Yeah. Now we’re talking.
Downed Shade first try, only 1 death 
He didn’t drop any caster gear (I haven’t seen any caster gear in any instance for 3 weeks)
Downed Illhoof, no sweat. We chose to just DPS down Illhoof and only have our offtank on his minion, which worked really well. Didn’t even have a death, after wiping on him *multiple* times last week.
He didn’t drop any caster gear, either.
Did chess event. First tiime I’d ever done it; wow, it’s really a lot of fun! Finished it first try.
No caster gear dropped.
On to Prince we went, rather confidently. First two tries were good (we kept ranged DPS by the door and ran behind that corner to the left of the door for Enfeebles), but I forgot to put my hit rating gear on. Oops. ^^’
I gotta admit, I really like the fight, despite its being so difficult. (1M health? That’s more than any other boss…justified, I know, but still, it was quite a shock at first!) We did excellently for going into the fight not having done it before as a guild.
Third try, we did rather well too, but were still wiping around 40-50%. And that’s where we stayed for the rest of the night.
Great job to all–Mymichelle, Zerlan, Fingan, Detlo, Wackko, Sinithos, Galistul, Nathanielle, Reanimator, Nightscraper, Raiseplz…went really well tonight
Oh, and it’s proven now–<Neo Imperela> is so leet that we can have out-of-combat wipes. 
Right after Illhoof, on the way to chess, we were pulling the Spell Shades out onto that wooden platform…right before we pulled, Nathanielle accidentally backed off the ledge, Mymichelle levitated into some trash mobs to try and rez him, and Zerlan jumped down/died/ankhed in order to rez. Good times.
I’m within 2 badges of my new trinket–Icon of the Silver Crescent–now, which is nice! Also ran 3 instances today (2 partially) in order to get my shiny new Kara key! Now I don’t have to wait for Raiseplz every week, lol.
I can’t do Kara next week, sadface…I gonna be out of town during most of the week. Good luck to our raid team.
Still working on the druids with Sinithos; we’re both at level 21 now, and doing really well. Working through Hillsbrad right now. I gotta admit, healing as a druid is really fun, and definitely offers more variety than paladin heals.
BL on Prince mate, you will prob get him down next week.
I was lucky on my first few kara runs to be with an experienced group who powered through everything without wipes. Prince is just one of those fights where a little luck goes a long way.
Grats on the trinket also if you have it by now
Goes great with the scryers bloodgem or xiri’s gift. They are basically identical trinkets but one has crit on it and one has hit, allowing you to juggle them as required to sit on the hit cap 
Try saving up for the corrupted soulcloth pants. 100 badges is heaps but they are wicked pants and you wont replace them for ages.
Yeah, I’m hoping our guild can down him this coming week.
I don’t have Xiri’s Gift–not enough rep with Sha’tar I don’t think–but I do have the Scryer’s Bloodgem and I <3 it.
I’m still 2 badges short for that trinket though
didn’t run H-MgT like I wanted to. Every boss in there drops a gear upgrade for me. 
Much as I would like to save for those pants, they are rather expensive in terms of badges, and I’m absolutely desperate for gear right now. If I get decent drops from H-MgT when I get back, I might skip the trinket and save for the pants instead, but right now it’s largely dependent on how things go this coming weekend.