After our success in the Plagueworks of ICC last week, Vortex was eager to work on new content. Blizzard obliged us on that front last night by opening the Crimson Halls, the next to last section of Icecrown Citadel.

After carving our way through a bit of relatively simple trash, we stood in front of our first opponents - the Blood Prince Council. We've seen all three princes before in various WotLK locations, but all of their various abilities being used in a single area made for quite a few things to keep track of and a worthy challenge.

We originally tried to employee a ranged tank strategy on Prince Keleseth (the biggest wild card for us), but our intrepid warlock's health pool couldn't handle the hits coming in from Prince Keleseth when he became empowered. We needed a bigger health pool, so we went with the most natural choice: a large, smelly black bear!

From then on out, we had control of the fight. We had figured out how to communicate the things we needed to know during our previous wipes, so the fight simply became one of execution, which is something that we usually handle pretty well. Two pulls later, the Blood Princes were dead.

We also had a chance to take an initial look at Blood Queen Lana'thel, but only spent two attempts on her so we could take our time discussing the strategy we'd need to defeat her. Expect some news on that front soon!