How quickly did progression flow?
The push was thrilling. We moved so fast that before we killed Illidan, there were only three boss encounters that took us more than a day to master: Kael, Archimonde and Illidan. Several times, we killed more than one new boss per day — Kaz’rogal and Azgalor, and Mother Shahraz and Illidari Council. There was absolutely no beating the rush and the thrill of knowing we were on the verge of passing the Horde competition and taking the server first Illidan. Again, though I’d like to take credit for this personally, in truth it was a team effort. I’ll say again that this is the most talented group of players I’ve had the privilege of raiding with.
All this pressure to perform … What’s the guild atmosphere? Do you keep things pretty tight on voice channels and chat?
Many people have perceptions of top guilds as being elitist or pricks. Like any guild, we have a few of those types, but I think this guild’s personality is what really makes it special. Since most of our raiders came from Karazhan guilds (at best!) before being asked to push T5/T6 content, they didn’t have egos. They are just intelligent, down-to-earth people who had no problem helping their friends with heroics or talking about the Olympics in guild chat during a raid.
That doesn’t mean there is not 100% focus during boss fights and explanations. All I’m saying is, we try to keep balance as best we can. The result is a spontaneously intense and fun, relaxing raid atmosphere. There’s nothing else like it.
I have a screenshot that sums us up perfectly. In going along with the theme of having fun and still kicking ass, here is a picture of one of our moonkin, Ditto, main tanking Karazhan. He tanked every boss fight in there up to Prince. There’s also a video of him main tanking The Lurker Below on our website.
