Attempt #2 tonight resulted in a successful kill rescue of Valithria Dreamwalker. We followed this up with some attempts at Icecrown’s penultimate boss, Sindragosa, getting her down to 18% on the last pull of the night. If we can continue that kind of progress, we’ll be staring at The Lich King himself before the end of this week’s reset.
Got her on the second attempt tonight after becoming familiar with the encounter and learning all her abilities last week. This was a very challenging fight for the healers with large amounts of raid damage, so huge kudos to Ambriel and Ullariend for keeping everyone alive!
Good news, everyone! We defeated Professor Putricide!
We also capped off the evening by clearing heroic-mode Trial of the Grand Crusader with 47 attempts remaining to earn the achievement A Tribute to Mad Skill.
We spent most of the night Thursday refining our strategy and working out a few kinks in this fight before coming back this evening to finish the job. Big kudos to Burnalock for doing a great job “tanking” Blood Prince Keleseth.
We’ve been enjoying the new content in Icecrown Citadel, but we haven’t forgotten about some unfinished business in Trial of the Grand Crusader. Tonight we killed the last remaining boss, Anub’arak, with 38 attempts remaining to earn the achievement A Tribute to Skill.
Here we are posing with Tirion Fordring and the tribute chest he was nice enough to give us for our troubles:
We were pretty close to downing Rotface after Thursday’s attempts, so as predicted in the last update, we handily finished the job on our next trip back to Icecrown Citadel tonight.
We wiped to this guy about ten times yesterday, but clearly we learned a thing or two from those attempts because we got him on the second try tonight. Afterwards, we spent some time with his buddy Rotface, getting him down to 12% on the best attempt. Based on that progress, we should have another kill shot to post here after Sunday’s ICC raid. 
Heroic Faction Champions has been a thorn in our side for a few weeks, but tonight we went in with a renewed post-holiday spirit (and a revised strategy) and defeated them on the second attempt. The Heroic Twin Val’kyr proved much less difficult, and we only needed six total attempts to defeat them.
We also put in some quality time against Heroic Anub’arak before the raid ended. On the best attempt, we had him below 30% HP remaining and into Phase 3. Victory over the last boss we need to complete Call of the Grand Crusade shouldn’t elude us for much longer.
Ok, so we’re a little bit behind the pace on this one. What can we say — we got distracted with Trial of the Crusader and Icecrown Citadel. 
When attempting Yogg-Saron’s hard mode, some other guilds might decide to move gradually, starting first with Three Lights in the Darkness then Two Lights in the Darkness to get practice. Not Business Time, though — we decided to jump right to One Light in the Darkness.
Two raids and 17 wipes later, here’s the result:
For Abima, Millya, and Vosskah, defeating Yogg’s hard mode tonight also meant completion of the Glory of the Ulduar Raider meta achievement and the reward of a 310% speed Rusted Proto-Drake. Several other Business Time members are also very close to earning their drakes and just need one or two more achievements. We’ll be scheduling another full-clear of every Ulduar hard mode in the new year so everyone who contributed over the course of the many, many wipes (the vast majority of them to Firefighter) it took to accomplish this feat will also receive their reward mount.
After downing Yogg, we took our first steps into the Celestial Planetarium and fought Algalon the Observer. I’m pretty sure we wiped 10 seconds into the first attempt because everyone was floored by how awesome the room looked. It’s a shame that this encounter will be seen by so few guilds, because it really is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in nearly five years of playing WoW. I hope most people who don’t get a chance to fight Algalon at level 80 will go back at 85 to see this amazing boss.
On our best attempt, we had Algalon down to about 60% and were starting to get the hang of all the mechanics of the fight. I’m sure with another reset or two we’ll be able to finish this 14th and final Ulduar encounter.
Moonrunner : (PVE) : Up : Pop: Medium
