So we go into this place called the Trial of the Crusader. We're kinda laid back and all, but we figured we'd check it out.

Well we went in there mostly seriously last week. you can read about it in other news items. We managed to take out the Northrend Beasts and Jaraxxus. But it took a little bit of work on our part.

So we went back in there this week. Lo and behold on Tuesday, with the raid reset, we managed to take out the first two bosses reasonably easily. Then we came up against our new nemeses, the Faction Champions. A try or two on Tuesday was all we had time for. But Thursday, November 19 marked a new day.

We marched back in to face down the Champions. One failure. Two failures. Then suddenly on the next try the first three MObs dropped without incident. All our people were alive and their healers were dead. From that point on it was just mopping up. And the Faction Champions fell. Good job Sinful Spirits. Now it was time to take a look at the Twin Val'Kyr.

To be honest, I think taking out the Faction Champions kind of surprised us. So we took a short break for a quick review of what to expect from the Val'Kyr. After formulating our strategy, we waded in. Bam! Wipe. Not to be outdone, we thought we had a little better idea of what was coming. So we buffed up and waded in again. Bam! Graveyard. Again! Bam! Dead. Hmmmm.....time to formulate a new strategy.

Well, our DPS was solid. And we had heard of an alternate strategy that seemed much more straight forward. So we elected to try that.

Squaring off one last time against the Val'Kyr, we took our colors and waded in. We fought valiantly. It was a long, hard fought bat-. Hold it. No it wasn't. Not too long into the fight I looked up to see just how we were doing. Ready to offer words of encouragement. Figuring we had our rhythm. Just as I was about to speak said words....Bam! We had won. And got the three minute achievement to boot.

Great job Sinful Spirits. Two new bosses in what amounted to about a one and a half hour night of free style raiding. it was fun and we got the job done.

Next up - Anub Arak.