Posted by Juggynaut on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 - 29 Comments
Tags: Ashes of Al'ar, attumen, dannydarko, epic, firey warhorse, first kill, kael, kael'thas, kael'thas sunstrider, Karazhan, 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.
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By Sathas on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
first and gratz
By Atomsk on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
very nice, that mount is sure a rare one ^^
By Morbus on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
well done. I’m posing in Shattrath on my warrior on his headless horseman’s mount =P
By Bastosa on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Meanwhile Bast is still riding around on his rickety old broom…
By Eugen on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
lol gratz u guys really got lucky
By Steven on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
lucky im not even lvl 70 yet (lvl65) and u got a really lucky drop and lucky loot
By Gene on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Holy freaking grats. Thats all I have to say about that.
By Rob on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Wow, that’s a good night of raiding. Congratulations!
By Mctucker on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
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
By cocopuffs on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
cool thats awsome i never seen anyone have thatt mound mound and axualy own one is just awsome congratulation you like bastard
By Mike on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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!
By Ewok Ninja on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Gratz Danny, that’s a sweet mount. One day I’ll join a guild that raids.
One day…
By chickenlord on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Whats with the warlock? his mount isn’t special… and gratz !
PS. Dannydarko…………………….you suck!
By Talonni on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
The warlock is showing the contrast between the different fiery demon horse mounts. Plus warlocks are special regardless of what mount they are on!
By Mctucker on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Don’t mind Tal, we told him the same thing when we took this picture.
By Jato on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
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.
By Jato on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
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.
By Jowen on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 2:54 am
gratz
By UltimateWolf on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 5:04 am
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?
By Simon on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 5:39 am
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
By Josh on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 5:50 am
I still think it’s a myth…
By Opius on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am
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
By Nûguns on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 10:18 am
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
By Creepysockz on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
@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!
By Lifedragon on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
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.
By ThoMage on Saturday, November 1st, 2008 at 4:51 am
I my god it was harsh work and grinding rune cloth for the drake but i got it… (the clue is the home citys and the talbuks)
and i got 4600g and no riding skill… darnn…
and btw if some1’s headin for the drake or just want a hell lot of runecloth, go grind at Exdpedition Armory in Hellfire, just bellow Honor Hold… the knights drop 3 each kill…. good stuff
By Envane on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 am
My guild (Obsidium on Frostmane) just finished the “For the Horde” Achievement , slaying the faction leaders in the 4 capital citys.
So now we have 40 Black War Bears .. and over inflated egos .
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/4708/wowscrnshot110208072656jb9.jpg
we had the most trouble with king magni bronzebeard in ironforge .. he has some evil abilitys that ripped us apart the first few attempts .. and allies constantly trying to save him , it is almost impossible .. almost
heh it ended up being the dertermination to raid at 7am server time when allies were mainly asleep .. combined with the immense concentration required to tank a lvl80+ boss.
but despite that .. the phoenix mount kicks everythings ass
By rockeroad on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 10:13 am
Gratz, though they upped the droprate on those mounts BTW. All of the really low ones were upped.
By Feralface on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I found it quite amazing at the absolute hating going on in all the chats on TRG and Danny for having the mount, Being a TRG member myself, I got into the fray. Now, I may be known as a shy, quiet and reserved person, but getting into a good e-peen battle is always fun. When guilds complain that a ‘noob’ guild shouldn’t be able to get the mount on their first drop, I responded with, “Well, you guys didnt get Illidan down before the nerf, does that make you noobs?” With no response, I felt the battle was mine. As yes, I am drinking whiskey.
TRG Token Drunk Bear, Feralface.