Ragnaros Heroic: Realm First

[Azzael]

Ragnaros Heroic


As shown above, we have finally defeated Ragnaros and obtained that nice Realm First server spam again!

We spent in total some 198 wipes on this on 10 man, plus quite a few more on heroic 25 before we decided to revert to 10 for this. There is a story to this, we didn't just go to 10 man because we thought it would be easier, doing it was in fact very hard - not in terms of the boss, but having to tell a lot of good players we would be killing it on 10 man first of all

The main reasons we did it in this manner were two-fold, firstly we had a lot of players going away on holiday in the last few weeks and we lacked the right class synergies i.e. balance druids that made killing the adds pathetically easy. We started to gear up some druids but looking at our competition we thought that as we had practically won every other server first boss this tier, and especially after the re-building that was required of Balance after the last tier, we were determined to not lose this realm first.

The decision to convert to 10 from 25 was also in part due to the progress we had been seeing from a certain 10 man guild on Grim Batol. We were confident we could achieve the 10 man kill before our rivals sticking with 25 man, but were getting a bit more concerned each day with the other guild's progress. On the day we killed this for example, we see that they are learning phase 4, so maybe not too long now until another 10 man kill of Ragnaros on Grim Batol

Having looked at videos of 10 man kills and picking a setup we thought would work (thanks for all those disconnects Curii!) we set about learning the boss again. Within two weeks we were at phase 4 and it was looking good. Then came the nerfs to Ragnaros' health. Truth be told I don't think we were far off killing him pre-nerf but the changes did allow us, with our dps, to take the boss into phase 4 with only one meteor up.

The previous night we had Ragnaros into phase 4 a lot as well, but the tipping point was swapping the holy pally for a resto druid for more dps before Ragnaros transitioned and allowing for only one meteor to be up - we had this a couple of times yesterday, but with the revised setup it was happening every try

So there you have it, finally Balance is realm first again, true it was 10 man but we figure that's Blizzard's fault for making it this way, we'd all love there to be separate 10 and 25 realm first achievements but while they are this way and competition exists, we didn't want to be caught out as was the case with tier 11.

We will now go back to 25 man raiding and complete Ragnaros on that as well and begin the preparations for the next tier - Deathwing!

Congratulations to everyone who helped, not just those who took part in the kill - we had many who helped us start early on Wednesday for example so the majority was clear for Ragnaros tries, so while this first kill was 10 man, the kill overall was a guild effort

[Inzult]

Good Job !

[Aesr]

Yeah a massive thanks to everyone that was part of the progress on and up to Ragnaros, hopefully getting the guild this first kill makes up for you having to sit out on a fight you all deserved a spot on.

[Omgitscurii]

ty guys! now lets get someone a new legendary so I can get some competition on the meters, pfffffffffffffffffff

[Azzael]

ty guys! now lets get someone a new legendary so I can get some competition on the meters, pfffffffffffffffffff

You just need a stable internet connection to beat you in anything Joao...

[Omgitscurii]

On a more serious note, pretty much everyone from our raiding core deserved to be at this kill and let there be no achievement in the world that makes you think otherwise.

gz balance

[Grizzi]

Old and slow

[Darkwingz]

Good fcking Job , rf is rf no matter what , thats how Cata works .

why killing while I'm offline someone link server spam SS !

[Kurohitsugi]

Awesome feat people, glad to see you are in top gear again.

[Lan]

Grats guys!

[nrg]

Old and slow

many gz

[Prophasis]

Congratulations guys, was there yesterday in the vent channel etc. What a beasts.
You guys had a nice competition up there, and it was a good choice to go 10 Man!

[Bombi]

nice job faggots

[Suná]

The second DK on the left who's name you can't read is Grizzi btw.

ty guys! now lets get someone a new legendary so I can get some competition on the meters, pfffffffffffffffffff

Nice Joao last on the meter... Real mages can extinguish and dps at the same time.

[Curzed]

The second DK on the left who's name you can't read is NOT Grizzi btw.

Fixed it for you suna.