Thursday (29 Apr)- My Cataclysm List, and Something About a Lich King?

Thursday (29 Apr)- My Cataclysm List, and Something About a Lich King?

There was no ten man ICC raid on Thursday. The MM guild raid leader, Bd, let Wild know that he was still embroiled in some real life issues, but hoped he would be able to get a raid together next week. One can hope.

Wild was in game Thursday looking to get the weekly frost raid done (didn't happen) and chatting with Sis when the guild announced some incredible news.

The FS guild ten man ICC raid killed the Lich King! The Lich King is the final boss in ICC, and killing him makes it an official clear of ICC, the highest end raid in the game. Prior to last night's kill, FS was rated #37 out of 174 guilds working 10 man ICC on our server, according to the progression site guildox.com. The LK kill should jump them up a few spots in the rankings.

When I talked to the raid leader, he said their group had spent 18 hours preparing for the fight (working on strategies, individual assignments, positioning, etc), not counting the many hours wiping on him. He said the Lich King was the toughest boss he'd ever faced.

I wonder if our ten man is going to consider Heroic/hardmode 10 man now. There are only 14 guilds on the server who've been able to kill even the first boss, Marrowgar, in heroic mode. No guild on Silvermoon has killed the Lich King in Heroic mode, although two horde guilds have downed the other eleven bosses and are now trying to kill him. To give you an idea of how tough Heroic mode Lich King is, only 16 guilds in the entire World of Warcraft (every server) have killed him. That's sixteen kills out of nearly 50,000 guilds in ICC 10. It's even harder and more rare in ICC 25.

The Kingslayers

As for Cataclysm, there are already posts on various forums in response to the age old question: What should I be doing to get ready for the expansion?

Here are my favorites so far:

* Complete 25 pre-Cataclysm quests but don't turn them in until after launch (power leveling tip)
* set hearth to a city less likely to have high lag - suggestions are Shattrath (neutral), Silvermoon City (horde) or Exodar (alliance)
* Obtain every heirloom item to speed level new toons/alts
* Saving gold is debatable - some say the costs will ratchet up to make what can be saved pre-launch trivial, to others who say the changes, including goblin racial discounts, will make things so cheap saving gold won't be necessary - take your pick

And my current #1:
* take a two week vacation away from WoW at launch - the game won't be playable anyway