[Lavache]

similar to meia's successes. we have had a heck of a time getting people to show up - but we have been steadily recruiting and have gotten some incredible players. over the last month we have called 2 or 3 nights that would have been HKM attempts due to class balance / lack of healers or tanks.

we did go into SSC one night with around 20 people and did well on the trash - which i think helped people realize that we could easily hold our own in bigger content. we finally got together enough people for HKM, and after two weeks of attempts (about 2 hours per set) we one-shot him last night. after that we moved on to gruul and got him down to 24% on our first set of attempts - after each attempt we knocked off about another 10%. it was the first time ive seen people eager to go for more attempts and not cry about repair bills or how they could be pvping instead.

[Kazeyonoma]

go go paum! make fraps! my guild could use all the help we can get with any progression fights! ;P

[Arrowson]

-Offering to leave kara so that another prot warrior can get in and hearing nearly the entire raid of ppl over vent yell "NO!"

[Soulonn]

I just joined a new guild on Wednesday. Casual guild, whose policies remind me a lot of my old EQ guild, but a lot less disciplined/regimented. Their MT is a prot pally. I don't mind. BUT there are some times where having a good old fashioned warrior is just plain nice. So we one shot huntsman, 2 shot Moroes and head for Maiden. First attempt pally tanks, we get her to maybe 50%... unlucky Holy Fire and aggro took out our top healer (we were running with 1 holy pally, 2 SP's, and a boomkin, that was our healing). Second attempt we still have the pally tanking, get her to about the same. Holy Fire is killing us so the prot pally decides I'll tank, and he'll help dispel. We got her to 3% before an unlucky repentance hit while I was low health. Prot pally hadn't been keeping on the agro list so it tore through our healer first and our dps next. BUT!

The success is that I got to tank my first boss in Kara, did an excellent job, and got 3 epics off the first 2 bosses... steelhawk xbow, moroes' watch, and his belt too. All in all, happy day.

[Req]

This is a minor thing to all you T6 Ubertanks, I'm sure, but it still made me feel good.

Yesterday running non-heroic Shattered Halls with a guild group, in which our MT was playing his rogue alt. No problems. Got to the end boss, our healer made a mistake at about 60% and got instagibbed. MT said "damn guys, that's a wipe" and I said "wait a sec, let's see what happens."

We didn't have an offhealer, but I had one potion, Last Stand, and my trusty [Aldori Legacy Defender], and we burned him down from 60% to 0% without any heals on any party members. Definitely a /flex moment for me. I've been trying to demonstrate that I'm a competant tank and ready for the second half of Kara (I've only tanked up to Curator to this point) and I think this event made a pretty good impression.

[Haedes]

Back in my former guild many, many months ago, we had just cleared BWL and downed Nefarian maybe twice. We were back to him, setting up with the normal routine, potting up, assigning folks according to the dracs colors, etc - then in chat...

SERVER RESTART IN 15:00

Wtf? Anyone who's done this fight knows it does take a bit of time when you are first killing him. Our raid leader just starts yelling out directions and we just go for it. Somehow we got him down, looted and we ported out with about 30 seconds to spare.
Definetely the highest point of excitement from that guild's raid group.

[Rhelahan]

Grats on all the achievements folks. I just wanted to thank the community for helping one another improve, and eventually allowing us coming in here to toot our own horn.

I wouldn't enjoy this game, or enjoy tanking, if it weren't for such a great community. Cheers guys

[Alpiino]

Soloed durn the hungerer

Made 4018 Mortal strike on mage

Leveled blackmithing from 0 to 375 and crafted bulwark of ancient kings in 3 days. Spent only around 600g for the leveling and farmed the rest.

Mt:ed patchwerk

21-1 stats on AB without a premade (before the storm patch pre tbc)

2.5 years in the same guild with warrior as main the whole time

Still have Arcanite reaper in my bank

Able to farm 150g/hour as prot specced

[Calve]

Source: Tankz Having the 1st T5 Shoulders on the server was a good feeling, but i dont think anything beats the 1st kill of Cthun for me, not sure if it was the people, the time, or the kill, but that will always stick in my head.

Tankz,

Not bagging on you, but really curious, why are you using the trinket off of Hydross??

[Jedan]

For the past month I've been on a massive Farm run to improve my EH gear, which also included re-leveling Blacksmithing and Mining (I had dropped BS for JC in TBC). Last week for me was very fruitful as I finally finished farming all my gear at once. I ended up with:

[Bulwark of the Ancient Kings]
[Belt of the Guardian]
[Red Havoc Boots]
[Furies Deck]
[Gnomeregan Auto-Blocker 600]

During the same week my guild made a run into a partially cleared Kara to get at Nightbane and I finally got [Panzar'Thar Breastplate]. Then the next night on our Loot Reaver run I got my [Destroyer Shoulderguards]. Overall my unbuffed health went up by 2k from this weekend alone.

Again during that weekend my guild geared me up to replace our NR Tank on Hydross which previously we had been unable to get past the second transition. My first time in the hot seat we got Hydross down to 19% and 2 attempts later he was dead. This last weekend we went in again hoping for positive results and we ended up one shotting Hydross like we'd been doing it for weeks. We then went on to Tidewalker and walked away with him at 17% after our third day on him. Overall I've had a very positive last two weeks and I can only hope that it will continue on... now if only I can get that damn mace to drop.