So with a fresh Ulduar lying before us, we decided to attack the raid instance aggressively. It was time to start tackling hard modes and getting achievements.

First up was Flame Leviathan. Considering how handily we are taking him down now, including the achievement of killing him without once repairing just last week, it was time to leave a tower up. Once again, we obliterated the big tank while taking virtually no damage. Orbital bombardment achieved. Next time we leave two up. FL+1 done, FL+2 next.

On to Razorscale. The big dragon has already been a cakewalk for us. So it was time to push the envelope and get her Quick Shave achievement. Cranking out the damage we were able to handily keep her from raising into the air a second time. Razorscale dropped easily once again. A Quick Shave indeed.

Ah, XT-002, how we hate thee. Time for another hard mode kill. Heartbreaker here we come. Cranking out the DPS on the heart was easy. We got the heart down to 8%, however, JUST missing the Heartbreaker achievement and just missing hard mode. We already have our adjustments for next time out determined. So next time XT-002 goes down in hard mode.

Kologarn. Silly bridge. The With Open Arms achievement wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. Wiped once. Tried it again, and when it looked like the same issue would arise, we changed our strategy and just downed him. easy as pie. Just no achievement. We will have to see what we can do next time.

Auriaya. The crazy cat lady. We decided to go after the Nine Lives achievement. And we had it too.....until we got a little close to some trash that we had left up. Ooops. Wipe. Not wanting to waste time, we came back and killed her. Dead. Either Nine Lives or Crazy Cat Lady next time. No hard mode for her.

Iron Council was next. Easiest one shot of them we have had yet. We have had their number for ages, now it is time to mix it up. We will be looking at leaving a different boss for last. The fun begins soon.

And finishing up on a quick two shot of Ignis wrapped up a very smoothly run 2 hour night in Ulduar. Really I just wanted to thank all of those involved in the evening's fun. Thanks, and let's move forward now.

- Bjorn