, Ephany, Floradelle, Maxtel, Metaxa, Myrili, Regor, Sleepyeyed, Valarra, and Melosa who subbed in for the final boss.

Thanks to everyone who attended and to those who expressed interest in attending. Special thanks to Fala for bringing a different toon than she intended so that we could actually do the run. Keep an eye out for sign-ups for the next run.