todo:Streaming links for Yogg-Saron, Zul'Jin, Jan'alai(youtube for now), Org raid and Illidan
Yogg Saron (big download, need to add to streaming site)
Yogg Saron (big download, need to add to streaming site)
First boss in Sunwell Plateau. Since Kael'Thas in Tempest Keep this one took time to get on top of. Sadly the guild lost its raidleader during this time which ended up being a turning point for the guild, sadly not a good one. Regardless, we kept at it with some stepping up to help run things including myself and we freed Kalecgos (you don't actually kill him, he's a good guy who became possessed by Sathrovarr the Corruptor.
It had been some time since I made a video for Offtime so I made this one special. Spent a bit of time and effort on it to make it good mainly for the guild and also to reflect the effort we put into learning it. We'd gone through a lot and recruiting was tough. Losing some key members to IRL hurt but we pulled through. It took a while to make but I think the wait was worth it. Being a two-realm encounter I used of our mage Destinex' fraps as well to play with some effects.
Some RP for fun and ends up with a pull of Brutallus while we were on a high. Music is "Nightwish-The Poet and the Pendulum" and "Within Temptation-Our Solemn Hour".
It had been some time since I made a video for Offtime so I made this one special. Spent a bit of time and effort on it to make it good mainly for the guild and also to reflect the effort we put into learning it. We'd gone through a lot and recruiting was tough. Losing some key members to IRL hurt but we pulled through. It took a while to make but I think the wait was worth it. Being a two-realm encounter I used of our mage Destinex' fraps as well to play with some effects.
Some RP for fun and ends up with a pull of Brutallus while we were on a high. Music is "Nightwish-The Poet and the Pendulum" and "Within Temptation-Our Solemn Hour".
When daylight savings kicked in my schedule changed again, I was able to raid with offtime again which was cool. After learning the zone we started to do bear run attemps. Which is killing the first 4 bosses within 20 minutes and you get a Amani bear mount in the last chest. This took some learning but the effort eventually paid off. Being on a 3 day reset it wasn't too painful but we could only afford one mistake at the time. Eventually we had it down so well we had over 8 minutes left. We started selling the 10th raid spot to the realm for aroung 5k which we splite up among us, they had a shot at loot and a guaranteed mount and it was a lot of fun.
Below are our first kills of some of the bosses I was there for.
Below are our first kills of some of the bosses I was there for.
Final boss of Zul'Aman, certainly an fun encounter and after we got familiar with the phases and abilities, turned out to be easier than Hexxlord I thought. Transformers is the theme of the day, no idea why, just seemed fun to edit with.
Second to last boss and probably the hardest in terms of mechanics. The worst being he'll use abilities of a random member of the party, cc and raid healing as well as composition finally got us through this one, dropped some nice caster gear too. And of course the best item in the game today, Army of Darkness.
Teron GorefiendThis didn't take that long for us to learn and we all had to be Hunters for a moment, if they were chosen for 'Shadow of Death we were safe. Those that weren't familiar with petbars soon became obvious but we got there in the end. Practice is all it took.
First kill was fun and we also used the encounter to gauge our dps numbers for when we started working on Brutallus in Sunwell as it was an 'all out' fight. One of my favourites for sure.
Video was fun to make and on this kill I wasn't chosen to die (probably a good thing), a few have asked me for the soundtrack and I have no idea what it was called, I made this a few reinstalls ago and no longer have the sonyvegas work files to find out. Its in my mp3 collection.. Somewhere..
It was around this time I had an IRL schedule change and could no longer raid with Offtime. After a few weeks of no raiding I started to miss it, knowing the guild was progressing through Black Temple without me the only option I had at the time was transfer, as there were no Aussie guilds on the server. Leaving my alt there I tried out a Singapore which was the same timezone as me at the time. Very different atmosphere than I was used to but I stuck it out. They had T6 content all on farm for several months and it was a change of pace. First night I had to learn quite quickly every boss from Teron Gorefiend upwards as they ploughed through the instance. Seemed too easy, there as no vent chatter and apart from the learning curve, got quite boring and I began to miss raiding with Offtime. I did make some friends there and a couple I still chat with regularly on msn today so it kept me raiding. Eventually my schedule changed again and I was able to return to Offtime's times and raiding.
First kill was fun and we also used the encounter to gauge our dps numbers for when we started working on Brutallus in Sunwell as it was an 'all out' fight. One of my favourites for sure.
Video was fun to make and on this kill I wasn't chosen to die (probably a good thing), a few have asked me for the soundtrack and I have no idea what it was called, I made this a few reinstalls ago and no longer have the sonyvegas work files to find out. Its in my mp3 collection.. Somewhere..
It was around this time I had an IRL schedule change and could no longer raid with Offtime. After a few weeks of no raiding I started to miss it, knowing the guild was progressing through Black Temple without me the only option I had at the time was transfer, as there were no Aussie guilds on the server. Leaving my alt there I tried out a Singapore which was the same timezone as me at the time. Very different atmosphere than I was used to but I stuck it out. They had T6 content all on farm for several months and it was a change of pace. First night I had to learn quite quickly every boss from Teron Gorefiend upwards as they ploughed through the instance. Seemed too easy, there as no vent chatter and apart from the learning curve, got quite boring and I began to miss raiding with Offtime. I did make some friends there and a couple I still chat with regularly on msn today so it kept me raiding. Eventually my schedule changed again and I was able to return to Offtime's times and raiding.
IllidanNot my video as I wasn't there for the kill, Destinex one of the Mages took this and is a good video, pretty sure this is the first kill.
Our first look into T6 content began here, and was one hell of a relief after the hurdle that was Kael'Thas. Only problem was we only had 15-20 attuned fully so had to clear Vashj and KT for several more weeks to get some good regular numbers in for the T6 assault. It payed off and we stormed through the first few bosses in Hyjal, some much easier than ones we'd encountered in SSC and TK. We were one of the first guilds on the realm to be into the new content and felt pretty good haveing a change of scenery finally.
Rage Winterchill was a pushover really, but it did mean players getting their PvP trinke, Hyjal was all about the waves and waves of trash. A wipe meant a lot of wasted time even on the trash. The soundtrack here's dedicated to our GM Drparks.
Our first look into T6 content began here, and was one hell of a relief after the hurdle that was Kael'Thas. Only problem was we only had 15-20 attuned fully so had to clear Vashj and KT for several more weeks to get some good regular numbers in for the T6 assault. It payed off and we stormed through the first few bosses in Hyjal, some much easier than ones we'd encountered in SSC and TK. We were one of the first guilds on the realm to be into the new content and felt pretty good haveing a change of scenery finally.
Rage Winterchill was a pushover really, but it did mean players getting their PvP trinke, Hyjal was all about the waves and waves of trash. A wipe meant a lot of wasted time even on the trash. The soundtrack here's dedicated to our GM Drparks.
Kael'Thas
One of the big blocks in the game, even after killing Illidan I know I'm not alone considering KT as the hardest encounter in the game for it's time. We spent weeks learning this and we had many phase 5 efforts. The time he went down was easily the biggest rush I've had in the game and not much has come close. We got pretty good at it as at the time we had to get players through this and Lady Vashj to get attuned so we could progress through the T6 content of Mount Hyjal and Black Temple, the first few bosses of which were a cakewalk after the KT encounter. I think it still gives people headaches today but will always be one of my top favourites for sure. This video was my first major project after learning Sony Vegas, was a lot of fun to make and stirred some emotions from the guild on the video thread forums, just what I was going for.
High Astromancer Solarian
My first ever attempt at a raid video, it's fairly ordinary to my later work, but still one of the funniest I'm told... More dots....
Misc stuff
Old guild anti-afk policy
TBC Orgrimmar Raid, run but complete failure :)
15man Pug Tempest Keep/Hyjal (80s, no music, posted for fun and the pug)
Old guild anti-afk policyTBC Orgrimmar Raid, run but complete failure :)
15man Pug Tempest Keep/Hyjal (80s, no music, posted for fun and the pug)
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