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Lich King 25 down

Arthas – the Lich King is dead. We snuck our kill in under the wire. The big bad boss hit 10 % and RP time with the top of our raid's screen reading “1 of 20” and four hours left until servers went down. Certainly not a convincing display of our skill but certainly a display of tenacity, hard work and nerves under pressure.

The raid began at 7 o'clock with 7 attempts on the block. Would a night's sleep bring renewed focus or would it bring back all the old mistakes? The officers weren't taking any chances. 25 people sat for an hour as specs were played with, tactics were refined, raiders swapped in and out and bad jokes were made in chat bubbles set up ready for cries of “DEFILE ON ME!”. 60 minutes is a long time in gaming and I'm proud to say that our raid was a perfectly pleasant place to be for each and every minute, we all knew why we were there and wasted energy was not part of the plan.

The time had finally come, Byo's traditional war cry rang out: “O.K. let's pull this fucker”, so we did. The first attempt was always going to be the warm up we couldn't afford. It was certinally not a stellar performance. At lest a couple people died to Infest of all things, but “the hard phase”, phase 2 was looking promising and our strategies for it seemed to be working well enough.

Pull two was a shock. Everything got totally nailed from top to bottom and we were there, eyes wide and blinking in phase 3. We're here! We've done it! Face roll time! Stupid stupid rabbits the car is coming, move... MOVE!. Thirty seconds into the phase moving is exactly what the off tank and a large group of melee didn't do. Vile spirits go boom, we all go boom, the end.

And then what happens way WAY too much in all our pressure raids happened again. We get a good pull, a good shot, small adjustments are all that's needed but suddenly we are making dumb mistakes. Melee get taken out with poor positioning on Raging spirits. Val'kyr's get spawned all over the place and don't get slowed or stunned. The main tank starts getting gibbed.

The attempts tick down 5, 4, 3, 2 left. “Isn't that what the 10 man had left when they downed it?”, “yea! It's like fate or some shit!”. Phase 1 necrotic plague fails to be delt with, a Shambling Horror is left up, the Shambling Horror tank drops dead during the transition, the Shambling Horror kills 5 people...

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1 Attempt left. Only 1. We've been here before in ICC 25 in our alt raid and we never pulled it out of the bag. But what can we do except pull again? We all know what to do, we all know how to do it, what more is there to say? Phase 1 passes without a hitch. During the transition our only combat res gets burned because of Raging Spirits again. We go into phase 2 for the final time this reset not really knowing what to expect. Will we wipe to val'kyr's or the Tank getting one shotted? Maybe we can really mix things up and get our first real fail in Defile. Choices, choices. 70%... 60%... 50%... 40%. Phase transition. Vent heats up a little, another Envy Achilles Heel, another last phase it's time for chaos on ventrilo. Except vent only gets warm, not hot. What's the point in shouting? Final phase, final boss, final attempt. Final question: “Where now for Envy?”

Raging spirits get handled properly and are dead with everyone still up, DPS moves to the Lich King himself and the 30% we need begins to get chipped away. Mithzmon gets targeted by harvest soul is killed by the damage it deals. Yimmis our main tank:

[23:07:20.662] The Lich King hits Ymmis 67383

A heap of bloody bear lies on the floor, Byo taunts

[23:07:24.568] The Lich King hits Byo 59248

Yimmis is up with a soul stone and taunts back, the Lich king loses his buff and we continue chipping away the percentage points, 20%, 15%, 12%. We are done. Are we done? Are we? Really? WE ARE DONE! Infest is called in the center of melee but everyone is too amazed by themselves even to notice. It hits the ground and starts expanding rapidly, every one of us idiots go slack jawed and run like the stupid stupid bastards that we are. We just about outrun black oily death leaving about a quarter of the platform dripping in our own near faliure, three people are dead from Infest damage and spirit burst. But we are safe. We are saved. We have done enough.

10% RP begins and Vent goes ape shit. The traditional kill cry: “Why! Why do you do this to me! Why?!”

Everyone in the guild should be, and I think is, proud of what we did. We have known this challenge was coming for months now, we set our sites on our goal and, damn it, we did it. That's important. But the afterglow of this, our kill, begins to fade as we realise that in less than twelve hours we begin ICC hardmodes. “New” bosses to kill, more work to be done. I hope this is not Envy's high water mark, that we continue to grow and improve.  I'm sure we all know we can perform better than this... But still... Tonight... The Lich King is dead... The lich king is dead...

Dappercad

Logs:

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-huhmar26bod85s0s/

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