Where do I come from? Part 3

I have been doing some work and taking care of personal crap, and now we can go back to the last installment of my history so we can get to some nitty gritty.

As we entered Wrath of the Lich King, we were totally ready to be at the forefront, the core of raiders were amazing and ready to take on anything WoTLK had to offer.  However, the difference between BC and Wrath was not the core of 15-20 it was the others that filled in the raid to keep us afloat that were our X factor.  When the right people were on, it was great and amazing and we killed things, but these were also not progression raiders as I knew the term from my BC days, and even now.  A progression raider is someone who is there to step up and keep working at stuff they may not get the first try, the first night, or sometimes the first week.

The situation we were in led us to a real road block with Sarth 3D and a few other of the more difficult achievements we had on our plate like 6 min. Malygos.  We eventually did get the group together to get both of those achievements as they were still the current tier of content, and I will still wear my Twilight Vanquisher title with pride from time to time because of the work I had to put in to earn that one.  So with everything done, I really only had the ability to hone my skills as an Affliction warlock, which landed me top numbers amongst the guild for several encounters, outside of Thaddius since I had to use a swiftness potion to make the jump on my old computer(yeah it was sad).  Then we heard about T8 and I was ready for the Secrets of Ulduar.

Ulduar is sort of where the wheels really fell off for NGW as a guild.  The core raiders wanted to attack hard modes, which were sort of new to the game still while we had the slot fillers wouldn't log in because they knew we were doing hard modes.  This caused a rift amongst the guild and created cliques and it really brought down morale, and eventually we got through Ulduar normal mode but without enough time left before ToC to sink our teeth into hard modes.

When ToC came out it became the same situation as it was the whole expansion...we would breeze through the easy stuff and then ToGC would be on the schedule and we either had no one around or people wanted to quit when it got a bit difficult.  This eventually led me to talk to Shadrilin and see what his thoughts were on a move.  He was sorta OK with the idea but looking would be difficult with our schedules.  Then I caught swine flu and had nothing but a whole week of free time to take care of finding us a new home.  I eventually stumbled upon a very similar guild, same schedule and goals as NGW in BC had.  So I gave it some time and thought and when NGW made the decision to move to a 2 hour raid schedule per night I knew it was no longer the home for me, and to the dismay of some of the members of the officer core and raiders at large, I left for Completely Different, with Shad to follow me shortly after.  Now CD was on Terenas, a much smaller server and Horde, so I was glad to make a real big switch.

With CD, I was a bit quiet and just did my job until my app period was up and then I started to get to know the members and I made great friends with a group of people.  This group of people were happy to work on content that was challenging, and we got to 4/5 ToGC but due to a cycle of apps at key positions we never quite got to Anub enough to push us over the hump.  Then at long last, we were ready to assault the Frozen Throne.

Currently we are pushing through hard modes and are 8/12 ICC 25 HM, next time I get a chance I will post some discussion on current specs and how to properly gear/play them. 

Until then, don't clip your DoTs and remember where your summoning stone spell is.

-Benzie