One Kill, One Phoenix Mount
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Juggynaut on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 29 Comments Tags: Ashes of Al'ar, Karazhan, attumen, dannydarko, epic, firey warhorse, first kill, kael, kael'thas, kael'thas sunstrider, loot, midnight, phoenix mount, scour, tempest keep, the eye, totally rad guild
Juggynaut on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 29 Comments Tags: Ashes of Al'ar, Karazhan, attumen, dannydarko, epic, firey warhorse, first kill, kael, kael'thas, kael'thas sunstrider, loot, midnight, phoenix mount, scour, tempest keep, the eye, totally rad guild 
A lot has been going on lately. There has been an influx of activity in game, and a lot of the focus on a couple of in game events, namely Hallow's End and the Scourge Invasion. With the increased interest in WoW, though, there has been a rebirth of raiding for our guild.The Totally Rad Guild has been working on downing Kael for a long, long time. Since Monday, in fact. With only one or two raid members having actually been involved in a Kael fight prior to Monday, we threw together a run to get a couple of attempts under our belt (and a few more Tier 5 shoulder tokens) before a serious attempt at killing the blood elf prince last night.
After getting second on the DPS charts while wearing a my lucky hat, we headed to Kael'thas with a purpose. So, With each successive attempt, we made significant progress, spirits remained high for the most part, and there were only a couple of deaths during our successful kill. We finished the entire fight in about ten minutes, and killed Kael before he got off his second gravity lapse. Although I've never seen the fight before, I feel like either our raid gained significant skill in the past week since we first downed Vashj, or the nerfs to raid bosses were extremely harsh.
I had serious doubts about our ability to execute the strategy, and I think the decreased health and melee damage along with a nearly universal increase of DPS helped our raiders learn the fights much faster than previously possible. Add in the fact that there are a million write ups on how to kill the guy, and it's no wonder we got him down on the second night of attempts. However, you'll notice that the screen shot above (click for detail) is not of a dead Kael. It's our favorite fire mage, Dannydarko, on his shiny new phoenix mount, with a few jealous guildies alongside.
That's right. The Ashes of Al'ar dropped on our very. first. Kael'thas kill.
Difficult to believe? Yes. Did trade chat explode when he arrived in Shatt? Yes. Is Danny going to get more tells than he thought possible? Yes. Has Nameless been farming Kael for months hoping for the drop? Yes. Is this the end of the question and answer portion of my post? Maybe.
Now, you might notice the Firey Warhorse towards the bottom left. That's Callihan on the other shiny new mount from last night. After all of the excitement and screenshots, I wanted to head to Kara to get an Arcanite Ripper before Tenris left town, so we decided to do a full clear. One Kill, One Midnight Mount, which Callihan won. We blazed through the rest of Kara, our off tank got both the Plate Chest and the Shield from Nightbane, and the Ring of a Thousand Marks dropped off of Prince for our rogue, seen above on the Albino Drake. All in all, an unbeliveable night for loot. We tried going to SM with Danny for the Headless Horseman mount, but it appeared that his Mount Juju ran out with the Daily Quest reset.
Reader Comments (29)
first and gratz
very nice, that mount is sure a rare one ^^
well done. I'm posing in Shattrath on my warrior on his headless horseman's mount =P
Meanwhile Bast is still riding around on his rickety old broom...
lol gratz u guys really got lucky :)
lucky im not even lvl 70 yet (lvl65) and u got a really lucky drop and lucky loot
Holy freaking grats. Thats all I have to say about that.
Wow, that's a good night of raiding. Congratulations!
The best part was when Danny had to borrow 400g from a guildie, then fly (slowly) to SMV to learn his epic flying skill, so we could take this screen shot. =P
cool thats awsome i never seen anyone have thatt mound mound and axualy own one is just awsome congratulation you like bastard
Grats guys. You got lucky. Seems we got lucky too! Two Warglaive's of Azzinoth in back to back weeks! Both main and off hand!
Gratz Danny, that's a sweet mount. One day I'll join a guild that raids. :) One day...
Whats with the warlock? his mount isn't special... and gratz !
PS. Dannydarko.........................you suck! :P
The warlock is showing the contrast between the different fiery demon horse mounts. Plus warlocks are special regardless of what mount they are on! :)
Don't mind Tal, we told him the same thing when we took this picture.
I sure didnt believe Sockz when he called out in vent that those ashes dropped, but I did run a little quicker to the body to loot when he said it.
I sure didnt believe it when it called out in vent that those ashes dropped, but I did run a little quicker to the body to loot when he said it.
gratz
WHOA! Nice mount Danny - GZ! They sure are some sweet mounts.
P.S. Uhhh... it's kinda OT but as I'm only lvl 35 - how do you get those titles in front of your name?
Well gz, it's a nice mount, don't know anyone on our server that has it :( Never dropped for me at noumerous Kael downs :( xD
I still think it's a myth...
Well I heard the raised drop rates of rare drops. Just
Tuesday night just to get some new achievements I soloed
Baron Rivendare and what to my wonder and I got a little
shaky too Deathcharger Riens drops used to be 1% now up
too so might explain one kill one mount
Big grats on the kill and the awesome mount!
We had one phoenix drop on my server, but.. the guild master took it for him self, disbanded the guild, left the server and got hated by everybody.
Big grats agian :)
@UltimateWolf
- The "Ambassador" title is rewarded from reaching Exalted reputation with all of the Alliance/Horde city factions.
- "Champion of the Naaru" is a reward (no longer available) from a Heroic quest chain.
- "Jenkins" is from an achievement in Blackrock Spire. Coincidentally, Jenkins is also a member of our guild that only hunters can see during raids. (guild joke, couldn't resist)
Grats, Danny!
i got the albino drake too i think i am the only horde on my server that has it i have seen a lot of Ally with it though.