Russta (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} russta) wrote,@ 2007-09-10 22:43:00 |
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Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Bipolar is a word that gets thrown around a lot in our guild. We could go and one shot Archimonde only to then spend the next fifteen hours wiping to Supremus for absolutely no reason. Not that that has ever happened, but you get the general idea. It doesn't really bother me to be honest as I realize it's something that would be uncomfortable to fix and is just another trait that convinces us all that, in some twisted way, we are the best guild in the world.
Our initial Mother Shahraz kill took us three hours when all accounts suggest it should've perhaps taken something more akin to three days. Looking beyond the superficial roadblock born from the necessity of having full raid wide SR crafted, really, it probably should have. It may be a horribly broken fight that has more legitimate luck factors than Archimonde but three hours is astounding considering how most things in WoW are on farm after that crucial first kill. Not that I ever expected her to become that mind you, but the psychological factor that it will never fails to materialize, whatever the circumstances.
Having our expectations of how hard Mother Shahraz was going to be artificially crushed, it was only natural that we strolled into the Grand Promenade like Big Man Tough expecting to brush past the Illidari Council and be on Illidan within the night. Ohhhhh but of course, our polarity shifted and we spent the entire night wiping to it!
Fast-forward to the following Thursday and we spend around four hours wiping to Mother Shahraz after one-shotting Reliquary of Souls. Until the impending patch, I'm not really sure how to go about her because the guild are usually really cheery and don't let the wiping get us down. The majority of us advocate the bad luck factor verbatim yet a part of me wonders if we were more focused we'd have it down more efficiently.
Jump forward again, this time to Sunday, and south is once again north as we one-shot Mother Shahraz, walk into Illidari Council and one-shot them.
Illidari Council has to be the most boring fight I've ever done. I'm not really sure how it is for the others but all I have to do for Gathios the Shatterer is move out of Consecration, move out of Flamestrike, move out of Blizzard, Spell Reflect every other Judgement and... well, that's it. Considering how much HP they have and how it unfairly ticks up due to the stupid mechanics, it just drags on for so long. I guess that's the idea of the fight though - to have twenty-five people executing their role perfectly for ten minutes. You'd just like to think they'd have something more creative picked out for the second-to-last boss in Black Temple.
And so my prophecy from two months ago that we'd have Illidan down before any other guild on our server kills Kael'thas is tragically looking likely. From speaking with some friends in our server's second best guild, I wonder how long it'll be before they or anyone else actually manages it. There's only so many pointers you can give on the road to success, even less to stop the best players walking away because they can.
I spent the first few hours of my time online yesterday begging my guild mates for Ancient Lichen because there were none on the auction house and I need a colossal amount of Ironshields these days. I already mentioned the issue we've had with getting green SR helms and how it's nearly impossible to recruit exceptional members before but this is just another nail in the coffin for Azshara. We're closer to server transferring than ever now and, come November, I'm fully expecting it to become a reality. A few of the people that seemed unsure in the past have stirred too and seem a lot more receptive to the idea but I have my fears. I worry we'd lose two of our current best raiders, or that we'd be unable to agree where to go, or something else equally stupid. In all honesty, I'd rather just stay on Azshara and have Blizzard fix our problems for us but their apparent stance over the past few weeks has finally assured me that won't happen. I have a real deep seated fear of an impasse causing the break up of some of the best people I've ever known and my desire to exist like this dying.
Bipolar is a word that gets thrown around a lot in our guild. We could go and one shot Archimonde only to then spend the next fifteen hours wiping to Supremus for absolutely no reason. Not that that has ever happened, but you get the general idea. It doesn't really bother me to be honest as I realize it's something that would be uncomfortable to fix and is just another trait that convinces us all that, in some twisted way, we are the best guild in the world.
Our initial Mother Shahraz kill took us three hours when all accounts suggest it should've perhaps taken something more akin to three days. Looking beyond the superficial roadblock born from the necessity of having full raid wide SR crafted, really, it probably should have. It may be a horribly broken fight that has more legitimate luck factors than Archimonde but three hours is astounding considering how most things in WoW are on farm after that crucial first kill. Not that I ever expected her to become that mind you, but the psychological factor that it will never fails to materialize, whatever the circumstances.
Having our expectations of how hard Mother Shahraz was going to be artificially crushed, it was only natural that we strolled into the Grand Promenade like Big Man Tough expecting to brush past the Illidari Council and be on Illidan within the night. Ohhhhh but of course, our polarity shifted and we spent the entire night wiping to it!
Fast-forward to the following Thursday and we spend around four hours wiping to Mother Shahraz after one-shotting Reliquary of Souls. Until the impending patch, I'm not really sure how to go about her because the guild are usually really cheery and don't let the wiping get us down. The majority of us advocate the bad luck factor verbatim yet a part of me wonders if we were more focused we'd have it down more efficiently.
Jump forward again, this time to Sunday, and south is once again north as we one-shot Mother Shahraz, walk into Illidari Council and one-shot them.
Illidari Council has to be the most boring fight I've ever done. I'm not really sure how it is for the others but all I have to do for Gathios the Shatterer is move out of Consecration, move out of Flamestrike, move out of Blizzard, Spell Reflect every other Judgement and... well, that's it. Considering how much HP they have and how it unfairly ticks up due to the stupid mechanics, it just drags on for so long. I guess that's the idea of the fight though - to have twenty-five people executing their role perfectly for ten minutes. You'd just like to think they'd have something more creative picked out for the second-to-last boss in Black Temple.
And so my prophecy from two months ago that we'd have Illidan down before any other guild on our server kills Kael'thas is tragically looking likely. From speaking with some friends in our server's second best guild, I wonder how long it'll be before they or anyone else actually manages it. There's only so many pointers you can give on the road to success, even less to stop the best players walking away because they can.
I spent the first few hours of my time online yesterday begging my guild mates for Ancient Lichen because there were none on the auction house and I need a colossal amount of Ironshields these days. I already mentioned the issue we've had with getting green SR helms and how it's nearly impossible to recruit exceptional members before but this is just another nail in the coffin for Azshara. We're closer to server transferring than ever now and, come November, I'm fully expecting it to become a reality. A few of the people that seemed unsure in the past have stirred too and seem a lot more receptive to the idea but I have my fears. I worry we'd lose two of our current best raiders, or that we'd be unable to agree where to go, or something else equally stupid. In all honesty, I'd rather just stay on Azshara and have Blizzard fix our problems for us but their apparent stance over the past few weeks has finally assured me that won't happen. I have a real deep seated fear of an impasse causing the break up of some of the best people I've ever known and my desire to exist like this dying.
