Iconic Moments In The Life Of Reproba Vir Dont Happen Often, But When They Do, They Are Truly Remarkable Things...

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Created on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 21:09

Written by Shaminx

So, here we have it. It is precisely as I just described it. An iconic guild moment. And I for one am proud to have been a part of the first official RV clear of Dragon Soul 10 man.

We set out last night, (well most of us did) with a nice relaxed first half of Dragon Soul or so ahead of us. For me, personally, knowing that last time we had spent quite a bit of time getting Spine cleared, and even MORE time before that ticking Warmaster Blackhorn (aka LOLSHIP) off our checklist - I fully expected to perhaps need a few runs at each one, so in my mind, by the time the raid session ended, I reckoned we could potentially be at 6 with 2 to go, and even maybe having had a chance at a couple of pops at Spine, with a continuation for later in the week where we could all come back refreshed, nuke down Spine and then spend the rest of the evening practicing on Deathwing.

When we finished the first four bosses at well before "break" time, I was quite surprised at how fast we had gone. Admittedly, we were for once ready on time and in and bashing stuff before the end of the "grace" period for late show-ups, which of course helped get us to the tea break in good order and with the first four clear - (despite a certain someone commiting himself to a self-inflicted game of soggy biscuit by getting nailed by the ice waves on Hagface the Stormannoyance.)

After Seven had had his tea and two biscuits, and the rest of us had just had tea, we carried on and despite having to down more than the fifteen alleged trash dragons before Ultraxion, we sailed through that fight without a hiccup. And then... we sailed through lootship. I know. I cant quite believe it either. A sailing pun in relation to a ship boss. I should be ashamed of myself. And buy a thesaurus.

Then we did Spine. Again, made much easier by the fact that we had previously succeeded at downing this and had a great routine going. Teamwork was excellent, atmosphere of the group was delightful, and some of us began to ponder the possibility, that actually, with so much time in hand, we might possibly be able to get a few shots at old Deathwing in before raid end.

When we moved on to Deathwing, the atmosphere of the group increased markedly. We could almost taste the kill. Bigsnorri had brought his big book of "Things We Can Change That Could Make Things Work Easier" and he explained how to best approach the fight. So we started. Things were going well, progress was being made, and then.... BOOF - the ever unpredictable Thrall buff failed and left Snorri plummeting into the water instead of launching to the next platform and landing in a carefree manner ready and refreshed to start on the next wing/arm.

A few more attempts followed, and most of them were in some way blighted by either the Thrall bug or our newly found "Deathwings Head" bug. I did however enjoy spending five minutes staring down the barrel of Deathwings nutsack while everyone else DPSed their backsides off in a valiant attempt to try and clear it anyway, sans Drowned Shaman. (Sans is French for "without", fact fans. Dont say we never learn you nuffings here.)

Time was marching on, so despite it being 12.20ish, we decided to have one last pop. As you can see from the Happysnap above, that attempt could not have gone ANY better. No bugs, no epic fails, precise and careful management of the mobs, the bolts, and the trash, all came together perfectly and that nasty fire shitting bastard hit the deck for the first and certainly not the final time. NEVER let it be said that crossover guilds cannot be social and raid well successfully at the same time. WE are that exception that proves the rule. The only sadness about the final attempt was that we had no corpse of Deathwing to teabag, which would have been a beautiful way to end our first clear, and not only that, our first all in one night clear. The cheer that went up was probably audible in Voldamirs house, where he would have no doubt been busily thumbing through old diaries in an attempt to find a particularly gruesome story to share with the victorious raiders in his own special way of marking the achievement.

So congratulations to ALL of the members of RV who were involved in last nights run, wear your Destroyers End titles with pride, As things stand, we are now 41 on the server and 38 if you dont count the horde guilds. Thats something we can all be proud of. We might not be the biggest baddest epeen wielding raiders on Alonsus, but we can surely claim to be having the most fun while we do it.

Next up in the plans is to get lots more people a nice shiny title and achievement, and have some controlled goes at the early bosses on Heroic Mode. In order for us to start real Heroic Mode progression, we need a team of very seriously geared people, and so for future weeks, we will be continuing to run DS 10 Normal, get as many people as possible absolutely maxxed out gearwise, and working on team building and tactics. Our attempts at Heroic Mode bosses will start with Morchok, and if we down that, we will have just a couple of goes at the next boss - Realistically we wont make much progression with Heroic Mode until everyone in the group is as well geared as they can be, and we do not want to have people getting frustrated. The more we do Normal Mode, the easier Heroic Mode will become. It is great to still have things we can work towards though. Once we are all more than adequately geared - then we can perhaps start to take Heroic progression more seriously - but that is for the future. For now, let us celebrate how far we have come, with a nice fresh cup of tea, and a Custard Cream. (Thats the Soggy Biscuit Game in Heroic Mode, in case you were wondering...)

Tonights group were - Bigsnorri, Fleech, Gokwanlol, Magicminx, Neopanther,Seven, Shaminx, TheMcFluffy, Theresagreen, and not forgetting the fabulously transmogrified Wisteria. You should all be proud of yourselves. You were part of an amazing and historic moment in this guild, one that has never occured before. Not only have we cleared the normal mode end game content, but we did it in one night AND - AND!- Theres no release date for Mists of Pandaria yet! PROGRESSION BABY! YEAH!

**EDIT** Also, after writing this, we made our second clear, in what is probably the wrong order, I present our latest Raid clear: