Happy Halloween, Elder Tribunal!

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people:
religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin" - Linus Van Pelt in It's the
Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Happy Halloween, guild members, applicants, and visitors. Hopefully you have scored the rewards for your efforts this evening, whether it be buckets of candy, the drops off the Headless Horseman, killing Vanndar for the nth time, or downing the raid boss.

Halloween marks the beginning of the fall holiday season, so as we begin the dramatic crescendo of holiday cheer, please remember to have fun, drink responsibly and (at least until 2.3 hits) loot the friggin dogs!

Happy Saint-Jean!

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
Frank Sinatra

Happy Saint-Jean to every quebecois and every americans! The 24th of June is always a special moment in Quebec as it is the equivalent of the Independance day in USA (well kind of).

Following the paien tradition of the old, the quebecois light a big fire in major cities and a lot of citizens do the same in their backyard. And following the new tradition of the really festive people that these habitants have become, it is a time of drinking and joy (well mostly drinking ;P).

Nothing to do with the game, but still an important holiday for a small part of the guild... so have a happy Saint-Jean!

Elder Tribunal clears Karazhan

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

After many months of work in Karazhan, many nights of frustration and swearing, Elder Tribunal finally cleared the Karazhan raid. After the hardeous work on mastering the strategy on Netherspite, we decided that Nightbane would get it too. Only after three tries on the monstreous undead dragon, we slayed him down with everyone up and mana to spare!

It seems that our expectations about patch 2.01 and the matter of casual raiding really met our expectations: the bosses are doable without ten zillions flasks and all world buffs.

On a final note, let us be proud of our advancement this week but at the same time we should not let all that excitement get in the way of our gameplay. We need to work more on some encounters until they gain the farm status (Prince anyone :P) and set our goal for a cleaning of the instance from both groups every week. Let us share strategies, knowledge toward this goal while also keeping in mind that we are raiding together to have fun! If things goes well we should soonly have the required healing for Gruul's Lair and a glimpse of the upcoming Serpent Shrine. So let's set our heart together and work our way to the 25 man so we can all play together once again!

Heresy

ET unVaels BWL

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
General George S. Patton

No mercy was shown upon Vael as we rounded up the troops and struck hard and fast. On only our fifth attempt of the night and sixth attempt period, we killed Vael with only 36 people. This type of accomplishment is rare, and everyone deserves to feel proud of what we did. After that, we took a crack at the supression room and then spent an hour or so in MC killing Gehennas thru Shaz.

Here are the shots of another dead dragon. May he finally get the rest he longed.

And here is the group shot from our downing of Ossirian.

There's no stopping us

"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Taking Nietzsche words to heart, ET has downed Razorgore after just a few serious attempts in BWL. Since the beginning of October we have made a foray into BWL about every other week, practicing and streamlining our strategy. All this hard work paid off last night, when Razorgore went down for the count. We gathered for merriment and to record our victory for posterity, and went to go meet Vael. He ate us. But fear not, we are not easily swayed, and will once again take up the battle.

In the past month ET has also downed Ossirian and cleared AQ20 completely. With the new talents and the great efforts put forth by our guild members, many a boss will fall before us soon.

Congratulations Elder Tribunal !!