Our first Anub hard mode kill, after a couple of grueling nights battling disconnects. 32 attempts remaining – not bad for our first full clear, and considering that we have only been doing TotGC for a couple of weeks! (we did Beasts back in September, but then spent time focusing on Mimiron in Ulduar).

We’re gathering momentum now that we’re back in the saddle and getting some new gear – shouldn’t be too long before we have our drakes and we can go give Algalon a try.

After a few hard modes early in the week, we rounded out our second week of raiding with Vezax and Yogg-1. The tally for this week:

• 14.09.09 – Three Lights in the Darkness (Yogg-Saron)
• 14.09.09 – I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning (General Vezax)
• 13.09.09 – Lose Your Illusion (Thorim)
• 13.09.09 – I Could Say This Cache Was Rare (Hodir)
• 09.09.09 – Heartbreaker (XT002)

Fantastic week!

We rounded out our first raiding week by killing Yogg, and then went back for Iron Council (Runemaster last). We decided to have a try at Trial of the Grand Crusader (10) before the raid reset, just to see what the damage was like. Turns out we’re slightly undergeared. But it was great for a laugh.

Back to Ulduar and heroics (and maybe some weekend PuGs) for more gear before we try that one again!

Great work this week – next week we’ll be knocking over as many Ulduar hard modes as we can.


Recruiting – holy pally

We could really use a good holy pally so that we don’t have to rely on people swapping characters all the time. If you’re interested in applying, please read our Expectations page, and then apply on the forums.



This week is our first official week of raiding after reforming. We’ve been spending time getting reacquainted, running heroics for achievements and badges, and generally having a bit of fun.

Last night was our first “real” raid – a clear of ToC10(N).


Great first raid everyone, last night was fun and smooth – we haven’t lost our touch

From here we are setting our sights on Ulduar hard modes, and Trial of the Grand Crusader, with a view to doing Tribute runs. Looks like I’m going to have to get a lot better at PvP bosses..


Welcome

Finally, welcome to our new members, and to our returning members – it’s good to have you on board!

A quick reminder for returning members – most old members are welcome to come back; but we may not have space in raids for you (getting a bit squeezy now). If you’d like to come back and chill with the crowd, you’ll still need to put in an application – just to be fair for everyone.





Alliance and Horde of Caelestrasz – you are invited to come along to a Kara speed clear challenge. Grab a team, sign up (see below) and let’s zerg Karazhan and see how fast we can drop the bosses.

There’s a 1000g prize to be split between the winning team members, plus a whole bunch of random prizes for coming along.



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Details

This is something that we did back at level 70 when 3.0 hit, and we all got our new abilities – to see how fast we could clear the place. The fastest team took ~45 minutes to clear all bosses (except the beast boss).

The bosses themselves only take about 10 minutes; the bulk of the time is actually spent travelling through the instance, and I suspect this time it will be much faster because at level 80 it will be easier to bypass a lot of trash. Plus, the trash that can’t be bypassed will probably be nuked down in a few seconds, so I’m kinda picturing this long winding train of players and mobs weaving through the halls of Karazhan…

Here are the best boss kill times from way back then:



• 44s Attumen

• 55s Moroes
• 29s Maiden
• 27s Opera
• 2m27s Nightbane
• 48s Curator
• 36s Illhoof
• 48s Aran
• 48s Netherspite
• 1m12s Prince

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Rules


A WoW Meter Online report must be provided to me after the event to verify that you killed everything.
I’m not pointing fingers, but some people like to be “creative” and.. skip things. Every boss in Kara must die – except the silly animal boss. You can skip as much trash as you like, but all of the bosses (including both dragons, but excluding the animal boss downstairs) have to die.


Time starts from the first trash pull before Attumen.
If your parse starts with you killing Attumen, I’ll be able to tell you’re trying to cheat (by a whopping 10 or 20 seconds..). Don’t do that. The parse has to start with the first trash pull, and end with Prince’s death.


If there are any weird discrepancies in your log, you’ll be disqualified.
Don’t rip me off.


The entire team has to be present for each boss.
Split logs, because half your team went to fight Aran and half stayed to do something else, will just make things confusing. Besides, it’s meant to be a team effort, right? So stick together.


Stack whatever you want.
I suggest minimal healing, I doubt you’ll need much..


All teams zone in at the same time.
There shouldn’t be anyone else at Kara opening the gate, so the best way to do it is to have both teams standing back while I stand at the gate, yell GO! and open it for them. Please respect this. Wait for Keeva/Kiiva to tell you to go.


When you’re done, run back down to me as fast as you can!
I’ll still need to verify the winning team from the reports, though.




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Prizes

You need to nominate a team and members to be eligible for prizes.
This is just to make it easier for me. Please nominate your team members, so that I can send out prize money and random prizes later. If I don’t have your name, you can’t win!

Nominate your team members by commenting below.

WINNERS
For this challenge I will be donating 1000g prize money (of my own), meaning that the winning 10 people will take home 100g each. They will also win the admiration and adoration of the entire server.


LOSERS
The losers will receive naught but my eternal scorn.


AMG BONUS PRIZES!!!!!111
Everyone who signs up has a chance to win a bonus random prize. So you could score some phat lewtz just by coming along and having a go.

Example prizes:

• bags

• epic gems
• toys
• vanity pets
• consumables
• novelty items
• enchanting mats





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For people new to the Caelestrasz server, Inexorable (formerly Absolution) was the leading raid guild in Sunwell and early WotLK, picking up almost all of the server first raiding achievements, plus 3 drakes, 6 min Maly, black protos, etc.


Unfortunately as we hit the end of Ulduar it was clear that everyone had different ideas of how much we should be raiding, how fast we wanted to progress, etc. This caused big problems (you can’t convince people to want something more than they actually do).. and we ended up splitting up as a result. Many people moved onto other progression guilds, while others took a break from raiding (or from the game entirely) for nearly 3 months – but we missed the Inexorable family. Lately more and more of us have been wandering back to do heroics together or just hang out. We’re itching to do something though, to get back into raiding – but without so much pressure. So, true to our name, we haven’t gone away. We are going to reform Inexorable, with a view to raiding 10 man content, both now and in the next expansion.




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We don’t want to push for server firsts anymore, and we’re not interested in running 25s if it means that we have to keep dragging a dozen slackers along with us. We miss raiding but we don’t have time for people who want to waste our time by not pulling their weight. 25s may happen again sometime in the future, but for now we aren’t really interested in them.


We’re ready to get back into raiding, without the drama, without the BS, without the hangers-on, and without the long hours. The smaller raid size leaves less room for slackers, whiners, bads, and leeches, of which we have pretty much had our fill. We want to be a close-knit guild that enjoys raiding and progressing at a decent pace, without breaking our necks to get server firsts.


We’re just over the garbage, and those of us who remain are more interested in playing with people we like being around and seeing the content, than in comparing server first titles, having epeen battles, and being in uber leet guilds with bragging rights. I’d rather be in a 10 man guild full of great people than a world first guild full of people I can’t stand to be around, just so I can check off my hardmode achievements and stand around on the Dalaran bank steps and have people inspect me.


Having said that though, we still have high standards for behaviour and skill; it’s just that our schedule will be much more relaxed and we won’t be pushing for firsts. Our raid nights at the moment will be Wed, Thu, 7:30 invites for an 8:00pm start, finishing at 11pm (occasionally 11:30), and Sunday 6:30pm/7:00 to 10:00pm.

So – if you’re:

• an old friend who wants a break from the hardcore scene and to come play with us again

• someone who wanted to join us in the past but couldn’t commit to the hardcore raiding schedule
• someone we don’t know yet but would like to raid 10 man content with a solid, skilled group


then feel free to submit an application or send me a PM if you have any questions.

See you around Cael sometime!

~ Keeva