Welcome to Still Alive's Blog site!

/welcome and /wave to all newcomers and visitors!
This Blog has been created to provide an out-of-game point of comunication for all Guild members.

We started out with just a small group of 8 or so members in late 2007. We now number approximately 20 regular players.

We strive to take the 'Family' approach to World of Warcraft. All polite and friendly players are warmly welcomed.
That said, we don't shy away from the full set of Raids that  Northrend has to offer either. We're here to show that End of Game Content doesn't have to meen "Hard Core Raiding" ;)

We're now working on Ulduar and Eye of Eternity, and regularly raiding Naxxramas.

Sunday, 31 May 2009

Ignis and XT-002 Deconstructor Tips...







Two Videos for the remaining two Ulduar bosses in "The Siege of Ulduar" stage of the Raid.
If we can take the first two with relative ease, we can smash all four.. You know it ^_^


Saturday, 30 May 2009

Ulduar - Cracking the crust...







Casually, a motley crew of 10 decended on the gates of Ulduar last night.
Flasks? PAH! ... Planning? Who needs it?
We trounsed the Flame Leviathan without a care on the second attempt in true Still Alive fasion :)

He dropped :
Pyrite Infuser - Taai
Firestrider Chestguard - Flowermoon


















Did we wipe our brows in relief and cut our losses? Oh dear me no!
We then moved on to Razorscale, and gave him a right old seeing too aswell.
First go was a washout.. second was a marked improvement (ie a success! lol)

He Dropped :
Band of Draconic Guile - Suddrik
Eye of the Broodmother - Vetenari


















Many, many thanks to our sage on this trip, Chels, without who we wouldnt have known where to start, yet now we know two bosses! :D

We'll be happy to take you along to future Razorscale's spaceifically for the trinket. I know you wanted it but sadly lost the roll :(

Thursday, 7 May 2009

Stage 1 tactics

I just first want to say, please post your comments if you wish!
If what i'm saying here is tripe, I would like to know ;)
Not a dictatorship, just a flustered guildie lol













I apologise in advance for the rather poor sketch, but i had to draw my own to explain this.
We had some differences of opinion on how to do the first stage of Malygos last night, and while I agree that everyone should give suggestions a chance, on occasions, logic can remove the need to attempt a bad idea.

If Malygos is on the edge of the disk, and as far away from the on-coming spark as possible (See 'Good' spark on left diagram) then we can kill the spark in the centre, with all the DPS, and not only prevent him from getting the spark, but also gain the DPS buff.
If we were to remain in that one spot though, as some suggested last night, then the 'Bad' spark (seen top left of the left diagram) would need to be Death Gripped away at great range.
And what if we don't have a Death Knight
And what if it's the spark on the top right?
Therefore, any possition around the outside is not a good location for him, because there is always the potential a spark will form behind him.

Ok, so giving the idea of tanking him in one place a chance..
We're left with one option. Tank him in the middle.
But from the right diagram, you can see that all the sparks end up scattered all round the disc. There's no location around him that is best to stack the sparks, because again we have the problem of him being inbetween a spark and us, and we cant put it in the centre when he's there because of-course he'll absorb it. 
So we cant get our maximum damage buff up as a result.
This could possibly be an option for an extremely high DPS group, but I don't believe we're there yet :)

The only viable and workable solution is by moving him to the edge furthest away from an on-coming spark, and killing the spark in the centre of the room so that the ranged DPS can get maximum damage! ^_^
This requires him to be moved around the outside at all times.
When you think about it, this is kind of a mix between Unub'Rekhan and Grand Widdow Faerlina. I honestly reckon thats what they're doing here, Naxx is teaching us how to do the bigger fights ^_^

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Eye of Eternity - Malygos







Here's a Video of the Eye of Eternity Raid for Wednesday night guys.
There's three stages, a lot to remember, but we need the practice eh? :)



I've had to widen the Guild site page in order to accommodate the videos. I apologise if any past posts have gotten a little messy from this, all future postings will fit perfectly though :)

Monday, 4 May 2009

Kel'Thuzad Downed!...





Tonight was our first downing of the final Naxxramas boss, Kel'Thuzad!
May he fall many more times at our hand ^_^

Kel'Thuzad :

(Thankyou to Vetle for the pics of yesterdays Sapphiron and tonights Kel'Thuzad!)

















After a quick team re-shuffle, we sorted out Sartharion too!

Sartharion (0 Drakes) :

We'll be giving him a shot with 1 Drake up next time! :D

Sapphiron shot...




Thankyou to Stantz for this shot of the death of Sapphiron on Sunday! ^_^















Drops were
Sapphiron :

Great work all :D

Millitary wing shots, and hopefully item drops too, will follow!

We've got the key!

No images or drop data as of yet, but it must be noted that we cleared Naxxramas all the way to Sapphiron on Friday night, and then cleaned him up on Sunday too :)
As soon as I have the full roundup of info on the run I'll post it here.
But for now... who's up for running Eye of Eternity too? ^_^