Well, this was a long time coming, after making good progress pre nerf, and being in the position of working out final transitions and fine tuning sadly the nerf hit and took away the requirements that we had spent practising, but it was what it was and the boss was taken down. In my opinion this was probably the worst designed fight Blizzard have ever come up with, in this guild we've been there for dps checks when they were dps checks pre nerf-pre fix etc, everything from Patchwerk through Brutallus and Muru and others, this however wasn't a dps check, it was can you bring enough of a certain class/spec, and thats not the way raids should be designed.

Never the less everyone who was asked to play an alt, or step out and especially the friend ranks who took the time out to step back up to the raiding roster and help us, we wouldn't have been in the position we are in without you and I've probably thanked each of you individually, but this is the public thanks.

We're now left with Madness up and we'll be done with Cataclysm and start our preparations for Mists of Pandaria, hopefully that news post will follow this one shortly!

Well I guess a few things about this post were late, the kill itself was slower than we should have been due to one or two issues we had after our Ultraxion kill, and also this post should have been put up way back on Monday the 16th, but I've been tied up so here it is, delayed but up!

Once we put some time into Warmaster there wasnt much to say, its a survival fight that once you make it out of the first phase with enough dps to stay on top of adds is a fairly straightforward encounter, a more fun gunship than the ICC one, but never the less not exactly befitting of the 6th boss in the last instance of the expansion in my opinion.

Given this post is late I can speak a bit about what has happened since, we are currently progressing on spine and going along nicely, just looking for some additions to our roster both for spine/madness and also into Mists of Pandaria so even if your class isn't highlighted on the side of the page, we always consider exceptional applications.

It's been a while since I've made any posts here! After stopping all progression raids for 2 weeks over Christmas and New Years we've finally got ourselves back in the swing of things and after only starting Ultraxion tonight it was down by the end of the raid.

Given the break period away from progression it was good to see it go down so quickly which can only be a good omen for Warmaster and satisfying that we have stayed infront on 25 man progression and are closing in on the ten man guilds. It has been a hard period for a lot of guilds with Christmas/Star Wars and general burn out with Cataclysm coming to its conclusion taking its toll on rosters so to take Ultraxion down in 1 day was an achievement that truly reflects on the attitudes of those within Balance and one we intend to build upon in the coming resets.