It was a pretty brutal* fight, but Brutallus is now no more.

 A monstrous DPS race of epic proportions, and very much a Patchwerk v2.0.  Well done to everyone who participated, including those who farmed loads of mats for all the pots we used!

 Loot was:

• [Leggings of Calamity] - Fercil
• [Belt of the Forgotten Vanquisher] - Beecees
• [Belt of the Forgotten Protector] - Judith
• [Belt of the Forgotten Protector] - Tinything

 * The persons responsible for this attempt at a joke have been reprimanded appropriately.

So yep, bit of a late update here due to various issues with the web site hosts being a bit nub of late but hey!  Anyways it's been a while since we've had much to stick on the front page as well there hasn't really been anything left to kill, well until now!  After a good kicking we managed to free Kalecgos from the hands of Sarthrovar the Corruptor meaning the first boss for Sunwell Plateau (some new instance in the BE lands...) is cleared!  Actual date of the kill was 14/04/08.

Onwards to the next one which is basically Patchwerk v2.0, aka Brutallus which looks to be fun...er yeah unf Patchwerk was fun the first few times then tedious the rest but nvm.

Anyways loot from the kill was:

[Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher] - Aae
[Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher] - Ruriko
[Bracers of the Forgotten Conqueror] - Umodoko
[Pantaloons of Growing Strife] - Gruddas

Just to prove that we can actually do it properly, Illidan was defeated again, and this time with the whole raid still standing at the end.

Video of this kill is available: Here  as filmed by our resident gnoam warlock tank Fercil.

Congratulations everyone, we did it!

Loot this time was:

• [Memento of Tyrande] - Traxxdragoni
• [Faceplate of the Impenetrable] - Batou
• [Chestguard of the Forgotten Conqueror] - Zealot
• [Chestguard of the Forgotten Vanquisher] - Lanariel
  

So it's done, Illidan dead at the hands of DPC...er except for a slight snag!  You see it was all going well, then something went badly wrong and our lock tank got ganked at around 10% midway through a demon phase and he then proceeded to 1 shot a lot of people.  So a frenzied burst of damage got him down to 5% from the half dozen survivors of that demon phase before he entered the next demon phase and despite some heroic last min tanking by Yakujim who was wearing 0 SR at the time we had real problems because ofc we had sodd all DPS for the demons!  So down to 2%, we're expecting a wipe and were getting ready to release and start running, last person alive is paralysed with a demon heading right for them and he ends the Demon Phase...

Then something odd happens, he starts kneeling down again right after it and we realise he's on 0%, end script starts and we're cheering but there's a catch ofc.  The demon makes it towards the last person before it resets and kills them just after the scripted event starts, even after a Shaman ressing we weren't sure what was gonna happen.  In the end we didn't have to wait long, Death: [Illidan Stormrage], we cheer again...and then he despawns!  Turns out ofc because the last person died during the scripted "death" event we lost the tag on Illidan so grats Maiev on the loot! :(  Anyway at the time of writing we're just awaiting the results of the GM ticket but we should get it sorted at any rate.

Regardless of what happens with the ticket tho it was a good night by all means and a big grats to all involved!  Phase 2 proved to be the usual sticking point as we'd had to use 4 different FR tanks over the course of the 3 nights we spent on him simply due to availability, however once that was sussed Phase 3+ was quickly dealt with and he died on the first time we reached Phase 5 (buff trap placement tho!).

Update: We've recieved confirmation that we're recieving the loot which is listed below, these were auctioned out to all involved in the raid as per normal, with the winners recieving the items from the GM's in the mail.  (Be sure to take a screenie of that for later "lol I got Illidan epix in the mail" forum abuse!) 

Loot was: 

In the meantime:

What happens if you disconnect during the Illidan fight in Phase 3+? 

If you do that in Phase 2 everyone knows not to relog, after all it causes some issues with charges from the Flames resulting in instagibs.  Well Aphadon, our resident magnet of bad luck found out what happens when you disconnect in Phase 4 while being targetted by a Shadow Demon:

Firstly your HS activates when you relog so you end up in Shattrah, however you're not alone...

Yep the demon followed him all the way from Black Temple to Shattrah and proceeded to gank him on Scryer's Tier!  However the best part was, when he released he ended up at Sentinel Hill!  Thats one helluva Corpse run!