Shaking things up.
Posted 08-07-2009 at 11:27 AM by Klimpen
So, this week has been a fairly turbulent one.
Started out last Friday with one of my guild's three officers announcing that he was going to be app'ing for another guild as our times had begun to conflict with his work time - sometimes and that he wanted to do 25's [read: Loot]. We pushed on without him and had a solid week with a full night of progression [sadly, Vezax didn't go down for us and heals couldn't keep up through XT-Hard].
Pushing through to Tuesday - the GM, the only officer bar myself said she had been accepted to the same guild as the one previous 'but would still be raiding with us in 10's.'.
After two extremely mediocre nights of me [being the only officer - though not GM] trying to organise a raid on Col10->U10 and failing - I app'd myself to a U25 clearing guild. Different to the one my friends had joined as I had been told in strong HINT form - that there was dissatisfaction with the number of new applicants joining the guild and that I'd have better luck somewhere else.
So - Tonight I tried for a final time to coax some life into the guild and failed - so I did the first part of my app with the new guild. Pushed FL+4 and Ignis achievements before Servers came down for rolling restarts - which are held at a bloody stupid time right in the middle of Oceanic raiding. Sadly lag plagued the rest of the night and we failed to down XT-Hard, people lagging out in the middle of the raid with Light/Gravity. I luckily had perfect performance bar a dc clearing to FL.
I got the feeling that the RL'er was somewhat impressed with my tanking - though I hadn't tanked anything of note - and said that I would likely have a spot tomorrow when they'll push IC-Hard, Hodir-Hard, Thorim-Hard, Freya+3, Firefighter, Vezax-Hard, Yogg+1 and probably Algalon [though I think they've yet to down the last].
I'm somewhat excited - though somewhat nervous. Many of the fights have significant strat changes and I'm unsure as to what strats the guild even uses. At this point I'm not even in the guild - and thus don't have access to their forums, so it's likely that I'll get a 15second run through and be expected to cope.
Fingers crossed I don't fail.
Started out last Friday with one of my guild's three officers announcing that he was going to be app'ing for another guild as our times had begun to conflict with his work time - sometimes and that he wanted to do 25's [read: Loot]. We pushed on without him and had a solid week with a full night of progression [sadly, Vezax didn't go down for us and heals couldn't keep up through XT-Hard].
Pushing through to Tuesday - the GM, the only officer bar myself said she had been accepted to the same guild as the one previous 'but would still be raiding with us in 10's.'.
After two extremely mediocre nights of me [being the only officer - though not GM] trying to organise a raid on Col10->U10 and failing - I app'd myself to a U25 clearing guild. Different to the one my friends had joined as I had been told in strong HINT form - that there was dissatisfaction with the number of new applicants joining the guild and that I'd have better luck somewhere else.
So - Tonight I tried for a final time to coax some life into the guild and failed - so I did the first part of my app with the new guild. Pushed FL+4 and Ignis achievements before Servers came down for rolling restarts - which are held at a bloody stupid time right in the middle of Oceanic raiding. Sadly lag plagued the rest of the night and we failed to down XT-Hard, people lagging out in the middle of the raid with Light/Gravity. I luckily had perfect performance bar a dc clearing to FL.
I got the feeling that the RL'er was somewhat impressed with my tanking - though I hadn't tanked anything of note - and said that I would likely have a spot tomorrow when they'll push IC-Hard, Hodir-Hard, Thorim-Hard, Freya+3, Firefighter, Vezax-Hard, Yogg+1 and probably Algalon [though I think they've yet to down the last].
I'm somewhat excited - though somewhat nervous. Many of the fights have significant strat changes and I'm unsure as to what strats the guild even uses. At this point I'm not even in the guild - and thus don't have access to their forums, so it's likely that I'll get a 15second run through and be expected to cope.
Fingers crossed I don't fail.
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IC is a simple endurance fight no matter how you slice it.
Hodir is an intelligent dps zerg.
Freya doesn't really change for the tanks, but the rest of the raid has to step it up big time.
Thorim hard is cute.
Firefighter is regular mimiron with doomfires for the most part, although beware of the water bombs. those fuckers have a huge range.
Don't know vez, yog or alg tho.Posted 08-07-2009 at 12:17 PM by Alent 
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Vezax and yogg are pretty much going to be the same fight for you, just make sure to keep SR up through phase 2 and try to stun lock corruptorsPosted 08-07-2009 at 02:26 PM by Bragoon -
'but would still be raiding with us in 10's.'
That would bother me, a lot.
I think the appeal of superior loot in 25 mans is just too much for some people to take and is the biggest reason why 10 man exclusive guilds struggle.Posted 08-07-2009 at 04:01 PM by veneretio -
If it's any consolation Vene - they didn't show at all for Raids last night despite accepting the invite on the Calendar.Posted 08-07-2009 at 04:33 PM by Klimpen - Good luck Klimpen!
Hopefully you can wow them like you wow us in the shoutbox every night!Posted 08-07-2009 at 10:19 PM by Squeegiemama - To start off, it seems the rats were leaving the sinking ship and you were the last one promoted to captain. It really really sucks and I have a similar story in classic. I hope you move on to greener pastures, as often the people who are out for loot get weeded out and left wanting to rebuild the bridges they've burned while their greener pastures erode away.
Good luck!Posted 08-09-2009 at 12:58 AM by Conreeaght 
