It was virtually 6 months to the day from the Zergadin’s Story Mode Kephess kill.  Six month of logistical issues before we downed Kephess on Hard Mode.  If you go back and look at the kill shots of EC HM, you can see the progression was steady, but something sinister was fighting against us from the shadows.

I chalk up computer crashes, fly-by-night guild members, and Account issues to the ever present BAD MOJO.

Only in the past few weeks have we actually been able to get some solid attempts on the encounter.  By my calculations we spent about 6 total hours learning the boss, or about two dozen pulls of HM Kephess.  The biggest roadblock once the team was able to really drill into the fight was the tank swap.  The tank swap is 8-10 minutes into the fight!  The group has to pass 6 dps checks, and 2 environment checks before even getting to put their sabers on Kephess!

My hats off to the entire guild for this kill.  It took everyone to get this monkey off our back.  I look forward to an eventful 2013 of Operations.

Our Progression team for 2013 is:

Tenative Progression Days – Tuesday and Wednesday 7:30 Server

Tanks – Buhrn/Jache

Healers – Rucca/????

DPS – Mattmantula/Azhi/Dredge/Chavala

Our Story Mode 16 man team for 2013 is:

Tenative SM Days – Monday 7:30 Server

Tanks – Tosbeszijian/Aeon’flux/Panzer/Quarantine

Healers – Albuspuer/Rauss/Ahka/Staticfury

DPS – Newo/Phazer/Grokk/Sussanah/Restive/Izzo/Zyley/Dredge

I’m looking forward to running 16 man SM ops.  We have the numbers, so it’s just commitment at this point.

Here’s to an awesome Year Two on Vaiken Space Dock.

/Cheers

Commander Silverstrike