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I mentioned this in a previous post (ok, lots of previous posts), but here at Vortex, we like doing things our own way. For example, our next kill:


Looking over some other progression reports, it's obvious that most other guilds take a progression path that we have (prioritizing Heroic Ultraxion over Heroic Hagara, for example). We do things a little differently here (which is no surprise to those who've been following us for a while).

Heroic Hagara represents the natural progression of the regular mode of the fight. As usual, everything hits harder and is more complex to navigate (that complexity also led to this fight being one of the more buggy (and exploited!) encounters in the tier), but there aren't any major new mechanics to adapt to (aside from the aforementioned bugs!), but chaining together clean execution of those phases repeatedly is a nasty business or we'd h...

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Apparently we ate far, FAR too much during the Holidays because we haven't had the occasion to post about our progression work in almost a month! Let's fix that:


As always, we've kept ourselves busy even though things have been quiet on the progression front. We've continued our weekly Dragon Soul clears while juggling the beginning of the school year, some winter doldums and occasional trips to Heroic Firelands to work towards our second legendary staff. We've also tackled bosses out of the traditional order (in true Vortex fashion!) and now we can show off some of the results of that work!

Heroic Zon'ozz is a great example of some excellent tuning of the part of Blizzard with regards to the Dragon Soul heroics. He/she/it is a complete pushover on regular - there's a fair amount of AoE damage during the black phases, but that's basically it. On heroic, however, the fight...

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We also wanted to take a break from our regular posts and wish all our visitors Happy (and safe!) Holidays from Vortex. We'll be on a slightly reduced raid schedule as we relax with friends and family, but wanted to leave you with a picture from our annual White Elephant gift exchange (which is always a blast).


As always, thanks for your support! We're looking forward to sharing our progress with you as we move into 2012.