Alright, so Illidan took us a little longer then we had hoped. Why? Why is the sky blue or the grass green? Its all relative to the speed that we cleared to him. Nothing really compared to Kael, so two weeks a boss has been what we are used to. Of course we got to Illidan and he wasn’t really as easy as everyone said he was. Most of the problems being the infamous phase two. Our biggest problem in phase 2 was Blood Elf Rogue Leetfade’s constant attempts to pirouette jump over the eyebeams as they came down. In honor of leetfade, I present images of leetfade jumping over other things that would kill him:
Here’s Leetfade jumping over a car accident:
Here’s Leetfade jumping over AIDS:
Here’s Leetfade jumping over terrorists:
And finally, here’s Leetfade jumping over a Vitamin B3 and Tryptophan deficiency:
Of course I'm kidding when I blame leetfade, he only ever tried that once :P. To spread the jesting around, lets not forget that eye beams wreaked havoc on our tanks early on as well. In this professional recreation of an HoC Illidan phase 2, you will see what I mean. In this re-enactment, our flame tanks are portrayed by the security guard, and the eyebeams are portrayed by the steamroller. Watch and enjoy:
IM JUST KIDDING I LOVE YOU GUYS YOU DID AWESOME! <3 <3 <3 <3 and also many more hearts
Slowly backing into reality, after 10, 7, and 13% wipes we decided to venture into extra innings. Lady luck finally cut us some slack when at 8% Maiev dropped a trap right next to our MT, and we zerged him down. Really didn’t need the trap probably, but it was a nice gift. Speaking of our tank, I’d like to thank not only Kaz’rogal, but also Jan’Alai: Thank you guys, for not dropping your shields after being farmed for six months. Thank you for forcing our MT to tank Illidan with an Aldori Legacy Defender from Gruul. And Loji almost didn’t even get the shield from Gruul, if anyone remembers, it was on our last night of gruuls lair that it finally dropped. Not to mention Nightbanes inability to drop shields. So we very well could’ve had our Main Tank tanking Illidan with a Platinum Shield of the Valorous. I guess this is where I chime in about the RNG loot system… but im gonna pass, and hope that Illidan rewards us soon enough.
And finally, when your flame tanks get lazored, and you throw out the mandatory “what happened there?” a raid leader would expect to hear in return, “Sorry, I saw it too late.” Or, “I thought I was clear.” But when posing this question tonight to a certain, normally very quiet and polite feral druid, I did not expect to hear “Sorry, my husband was pinching my nipples.”… Well, I’m pretty sure all guilds wipe to that at some point anyway.
So I’ll end with a BC victory speech. Yes I know about sunwell, but if you’ve been around a while and followed Hellscream guilds for a while you know why any progress we make in there is moot to the point. The point being that a guild consistently wiping on spider boss pre-BC stormed through, made new friends, kicked the really crappy players, (although it sometimes took us an agonizing amount of time to do so) over the course of BC, and winding up taking down Illidan as a horde 5th, server 11th, , is.. well, a pretty special accomplishment for us. I’d like to take credit, but we all know that its Corasha, through building relationships, making everyone happy, going after the very best free agents on the server with blazing guns, she’s really the glue that holds the ship afloat.
And of course all of our raiders, who seemingly never know when they are in over their heads.
