Since we've completed virtually all of the released content with our recent defeat of Anub'arak in the Trial of the Grand Crusader, we've been spending our time polishing our tactics and going back to complete some unfinished business that we'd left behind in Ulduar. Chief amongst those was Algalon, an observer sent by the Titans to analyze potential corruption on Azeroth. If he were to detect such corruption, his job was to sent a signal to the Titans to "re-originate" the planet, wiping it of all life in the process.

We had spent a bit of time with him prior to the release of the 3.2 patch, but weren't able to come back regularly as we worked our way through the Trial of the Grand Crusade. Now that we've got Anub'arak and company pretty well under control, we've been making a point of consistently making use of the full hour that we get to face Algalon on a weekly basis.

Algalon himself is a tough fight from a tank & healer standpoint. He hits hard, fast and there's widespread raid damage as well. There's also a great deal of environmental factor that requires good situational awareness from everyone in the raid.

Thankfully, those are all things we can bring to the table when we understand the mechanics of a fight and despite a bit of craziness towards the end, we were able to defeat Algalon on our 3rd pull of the evening this past Sunday. The kill, combined with some other achievements that we decided to knock out, helped us reach the World Top-10 in terms of 10-man Strict Achievements and the World Top-25 in terms of 10-man Strict Progression Achievements.