1. Lack of new content and summer weather are leaving raids short handed.
2. Stagnation of new content is causing some members to jump to “more hardcore” guilds in the hopes of seeing more of Sunwell.
3. Lack of new content and lack of community goals is dragging down morale and general interest in the game.
4. PVP [...]

SK Gaming just released the footage from their world first Kil’Jaeden kill, the last boss of The Burning Crusade expansion pack. It was recorded as WMV in 1680×1050 resolution and Ventrilo is included at the end. They call this fight “all about absolute perfection in terms of execution,” and “definitely the hardest boss ever made [...]

Soul Flay now targets the player with the highest threat against Kil’jaeden, regardless of the distance between the player and Kil’jaeden. Which I guess means something to people hitting KJ because I honestly don’t know what any of this means lol.
We’ve just deployed a hotfix to all regions that changes the targeting behavior of [...]

Well that about does it folks. All the new content has been conquered for the most part and we got the World 1st and now the US first.

Congratulations go out to Deus Vox from US-Laughing Skull on their kill. Here is their raid lineup followed by their drops. Funny thatwith Illidan we got a bunch [...]

Frostshock (a Hungarian WoW blog) interviewed the two leaders of SK-Gaming. Questions: Csulok & Hancu. Answers: Mackzter & Mekon
So first of all grats to the Kil’jaeden first kill! You’ve been behind Nihilum for a really long time, what do you think was the turning point that made you guys gain lead? What do you think [...]

World of Raids got the scoop on Kil’jaden’s world first kill by SK-Gaming. Congratulations folks.

SK-Gaming managed to defeat Kil’jaeden today at 1:27 am  CET, congratulations for their world first kill, Kil’jaeden is the final boss of the Burning Crusade expansion.
Their loot:
• Hand of the Deceiver
• Hammer of Sanctification
• Thalassian Ranger Gauntlets
• Cover of Ursol [...]

You maniacs need to stop crashing my site seriously lol. Nah I just need to yell at server people for screwing me and mine up left and right.
So hey mmo-champions and WoR got a pretty solid list of the loot that’s going to drop off Kil’jaden. There are a few choice pieces on there I [...]

Death Wish has been giving a few attempts at the Kil’jaden encounter and have these screenshots to share. Any bets on how long until he’s downed?

The race for World first Kil’jaden kills, Legendary Bow drop, and US first is on!

New M’uru loot. Aegis of Angelic Fortune should be making your healers very happy, considering you can go see the encounter. Sorry that I can’t get the loot link working but Wowhead and WOWDB don’t have it in their database.

I can’t find the confirmation on the cloth item but mmo-champion has screenshots from their viewer so it’s got to be in there somewhere. Here’s something for you DPS casters, Hunters, and Enhancement Shaman to drool over.
Vicious Hawkstrider Hauberk and the Fel Conqueror’s Raiments.
  

Not sure if this made it to the mainstream let alone how many of my readers are fighting M’uru right now, but here’s some information released today.
We’ve changed the Negative Energy spells cast by M’uru and Entropius to no longer cause spell interruption on the target. This should ease the frustration of the encounter [...]

Thanks to Teza again for snagging this interview with Essath, the Rogue that owns a Blackened Naaru Sliver and was able to explain it’s functions and details for us.
Basically the proc consists of 2 procs. Battle trance that is the actual proc, has a 45sec hidden cd and Combat insight thats the stacking [...]

As some of you may know, Chinese provider The9 forcefully opened the gates and accelerated the Sunwell progression as far as Phases with the SSO event on Chinese servers as they got access MUCH later than we did. As much as some of us disagree with this, it’s not something we can change at all, [...]

SK-Gaming got the World first kill on M’uru earlier and they finally released their video footage of the fight. It’s from the point of view of two raiders;
Valandu & Morphling (hell yeah enhancement shaman)

Size - 431Mb
Runtime - 9 Minutes
Resolution - 1680×1050
Tracklist
Grendel - One Eight Zero (Life Cried Remix)
It’s a Dream - DJ [...]

Here is an updated M’uru loot table. All of the links are provided by WOWDB and you should follow the key beneath for items that can be obtained from the trade in vendor located on the Sunwell Isle (she’s on the boat). I also updated my little compendium page thing.
* (v): Blizzard implemented “Raid Token [...]

Congratulations Exodus from US- Kel’thuzad server. You guys made it happen and once again we see tons of Shaman and yes, another Enhancement shaman there kicking ass in the bleeding edge of WoW raiding. So I want to rub it in the face of a few more nay sayers that always told me Shaman were [...]

May 4th on the EU-Vek’nilash server, SK-Gaming managed to get the world first kill of M’uru, the fifth boss of Sunwell Plateau. Only Kil’jaeden remains but we’ll have to wait for the opening of the last door of the instance in a few weeks. I have to admit that it gave me the warm fuzzies [...]

Go get em tiger! M’uru is now open and available. All guilds who managed to defeat the Eredar Twins will be able to access the next to last boss of Sunwell Plateau known as M’uru. This boss had very little testing on PTR and no guilds managed to bring him down (not even close to [...]

I brought this up a while ago, that if you defeat the Eredar Twins boss encounter in the Sunwell Plateau using a reverse kill order, then you’re rewarded with more loot. This is a good thing. Obviously the fight becomes more difficult but the payoff of more Sunmotes and some more epics sweetens the deal. [...]

Here it is folks, on the current PTR all the gates blocking advancement in the Sunwell Plateau are down! That means M’uru is accessible, and that also means Kil’Jaden is too. Get ready for some major flooding of new drops, boss videos, and PTR firsts!

I’m not sure if this is intended by Blizzard or just a fluke. But Vodka found out that a reverse kill order (Sacrolash first then Alythess) would make the Eredar Twins drop an extra epic item and 4 more sunmotes. Hopefully this is not a bug and works exactly as it should, the encounter [...]

There were a lot of guilds managed to take down the Twin Eredars during the last 24 hours, the first was Premonition! Congratulations guys and girls, great job.

Nihilum started their world firsts in the Sunwell by downing the Twin Eredars Lady Sacrolash and Grand Warlock Alythess today. There were no rogues in the 25-man team and they were able to down the twin bosses, their first “world first” in the new raid instance, despite EU Realms having the first Sunwell Plateau gate [...]

The first gate is now open on US Servers, players can fight Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash. According to the first reports, gates on european servers are still locked.
Originally you were supposed to turn in Essence of Immortals but to keep things fair with servers that don’t have many end game guilds Blizzard opted [...]

World of Raids has been on top of the Sunwell Plateau raid since day one on the PTRs. Teza recently did this writeup on M’uru and the loot possibilities. It’s funny how these things come together in the end. When guilds start officially killing the last few bosses in the Sunwell Plateau we’re going to [...]

Athene delves into world firsts, Nihilum, ePeen, and other goodies. This is classic Athene at his best. It’s funny that the first time I heard Nihilists was in The Big Lebowski. LOL It’s all a joke though so enjoy.
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