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Normally we'd put a kill picture here, but our resident kill picture guru apparently now has a social life (read: a girlfriend) and doesn't have as much time to polish our kill pictures to a high shine like we demand =)

No matter though! We killed a turtle! Just visualize a dead Tortos....surrounded by a bunch of skeletons...and some triumphant raiders! Ahh, isn't it a glorious mental picture?

EDIT: We've got an actual picture now!


The fight itself isn't far different than the original, but adds in the concept of a chargable shield to help mitigate the amplified damage that's par for the course in heroic raiding. The shield absorbs healing up to 75% of the maximum players' health - effectively becoming a giant Power Word: Shield. The catch is, of course, without properly managing your ...

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While we got off to a much slower start than we had hoped to this tier of content, we're slowly finding our stride and are happy to share these two kills with you.

Heroic Jin'Rokh turns a relatively calm and straight forward fight into a much more frenzied, yet structured version of the original. Dealing with the Ionization debuff is relative straight forward, but gets harder and harder as space becomes more constrained as the fight goes on. Likewise, the changes to the Lightning Storm mechanic emphasizes individual survival as you dodge clusters of lightning orbs and combat the constant damage inflicted on you by the Storm.


Heroic Ji-Kun is an extremely regimented version of the original encounter. It cuts out virtually all of the wiggle room present in the original and forces a raid team to intricately plan group movements to make sure that nests (and their attendant ...

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These kills aren't our real news, but we had to include this post just to prove that we had gotten them! =)