Today we got our first glimpse of Thaddius after dropping Gluth. After a rousing few attempts on the doggie Infurion came up with a great strategy which he made very easy to understand with this quality strat diagram. Please drop some loose change into Inf's hat so that he can further his education, for our sake.





As you can see above, the dozens of 65,000+ hp adds don't despawn when he dies, requiring you to kill them after you drop Gluth, wasting precious moments when your Warriors and Rogues could be equipping Frost Resist gear!

All in all, it was a fun fight and that brings our boss-count up to 10, bumping us back up to the top 10 US Horde guilds, according to World of Raids. Great job guys, it's good to see everyone back into the swing of things, and it's only Thursday!

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Welcome back to the Predestined news page, friendly readers! The last few days we went up against Gothik the Harvester who seemed very comfortable up in his balcony and for a while refused to even come down and talk to us. Eventually we convinced him to come down briefly and visit with us, but our talks never ended in a friendly way. Instead, he violated us with Shadowbolts, giggled, and ported back up to his balcony.

It was only when we happened across a Secret Weapon to use against Gothik that we triumphed over him and looted the fabulous frost resist gear he was clutching so tightly under his robe. What secret weapon, you ask? Well, it all started when we reminisced about high school, ..

Gothik takes the easy way out after Cromatin rejects his sexual advances..


Earlier in the week, we had an encounter with Heigan, who apparently is a DDR-obsessed Korean in disguise. After unplugging his Playstation so that we could watch some wholesome, quality television we turned around to find his corpse, complete with requisite frost resist gear.

Heigan sneaks up behind us and dies.

Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Predestined News page. Due to federal regulations governing online advertising of online gaming guilds, we must pause briefly for a public service announcement:

Don't do drugs, kids, and don't smoke anything not attached to a groin!


Yes, we finally killed Patchwerk! It took enormous amounts of effort (consumables), strategy (heal spamming), and dedication (cross-server transfers) but we "played" with that fat-ass until he keeled over and coughed up mediocre loot. After summoning some level 54 Undead Rogue to loot the corpse for 20g, we moved on to the Frogger mini-game. Er, I mean the incredibly clever pathway to Grobbulus, filled with slimes crossing a narrow stretch which explode upon impact, killing anyone who touches them. It was this gimmicky little pathway where we discovered the true calling of shamans! Just as Mages are now portal-summoners and Druids are Feral DPS, Shamans are the ferry-men of the game, allowing us to cross stupidly-designed dangerous areas easily.

Ferrymen or Fairy Men? You be the judge..


So, after discovering the true use of Shamans on raids, we moved on to Grobbulus. After some negotiations which mainly involved him flailing his poison injector at us (grow up, no one needs to see that..) we managed to strike a deal for our safe passage. Grobbulus in fact wanted some heavy anal loving, and Ocnarian was quick to volunteer. In fact, Ocnarian actually suggested it before we even spoke to Grobbulus. He wanted to have anal sex with Patchwerk and the exploding slimes as well. Actually.. I think.. I think he's violating my anus right now.. Oh, you silly horny bear, Ocnarian! *hair-ruffle*

Ocnarian performs in front of an audience, as Choriok giggles..