More downing!

Blackwing Lair is an instance that has, on more than one occasion, threatened to break Chaotic Divinity. Since we entered there back in March, every progress has come on the back of a lot of wipes, which understandably drain's the groups enthusiasm for the place. Our normal progress to date has been to take down the first 2-3 bosses on the first night, then spend the rest of the week wiping against the next two. Not so this week.

On Friday we entered BWL and took on Firemaw, the fourth boss (we'd killed the first three on a great run on Wednesday). He went down on the second try, so we started clearing the lab packs on the way to the next boss, Ebonroc. The Laboratory packs are normally tricky pulls for us, but I suggested we use my pet to pull the group down to a safe area to fight them. It worked great, and a group of trash mobs that can normally wipe a raid went down with minimal casualties. Before long at all, we were stood before Ebonroc. And to our suprise, he went down first try! We then faced off against the sixth boss, Flamegor, who also went down first time!

From this point on we were into uncharted territory, so we killed the few trah mobs between Flamegor and the seventh boss Chromaggus, gave him an experimental try and called it a night.

Tonight was to be our first serious attempt, and it would not be an understatement to say we were daunted. We'd heard of raid groups spending weeks learning Chromaggus, and I feared this would prove another stumbling block. Not so! In the end, it took about nine attempts and four hours to finally get him down, but down he went:



Which meant we were finally able to take our first look at the eighth and final boss of BWL: Nefarian.



Doesn't look like much, but he promises to be the greatest challenge we've faced to date. Still we've got tomorrow and Tuesday to work on him before the server resets and we have to do the whole thing all over again!