Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday, I have to say, was fucking amazing. And, skeptical though I was about that certain Paladin, he/she really came through for us. So I'm glad he/she is learning to play. I am probably a lot harder on him/her here than I should be, but I guess I just have high expectations about people who sign up to go with us in raids. Blarg.

Anyway, Saturday. We whipped through Maiden, the chess event, and Prince like it was nothing. Dusk finally got the Tier 4 helm from Prince (she looks very sexy in it XD). After realizing we had near an hour left of our set time, we decided to say fuck it and go wail on Nightbane.

And what do you know? We managed to take him out! On try number two; though, try number one really shouldn't count as Nightbane aggroed weirdly and we wiped in ten seconds. Our group has really made a lot of progress. I'm very proud of us.

Dusk managed to score some sweet loots other than the Tier 4 helm: Garona's Signet Ring and Chestguard of the Conniver. Her DPS gear is getting a lot better now, especially with the addition of the Midnight Legguards that dropped from Quagmirrian in Heroic Slave Pens.

Dusk also hit exalted with the Violet Eye and was finally able to switch over to the tanking ring, bumping her armor in Dire Bear form up to about 27k. Happyness abounds.

Sunday was pretty awesome as well. We somehow one-shotted High King Maulgar (my pauldrons did not drop, again), though it was a bit touch-and-go the last 50% of his life. Because we were able to get through it so quickly, we had about two hours to hammer away at Gruul, even dealing with the respawns again to give it a few more goes. And finally, we succeeded in taking him down! It was pretty amazing--I think the key was that Chutz (warrior, MT) and Sounder (druid [my personal idol, lol], OT/hurtful strike tank) were able to stay alive the entire time. Broog (warrior) and I were to be backup tanks in case one of them went down, but it never worked as good as it should have. Once, it worked out, but the problem is for this fight, Dusk have to do it in her DPS gear. Dusk cannot tank in DPS gear. She goes splat. Gruul's hurtful strikes did somewhere around 10k each time he hit, and she only had 14k health with the DPS gear in bear form. So she'd get knocked down to practically nothing and then get hit again too quickly to get healed up. I think the healers would have been able to heal through it fine if there was no one else but Dusk and the other tank, haha.

Anyway, it was an amazing fight. We had five hunters in the group, which was awesome. We also had five healers, which is super awesome. I think we also got really lucky on the shatters and very few people had died by the end of the fight.

So, good stuff this weekend! Can't wait to put some screenshots up.

In other news, I've taken to hitting Heroic Slave Pens with a few people from Syk. We blow through it pretty easily. It's really nice. And great for rep. Dusk is about 5,000 rep from exalted with Cenarion Expedition (need... Earthwarden...). And also, due to Nightbane and Gruul's deaths, she is now "attuned" for Serpentshrine Cavern. That is to say, of course, that it was unnecessary, but hey, I am amused by it.