First attempt of the night, total time spent attempting Algalon 25: 1 hour, 6 minutes, 30~ seconds!
Edit: Video of last 10% of Algalon with vent: here Mimiron hard mode (non-massively nerfed) kill video: here
It wasn't without its dramas, having a mage offline for 50% of the boss, and we killed it at the last possible second before Algalon completed casting Ascend to the Heavens and ported off, but that made it even more satisfying.
As a guild that raids 4 nights per week, Algalon was a great opportunity for us to show what we are capable of by limiting all guilds to one hour per week, and the speed at which the guild picked this up well and truly surpassed my expectations. Sorry to those that we couldn't fit in for the kill, we couldn't have done this without our strong roster.
What really set this up was our rapid Mimiron progress, giving us a very productive Algalon hour last week. We haven't got around to killing it yet this week, but the nerfs appear to take all of the difficulty out of the encounter. I'm really glad we can boast killing it when it was difficult, Mimiron was second only to Algalon in how satisfying it felt to come away with the kill.
For some reason the Algalon chest decided to be lootable for 5 seconds only, so after killing Algalon at about 8:15 server time, we decided to celebrate our Algalon kill by defending the chest, while waiting for a GM to service our ticket. Still waiting on that ticket...
Great work everyone! It took a lot of commitment, effort and skill but we pulled it off. Blizzard really has delivered with Sunwell, it is very well tuned and the encounters are all fun (except people falling off the ledge before we pull on Twins...). Throughout progression we have had our share of setbacks with people not being able to make it, internet problems, server problems, and when skill or application just wasn't there. But we've battled through all that and got what we aimed for and I think deserved.
Another Oceanic First - our second in a row - and it was the 38th in the world and the 18th by a 'US' guild. With the handicap of Oceanic ping, and having raided no more than 4 raid nights per week since Sunwell was released, this is a very strong accomplishment and show that application and skill are the makings of a good guild for Sunwell.
Thank you to everyone for efforts and sacrifices that you've made to allow us to Sunwell so strongly. Thanks also to our friends on Frostmourne, particularly Avast who crafted us a very large number of Sunwell items when we had no patterns to offer in return. You are a top guild, and we've had strong relations with you guys right through BC and I hope that continues.
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