Vortex was eagerly anticipating the release of the Frostwing Halls as we saw it as a chance to start separating ourselves from the multitude of the 10-man strict guilds that exist. That's a hard thing to do when everyone is steamrolling through the same content, so we've enjoyed watching Blizzard gradually increase the difficulty as we've explored Icecrown Citadel.
Our first challenge in the Frostwing Halls was Valithiria Dreamwalker, a unique fight where you "save" her by healing her to full health. Our healers are top rate, so we knew that it wouldn't take us long to complete the encounter. After a few opening jitters and strategy tweaks, Vortex was able to save Valithiria after 4 attempts. Kudos to Blizzard on designing an encounter that really let healers let loose and have some fun.
Shortly after Valithira was defeated we faced our next challenge: Sindragosa, Queen of the Frostbrood.
Sindragosa is a Frost Wyrm in the same vein as Sapphiron in Naxxramas, but far deadlier and possessing of some unique abilities that made her a real challenge for a small 10-man strict guild such as ours. Before we could start working on Sindragosa though, we faced another challenge: a buggy instance that didn’t let us to get into Sindragosa’s room and cost us half a night of progression work.
The delay turned out to be a relatively small speed bump as the Sindragosa fight took us several days to figure out as we took to our forums to refine our strategy. We claimed the World 11th kill (for 10-strict guilds) with a strategy that had things looking like “offspec night” as we swapped 3 raiders to their offspecs to secure the kill. She was certainly a fight that, for us, confirmed the maxim that in 10-man strict raiding, flexibility is key.
Bring on Arthas! We're anxious to topple the Lich King!
Topic: Frostwing Halls thawed; Vortex faces the Lich King! (Read 144 times)