This year has seen the return of the blood-suckers into the public's psyche, and this gives us a tenuous excuse to link our recent triumph over the Blood Queen encounter in 25man Icecrown Citadel to the equally annoying Twilight book series.

Unlike efforts involving the pale-skinned bra-wearing 2-dimensional manufactured cartoon character with bad voice acting, the Blood Queen actually requires all 25 people to pay full attention for the duration of the encounter without making a single mistake. If you haven't seen the fight yet, it revolves around passing a vampiric bite from person to person in order to maximise DPS, while avoiding some other "stuff that kills you", particularly the bloodbolt splash when she ge ts up and boogies. Much like I find trying to watch Twilight, there's a 5' 30'' minute enrage timer after which proceedings are bought to a rather abrupt end, although whilst with the Blood Queen you might see 24 other dead people the only thing that dies from trying to watch Twilight is your faith in humanity.

Server lag (yes folks, we still have it on raid nights), disconnects, and numerous deaths to the splash later, and we were able to put it all together to get a magic kill a second or two into the enrage - and boy did that ever feel good. However, she did have a rather nasty surprise in store....

As with every boss in here, some purples dropped. Congrats to our lucky winners:

Orodreth to [Conqueror's Mark of Sanctification]

Hourni to [Protector's Mark of Sanctification]

Huuph to  [Dying Light]

Time for a repeat kill, and then off to Sindragosa!

Editors note - to clarify the bra-wearing comment, in a recent interview about his new film, Robert Pattison was quotes as saying "the wardrobe department forgot to order me a modesty patch so in the end they had to tape it and stretch [a bra] around into my a** crack... very glamorous".