After 4-5 tries we downed Annelia, clearing Grafu Castle Hardmode server first. Less than two months after the server released too. I believe it took around 3-4 months for GCH to finally be cleared back when the instance was initially released in 2011.

Oddly enough, Annelia didn't give us the most trouble. That honor goes to the fourth boss, who took us around 6 tries or so to beat.

All in all, the run itself took around two and a half hours. We started around 10:45pm CST on October 21, 2018, and finished at around 1:10am on October 22, 2018. It was fantastic!

Props to Drood for solo healing the run, Chance/Warden for some god knows how running two accounts at once, Opunchman, and Tankdozer, who sadly had to leave at fifth boss due to ping issues. We did it!