Welcome back to the third week of bashing our heads against the last boss of the current raid in World of Warcraft!

Our best attempt this week:

Apologies for the music, I just like listening to brainless background noise while I raid. Helps me focus!

So. Another 6 hours of progression time on Sire Denathrius, and some small gains were had but also a lot of time spent re-progressing. Our first night of the week we were able to refine Phase 2 of the encounter and get that dance down, but our second night was a bit of a shitshow. Two key people were missing and we had to bring in people that weren't actively playing World of Warcraft anymore which definitely had us retreading old ground.

That second night started off really well; we managed to get to Phase 3 for the first time within our first hour of raiding, but the following 2 hours were spent dying to silly mistakes in Phases 1 and 2 - probably because people were starting to get a little too relaxed with the knowledge that we're capable of hitting that 3rd phase .

I think this is a pretty common occurrence in the WoW raiding space, but it always feels demotivating when you've spent 2 hours basically doing nothing. We're up to 137 total attempts, with the expected amount of attempts before killing the boss being somewhere around 150-250. We're probably gonna be hitting that latter number or somewhere close to it.

I'm starting to get a little stressed out about it, because what we're after in killing the final boss on the hardest difficulty is an achievement that becomes unobtainable as soon as the new patch comes out (some are speculating it will be as early as 4 weeks from now). If we don't manage to kill the boss in that timeframe, it feels like everything we've been working towards since December will have been for nothing and is gonna be a huge blow to the morale of the guild. Here's to hoping next week gets us closer to killing this fucker!