Madness of Deathwing 25 Realm First!

[Cless]

FUCKING FINISHED.

Well, hands up who thought after T11 Balance would be finishing Cataclysm as we have finished every iteration of WoW, server first!

It's been over a year since the expansion started and well, it has been probably the hardest in Balance's history due to huge changes with our roster coming into the expansion and then the subsequent rebuild that followed. But as we can see, with both Firelands and now Dragon Soul Realm Firsts achieved the hard work has paid off and I cant thank those who have been here for the hard work and effort put in enough, what we have gone through is enough to kill most guilds, instead we finish the expansion as server first and in a position to truly push on and achieve the ranks we grew accustomed to during Vanilla, The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King. That list of people is really too long to go into here, as not only does it include the raiders currently, but those who were key factors in T11 and T12 and of course as mentioned in the Spine post, the former raiders from previous expansions who still help to keep this guild the success it is.

Onto Madness itself then!! There has been a lot of discussion about the fights anti-climatic nature and how 'easy' it is in comparison to spine, well, that down plays it really and quite a lot of these comments are often myths perpetuated by those with little experience to base them on. I wont go into lore etc as that's not really me, but as a fight while yes it is easier than spine (though easier is a relative term I feel its just more forgiving to a natural raid composition) it is by no means an easy fight and I'm sure some guilds will spend many frustrating wipes on this, as a point of comparison it felt like Kil'Jaeden after Muru, not a bad or easy fight when looked at on its own, just suffers from its position in the instance/expansion.

I still have to say that the raid we took (and those sat on the sidelines sadly, it has to happen to some as is always the way in a raiding guild) really pushed themselves and we got control of the fight quickly and had some low % wipes early, I was impressed with how consistent we became early on with a lot of our wipes being due to an unfortunate bug in the encounter seeing players die in an unressable position when jumping between platforms, that annoyance aside, we made really fast progress catching up and obviously passing the other guild on the server who has been working on this for a longer period of time. Especially given the format of this expansion of forcing 25 mans to compete with the (aside from t11) often agreed easier discipline of 10 man raiding.

Overall I can't be happier with the guilds end to Cataclysm and anyone who had written us off after T11, well sorry, but we are still around and still the best, a trend we intend to continue long into Mists of Pandaria.

SEE YOU ALL THERE!!

[Nuze]

Gratz guys!

[Omgitscurii]

Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss.

[Suná]

i think joao is derailing.

[Snö]

You forgot to mention Plockzy jumping off the edge with the parasite.

But yeah great job guys!

[Curzed]

A special thanks to Nemi for having a look at his hunter and putting the guild before himself and rerolling to something we needed (me of all people know its not easy), Heraz and Grizzly for taking a step back from retirement and helping us out when we needed the most and a huge thanks to Plockzy for the comic relief.

[Zergx]

i think this tier especially has shown exactly what makes a guild rather than a random group of players...

for as good as a talented group of players can be, when things dont go your way, its easy to go elsewhere where the grass is currently greener.
as a guild you stick together and come out on top time and time again, even through the harder times...and look where its taken us, and could project us forward in the future.

bring on next tier!

[Grizzly]

FUck yeah guys! Well done! =) and thanks to all those in the guild that stayed true to the cause!!
You all deserve a couple of prom queens!
Just glad to help making some epic Balance history! 7 years in the running!

Balance for life!
Grizzly

[Taic]

Well done guys! I'm sorry I couldn't be there in the end, but that's life.

Impressive how fast you managed to down Madness after finishing off Spine, really najs!

[Seksuel]

Congratulations guys on another well finished expansion!

[Sookeh]

oh dear so many tears what was said alot times here it comes again :

THEY SEE US ROLLIN THEY HATIN !


Ruptal salutes and congratz to every single person in Balance

[Lan]

Gratz again guys!

What a great way to finish off Cataclysm! Deathwing down - REALM FIRST - that's the stuff of legends, my friends!

/salute

[fnackles]

Woho, gonna be honest and say i had my doubts after all the fuzz u guys been through the past 6 or so months. But hey, a guild like this is supposed to stay strong and fight trough worse times which it has many times through the 7 years it's been up and running!
A big congrats to you guys on the kill and happy farming! Hopefully it wont take a whole year for blizzard to release new content again!

I really hope that you guys hit Mists of Pandaria with a giant shitstorm with a roster stronger then ever to be there figting to be a world top 40 guild like we once was!

Once again, Congrats on the kill!
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[Necro]

You all deserve a couple of prom queens!

Send me a couple of swedish underaged boys! And fine, a few girls aswell so I don't have to look like the biggest homo on the planet.

[Omgitscurii]

this was beyong epicness... coming all the way back from a shit tier11 to the gold, man, these niggas ain't real, they're real fakes. This is for all of you that believed in Balance and for all who didn't:

YOU CAME AT THE KING U BEST NOT FUCKING MISS