Adept Guild

LK @ 0% + That US 2nd Halion Kill we forgot to post about.

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:16:50 +0000

We had been wanting to try out LK @ 0% for quite some time now however decided there was no real point as it was assumed that there is no achievement/rewards. Even with this however we decided to give it a shot this week after hearing about Paragon, and yes as expected we managed to do the encounter without using the hellscream buff . We did the fight relatively quickly and finished off on 45/50 attempts left, as you can see the composition wasn’t exactly optimal, using an enhancement shaman vs a frost DK was probably the biggest difference, unfortunately the fight is very unfriendly for enhance due to the lack of cleave abilities.

Since the day of 20% we split our raid into two groups, both with mains and alts in each group to farm ICC in preparation for Halion (we hoped it would be a lot harder than it actually was, and we ended up doing a split raid on the second week just to put pressure on recruits, both groups killed it). We are yet to miss a kill in our split groups and all I can say is that WoTLK is now 100% cleared for Adept.

We will continue to run our two raids farming LK each week along with Halion and messing around on the Cataclysm Beta, and we are hoping to get a few more players to solidify our roster for Cataclysm *cough* Safari *cough* .

Seeing as this was the first all mains run in a very long time, here is the WMO / WOL + Kill Picture and also WMO Placings for the first 11 bosses using 30% buff:

WMO 11/12: http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/log/1838509

WMO LK @ 0%: http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/log/1838707

WOL 11/12 @ 30% + LK @ 0%: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/k1hwh0stv0hklkbq

Video: Ret Pally POV:

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWYRHc7vrZE

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn95bmkqd0k

Still to come: Holy Pally + Feral POV

WMO Placings (US Only):

Adept 1st Marrowgar
Adept 2nd LDW
Adept 5th Saurf (4 healers)
Adept 3rd Fester
Adept 4th Rotf
Adept 5th PP
Adept 8th Sindra
Adept 9th Princes (no lust)
Adept 11th BQL (no lust)

Qt 1st BQL (2400 dps lead)
Qt 1st PP (2000 dps lead)
Qt 2nd LDW
Qt 4th Rotface
Qt 9th Fester
Qt 8th Marrow
Qt 17th Princes

Quoo 1st LDW (1500 dps lead)
Quoo 1st Rotf (150 dps lead)
Quoo 7th Marrow
Quoo 10th Princes
Quoo 18th Fester

Swoelol 4th LDW
Swoelol 9th Sindra

Ibbin 1st Fester (750 dps lead)
Ibbin 1st Marrow (650 dps lead)
Ibbin 1st LDW (500 dps lead)
Ibbin 1st Saurf
Ibbin 1st Rotface
Ibbin 2nd PP
Ibbin 2nd Princes

Qiin 1st PP (650 dps lead)
Qiin 2nd Fester
Qiin 2nd Princes
Qiin 4th Saurf
Qiin 9th LDW
Qiin 12th Marrow

Gaunty 3rd Marrow
Gaunty 10th LDW

Mek 1st Saurf (600 dps lead)
Mek 7th Rotf
Mek 11th LDW
Mek 11th Sindra

Valz 1st Rotf (1500 dps lead)
Valz 1st LDW (1100 dps lead)
Valz 1st Marrow (1000 dps lead)
Valz 3rd Princes
Valz 5th Saurf
Valz 10th Fester

Tixl 3rd LDW
Tixl 4th Rotf
Tixl 8th Saurf
Tixl 13th Princes

Forest 2nd Marrow
Forest 19th Rotf

Mokg 1st Rotf (800 dps lead)
Mokg 1st Princes (550 dps lead)
Mokg 2nd Fester
Mokg 4th Marrow
Mokg 4th Sindra
Mokg 9th LDW
Mokg 11th PP

Charlie 3rd Rotf
Charlie 18th Princes
Charlie 20th BQL (2nd bite)

Katryna 1st Rotf

Ryux 1st Fester (300 dps lead)
Ryux 2nd Rotf
Ryux 3rd Marrow
Ryux 3rd Saurf
Ryux 12th LDW
Ryux 15th Princes

Slaught 1st Fester (900 dps lead)
Slaught 2nd Marrow
Slaught 2nd LDW
Slaught 3rd Rotf
Slaught 5th Saurf
Slaught 17th PP

Mosh 1st Rotf (600 dps lead)
Mosh 3rd Marrow
Mosh 4th Sindra
Mosh 10th LDW

Shino 1st Rotf (700 dps lead)
Shino 8th Princes
Shino 12th Fester
Shino 13th LDW
Shino 18th Sindra

LK 25 Down – End of Tier 10

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:17:27 +0000

Surprised it took US guilds so long to kill this, and its fortunate Premonition actually got the kill, it would have been an embarrasment to the US raiding scene if a Australian guild managed to kill the most ping intensive encounter in the game, watching the videos of euro’s managing to get a icon and then run out, compared to having to plan and “pre drop” defiles was rather humorous.

We should have got a kill 2 weeks ago but bad play prevented the finishing blow, last week our attempts got griefed so we had to settle for a 15% kill, which is rather dissapointing. With that said here’s a pie chart of our attempts!

Would also like to say a massive gratz to Paragon, I don’t think any guild is as strong as them right now, it’s truly impressive. We wish we could have gotten a higher ranking but I think just about every US guild is having or just overcome troubles with players and recruitment, top it all off with attempts being wasted thanks to Australian internet and a bit of raid hijacking and bam there goes any shot at a higher rank.

To the person who hijacked our instance last week, FUCK YOU, if it was anyone from other US guilds just gotta say that’s really bad sportsmanship. Other than that overall I am happy with our world 10th finish, still the highest ranking any oceanic guild has achieved and we are only going to go further. I really cannot express the way I feel about all you guys, this has been the most fun in WoW that I’ve ever had and I can’t imagine it without you guys .

Here is a picture of our guild roster – there may be a few members missing.

Also planning to expand Adept into many different games, FPS / Strategy and whatnot so that’s something to look out for in the future.

Video will be uploaded as a dual POV of Breesy (Holy Paladin) and Jabkmoo (Feral Tank), will update this post when it is ready

Adept – #1 US Guild for ICC 10m (World 4th)

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:16:00 +0000

Monday March 15, Adept goes into ICC 10 man with 6 attempts left after a heartbreaking 15% wipe due to a combination of errors the previous night at 13 attempts left. We missed out on World 3rd due to ‘Emergency Server Shutdown’

We set out confident, ready to kill the Lich King and unfortunately we had another 13% wipe this time with 3 attempts left.

2 Attempts left we had someone get hit by Shadow Trap – eventually leading to a wipe.

Last attempt 1 out of 35 we manage to play absolutely perfect, and we were 80s ahead of the enrage.

Adept #1 US guild for ICC

U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A…. AUS?

Here is a link to the UI used in the video:

http://adeptguild.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Breesy-UI.zip

If you require help please post on our forums – Links in the sidebar

A-U-S, A-U-S, A-U-S

Part 1/2

Part 2/2

Heroic: Professor Putricide – World 9th, US 5th, Oceanic 1st

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:30:29 +0000

Really should have had a kill last week, with a 1% wipe that was mostly due to someone being offline for all of P3. Was pretty disappointing not getting the kill last week – would have been great to get US 1st – but grats to Exodus, and we downed it with few problems this week

Its a pretty hectic & fun fight, so much can go wrong so quickly along with a tight DPS burn at the end. I just wish we could play at the latency that US / EU players get. WTB Oceanic servers.

Video for Sindragosa + Professor will be up soon. Subscribe to our Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TheAdeptGaming

P.S. We’re always looking for great players – at the moment we’re especially interested in Holy Paladins, Resto Shamans, Resto Druids, Affliction Warlocks, and anyone who is just flat-out amazing.

The boss despawned before we managed to get lined up for the screenshot

Heroic: Sindragosa – World 6th, US 2nd, Oceanic 1st

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:19:36 +0000

Heroic: Sindragosa – World 6th, US 2nd, Oceanic 1st

What a fight, so much can go wrong from just a single player error. Honestly thought we’d get it earlier however (as usual) we had issues with people disconnecting, which can really make it hard.

First Week of Hard Modes

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:17:27 +0000

We started up about 10am Server Time (which was basically as soon as the server came online). At this point we’d already heard that vodka had Marrowgar down – but by the end of our raid we’d managed to catch up and are currently sitting at 8/12. We only have the limited attempt bosses left so we will be playing more cautiously from here and hopefully getting some more kills soon.

Going to post each hard mode + rank + a comment along with YouTube links for the video as soon as they are uploaded.

Update: we will have 3-4 new videos released soon

Heroic: Blood Queen Lana’thel – World 7th, US 4th, Oceanic 1st

Pretty hectic enrage timer, leaving no room for error with bites. Unfortunately we wiped once on this encounter due to a lag spike causing a mind control. Came back next attempt, and using the Guido Fist Pump Vortex Hyperdrive Inverted Mega Man Cleave Strat we were able to record a kill . Video from Jabkmoo/Breesy coming soon!

Heroic: Blood Prince Council – World 2nd, US 2nd, Oceanic 1st

Pretty interesting fight, in the normal mode you learn to move a lot… and then in the hard mode theres a new element which requires less movement.

Unfortunately I don’t think we have any fraps however will upload as soon as possible if we do!

Heroic: Valithria Dreamwalker – World 3rd, US 3rd, Oceanic 1st

At this point we had been raiding for quite a while, and while its a pretty easy fight, 250+ms makes picking up the orbs quite a pain. Still, boss down (or up, this case), time to move along!

Heroic: Rotface – World 2nd, US 2nd, Oceanic 1st

Again a fairly easy fight, but we had a very fast wipe on our first attempt (see video below). An actual kill video will be uploaded as soon as possible.

Heroic: Festergut – World 2nd, US 2nd, Oceanic 1st

Pretty easy fight, the only real difficulty is the enrage timer.

Heroic: Deathbringer Saurfang – World 3rd, US 4th, Oceanic 1st

This fight is going to hold a lot of guilds back (unless it gets nerfed), which is good except for the fact that the fight is extremely boring, and reliant on RNG. If Blood Boil stays off your squishier marked targets sub-30%, its fine, but if not…

Heroic: Gunship Battle – World 4th, US 4th, Oceanic 1st

Forgot to fraps, however its no different to normal mode. Quite disappointing – WTF blizzard?

Heroic: Lady Deathwhisper – World 5th, US 5th, Oceanic 1st

Spent quite a bit of time on Lady Deathwhisper. This fight was somewhat similar to M’uru with the addition of add spawns during phase 2. We spent quite a bit of time on this fight, and I can see a lot of guild being stuck here.

Heroic: Lord Marrowgar – World 3rd, US 3rd, Oceanic 1st

Killed on second attempt, was fairly easy fight that just required a bit of communication!

Lich King 25man – World 13th, US 4th, Oceanic 1st

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:09:43 +0000

Pretty fun fight, and much more challenging than we thought. After burning through 10 or so attempts on our alts we came in on our mains, and almost one shot it – but thanks to shitty Australian internet + terrible server lag we decided not to waste any more attempts on Sunday night.

We got right back in there today and proceeded to knock the Lich King off his throne with 16/20 attempts left

World of Logs Parse

Really looking forward to the new raiding week with hard modes being released on Wednesday. We’d also would like to make a mention of our friends in Tsunami – really hoping they get their lost attempts restored (their instance bugged out going from 14/20 on Sunday to -6/20 on Monday). Blizzard fix your shit!

Edit: Looks like Tsu got their attempts back GL guys!

Edit: Video of our kill is now available!

Part 1 of 2

Part 2 of 2

Lich King 10man – World 6th, US 2nd, Oceanic 1st

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:25:01 +0000

We started off cautiously this week, aiming to maximise our attempts on the Lich King. Our approach paid off in spades (the king of spades, even!), as we managed an early 10 man Lich King kill. With a few 10 mans yet to roll out, we’re planning to score a few more kills and set ourselves up nicely for 25 man Lich King attempts later this week.

edit: Video now Up! Scroll down to check it out!

Here is the kill shot for the first group to kill it, remember to click the picture for a larger image!

Here is the Adept vs Lich King 10 man Part 1 of 2 (Link to Part 2 is in the YouTube Summary)

We also have a ‘What not to do’ video thanks to Jabkmoo

Battle of the Best

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:16:53 +0000

We are proud to announce that Adept has been invited and will be participating in the Battle of the Best league.

http://www.battleofthebest.com/news/index.php?p=details&nid=6792

It should be a lot of fun

World First: Blood Princes & Blood-Queen Lana’thel

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:22:50 +0000

Woke up in the morning feeling like p diddy

Here is a screenshot of this week’s WMO Placings (click for full size)

#1 for Blood-Queen Lana’thel

#1 for Professor Putricide

#1 for Festergut (assuming the 1m56s parse is bugged)

#2 for Rotface