The Ruby Sanctum is an extension to the Wyrmrest Temple Dragonflight Sanctum raids. Sacred grounds of the red dragons, the Ruby Sanctum was invaded by the Twilight dragonflight. Released in patch 3.3.5, it’s very similar to the Obsidian Sanctum – both in appearance and encounters. The Ruby Sanctum is guarded by his lieutenants Baltharus, General Zarithrian, and Saviana Ragefire - killing which unlocks the only real boss of the raid - Halion, the Twilight Destroyer…
Here’s the video of Clique’s 2nd 10-man Hard mode kill of Halion from our Rogue’s PoV.
Nothing really different from normal 10-man mechanics… just an extra Twilight Cutter beam in the Twilight realm which yet bisects the safe-zone into quarters, and that zones dropped will appear in both the Physical and Twilight realms. And of course, he hits harder.
Our 2nd 10-man group has also successfully defeated the Lich King on heroic difficulty! This means we now officially have 20 players with the “Bane of the Fallen King” title and are capable of defeating Heroic Lich King 25. Great work by both teams & let’s not forget those who had to be on standby ^_^.
And here’s the 2-part video of the guild’s first Bane of the Fallen King kill.
We’re currently recruiting many classes for a Heroic Lich King (25-man) kill, if you think you have what it takes – visit our Recruitment page for more information!
* As of Patch 3.3.5, AVR will cease to work! It was fun while it lasted… *
AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) allows you to draw and add lines, circles and other markings in-game environment itself. All markings may also be shared with others, but I assume they need to have the addon installed as well. Raid leaders will find this addon an extremely helpful tool for explaining strats to the raid. For example, it can be used to mark locations when explaining raid tactics. These marks can even be left visible for the fight itself. Say goodbye to all those flares!
To install: Copy the folder to your Addon folder, restart WoW and you’re good to go.
Other things you can do with AVR:
Draw range circles around you at any range
Clearly mark players close to you
Bossmods type things, currently adds a red circle on Festergut spores, Putriced Malleable Goo (one target only), Rotface ooze explosion and Sindragosa Frost beacons. (Requires BigWigs for these to work.)
Mark any location relative to player position and rotation, for example mage blink landing spot
Measure distances
Here’s a screenshot of how the addon looks like in game.
Here comes the best part. The coolest thing is that it integrates with another addon: “AVR Encounters” (aka AVRE) to provide visual effects to highlight various boss mechanics, “boosting” your raid awareness heaps. You can download the godly addonAVRE here.
Currently AVRE supports only some encounters in the Icecrown Citadel raid:
Icecrown Citadel: Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Festergut, Rotface, Professor Putricide, Blood Prince Council, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, The Lich King (does not work correctly after the platform collapses due to Blizzard zone coordinate bugs).
Ulduar: Hodir, Freya, Mimiron, General Vezax, Yogg-Saron.
Example videos:
These are some somewhat early examples of what AVR+AVRE can do. The graphics have been altered a bit since these videos were taken, but you get the idea.
Putricide (Unbound Plague):
Putricide (Malleable Goo):
Addon memory usage is surprisingly decent… ~780kb of addon memory usage in our Lich King attempts, way lower than some resource-intensive addons such as Grid or Recount. If you have a decent system, it doesn’t hurt your framerate very much. Yes, it does lower it some. If you have a slow computer or low frame rate already, I wouldn’t recommend using AVR/AVRE.
Overall, I think this is a really excellent addon and an extremely valuable tool for raid leaders to explain raid tactics precisely, accurately on the in-game environment. Coupled with AVRE, there is no reason for you to fail at certain boss fights now!
Only the Lich King stands in our way now, and we won’t stop until we get him down.
Great job everyone, especially those who managed to stay alive the whole fight.
Over the past week, some of our raiders have performed extraordinarily and were ranked #1 on World of Logs.
Though we discourage our raiders to stare at the meters while raiding, we do encourage some healthy competition & it’s a useful tool for improving yourself as a raider.
Anyway, on behalf of everyone in the guild… we would like to congratulate Orctimatum and Mitigator, on their rank #1 DPS and Healing Done on Lich King 10/25 man. It’s definitely not an easy feat, especially with Oceanic players having latencies of 300ms more than our American or European counterparts.
From wiping to easy mode mechanics like Ice Tombs & Frost Bombs last week, we finally got ourselves together and defeated Sindragosa (heroic) within a flask timer (3 attempts in fact).
We’re progressing very nicely now – jumping to rank 260 in WoWProgress at the time of our kill, and this is all thanks to everyone’s hard work! Excellent job to everyone in the raid and don’t be complacent. At this rate, we’ll be seeing heroic Lich King in no time…
Here’s the fraps of our kill. It wasn’t the cleanest but a kill nontheless.
We expected the heroic Valithria encounter to give us a real challenge and planned a whole night of attempts on her. Little did we expect to spend only 1 flask timer on the fight.
Great job to our healers once again, this time for getting the hang of bursting the balls in the portals, and to our DPSers for getting their kill priorities correct.
Everything went smoothly on our kill attempt, and healing was a breeze with all our portal healer’s stacks kept up high. We finished the encounter with more than a minute before her soft enrage.
For now, here’s a parse from WoL of healing done for last night.
With Festergut 25H over, we’re now 7/12 in ICC 25H and officially past the halfway mark, and another step closer to endgame.
Well done to everyone in the raid and stepping up their game. It was a very close one and we definitely need to work harder on our DPS to put this encounter on farm. No slacking guys!
Last night was rather a fruitful night for Clique. We defeated two end-wing encounters and received our first 2 heroic tokens. Congrats to Tulang and Gorrfang on their shiny new item level 277 tier pieces!
Heroic Deathbringer Saurfang was rather tricksy especially with Mark-healing during the last 10% and him frenzied, which isn’t something our healers are looking forward to next week (especially with ZERO Val’anyrs in our guild).
As for Blood-queen Lana’thel, the fight was rather straight forward and while her mechanics are almost exactly the same as normal mode — there is a higher DPS requirement to meet, which we overcame after a couple of tweaks. A big shout out to everyone in the raid, and especially our healers for doing an excellent job on both these fights.
We have fraps of these two encounters below. Hope you enjoy them.
Freeing himself from his frozen encasing, Tirion shatters Frostmourne with the Ashbringer. A swirling maelstrom of souls soon releases, surrounding the Lich King and hoisting him up in the air. A booming voice echoes through the air, “Rise up, champions of the Light!”
From nowhere, the raid is mass resurrected by the ghost of Ternenas.
Rising up from the dead with renewed vigor, we seal the Lich King’s fate. The swirling mass of souls dissipates as his body falls with a heavy thud…
Losing his Helm of Domination with remnants of Frostmourne scattered beside him, the Lich King reaches out one last time for his helm. But his strength is depleted. The blue glow in his eyes finally fades, and his hands drop to the ground. Alas the Lich King has fallen!
Listen to Pavor’s motivational prep-talk before the kill and experience again the epic battle all over again:
Great job to everyone who was in the raid, and to those who were unable to raid we thank you for your support.
A higher challenge now awaits us as heroic modes are finally unlocked, and we’re seeking new blood to bolster our ranks.
If you think you have the perseverance and dedication, as well as the capability necessary to defeat heroic mode bosses in ICC, please head over to our Recruitment section to find out on how you can apply. We’re currently actively recruiting most classes for heroic mode progression.
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