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Light of Dawn
The Treebearman Pick up Group on EU-Ravencrest has completed another Milestone, Arthas – The Lich King has been defeated on heroic difficulty in 25 player mode.
The group’s raiding schedule, Fridays & Saturdays from 15:00-18:00, did not leave much time for practice.
3-4 weeks ago I had been complaining to a friend that we would never kill this Boss, especially with this group. I complained about the focus and the lack of killing spirit. Apparently I was proven wrong and everyone pulled themself together and improved focus many times over.
It was a bit frustrating at times to have to learn to kill the Lich King a second time, as it seemed that people weren’t serious enough about it. Even 2 weeks ago, due to the nature of a pick up group (PuG), we had new to the fight players triggering shadow traps many times or sucking with plague.
Last week though everything seemed to go much smoother than the weeks before, we had some phase 3 tries and one wipe to enrage at 13% with a few early deaths.
Awesome Raid
Today’s raid was terrific, even though we lost a few people here and there 
We had not a single wipe and every boss died fast. After 2 hours we stood face to face with Arthas.
Despite someone stepping on a shadow trap and some deaths the fight went surprisingly smooth. It is a good sign when you see Valkyrs being stopped quite fast or you see raging spirits during second remorseless winter die fast. In fact, when we got sucked into the Frostmourne room we had only 1 Raging Spirit left, which is usually a good mark to judge dps.
So far so good!
We lost some more people to first Vile Spirit Phase, but we were unstoppable, everything went almost too good. Then Arthas was defeated.
Not the average PuG
Do not get me wrong, this is no average trade chat pug. This PuG’s core is made of Alts from experienced players or former raiders. The past achievements assured a steady flow of new players to fill the raids. This brought the PuG over time to a pretty high standard. In fact, this is only the third raid to kill the Lich King on heroic difficulty on Ravencrest, a Realm with a good 16k Characters
Congratulations Treebearman and the rest of the Pack! This is really well done! When will we see your Halion Heroic 25?
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“Congratulations Treebearman and Vassals! ”
Whats Vassals ?
Very impressive! Gz!
Haha Arthas heroic deaded by pug.
@Treebearman
Was also thinking about Treebearman and his Gang or Followers, but that sounded a bit weird 
The idea behind vassals was to express something like Treebearman and his pack. Since we aren’t a Guiild I found it hard to describe what we are
Going to change it into pack though, I think that is best.
Thanks for stopping by
Gz on the last t10 piece and especially that!
Thanks Haggil, got new Boots today in Ruby Sanctum aswell. Just the Trinket still classifies me as Scrub.
uhhh nice, gz :d well, only 1 item from bis then
´´:b“
Nah, I still have some items to go for. HC Boots, Trinket, possibly even Neck, Bracers. Not sure if I’ll go after those for now though
okay, but it is still a very well geared alt
Congrats.
Well deserved
“Not the average PuG
Do not get me wrong, this is no average trade chat pug. This PuG’s core is made of Alts from experienced players or former raiders. The past achievements assured a steady flow of new players to fill the raids. This brought the PuG over time to a pretty high standard”
No offense for u but when are ppl stop calling it a pug, when it clearly isn’t one. I would rather call it a guild since it has soo many features that indicate it would rather be guildstyle. Since most members also joined ‘group therapy’ its a guild basically…
it just gives ppl from other realms the wrong impression (aka u can kill LK 25 hc on this realm in a pug so might wanna transfer here asap !^.^)
Gz with kill
As stated above, the Successfrom the past attracted other good players and that raised the performance of the PuG over the months. It is probably less than 10 players who are still here from when I started in novemember. Imba/Pacifism/Clarity and many other good guilds migrated away and their players also.
On top of that many of the experienced players you mention have long abandonded the PuG. Because they did not believe it was possible to kill the Lich King with the rest of us and did nto want to relearn it from scratch. After all we had people on the kill who were new to the fight and hadn’t even killed on 10 man.
Also this isn’t by far the only “Power PuG” on Ravencrest. Capote has one, Nelle on his Paladin, Dayle had another and Humiz. I am sure there are others that also go regularly with a core of players and fill their raids up with more or less “randoms”.
It is a general thing on Ravencrest that the Gear and requirements for PuG are fairly steep. People come form their low population realms and suddenly find themselves not being able to join pugs, since you need like 6k+ for an ICC 10 run. It is because there is just a huge pool of well equipped experienced players. I don’t know a single pug that would not take the more experienced player over a less experienced one. But that doesn’t automatically draw a line where a guild starts and a pug ends.