Three week ago the Ravens made a return to Molten Core.

Half dozen toons were run through the attunement process, then we charged in, pretty much rubbing out whatever came in our path. Although I do remember some tricky bits with comments along the lines of 'think how hard this would be to coordinate with 40 of us'.

I'm sure some people have better recollection of events than I... I think I was on port that night and in any case was too busy taking photos to really pay attention.

So here they are, Blayse's travel snaps:

on our way


trouble with fire

Patchwerk fell on our first attempt:

First up, we cleared Obsidian Sanctum on our second attempt:

Like all public spirited people, the Ravens felt compelled to do their civic duty now many are resident in Dalaran, providing relieve for the the guards in the maximum security prison that is the Violet Hold. Of course, we faced a number of challenges from the troublesome blue dragonflight but prevailed (and in fact going on to do "overtime" and beating back three more waves of attacks, with only one slight misshap). Looking at the rewards gained, I'm sure there'll be many more volunteers for guard duty in this place too (and its such a long way from the civic amenities ...)

Delayed from last week, the Ravens ventured into Drak'Tharon Keep yester-eve and had a whale of a time. Somewhat more linear than Ahn'Kahet, we were able to push through it in good time and complete a couple of quests (including a 'chapter end' for a long storyline quest chain) and got a decent amount of cash and loot (Prophet profit?). In fact, after doing a group quest chain in Zul'Drak, we ran the instance again, 4-manning the second half of the run as Riv was having PC issues.

Loot was superb - with drops and quest rewards, Andro ended up replacing 5 outland epics with blues (neck, legs, chest, ring, wrists) and upgraded the blue hat she picked up in UK. Most others got nice stuff too: Gradjo got some tanking trousers, Valks had a hat and shield, and Psia had a not-so-pretty hat too.

A somewhat belated post, but on Thursday 27th November a gang of Ravens ventured into the second Azjol Nerub instance, Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom. As ever, we went in cold ... and as a result found AK somewhat more challenging than the previous instances. Nonetheless, we persevered and (after lots of accidental pulls and a while learning one of the boss fights) eventually fought our way through to Herald Volazj who was, it has to be said, a fun fight! The run ended up being considerably longer than anticipated, and so the planned second run (to Drak'Tharon Keep) was put on hold for a week).