Written by: Cheetara
Okay, a little history about my guild…
I became friends with most of the start up players in my guild when I was in a casual guild that couldn’t get past curator. There was nothing wrong with my old casual guild, I was just bored of never getting to see any new content, and I had made friends with this other guild that was a little more hard core, but was looking to fill out a second kara group and some 25 mans… well, the day before I decided to finally quit my casual guild and join the raiding guild they had decided that they were going to merge with a hard core guild, and my husband and I ended up being a part of the package deal. This had the potential to be really cool, but they promised us a part of the raiding team although they pretty much already had their top raiding spots filled out. Our main tank became a ‘catcher,’ the hunters all ended up on wait list behind their hutners, etc. So, we kind of just stuck by what we were doing, kept running our little kara group, and basically felt like very little fish in a big pond.
Well, they instituted a MT need list. In doing so, they said that our Kara MT friend basically wasn’t getting any gear from the 25 mans… well, this sucked for our friend, but we were willing to just deal with it… until the day we showed up to a raid only to be informed it wouldn’t be happening because they MT had decided to retire his MAIN warrior and instead he would be playing his ALT dps warrior… yeah, that REALLY happened. We weren’t able to raid that night because we didn’t have a MT. Apparently he had cleared all this with the officers of the guild, but they didn’t bother to bring it up to the guild… well… needless to say, after he took gear over the other tanks that planned to remain tanks, then switched over to his other character…. that was the day we /gquit to start our own.
And we have been hot on the heels of that other guild ever since… They had a big advantage over us because they had enough guilldies ready to start 25 mans and we barely had enough to fill out a kara (although it was awesome to clear kara on our first night as a guild, that really brought us toghether as a team.) But, we quickly got our numbers and are now plowing through the 25 mans…
Now, that being said. Vashj is kicking our butt, as a guild, and as a raiding team. Three hours of wiping only to get her to 1 percent was one of the biggest blows in my entire guild’s history. So, I am wanting to take a step back, get a few boss kills in the Tempest Keep. We need those kills! Ours is a guild that loves the progression, and I know that the wiping will get us there eventually… but it just isn’t happening right now! I mean we have only downed one boss in The Eye, so I think this is the right move… right?
February 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
In my opinion, Lady Vashj is way harder than Alar, or Solarian in The Eye. Alot of guilds I’ve seen, don’t take Vashj down until they’re left with only her and Kael’thas left, so your guild is doing good.
1%? Ouch! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a boss get down to 1% and then wipe the raid. Its painful and makes you want to smash your keyboard, but it also means you KNOW your guild is capable of taking her down.
Who knows? Maybe the extra gear you get from the other bosses in The Eye is just what you need to get that 1%.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Our first “kill” was a wipe:
http://www.bloodshotguild.com/images/vashj1.jpg
It’s all part of the learning. Good luck!
February 11th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
The fact that you can get her to 1% is great in itself. Another week or two and you’ll plow through it. Esecialy if you get some of theat extra gear from The Eye.