Ulduar 25 update

This past week saw us 25 strong and a forray into Naxx25 (Full Clear) and then Ulduar25. In Ulduar we downed Razorscale and Deconstructor for the first time ever. Two new bosses in one night!

New Year, Tears, Fears; Cheers!

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

-Frederick Phillips

Welcome, True Believers! It's been a few weeks since my last update. Rest assured that the Elders are busy as ever, even if I've been asleep on the job! A whole slew of new kills in both normal and Heroic raids have been accompanied by a hearty enjoyment of the Feast of Winter Veil. The Elders rang in the new year with blades in their hands, and strength in their hearts. Below is a gallery of our new kills...

Ten Man:

• Noth the Plaguebringer
• Heigan the Unclean (First kill 19m long, Chiyo, Chinto and Sanctum)
  
• Loatheb
• Instructor Rasuvious
• Gothik the Harvester
• The Four Horsemen
• Patchwerk
• Grobbulus
• Gluth
• Thaddius
• Sapphiron

Heroic:

• Sartharion
• Noth the Plaguebringer
• Heigan the Unclean
• Loatheb
• Instructor Razuvious
• Gothik the Harvester
• The Four Horsemen
• Patchwerk

This gallery will be updated as I find more of the killshots!

Webs Unwoven

Elder Tribunal has been very busy! In between saving Metzen and destroying the Greench, we've been visitting some of Northrend's most wanted, and gathering presents of our own. First, congratulations to ET on their full clear of the Spider Wing of Naxxramas! Two guild firsts in this wing...

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life...embrace it.

-Jim Beggs

Grand Widow Faerlina, the second boss of Spider Wing, unlike the first is not all about the tanks. This cultist demands coordination and output from the DPS, and they came through for us here, after one practice attempt.

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

-Michael de Montaigne

Maexxna, final boss of Spider Wing, is an enormous spider that gorges herself on the corpses of hapless adventurers. Quite the imposing figure for our rag-tag band. Healers and Tanks really came through on this one, to pull us out of spider's web at the last moment.

We also tried our hand at the Plague Wing and met with success. Noth the Plaguebringer was ET's first ONE SHOT in Naxxramas. Great job, everyone. No photo for this one, the Lich King recalled this servant of darkness before we had time to commemorate his demise. Loot will prove with photography fails. We also worked on Heigan the Unclean, and attempted to prove that white men can dance.

In other realms, the Black Dragonflight's days slowly comb to an end, as the Elders keep pressure on their breeding grounds beneath Wyrmrest, within the Obsidian Sanctum. On our first night in OS, we downed Sartharion, and have done so multiple times a week since!

Once there as the People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

-Rudyard Kipling

Finally, we returned to Outland to lay waste to Tempest Keep, and the false Prince of the Blood Elves. Kael'thas down!

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Unknown

Just a little taste...

The report of my death was an exaggeration.
-Mark Twain

On Friday, December 5th, Elder Tribunal made its first foray into a level 80 raid. Ten of us went in and bravely met the first of the Lich King's challenges. And challenging he was! The perverse nerubian Anub'Rehkan challenged us to learn new skills that will come in handly later in Naxx, and reminded us how precious every little upgrade is. Congratulations to all of our new Level 80s, and to those who got loot last night! Keep it coming!

...it will all be over soon.

Live, Learn and then get Lewts (TM)

Of all the pulpits from which human voice was ever sent forth, there is none which reaches so far as from the grave.
-John Ruskin

And thus, the gallery of the dead grows. We lay them beneath our feet, and, merciless, march on towards their masters.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of the stars.
-Arthur C. Clarke

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that's something wrong with me because I get angry.
-Maxine Waters

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
-Winston Churchill

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and yet is willing to learn more...