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Heroic: Lich King (25 player) killed by PuG

Myrddin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:44:03 +0000

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?

Daisan Progression update: Shadowmourne!

Myrddin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:54:25 +0000

The last weeks have been hard on my patience. Each run seemed to drop less and less Shadowfrost Shards and especially the last raids felt like an eternity. It felt almost like so many years ago, as little kid impatiently awaiting Christmas Eve.

Earned the feat of strength [Shadowmourne].

Shadowmourne

For a long time I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea to spend the 60-70k gold on Shadow’s Edge in january. Sure, I was never really lucky with rolls or with drops in the first place and it seemed a secure way to upgrade to an Item Level 264 Weapon. The luck with rolls did not really improve and all I heard is “shut up, you get legendary” in a nice way

So ye I was growng a bit weary of the resets and with growing amount of shards I fell back more and more on meters and stuff. But for all that are impatiently waiting, or that are in questioning if it is worth it, I can only say that Shadowmourne is definitely worth the wait, troubles and expenses.

It is quite impressed how Treebearman’s PuG progressed since november. I certainly did not expect being able to pug 11/12 heroic modes in both ICC 10 & 25. I’d like to thank Treebearman for keeping the people together, finding replacements and always eager to improve. Also thanks to the regular members of the group, who have done a great job and helped me to do the quests and get the shards.

I am just a bit troubled how to deal with the rewards, yet. As you can see I used the mount for myself, but I am planning to give some items away. Only 1 person has asked for a specific item and I fail to find a fair way to deal with the remaining rewards. This is bound to end in frustration for some

Not sure, but Daisan is probably the first alt to run around with Shadowmourne and I must say it is kind of weird to run around as Enhancement Shaman with an Alt like that

Nearly 1 million Gold, lots of Achievements and rare stuff + Shadowmourne … maybe its time to sell the Account, got an offer I can’t resist???

See Shadowmourne in action

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Daisan Progression update: Putricide 25 heroic!

Myrddin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:39:24 +0000

The last 2 resets we tried to get Professor down in our PuG. We had a very good try the first week with only 400k hp left on Professor Putricide the endbboss of the Plaguewing in Icecrown Citadel. But since our PuG is on limited time we kind of had to stop. Our hopes were high for the reset after but we had many new players and some others were unable to attend.

My hopes for today were kind of not so high after last resets failure But it turned out to be the best run we ever had in Treebearman’s PuG here on Ravencrest. We killed everything, except for a wipe on Blood Princess, on first try on heroic difficulty. It just went amazingly well. The whole isntance was cleared in 3:30h. Very well done!

Too bad that in all joy, I kind of forgot to make a screenshot :S

Daisan Progression update: Sindragosa 25 heroic

Myrddin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:13:38 +0000

Today we killed Sindragosa on heroic in Treebearman’s PuG! It went actually much better than expected. It is jsut a matter of time till we progress even further!

We also made the Glory of the Icecrown Raider Achievement in our 10 Man PuG and I got a Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher as reward.

The Shadowfrost Shard count is at 31! Can’t wait to get more!

Not much else to say at this point

Borked: The Frostwing Halls (heroic)

Myrddin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:50:54 +0000

After what felt like and endless amount of tries and many many 3-8% wipes, we finally got Sindragosa on heroic mode with the last possible try (2/35).

You can’t possibly feel the weight that fell off our shoulders and the tension that built up during the last 2 minutes of this fight.

As you can easily see here the fight was a pretty close call at the end, about to hit the enrage timer and a tank death during the fight. Fortunately we made it anyhow!

I kind of like the challenges hard modes provide right now. I recall durin the last weeks we just rushed through ICC, with no need to optimize anything and just zerged through the encounters.

But now with so many heroic modes like Festergut/Saurfang/Blood Queen that we actually had to work for the reward is a sensation of achieving something, which is what raiding used to make out.

Anyway, we lost some people the last weeks and if you are interested in joining , head over to our forum and write an application!

The Lich King killed by PuG

Myrddin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:30:52 +0000

Ravencrest has been well known for its fabulous PuGs, but this is definitely our best success so far.

Last november we PuG’ed Anub’arak on heroic – though we never made it better than with 49 tries unfortunately – but this is definitely the new highlight.

Considering we only raid Fridays and Saturdays for like 3-4 hours maximum, this is awesome progress and we can finally get some hard modes done.

More Information

Here is the World of Logs meter for the fight.

Treebearman from has done a great job leading this PuG to success and I would like to thank you for keeping this PuG running despite all the migration issues we have faced the past weeks.

On a sidenote, if you are an exceptional player with decent Skills you might like to contact Treebearman ingame or here on the forum to join this PuG. After the recent wave of migrations we have to fill our spots with fresh meat!

Ensidia’s World First Lich King (25) got them Banned

Myrddin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:20:37 +0000

Like many players that try to get the last bit out of their profession choice, some Ensidia players rolled engineering for the extra few dps they can tickle out with it. So, what happened? During the Lich King encounter Valkyrs grab players, pick them up and drag them to the side. Some of the sides fall and you have less time to kill the Valkyr, before players drop to death.

The use of Saronite Bombs default the sides as being available again, even if they were gone before.

Right after the kill we got this blue post:

We just made a hotfix that disables the siege damage dealt by Saronite Bombs and the Global Thermal Sapper Charge. The siege damage of the bombs was causing the Frozen Throne platform to rebuild, which greatly decreases the difficulty of the encounter.
We’ll reenable the siege damage in a later update when the issue with the Frozen Throne is fixed.
Daelo
Lead Encounter Designer

Ensidia replied on their website:

“Yes it seems this bug does relate to our kill. We had no idea that our Rogues using Saronite Bombs in their rotation (as they always do) was causing it and thusly it occured every try we did. Short version, we’re not going to stop trying the boss when all we are doing is playing our normal game. It would be nice if these kinds of things, much the same as Holy Wrath on Anub, were tested before release.

It does make the fight easier, but we are 100% sure it would have died either way. It only affects one of the easier phases.

As a side note this only occured in 25 man.”

Of course we can’t really know what happened, but if a structure rebuilds it is obviously not the intended behaviour. On MMO-Champion forums they stated that this bug happened only on a few tries and they just went on killing the Lich King.

I can fully understand that, after all it is not Ensidia’s job to blow their tries on the Lich King encounter to find and write a bug reports about these things. We are talking about a bug that should not have been in the encounter the first place, a bug that again the Blizzard QA failed to notice and a bug that could have been caused by hundreds of factors.

A few minutes ago Muqq posted on his Blog on Ensidia:

Hello friends,

I got suspended today for supposedly and blatantly exploiting the Lich King encounter in 25-man mode. Here’s the mail:

Date of Violation: 03/02/2010
Character Name Involved: Muqq
Type of violation: Exploitation – Abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches with intent to exploit or cheat in World of Warcraft.
Details: Use of Saronite Bombs to bypass The Lich King fight mechanics Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 72 hours, all items and achievements gained removed
Greetings,
We are writing to inform you that we have had to place a warning on your World of Warcraft account and temporarily suspend it. It is with regret that we take this type of action, but it is in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game. The use of these items bypassed a major portion of the encounter, significantly reducing the difficulty in a clear abuse of game mechanics. After your suspension has expired, you will be able to access the World of Warcraft servers again.
Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences to your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.
We strongly suggest you review our current Rules and Policies to avoid further action in the future, they can be found at:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/
You can also find further information on the different levels of account penalty we can apply at: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/accountpenalties.html
If you have any further enquiries regarding your account status, please use the webform at the following address:
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml?lan=en
Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
English Game Master Team
Blizzard Europe

First of all, I took the time to log onto the account management page and discontinue my payment plan. It’s been a long and good 5 years and 2 months since day 1 of the US release of World of Warcraft. Many good memories were made, and fun times were had. That’s over now. My subscription runs out of February 21st, which marks the last day of World of Warcraft for me.

Looking back, moving from Final Fantasy X! to WoW was a big step, and there’s times that I regret making that decision, while on occasion I was happy to have taken the step. World of Warcraft was different back then. It was new, challenging and interesting. undoubtedly though, it was nowhere near as feature-rich as it is today, but that didn’t matter back then. The game was a continuation of EverQuest, a game most of the senior development staff of World of Warcraft are familiar with on a very familiar basis. Many of them played the game for years, and I can see that it served as a major inspiration when I look at what World of Warcraft was when it was released. Being an avid EverQuest player myself during a time, It drew me in further into the game.

Things have changed since those days, changed a lot. The game stopped being that fun. Less challenges were present in the game, and as we got through TBC and more so in WotlK, homogenization started to rear its ugly face in World of Warcraft. Everyone running around with identical gear, looking the same, doing the exact same things. With arenas, changes were made on a monthly basis that affected the way classes were developed, and subsequently also lead to how PvE was being done in the game. It got stale, predictable and repetative. The whole notion of hybrids in the midst of all this was just a fucking slap in the face by Blizzard. If you’re going to remove everything unique and interesting about the classes, at least make them equal in the roles that they are performing.

Their idea of hybrid was something taken from classes in EverQuest, where people played classes that were jack of all trades, master of none, or very specialuzed roles, such as a pure buffer (bards etc). Classes that existed for one purpose, and nothing else. They removed most of those in WotlK, but still stick with the notion that hybrids somehow offer something special just because they have the ability to respec to a different role. Kind of a strange taken on the whole thing, considering what they’ve already to make it easy in leveling and gearing up characters on the same account, with more and more things being accountbound rather than characterbound. Two-faced by Blizzard in my opinion. Removed the boundary between characters on one hand, and at the same time claim hybrids needs to be penalized because they have the option of respeccing to perform different roles that a simple log out/log in would take care of.

Let’s face it. This game is boring for veterans. The only reason it’s still being played is because there has never been good alternatives during these 5 years. Age of Conan, Warhammer Online and Aion fucking flopped like shit. Really developers, if you want to make an MMO, don’t go and fucking try to copy WoW. If people wanted to play WoW, they’d play WoW, not your shitty gimp ass version of it. Let it be a lesson to all you developers out there.

Anyway, back to the subject. This was as good time as any to drop this game and move on. Had been considering it for a while, and I always said to Buzzkill and the gang that I was just waiting for the sign. A sign from heaven to guide me on my way. Today, I received it. I doubt we’ll ever get a perm-ban, as the loss of PR from banning topguilds is going to hurt their subscription numbers much more than quelling angry cries of the fucking noobs in this game ever would. Really, if you don’t know shit about this game, just shut the fuck up and do something else. You level 1 fuck posters and the forums can honestly go f yourselves, since you’re too shit to know even the basics of this game.

Finally dear Blizzard:

Fix your goddamn buggy bull##@% half-assed encounters. The amount of time and effort we dedicated to get through Wrath of the Lich king and Icecrown to see this guy die and take a turn at the Arthas is just sick. To finally see him die only to have the ENTIRE raid banned is simply an insult. It’s cheap enough to make a bugged fucking encounter, but to ban people when they do not know what’s causing the bugs is just a fucking joke. Whoever came up with this sheer *fisting* of an idea can go fucl themselves. Do me a favor so I don’t waste my guild’s time on this kind of jackass ##@%-fest again, send me an email at mupp@gavle.to when you decide to A) Implement an encounter that wasn’t designed by a retarded chimp chained to a cubicle B) Get a Quality Assuarance Department C) Actually beta test the !**#ing thing and D) Patch it live. And please for god’s sake — do it in the order I laid out for you. Don’t worry, I won’t charge you a consulting fee on that one. And for good luck you might as well E) Pull your heads out of your asses. While you’re at it rename the game to World of Betacraft.

Rethink your fucking bullshit. Fix all the buggy motherfucking ICC encounters (I suggest you let whoever made the Blood Queen one do this since that dude apparently laid off the crack the rest of you were smoking). Fix fucking arenas, or better yet, remove that shit. Fix heroic modes (just guessing it’s !**#ed up considering your track record). Don’t have the resources to fix this stuff? Move the ENTIRE Cataclysm team over to fixing Icecrown Citadel AND DO IT NOW. If you don’t fix this shit, you jackassess will be the only ones playing the Cataclysm.

You got 1 week.

Thank you Blizzard, for these 5 years, but also, fuck you Blizzard, for these 5 years.

I just got banned, and I liked it.

A few years ago I would have been sure that blizzard did investigate it thoroughly, but seeing the customer service go down more and more I am not so sure if Blizzard lives up to the quality of service they would like to be. A friend got banned 2 weeks ago, when I borrowed him 10k gold for his 25 Saronite. BAM – suspicous online trading activites. 1 week later they excused and gave a few hours free play time, less than he was banned for.

We can never be sure what exactly happened there, but I find it very plausible that Ensidia did not realize what was causing the platforms to rebuild. I guess every competetive guild would have just filed it under “buggy design” and went on competing for first kills.

Edit:

Just found out that the last part in Muqq’s rant was made with this in mind:

http://www.legacyofsteel.net/oldsite/arc27.html

Scroll down to April 13th:

Anger Is An Energy, Saturday, April 13, 2002 – tigole

Fix your goddamn buggy bullshit half-assed encounters. The amount of time we dedicated to get our keys to see this guy die and take a turn at the Emperor is just sick. To finally see Blood die only to have the ENTIRE raid DT’d from anywhere in the room was simply an insult. Blood dies, there are two earrings on the corpse, yet no matter where you are in the room, the Emperor DT’s. So congrats rot on those. It’s cheap enough to make a mob DT in the first place. But to have his agro radius extend to the entire room is ridiculous. So let me get this straight — and this is how you guys envisioned this in San Diego: You spend months farming keys to get up to the room. Months farming Shissar Bane weapons (and the recipe is where?). You kill Blood while dealing with 8 other snakes in the room. And immediately after that fight you’re supposed to engage the DEATHTOUCHING-FROM-ANYWHERE-IN-THE-ROOM Emperor along with the 8 snakes? Whoever came up with this sheer *fisting* of an encounter can go fuck themselves. Do me a favor so I don’t waste my guild’s time on this kind of jackass shit-fest again, send me an email at tigole@legacyofsteel.net when you decide to A) Implement an encounter that wasn’t designed by a retarded chimp chained to a cubicle B) Get a Quality Assuarance Department C) Actually beta test the fucking thing and D) Patch it live. And please for god’s sake — do it in the order I laid out for you. Don’t worry, I won’t charge you a consulting fee on that one. And for good luck you might as well E) Pull your heads out of your asses. While you’re at it rename the game to BetaQuest since you’ve used up you’re alotted false advertising karma on the Bazaar and user interface scam of ’01.

Fix the Emperor encounter. Fix Seru. Rethink your time-sink bullshit. Fix all the buggy motherfucking ring encounters (I suggest you let whoever made the Burrower one do this since that dude apparently laid off the crack the rest of you were smoking). Fix the VT key quest. Fix VT (just guessing it’s fucked up considering your track record). Don’t have the resources to fix this stuff? Move the ENTIRE Planes of Power team over to fixing Shadows of Luclin AND DO IT NOW. If you don’t fix Luclin, you jackassess will be the only ones playing the Planes of Power.

That is actually quite funny to throw his own words at Tigole and puts the post of Muqq into a new light

PTR Testing, Icecrown Citadel

Myrddin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:54:39 +0000

As European we are quite used to be limited to second class treatment by blizzard. There are hardly responses from the European Community Manager Team or even straight answers from Developers.

Icecrown PTR testing seems to peak at total unfairness. Why does Blizzard invite Players to the PTR, but then doesn’t enable Bosses, keeps doors locked or provides testing at different times than announced.

I mean there is lot of interest in testing Icecrown Citadel as you can easily see here:

But the for most people the evening ends like this, looking at closed doors, while some selected guilds get special treatment and personal GM help. Blizzard, you could handpick invitations to PTR if you can’t handle the load and prevent people from staring at the doors all evening.

Interesting encounter, eh?

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