Bertman vs the raid - it's been a while

Hi all,

Due to some big real live changes (I guess I can call becoming a father that) I haven't had the time to keep this stuff updated but from now on I'll try updating it more often again.

We had a lot of things happen in the guild.

Good raids, terrible raid and a lot of attempts at Elegon.

The good raids where awesome, the terrible raids where filled with frustration and disbelieve.

Wiping repeatedly on farm bosses is no-ones idea of having fun.

Our vent is usually relaxed and funny is filled with frustrated grumbling when we are failing and that's no fun at all.

Don't get me wrong, I love wiping during progression. It doesn't frustrate me. I become a more consistent and better player through it (I can do Elegon in my sleep by now) but wiping repeatedly on farm bosses pisses me off.

I get silent on vent and start whispering horrible things to Gudran (you all should try it, it calms the nerves)

Anyway, our last raid could not be categorised as a good raid but it couldn't be categorised as a terrible raid either.

It was, plain and simple, the best raid we've had in MoP to date.

How come?

Let's go back to next weeks reset.

We finally, after an epic amount of wiping, succeeded on killing the big bad known as Elegon.

That was on Tuesday the 27th.

It was a Renown style kill. I took us 2 and a half hour of attempts to straight us all out and then, when that raids ending hour was coming close, we got our shit together and killed Elegon in a beautiful kill.

Hurry up with that movie Sky!  Apparently our Elegon kill is up on Youtube :D

It was magnificent. Barely any fuck ups. Just plain good execution.

The next raid, Thursday the 1st, we where planning on killing the first four bosses and then progress on Will of the Emperor.

We where also thinking of skipping Elegon for a while until we get better gear and can easily roflstomp him. This would free time in our raiding schedule for Heart of Fear progression.

So, with this plan in mind we moved at alarming speed through Mogu'shan (Lorewalker Bro could barely keep up) and when we got to the big door that keeps the noobs out of the Will of the Emperor fight it did just that. It kept us out...

Apparently you have to kill Elegon before you can attempt Will of the Emperor.

So, after some deliberation, we went for Elegon again.

For the second time in as much as a week we stood face to face with the dragon. This time however, we had a bug happen.

The big add that need to be tanked in the circle but before they die pulled out to negate the explosion didn't die. They remained on 1% HP and couldn't be killed.

Pug (our resident Arthas fanboi errrrr Death Knight) thought it was because he was death gripping the big mobs out of the circle onto the save spot for them to explode.

He was doing this because yours truly forgot a once or twice... /facepalm.

After I got that fixed however it happened again a few times, I'm not certain if Pug was still death gripping then (perhaps by accident) but if he was it wasn't needed. It stopped happening after Pug removed it from his bars though so it looks like death grip was bugging them out.

Anyway, after 5 attempts the dragon was reduced to ashes and we had about half an hour left to attempt Will of the Emperor.

This raid had been awesome already and now the cherry on top was some well earned wipes on a new fight.

Awesome.

I had the chance to practice the dance a bit and after 3 or 4 attempts we called it a night.

It was the best raid as of yet and I'm quite certain we can repeat this. I have the feeling that, for some reason, our raid team got a lot better in a very short timeframe.

I love it :)