After months of farming Naxxramas — not to mention our hard won triumphs in Obsidian Sanctum! — our intention was to "hit the ground running" in the long awaited Tier 8.

Alas, the server had other ideas, and we were only able to spend a few hours in Heroic Ulduar. Nonetheless, we two-shot Flame Leviathan on Tuesday (after a much longer grind against that most nefarious of raid bosses, the Loading Screen itself!), and went on to down Razorscale on Saturday.

We also saw two 10-man groups make excellent progress in non-heroic Ulduar (which is still pretty heroic, if you ask me!), with one team clearing all the way through Mimiron over the course of three days and the other downing five new bosses in as many hours.

As I wrote in our members' only forum, this is a very exciting time to be a Surreality raider. For the first time in our existence, we aren't "months behind"; we are tackling new content for the first time when it's fresh and challenging! If you haven't had the opportunity to explore Ulduar yet, rest assured — it's no Naxxramas! You'll need to be on your toes (or hooves, as the case may be!) to make serious progress here, so set aside the bad habits you learned in Tier 7 and zone into Ulduar with your game faces on. We're counting on you.

(Yes, hunters, even you!)