Hellfire Citadel (Curtesy of Discipline Priest Unbleached)

Hellfire Citadel (Curtesy of Discipline Priest Unbleached)

Hellfire Citadel is the last and most difficult raid in Draenor. Unbleached, now unencumbered by secrecy, raided Hellfire Citadel with her guild last night.

Unbleached knew she would be outclassed by her fellow healers. It had, after all, been over 6 months since she entered the 'hallowed' halls when they first opened. The rest of her guild has had plenty of time to pillage its coffers and she was not even breaking an i score of 700; 720 being the guild minimum now.

She has been able to sneak some idea of untouched fights by going into lfr on her downtime, but not much since lfr is such a clownfest. When she entered the gates and joined in the Hellfire Assault she found it MUCH easier than it used to be. Helps when everyone are tough enough that they eat rocks for breakfast. Gates, down. Iron Reaver, down.

Kormrok down, on second try. This wrapped up the Hellbreach area, and she was not too unknowing of the strats as she feared. She even asked how she ranked in healing (she did not have recount installed) and was happy to see she was 3rd in line of 5 healers, close behind the 2nd.

Next her group moved to the Halls of Blood and took on the Hellfire High Council. Unbleached knew she'd done this with the guild before, but for the life of her could not recall it. Luckily they called out instructions and the fight did not seem too complicated.  The Council was defeated on the first attempt.

Kilrogg Deadeye was next. Unbleached knows they attempted him on Normal but was a bit foggy on if they ever got him down while she was still active. Luckily she was not asked to go into any other realms as a healer. Deadeye had Aknor Steelbringer (the orc whom all people meet as they enter Dreanor) and was trying to bring him to heel as a felslave. Deadeye was down on the first try and Aknor Steelbringer became one of Unbleached followers. Apparently he was happy to be out of there. Halls of Blood completed.

Lastly we moved into the Bastion of Shadows and took on Shadow-Lord Iskar, a humanoid bird with the powers of wind to his call. Not sure how many times we attempted him, 6-10 likely, before we got him down, but he went down in the final 10 minutes of our raid. One of the main things that is deadly to the raid is his tornado. He casts out tornadoes on 2 to 6 players. At the same time two 'eyes' goes out. The players that get the eye need to throw it to a tornadoed individual, which gets them out of it. Once all the tornadoes are done, it is thrown to a designed tank and healer. If you do not take care of the tornadoes you are swept off the ledge to your death. If the tank or healer does not get it at the end, they cannot stop certain bombs from exploding and killing the raid.

There are other things that can go awry and kill everyone, but this is the top one. Luckily there is an addon that makes tossing the eye pretty easy. The only thing though, if you are the last person to get it, is make sure you toss it to the tank/healer. In the end, like I mentioned, we got him down.

Unbleached, at the end of the night, had a few hundred in repair bills, and made out with 4 upgrades. They are not perfect upgrades (she seems to not be getting anything with the crit she wants), but they are better than what she is wearing as a whole.

Bastian of Shadows still has some bosses to be cleared out, and there is one more wing after that before the end boss, but Unbleached may not have good odds of getting to them. She is just going for one night a week raiding, which means first bosses only.

PS: Unbleached reached gear level i704!