First run of Upper Blackrock Spire
Congratulations to us all! Hellfire Club has finally gotten to a new level of instances with Necromage attaining the final part of the key for UBRS, the Gemstone of Spirestone, from Highlord Omokk in LBRS. After what seems like a half dozen or more runs in total for it, we picked it up last night and rushed to Dustwallow Marsh to beat Emberstrife into submission and Hellfire Club now has the key to Upper Blackrock Spire!
Of course, running UBRS (OO-Bers) and successfully finishing it are two different things. However, to commemorate the occasion I made sure we had a Kodak Moment (click the picture for a larger version):
Needless to say we had some challenges, primarily due to the facts that:
- We had a party of 9 vs. 10,
- About 1/3 of the party was less than level 60,
- Maanae (Shaman - 56)
- Paed (Priest - 59)
- Necromage (Mage - 60)
- Dixi (Priest - 60)
- Gorysh (Rogue - 60)
- Skykomish (Warrior - 57)
- Ungulataur (Shaman - 60)
- Jalo (Hunter - 60)
- and Bigjj (Hunter - 53)
- This was our first time in UBRS as a guild, and
- I lost power at my house right after the Rookery for about 45 minutes.
Once I got back in we had one final wipe as wave after wave of elite Dragonkin, Whelpings, and Blackrock Orcs laid siege upon us in a room with no escape; but at least no one clicked on any of the rookery eggs accidentally, inadvertantly pulling a Leeroy Jenkins! So, at around 2:30AM we decided to call it quits, but not without a sense of accomplishment.
Hellfire Club FTW!!!
Vaharneim replied:
Before we even got to Emberstrife, the nasty level 61 black dragon, we had additional help from Unezrest (Mage - 60) and Zanka (Hunter - 60). It only took three attempts on Omakk to get the gem: 45, 30, and 25 minutes respectively, and gave us some experience on overpowering instances, how to reset, raid management, etc.
Oh yeah, and it was a hell of a lot of fun…
Granted, there wasn’t as much phat lewt as a usual Friday Night Run, but we know Dixi won’t be complaining (the only one to score phat lewt in UBRS).
Gorysh replied:
Well… WRT the number of attempts, I meant the total number of dedicated runs; not just that night.
Yes! Mucho thanks to Unezrest and Zanka for the pre-UBRS help!!!
Can’t wait to go again!