Sin downs Annihilation Droid XRR-3!

Sin takes a moment to savor a hard earned victory.

Our first night raiding definitely lived up to my high expectations. Everyone was on before 11 so we were able to get into the Operation, Eternity Vault, around that time. We had about 12 or 13 in guild so we found a few more DPS to bring with us so we could try the 16 person version. The first couple attempts saw us quickly annihilated.

But was we continued on and learned the boss abilities and refined our methods, our attempts improved... 60%... 40%... and finally a couple below 20% that were ended by the enrage timer. Understandable, since many of us had just hit level 50 cap in a day or few before. My gear was quite awful and I was tank spec when we already had a couple excellent, dedicated tanks, so I was not much help either - except in the Leadership department, where I truly shined.to

It was great to get everyone on Vent and finally get to chat and do some larger stuff socially. After awhile it became clear some folks had to go, so we broke the 16 person raid down into the 8 person version, I re-specialized to damage dealing and got some higher level gear

The boss was so exciting and tuned very well. Trogdar was our Powertech Bounty Hunter, and Vampuir our Juggernaut Sith Warrior tank. Both were excellent, natural leaders communicating to taunt the boss off one another if the other got injured. Our healers, Hahaumissedahh, Uncanny, and Virlis, were amazing. Very professional, healing through any mistakes players made in dodging missiles, never running out of Force, and never complaining. A pleasure to work with. Lizbeth, Gorb, Greenthumb and Sourne were awesome DPS careful not to pull aggro, dodging a lot of randomized damage and up against a stiff enrage timer for fresh level 50's in very unoptimized gear. 

Even though it was the easiest boss, our team worked together and never complained through many wipes and challenges to defeat this mechanical menace. I'm very proud of everyone for sticking with it for many hours until we found victory.

I'd also like to thank Fiddler, Kuroyama, Ralphrotten, Rain'drop, Larynn, and Bz'aro for helping us learn the mechanics of the fight on the more challenging 16 man version. The friends we make won't be forgotten.

Finally, we got some great loot: I love an 8 person boss that drops 4 items, and an epic 400 Cybertech Schematic for Virlis to boot! No stingy bosses like WoW! Sourne and Lizbeth got class Tier set glove tokens, Uncanny got an epic headpiece, and LORD ZODE got an Epic Heavy DPS Helmet!

We are going back in tomorrow at 11, and Tuesday at 7, this will likely be our schedule for the future, shorter raids likely as well. Hope to see you there!