naxx

We got our achievement for the Immortal on December 17th, when only four other guilds in the world had done it. (part of that is not having a laggy server, yes!)

It was pretty fun actually: we had someone disconnect a few times, and then disconnect on Thaddius — we were only saved by the quick thinking of our main tank, who told the raid “SHIFT RIGHT!” and amazingly everyone figured out what he meant in time.

Premonition apparently also had an exciting time, with a disconnect on Heigan (they healed him through it) and then one on Sapphiron just as Ice Tombs were going out — Guardian Spirit to the rescue.

I’ve since heard of guilds — quite good guilds — failing at it simply because their strats aren’t really *safe*, they merely work. But when it comes to having no deaths, do you really want to gamble on that not being the week that Sapphiron decides to put all iceblocks on one side?

I put together a guide to the “safest” Naxxramas raid that I could in response:

http://strats.fusion-guild.org/index.php/TheImmortal

sartharion, Tactics, three drakes

I finished up the video of our third Sartharion kill with three drakes up (so long! ‘Sarth3D’ is so much better) today. It seems to be getting great reviews, which is always heartening: it took at least 50 hours to produce. It even got featured on Warcraftmovies.com as their movie of the day.

Warcraft Movies: Sarth25 + 3: A Tutorial

And, of course, a strat page to go with it:

FuStrats - Sarth3D

There’s some things the movie just doesn’t cover well enough due to the medium. The strat page also contains a complete transcript of the movie for anyone hard of hearing or who just wants the reference.

sartharion, Tactics, three drakes

A lot of guilds are beginning to work on Sartharion with three drakes up (affectionately referred to as Sarth 3D) and having fun trying to figure out how to live through 75k breaths on their main tank as well as all the other raid damage going out. Currently the hardest fight in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, this is the pinnacle of raid progression. click here to read entire article