(Note: This news-post was written on 27th April 2009)

Another night in Ulduar, and another boss crossed off the list. It took about two hours and many attempts, but Ignis has now fallen which brings the guild the Heroic: The Siege Of Ulduar achievement for fully clearing all four bosses in the first area.

We started out inching forward with attempts that wiped at ~90%, ~75%, ~58%, and then started to get a hang of things, going on to get some low-percentage wipes (6%, 12%) that were frustrating but nevertheless proved that we were very capable of killing him; we stuck with it and managed to down him on what may very well have been the last attempt of the night, since trash-respawns were very imminent.

Over both 10-man and 25-man modes, Ignis is definitely the boss that has taken the most effort to down so far in Ulduar (and generated the most repair-costs in the process), and it was pretty satisfying to see him die.

Commiserations have to go to Davegotsu, who persisted through all the wipes and then had his computer reboot on him towards the end of the night. By the time he got back online, we'd been forced to pull without him (due to impending trash respawns), and he almost immediately got instagibbed by Flame Jets since he was out of healing range... and we then went on to kill Ignis while Dave watched over his brother's shoulder. As much as he's glad that Ignis was downed, I'm sure he's looking forward to actually getting to take part in a kill at some point!

Loot was:
Flamewrought Cinch - Dakk
Pyrelight Circle - Neara
Girdle of Embers - Doometh