The Lich King bites the ice
I knew we were close, but I didn’t know we were this close. Soulbound was formed on April 26 and on May 19 we killed the Lich King, after only 4 nights of attempts as a guild.
I wasn’t really in a raiding mood at the start of the evening, due to a deadline for part-time job, and I was trying to squeeze in a bit of work on every raid break or buffing session. Not focused tree wasn’t focused. On the bright side, the team was doing well: we had enough sign-ups, our poor paladin (who’s been Kingslayer for 2 months and I’m sure is sick of the fight) agreed to heal again, we had the right balance of classes… so we went in, tried, died, tried, watched the tank plummet down with the edge, healers flying, DK getting disconnected in a Defile, tried some more and then we hit 20%… 15%… 11% OMG guys gogogo… 10% and panicked priest who didn’t know what happens there.
Vent pretty much exploded with “OMGOMG we did it!”, “DON’T RELEASE!!!”, “I can’t believe this happened”, “Fuck, I’m disconnecti-oh no, it’s the cinematics” and “Meh, crap loot”. It took us 5 minutes to get the perfect pose for the kill shot, turned on the special effects and tada! Soulbound 1 – Lich King 0.
It feels very great to be Kingslayers*. We know we have a good team, we work very well together, there’s no drama, name calling or yelling on Vent… and I’m starting to relax now because we delivered what we promised to the recruits. The funny thing is… that last try felt easy. There was a bit of panic when I started to run oom, but it wasn’t the most frantic kill I’ve done by far. Everything just seemed to come together nicely – even though my mental conversation with myself was along the lines of “dontdienowdontdienow fuck spirit c’mon rejuv tick faster AAAA innervate 10 more seconds fuckfuck i hope the other healers have more mana shit what if i get teleported and fuck up omg i wonder what percent we’re on, don’t have time to look OMGYAY!!!!”. It was intense and my hands were shaking in the end, but I had the biggest grin on my face last night, it even made working late bearable.
To finish off this amazing evening… we went to get the dwarves achievement at Razorscale. Yeah, we were feeling that nice and we decided to make a few guildies happy (well, I wasn’t feeling nice but I got emotionally blackmailed). Let’s not mention this monument of boredom ever again. Or the fact that enrage wiped us when the last person only needed 1 bloody dwarf.
From now on, bring on the hard modes! We’re got a bunch of frostwyrms to get.
*It also feels great because our former guild hasn’t killed him yet. But we’re not spiteful, nope, not us. I won’t look forward to walking around Dalaran with my title and meeting a couple of idio-ex-guildies.
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May 20th, 2010
GRATZ! We did him on Friday after a bunch of our guild had left to make their own guild and that felt GOOD. We didn’t need them, we did it ourselves.
Smugness always feels good when it’s you that is doing the smug ;)
Enjoy your kill. I’ve not come down after mine yet :)
May 20th, 2010
Thanks :)
We’re the bad guys in this story… we left to make a new guild. I did feel a bit guilty in the beginning, but honestly by the time I left it was clear that it was going downhill and the officers/GM didn’t really care, or they were planning to run the guild in a manner I couldn’t stand. There were a lot of nice people there however, hope they don’t hate us now.
May 20th, 2010
Hey, big gratz, I say that’s a major achievement for such a young guild, but I guess that it is down to how much everyone has the same aspirations and expectations, which isn’t the case in other guilds, usually larger.
It is a also a big achievement because we, a strong 25 man guild, with very good geared players, cba to wipe some days on LK, there are always some key players slacking, so we returned to casual ICC farming (now even with alts), and who knows if we’re going to kill Arthas until the next minor patch.
May 20th, 2010
Congrats on the kill!! and good luck with those hard-modes!
May 20th, 2010
Congrats on the kill!
May 20th, 2010
Grats! That is out standing.
May 20th, 2010
Sephala, that’s what was happening in Vengeance too. We’d get to Sindragosa in a few hours, then go to bed and never come back that reset. Of course no one wanted to extend the ID, which was annoying as hell.
Everyone else, thanks a lot!
May 20th, 2010
Huge grats! ^^
May 21st, 2010
Tbh, I don’t understand the players who are playing wow for gear alone. I mean, ok, gear is nice especially when it looks great, but to play without goals is like playing tetris or bejeweld.
My bigest regret in this expansion is that I haven’t managed to kill Yogg Saron at all, even though I was among the most active raiders in Ulduar 25, and we killed Vezax too. I still hope to kill Yogg Saron 10 or 25 man until a big nerf comes to Northrend (yogg has already been nerfed couple of times).
May 21st, 2010
Didn’t feel that nerfed… I’m sick of Yogg, we wiped so many times on Yogg+3 and our healer never got the mace in the end. That’s why 10-man raiding is so much better, bigger chance of finding 10 people who can actually play.
May 21st, 2010
Grats! That is outstanding!
I agree that 10 man raiding is better. I pug a lot of raids and I’d never try to pug a 25 man… might go in someone’s guild run as a pug, but that’s it. Plus 10 mans YOU are a larger percentage of the raid, and if you do not suck then there’s 10% of the raid who isn’t fail right off the bat.
Of course if you do suck, then a 10 man has a harder time absorbing your stupidity.
May 21st, 2010
…they’ve learnt how to deal with me :D “Whenever there’s a possibility Jen is staring at Grid instead of the big pool of death, yell on Vent.”
I’ve raided in two fairly successful 25-man guilds (with Sirg in one of them), but always *always* there are those 3-4 people who are distracted/drunk/asleep/plain bad players and who can ruin the raid for everyone. I am very lucky with my guild, since I knew all our members before joining (most of them are from the 25-man guilds I mentioned), so I know they can play.