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We all got excited about starting the hardmodes tonight, after defeating the Lich King last week, and we were eager to face Lord Marrowgar (after a challenging 10man event - poop setup!), but after the first Bonestorm we were a bit disappointed has with the usual healing stack the fight just became trivial, and we didn't kill it on the 1st try cos we got overly distracted by the poopiness we were facing. Anyway, close wipe, and a first kill on the following try.

Alas, the King is dead.

Today marks an amazing feat for Corruption, having pursued the Arthas Menethil/Lich King storyline in the Warcraft universe for a long time, and finally having the opportunity to face the Lich King alongside Highlord Tirion Fordring in what i consider to be an epic encounter.

The fight, not being incredibly hard, is very punishing and very unforgiving, with any distraction pretty much causing a wipe. It is also very intensive on the damage required and healing assignements - specially when we have to deal with curve balls we weren't expecting and that threw us of our game plan. Apart from all that? It's one hell of a ride, and i'm glad to have been a part of it.

Saindo um pouco dos moldes e conteúdos habituais no 'site' dos Corruption, acho que perante os recentes acontecimentos trágicos na ilha da Madeira, paira em todos o sentimento de tristeza e pesar, e não podiamos deixar de mostrar o nosso apoio e solidariedade às vitimas da tragédia, aos seus familiares, e aos habitantes da Madeira a quem cabe agora a dificil tarefa de reconstruir e seguir em frente.

Hello!

Today was a very exciting raiding day for Corruption, with a lot going on throughout the night. We started out the raid with the news that the limited attempts were getting removed from the normal mode version of the end-wing bosses and Arthas, which was a bit frustrating. A lot of effort was being put on each attempt, with near-perfect setup and extra demand on awareness, and just when things are getting better, and we're able to clear the end-wing bosses quickly without wasting much tries... BAM, attempts removed, and every guild can just bang their heads at the bosses 100510510 times until the bosses are defeated, without much thought attempt to attempt... oh well, what hapenned to the "we'll throw more attempts each week to the guilds with difficulties!". I know the Lich King would be hard, specially with such attempts, but hardcore guilds just bypassed that with alt raid anyway, so, might aswell level the playing field.

Anyways, we started the night with Sindragosa, which was released this week, and proved to be a bit harder then VaLOLthria, and after a demanding raid the previous night, with very frustrating low % wipes (specially a >4% wipe... grrr) and with the trash bugging on the following respawn (one of the drakes didn't spawn when we killed the 2nd one, so, he didn't land when he popped and Sindragosa was unattackable.. so we would have to soft reset - 30m+... yay), we went back eager for our payback, with a few tweaks on the setup, and, despite the tremendous amount of mistakes (blistering bomb - lol, >20k backlashes, and so forth), we were able to take it down, even after both tanks were down with around 5% to go? (not sure, it was something like that)... and we just zerg the crap out of her on our first attempt of the night! Sloppy, but a kill is a kill, specially in a timer when attempts still had some meaning!

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The wait is finally over. Icecrown Citadel is finally completely available, with the opening of the Frostwing Lair, and by that, having the path to the Lich King in our reach.

Before we ventured forth to the Frostwing Lair, we were asked by the Ashen Verdict to find and rescue Darnavan, an infiltrated member on the evil Cult of the Damned that seemed to be missing... We eventually ran into him while confronting Lady Deathwhisper - he seemed to be brainwash and couldn't distinguish friend from foe, so we had to deal with him aswell. The new ICC raid quests are a nice twist to already fun events, and we're looking forward for the next ones we face.

After saving Darnavan and being rewarded with some extra emblems of frost, a couple of epic gems, and the chance for a random epic BoE from the trash table (which we didn't get any!), we continued our march to the Frostwing Lair, eager to face Sindragosa... Before we could do so, we ran into a trapped dragon - Valithria Dreamwalker, from the Green Dragonflight, and we just couldn't leave an allied dragon behind, so we decided to step in!

The fight itself is rather original, with the whole "heal the mob to 100%" instead of just burning a <random foe>, and i really think our healers had a hell of a time with it, specially due to the fact that they get some uber power ups to make them heal even more, that was just crazy! While the healers had their fun, flying around, grabbing buffs and dishing out huge heals on VDW, the rest of the raid just laid back, controlling the waves of <piss easy> adds that came rushing towards us, trying to stop us from saving her, but, despite the originality and various types of mobs, it just isn't challenging enough... and we ended up rescuing Valithria real quick, oh well.