Four Nights a Week

Post subject: Four Nights a Week Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 09:18 PM

2 shaman, no fear ward: Archimonde dead after 2 nights of pain and suffering
23 raiders, 1 shaman, 7 healers: Gurtogg dead past midnight (as KTF know, no boss dies for us after midnight)
26 dedicated raiders, able to pull off Reliquary through Council in just two days
Countless nights with 0 shadow priest, empty raid slots and 1 shaman at most

1 shadow priest
1 shaman (resto)
A night of fighting the authentication server (over an hour wasted to this)
Many attempts with sub-25 raiders, we have 26 keyed for Black Temple after losing our Enhancement shaman this last week
Illidan Stormrage: Slain, 12:17AM, August 6, 2007

This is a good one:

KTF vs Illidan Stormrage Video

Irate? Maybe a little. We played strong, but our 4 nights a week show weak. On calendar we look slow, but for a guild that was hardly top 100 when we killed Kael'thas, struggling with recruitment and boss kills through the beginning because we hardly raid 4 nights a week, we sure pulled through. Even this last week 5 guilds passed us up because they choose to raid 7 nights a week for progression (which is fine), but pushing on at our lowly schedule we still pulled off the final kill. We could have easily had this kill on Saturday, where we had reached phase 3 four to five times, but excitement overrules all levels of skill and play. Even before our win on Monday night, we had a 2% wipe that Illidan healed to 10% because despite strict instruction to focus on parasites, they weren't killed. It doesn't help that your main tank gets a 5 minute salvation at 5% and the tank warlock pulls hate at 2%. It's ok though, we pulled it off, despite filling my harddrive consistantly with fraps videos and such. Even on our win, my computer started to lag up at 5% (which you can see in the video as I drop to 10 fps - down from my normal 60), and at this point my harddrive has absolutely no space available, and stops recording. When I windowed out after the win, I'm greeted with "Disk available space: 0 bytes". This week we repeated our Illidan, as well as Archimonde with 1 shaman.

Good or bad, we can't really decide, coming in a day short on our kill made Goldbeard lose a bet with a friend from Flying Hellfish, that we would kill Illidan before them. The bet was made back when they had already killed Archimonde and we were barely having Teron and Anetheron down. Some argue it's best that Goldbeard lost his IRL gold and we killed the boss, but who knows which is a better outcome honestly! Many guilds took this last week as a chance to push their progression forward, and started raiding 7 nights a week to force the Illidan kill. Notwithstanding, we continued our 4 night schedule and only came out a few hours later than these same guilds :). Double or nothing? Gold has much faith:

This team of people is supremely dedicated, we farmed up ~150 hearts of darkness in a mere 2 days. For as awful as recruiting has been for Hellscream (we looked for 6 months for a shadow priest, never to find one capable of raiding end game content, the majority of our raid hardly remembers or knows what it's like to have a shadow priest in their group), and struggling with very low attendance numbers, despite high dedication, I can't help but smile as to how strong this guild is, has stayed (since EQ), and has become. Not once through all of TBC have we ever had more than 2 shaman, and even on our final week of finishing up Black Temple, we were stuck with 1 shaman, very skilled mind you, but 1 none the less. We've lost two shaman to the Alleria server over the last 6 months, one of the strongest backbone classes in the game currently, but that hasn't held us back too much either. TBC has been some of the best raiding I've ever experienced, and I have no one but my friends to thank for that. Reminiscing over this expansion is filled with some great times, despite the bad ones (like losing close friends).

KTF lives on either way. It's a long time coming, but we're going nowhere, so to speak. Our very low turn around rate makes for a wonderful environment full of friends, and it's the most enjoyable place to be, to be perfectly honest. I'd like to publicly welcome Vaerie, Ctrl (come back when life is worked out), Accadia (our only shaman) and Paksenarion to the guild; our only additions since TBC release. For those interested, please visit the new KTF History page and learn about our history.

KTF History Page

What more do I have to say really? There's not much to say. We've proved we're still strong, and we're here to stay. Raiding has been much fun, even with the downers. I know I said it back when we killed Kel'thuzad the for first time, but I couldn't ask for a better group of friends to play with. Watch the video, the whole thing. The very ending has some good stuff. This update took me a while. WWS is up to date and I wanted to get the history page and video up in time as well. Enjoy the pictures, video, wws and history page.