After our quick TK run to get a couple of our last vials, we found ourselves with a bit of time left on the raid and decided to head back to BT to get a feel for Shahraz. Our intention was just to simply see how the fight works, learn the trash, get a bit of training with Fatal Attraction mechanics, and just in general get us prepared for a kill next week. Boy, were we in for a surprise.

After spending about 45 minutes scrambling around the auction house and trade chat trying to pick up our last few primals and “of Shadow Protection” greens, we got together and headed to Mother Shahraz. Luckily, we even got two Heart of Darkness drops on the way, allowing us an extra two pieces of epic shadow resist gear to be crafted on the spot before the pull (with the help of Nice’s Primal Water -> Shadow transmute). After some quick positioning changes the mother quickly went down on the third or so pull to our too-little healers, too-many casters, and 1 Shadow Priest raid. This fight is a joke.



A big thanks goes to those that helped get all those Hearts of Darkness. You know who you are.

This was yet another first kill yielding in new Tier 6 for two of our MTs. Here you can see Andu looking like a beast in his amazing and pointy deadly-looking Onslaught set and Nice in his ugly dead-bird outfit.




Afterwards, the excitement must have slapped our sleepers awake as even Madvi was pushing to clear to the Illidari Council. We went through some of the quick and fun trash where we found giant robots that kill people with giant beams and rogues that shadowstep ambushed Passenger (oh, the irony) to death. When we finally did manage to reach the Council and give them a shot, one our pulls didn't seem to go just to plan. We weren't exactly sure what happened, but somehow our Priest tank, Shiji, got insta-killed on the pull. Upon further review, we stumbled accross an explanation:



What's that, Chrigity? Cone of Cold? Surely you are mistaken, that Mage is 30+ yards away from you! Better luck with those fat-fingers next time.

It ends up that I was sorely mistaken and Reliquary managed to be easier than Gurtogg! After a bit of messing around on Friday (with 23 people and a raid asking "why aren't my heals working") we came back today and made quick work of the three faces on our first flasked attempt.

This fight turned out to be a lot easier than we expected. Hopefully RoS will feel the same, but somehow I doubt it. We'll see soon enough, and regardless I'm sure we'll have a mug shot up here eventually.