Since our last weekly update (three weeks ago), Big Crits’ progression team has continued knocking down the heroic bosses in Dragon Soul.  On December 16th, we downed Heroic Zon’ozz, but it took another couple of weeks to get Heroic Yor’sahj down, on December 29th.  The attendance boss reared his ugly head due to the holidays, which may have hampered the progression a bit, but the progression team pulled through late on Thursday moving to 4/8 hard mode.

This week the Raiders will be working on Heroic Ultraxion.  According to Raid Leader Basek, “Ultraxion is going to be extremely tough, a lot of our raiders are worried we will not have the DPS to match the enrage because of its extremely hard requirements. But we’ll handle it like we did Ragnaros.”

The progression team stands at U.S. 56th and world 189 with 4/8 Heroic Dragon Soul as of Monday January 2, 2012.

Da Crew News

The holiday attendance boss was beating on Da Crew a bit as well.  The fledgling 25 man run turned into a 10 man, and that 10 man did quite well.  The week before Christmas, they killed Ultraxion after they had struggled with that fight for a while on 25 man, and then went on to down Warmaster Blackhorn and the Spine of Deathwing.

The following week the 25 man had enough people to split into two 10 mans, one of those groups two-healed all the way through Spine of Deathwing.  Great job by healers Saltycracker and Oenomel (see video of that kill here).  Now that the holiday attendance issues are over, it looks like the Da Crew might be shuffling some people around to either flesh out the 25 man or perhaps end up with four 10 mans.

Comings and Goings

Big Crits has a few transplants from former Alliance guild on Sen’jin, Precedence.  There has actually been quite a bit of unholy intermingling between the two guilds, ever since one incredibly fun and impromptu night in Tol Barad early in the expansion.  So, when Precedence kind of closed up shop in 4.3, several of them ended up in Big Crits.  Two of those transplants have risen from Initiate status to Raiders on the progression team, the awesome Mesmerize and Tskae, Mage and Rogue.  Druid Fidlesticks was also promoted to Raider in December.

Mesmerize comes along just in time to fill a giant hole left by Heartshine, a Mage who has been with Big Crits for over a year.  Unfortunately, her work schedule changed, rendering her unable to raid with Big Crits.  She has returned to her home server, Tanaris, and joined the awesomely named guild, iPutOnMyRobeAndWizardHat.  We will certainly miss her and her stellar deeps, and hope she can return to us someday.