Valithiria Dreamwalker Saved!!!



So there we were in ICC, just strolling down the halls and we happen upon this green dragon being tortured by mages of the Lich King.  The 10 0f us look at each other, and without speaking a word we know, we are the Knights of Honor and we must help this poor creature.

The DPS spread out, the tanks attacked the mages, and the healers went to work mending the poor dragon.  Wave after wave of the Lich Kings Servants tried to thwart our efforts but we held strong, calling out each attacker as they entered the room.  Valithiria was gaining strength and encouraging us to keep on!!  Her health rose to 95%, then a healer cries "I'm down!", followed by a tank, and a dps and another healer and another dps an the next tank, until all 10 of our bodies layed strewn about the room, then Valithirea yells "I am Revived!!!  Thank you Heroes"... and she flies off, leaving our bodies strewn about the floor ^_^. 

It took a couple seconds, then it sank in, WE WON!!! 

So our priest uses his soul stone and resurects us all so we can check out the loots Valithiria left in the chest as a thank you to a bunch of dead heros.

Grats KoH, only Sindragosa stands between KoH and the LK!!

The Queen is dead!



After a very successful first night of raiding where the first 2 wings off ICC and the Blood Prince Council were down in 2 hours, we took a look at the Blood Queen.  We got a "little taste", and knew she would be defeated on our second raid night.

We assembled, after some wheeling and dealing to replace no-shows and ended up losing a full hour of raid time, we walked into the queen's lair.... ok, maybe not straight in, we had to practice wiping on trash a couple times, it's just so fun I don't think it will ever get old :)

Once in we took a good 4 attempts to get everyone a feel for the mechanics, and just before our one and only break of the night, she had the "little taste" of KoH she had been asking for all night, unfortunately for her that "little taste" was more than she could handle!

Nice job KoH!    I hear the LK is starting to get a little nervous :)

Phase 3 is a pain!

We have been working on the professor for quite some time now.  He had been toying with us for weeks now, we have had too many sub 10% wipes to the mad scientist.  And as we know, there is only one mad scientist in KoH (the rest are merely "slightly off").  

The group formed up and made our way straight to the Professor.  With the first six bosses cleared two days prior, we had a lot of time to work on him.  We buffed, started the encounter...and wiped at 9%.  However, with a lot of time to make adjustments, we continued to work on Putricide.  With the magic of last call invoked by E (and being 10 minutes past the end of the raid), we marched in and had a decisive win against the final boss of the Plaguewerks.

Very nice work Knights!

Ok, so we just kinda poked around at 25 man ICC before to get a weekly.  It's hard to get 25 players on one night so it's kinda hard to be real serious about 25 progression, BUT, Anni had to throw it out there and give it a shot...  and what a shot it was.  At raid time we only had about 18 signups and 21 people even logged on.  Some how that sneaky rogue got everyone that was logged on to join the raid and we started out hoping that somewhere along the line we would pick up the other 4 we needed for a full raid.

We all headed over and started in on the trash, no big deal, a couple wipes just to live up to KoH raiding style.  We get to Marrowgar, still only 21 players, but as far as guild raiders go it was a fairly stacked group so we pull anyway, one shot no problem.

Now we're moving into new challenges, we've only seen the lady once before on 25 man mode, and she wiped the floor with us a few times before we gave in and went back to dalaran to lick our wounds.  Not so tonight, we picked up another player and woot we're at 22 now!  Somebody yells KILL!!  and away we go, move out of the DnD, CC the MCs (I soooo wanted to kill instead but anni wouldn't let me), take down the adds, hit the boss, over and over, and... well the picture tells the rest.




All of a sudden we're sailing into uncharted waters (or air in this case) for 25 man mode, we're going to see father saurfang on the gunship.   We pick up another player, we're at 23 now, Anni gets lazy and goes for the easy setup "Melee accross, range stay here, start it up"  so we did,  next thing ya know the horde ship is falling out of the sky!!

 

Oh, boy now what, Saurfang's boy is a tough fight for ranged and with 5 blood worms to contend with this could go bad in a hurry.   Anni picks up another player, we're at 24 now, pull let's see what happens.  Oh so close, we had to try again, oooh, look another player logged on snag him, get the summoning stone up, buff up let's do this we finally have a full raid!....   And as papa saurfang carried his boy away so did KoH carry away the loot, grats to Dadgar for winning his sactified T10 token.



After this success, we are going to have to find a night that we can get 25 peeps on and see how far we can take the 25 man progression, if you see it posted, please make an effort to make that time available and be there for our 25m progression.

KoH Progression Raid Itinerary:
1) Zone in
2) Buff up
3) Pull trash, wipe
4) Pull boss
5) ???
6) Profit!

Grats to the dedicated group of Knights that went into ICC on March 31 to have a little fun.  For the first time since starting this raid, our raid team managed to stomp each of the first six bosses without a wipe.  Then, after listening to the charming, wonderful, yet verbose raid leader; we managed to get the Blood Princes on our third attempt.

Great work learning this encounter folks!  Read up on Professor Putricide and the Blood Queen, our next two encounters!

On Sunday evening 10 of KoH's most determined raiders ventured into ICC with one thing on their collective mind.... "We are going to melt Rotface's face!!".... and that's exactly what they did.

KoH raiders have been consistently getting to Rotface on the second raid night for the last 3 or 4 weeks now, only to leave defeated after getting him down to less than 10% health multiple times, but not this night!

On this night it would take 3 attempts, the first two started well, but then a slime would get too close to a healer and erase the possibility of keeping the kiting tank alive, but on our third attempt everyone was focused, everyone took the safest route to the kiting tank when they became infected and with smooth reactions and dire determination his health bar steadily went down until suddenly there was no more target, for rotface was a melted clump on the floor!  A second later the cheers rang out and celebrations began!

Next up the professor, which proves to be even more challenging than either of his creations, but with determination and coordination he too will fall to the mighty KoH!!!!!

Grats!

We've been working on ICC 10, and Festergut in particular for roughly 4 weeks now.  After week after week of losing with FG at 15%, 8%,4%, 0.5% (that was a heartbreaker there), we were finally able to put him out of our misery!!!!

GRATS KOH!!!!   Knights Rock!!

We all want to start out the new year in a good way, we make resolutions and try to better ourselves.

This year, raiding in KoH has started out in a really good way as well.

First off, we have been able to get several knights out for bigger adventures in the Trial of Champions - 25 player raid.  On January 10, KoH took our first stab at this raid this year; we even managed to knock over a new encounter.


The Faction Champions - 25 player

Just one day following our takedown of the Faction Champions, a 10 man progression team headed into ICC for another romp with Deathbringer Saurfang.  With E at the helm and the magic of last try invoked (I still say what E did was cheating), the Lich King's most powerful deathknight was bested opening the way for KoH to head into the Plagueworks.


Deathbringer Saurfang

Great job everyone.  Many more fun adventures await us in game.