Poseidon is moving along very quickly these days. our latest conquest, the first boss in Black Temple, Najentus. All our work paid off and we got him to 1% on our dry run followed by a kill on our second try of the night. We finished up the night by one shotting Winterchill, Anetheron and Alar. Yes I know doing 3 different zones in 1 night is a bit silly. So be it!

Great job all!

After months of basically ignoring Tempest Keep, we decided to go back in there to see what it was about. Utilizing the elite 'dont stand in fire strat', we managed to 3 shot Alar. We then went to Solarian and tried him and 40% first try ever. We agreed to not suck and move if we got a skull on our head and got a kill on our 2nd ever try. We still had time so we went to VR and 1 shotted him too. I wont give away our super secret strat but it involves abusing the hell out of circle of healing.

Great job all!

So I thought I'd write a bit about our Vashj attempts. We had a few nights of wiping and then on Sunday we finally got to 3.9 cores. What is 3.9 cores you might ask? Well this screenshot should explain it After this we got to 3.9 again on what was planned to be our last run for the night, but this time we had everyone up and all the striders dead. A new strider spawns and Elo, our kiter gets thrown the 4th core and down goes the raid. Refusing to end the night on that sour note, we put in one more try, and down went Vashj!

After weeks of trying, we finally killed Vashj! This fight is a huge accomplishment for the guild and everyone should be very proud. In honor of this special event, an artistic representation of the kill was created. Enjoy! Thanks Amorain for the extremely accurate representation!

I know this update is really b being done on April 18th but lets pretend I put it up a couple weeks ago when we beat Anetheron! Great job all except for that slacker Celandro who didn't update the website.

First things first:

A couple weeks of clearing 5/6 ssc and 1/4 tk and quite a few wipes on Alar and Vashj, Blizzard drops us a little gift of a patch. Hey, lets buff the hell out of spirit and let anyone who wants in to Hyjal and Black Temple. Oh and while we are at it, lets nerf Magtheridon. So we start off on Magtheridon, and after 1 unfortunate misclick, we get a real try and kill him first try. Maybe we shouldn't have skipped him to focus on SSC, we did get him below 30% before we gave up on him.

1. Corpses explode and disappear with epics on them if they arent looted before a wipe
2. The npcs are there for a reason, they do good dps you fools.
3. A priest getting disconnected right before Winterchill spawns will never get back in the fight
4. Winterchill is totally doable with 0 holy priests and only 6 healers!

It was a bit sloppy near the end, but Leo died and gave us 2 warrior/priest/druid gloves woo Ok.. it was a lot sloppy. 6 people alive out of 25 is not exactly your goal when killing a boss :). After Leo died, we worked on Vashj and got 2.5 cores (aka 3 cores but someone with a core died). We just need to handle the Striders and Vashj will die too! A big congratulations is deserved for all who came

Just a few weeks after Tidewalker, and a couple very expensive nights repairing, karathress died! And only 2 deaths! Leo is next! Thanks all who came

After some holiday slowness, we are back and kicking some ass. Sunday we got our first kill of tidewalker: and then Tuesday we got him again! I fully expect another news post shortly with news of the death of Karathress followed shortly by Leo! Great job to everyone who showed up.

Yes, we are still alive and kicking. Noteable achievements are the first 2 bosses in ZA down. No screenshots of those of course. Most importantly though, we used that new fangled guild bank feature, put together a frost set for Insidias and killed Hydross on our 4th and last try of the night.

Note above that we decided to just try and burn him down the last 2% instead of doing a transition. Shield wall had already been used earlier but had last stand so it didnt seem too risky. Little did we know I would get 2 back to back hits in a row for over 10k. What are the odds of 2 near full damage hits nuking you down just before the boss dies? I think it was a conspiracy to up my repair bill! Anyhow, enough about me. Here's a shot of all the folks that made it happen. No nameplates of course cuz of the new Blizzard bug

So we went back to Void Reaver a couple times, and everything finally clicked. 2nd try of the night on Sunday and down he went! He was a big accomplishment.

Then tonight we tried SSC for the first time ever. Turns out that 1) SSC trash is easier than TK trash and 2) Lurker is a horribly boring fight once you know whats going on.

Great job everyone. And finally some group pics

After a 39% try on Void Reaver last week, we decided to not skip bosses and went back to Gruul and got him on our 3rd try

We then went back to Kara and took out Netherspite out on our second try, just to say we did it.

Great job everyone.

First a word from our sponsers:

Poseidon is now accepting applications from highly skilled lvl 70 players. All races and classes are open atm. Our current goal is to run 2 Prince clearing Karazhans and progress in 25 mans.

Poseidon was formed to be a place for highly skilled, restricted play time players. People who have been or want to be in all the zones and raids available in World of Warcraft, but are on a tight schedule. Raids are currently set for Tuesday and Sunday 8pm to 11:15pm sharp. We know that our members have real life constraints. Thats why our raids start on time, zone ins and buffs are done in the first 15 minutes, and we raid for 3 hours. Everyone's full attention and cooperation is expected. No drama whatsoever will be allowed. If this sounds like the type of guild you are interested in,

Send your name, class, level, spec, why wou want to join and everything else you think I want to know to: . Yes, your application will be graded on spelling, grammer, humor and content .

So yea, we're still alive and kickin ~ and Illhoof on the other hand can't say the same...

We've also decided to get our feet wet in the 25man instances, and on our first night in we managed to clear High King Mulgar and get Gruul down to 45%!

Well done all.

After 14 minutes of fishing in the charred earth patches, Nightbane, the skeleton dragon, finally got bored and /afked. He was kind enough to drop loot too! Congratulations to those who fought their way through the overly lengthy fight. Only Illhoof and Netherspite remain.

After blazing through the first 6 bosses in 3 hours, we had plenty of time to work on our nemesis, the prince. With a lot of dps, some excellent healing, a few great inferno warnings and a bit of luck, we smashed the Prince's head through the wall!

Now that the prince was down, it was off to Nightbane. We learned quite a bit. He doesn't seem too hard, so I expect him to go down shortly. Congratulations to all.

It was a long time coming, but the Shade of Aran has finally bitten the dust. With your fearless leader recklessly abandoning the original plan of waiting for the polymorph in favor of WTF JUST KILL HIS ASS, and with our savior Googlie Eyes to help control adds, polymorph hit about 2 seconds after the adds despawned! Some health stones and heal pots later and some breathless 'just keep it up guys' talk on vent followed with this:

Yes, Aran was slain with red and black dps graphs and excessive charts! Go go addon obsession! Seriously though, a great job was done by all, and I think everyone will agree with me that Aran will go down far easier next time.

Sunday's raid had group A doing quite well, clearing Curator and Chess event, as well as getting Aran to 7% our best ever! Also notice your fearless leader's every more complicated UI. Yes that's right, soon I will be unable to see anything on my screen but a very small space. Just wait for next weeks screenshots Tuesay Group A got through Romeo and Juliet, without your fearless leader who was busy trying to out drink his boss. I had to let him win to ensure a promotion though, don't let him know!

Sunday, group Alpha struggled with a late start and Vent server capacity issues, but did down Romeo and Juliet. They came back strong with our first ever Wizard of Oz event, downing a new boss with just 2 tries. Well done! Do take note of the much less cluttered healer UI shown in this picture ;).

Big congrats to all that participated in our first dual raid last night. Things went very well, especially considering the delay in the start time and the different strategies required with a druid offtank.

Group A completed Huntsman, Moroes, Maiden and Big Bad Wolf with only 1 wipe on Maiden
Group Alpha started off even better, completing Huntsman, Moroes, Maiden before struggling on Romeo and Juliet. We have discussed the strategy and Group Alpha should complete Romeo and Juliet on Sunday.

Special thanks go out to Drea and Nalain for leading team Alpha.

Poseidon was formed to be a place for highly skilled, restricted play time players. People who have been or want to be in all the zones and raids available in World of Warcraft, but are on a tight schedule. Raids are currently set for Tuesday and Sunday 8pm to 11:15pm sharp. We know that our members have real life constraints. Thats why our raids start on time, zone ins and buffs are done in the first 15 minutes, and we raid for 3 hours. Everyone's full attention and cooperation is expected. No drama whatsoever will be allowed. If this sounds like the type of guild you are interested in,

Send your name, class, level, spec, why wou want to join and everything else you think I want to know to: . Yes, your application will be graded on spelling, grammer, humor and content so try not to make yourself look like a retard.