Last night we successfully cleared Mount Hyjal again.  It took only 3 pulls to kill Archimonde and our main tank only had 7 beers (I believe he started at 4).  Next week there will be no official raiding, but raiders are encouraged to be ready so we can push on without Thorend and farm some gear for the week after.  Starting August 27, 2008 Nox Oriens will embark on The Great Illidan Hunt.  Black Temple will be focused hard and we will do Hyjal on off nights or at off times.  There are 4 bosses left to clear in Black Temple, but only three challenges.  Please read up on the next fights (Reliquary of Souls, Mother Sharaz, Illidari Council, and Illidan).

If you are new to the guild or still a little undergeared please run as many heroics/kara/”Zed A” as you can to grab the badge gear so you can be prepared.  The Illidan fight has a massive amount of raid damage and our shamans need to be on their A game chain casting chain heals.  If you are a low stamina character make sure you can be above 11k buffed before Illidan.  If you need help grinding the honor I am sure we can put some premades together.

Illidan by September or BUST!

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Congratualtions to Nox Oriens.  Archimonde marks our completion of Mount Hyjal.  Soon we can be pushing BT and expecting to down Bloodboil and Reliquary of Souls (this will not be an easy fight) and Mother Sharaz (For our third piece of T6 gear).  Great job to everyone on a long night of raiding.  We were very impressed with people flasking and taking consumables quickly.  I believe we pulled 18 times last night.  Thanks to everyone for sticking through it, next time will be easier.

Now that we have cleared Hyjal I want to recap a bit and let everyone know what I have seen.  I hit 70 on my rogue last June (a little over a year ago for those without a calendar) and started Karazhan shortly after.  At this time Nemesis had only cleared Attuman and maybe Moroes.  I remember struggling with Maiden and Holyfires.  My third week or so we made huge progress and attained guildfirsts on opera and Curator (we had Oz for our first opera).  In late July we started attempting HKM.  By the end of September we had cleared Gruul.  At this time we started running multiple Kara runs and prepping for T5 instances.  Nemesis downed VR once before we split.

The formation of Nox Oriens we have seen much more rapid progression.  In about six months we have cleared everything except Black Temple and Sunwell Plateau.  Wrath of Litch King is around the corner and I expect us to be able to kill Illidan and down several bosses in Sunwell.  And now I apologize for the rant, great job everyone on Archimonde.

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Almost a month has passed since Nox Oriens killed the Sea Witch Vashj. Since then Kael'thas Sunstrider has been on notice. However, Nox Oriens chose to take a break and try out Black Temple and Mount Hyjal. Tonight at the end of a five hour raid filled with wipe after wipe, we grouped up and decided no one was leaving till the bloodelf was dead. As fate would have it we were clutch and everything fell into place. By killing Kael'thas Nox Oriens has completed Tempest Keep.

Next on our list is Kaz'rogal, we will be meeting with him tomorrow.

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