A Guild Milestone

The week went by as usual. Mobs spawned, we killed them. Loot was passed around. After a couple of days, we realized that we were almost fully keyed for Emp. And better yet, he was due to spawn the next day. So we busted our asses trying to key a few of our remaining members/recruits.

The big day arrives. We spent all day in Ssra waiting on the big snake to spawn. We tried striking bargains with our competition to ensure we have a shot. We got our chance, and sure enough, the snake and the golem popped late that evening. So we moved in. We got the OT's set and started whacking away on Blood. Everything was going picture perfect and Blood died. Loot was handled fast and then we sat there anxiously awaiting Emp to become targetable. He came to life, and we immediately have LDs...tanks, dps, rampage healers. Everyone needed to win the encounter is out, but we had no choice now but to fight the snake. We got him cornered and thought everything was going great when we realized our healers were the rampage tanks. It was all downhill from there.

Needless to say, we summoned our corpses and called it a night. There was no way we would be able to attempt him again that night since it was already into the wee hours of the morning. We went to bed praying that Emp would still be up the next day for us to take a few more stabs at him. Obviously our prayers weren't heard in Asia, as Emp was dead the next morning.

Emp: 1
UG: 0

The next day, we talked about what we needed to do to prevent the wipe should we have mass LD's on the encounter again and set about finishing up a few more keys in preparation for the next spawn. Then we whacked some more mobs, just because they were up and we needed more loot. Much to our surprise, the night following our first Emp attempt we found out there was to be a patch. We would get our second chance without having to wait a week.

So we all arrived in Ssra bright and early the next day after the patch. Emp had already spawned. "Sweeeet" we all thought to ourselves. If we started early enough we'd be able to take multiple attempts if needed. So we headed up again.

OT's were set, Blood dies, and again loot was handed out. Then came the moment of truth. We pulled Emp. Something went wrong with the pull! One tank dead. Two tanks dead. Three tanks dead. The 4 MT healers were assisting emp and spraying heals as fast as possible hoping someone will finally grab agro. Finally we had a tank holding agro, and the heal chain got set. Wait...who's this? Llew? A pally MT? WTF? The healers started making mental adjustments on the chain to adjust for the lack of hp/evasive. 17 minutes and countless nec twitches later, the big snake finally died!

We finally killed the big boss of Ssra! And we wouldn't have been able to do it if every person on the raid hadn't done their jobs to the best of their ability. The OT team did a tremendous job of holding on to their mobs and not panicking when the pull went bad. The healers maintained their composure throughout the fight, and even managed to get the ones that died on the pull rezzed back into the fight. The melees never lost their focus and followed their instructions to the letter as they were changing every second. It was truly an awesome display of teamwork and discipline.

I have never been more proud of my fellow guildmembers than I was on this night. To see all of their work and dedication finally come to fruition was truly inspiring.

Now we're just 1 more Emp kill away from being allowed into the VT rotation. After that, who knows.

To all of the other guilds that graciously let us have a shot at Emp uncontested, thank you from each and every member of UG. And to all the players that spammed us with congratulations, a big thank you to each of you too.

That's it for this week, so peace out and all that ya fuggeroos

Gaeaan

Oh yeah, I almost forgot....Aillron's cool!

Posted by at February 1, 2004 10:20 PM