(Note: This news post was written on 17th Apr 2009)

Last night saw the guild's first trip into Ulduar, and first attempts on Flame Leviathan.

As had been previously planned, we elected to start with the first step of Flame Leviathan's hard-mode by leaving one defense-tower standing - we chose to leave the Tower Of Frost standing, thus activating the 'Hodir's Fury' beam during the Leviathan encounter. We could have gained an earlier, easier and cleaner kill by doing the fight without any towers up, but we chose the 'start as you mean to go on' route.

Flame Leviathan was duly dispatched, gaining the guild the Heroic: Orbital Bombardment achievement for defeating the boss with one tower up - it's unconfirmed as yet, but this is possibly a server-first since all other guilds seem to have done the fight without any towers. Additionally, the Heroic: Take Out Those Turrets achievement was obtained by Davegotsu, Huagh, Mulk and Xime.

Loot was:
Emblem of Conquestx2 for everyone.
Embrace of the Leviathan for Canthus.
Gloves of the Fiery Behemoth for Samtheslayer.
The Leviathan's Coil for Carvilla.

Congratulations to Aestus, Avb, Canthus, Carvilla, Dakk, Davegotsu, Deveaux, Doometh, Eloradanan, Fury, Huagh, Icyzaecy, Imaknight, Jintsu, Jiraja, Mulk, Neara, Opaq, Qizen, Ramzey, Samtheslayer, Shamole, Tollos, Wetpatch and Xime for their part in the kill.

After that, the raid moved on to Razorscale and got in three attempts - no kill yet, but some lessons were learned and we'll be back soon enough!