Illidan down!
September 16, 2008 by Sydera
Filed under All Stories, Personal
I would like to interrupt your regularly scheduled witty commentary on healing strategy and guild management to bring you an important update in the in-game life of Sydera. My guild, Collateral Damage of Vek’nilash, has killed Illidan! Oh yes, we were far behind the leading wave of progression, but this kill was nonetheless thrilling.
The death of Illidan is an in-game milestone with special meaning for me. When Collateral Damage started up, we had none of the advantages that raiding guilds typically do. We are the product of a merger of two casual Karazhan guilds, and with one or two exceptions, our players had no previous raid experience, either in Vanilla WoW or other MMOs. We had new main tanks, a new raid leader, and a new healing coordinator (who, at the time, didn’t even realize that Regrowth spam was bad–oops!). We are a grassroots guild built from the ground up–and if you, dear readers, had seen our first attempts at Maulgar, you never would have thought that these same people could ever down the final boss of Tier 6.
When we started raiding, my endgame goal was to see the inside of Hyjal. Not necessarily kill any bosses there, but just see it. However, once we killed Vashj, I started to really believe, and to outright promise all of our new recruits that we’d be dancing on Illidan’s mangled, bloody corpse by the end of the summer. And well, a few days before the equinox, here we are. As you can see from the screenshot, we also brought out our formal wear for the occasion.
I'm Matticus and I play a Dwarf Priest. My home is in Conquest, a raiding Guild that I have founded. Every week, I log 12 hours raiding on Ner'Zhul.
Wynthea is the Troll Priest with the best Mohawk on Firetree. Currently, I raid 4 nights a week in a hardcore guild. I started playing WoW in May 2005, and raiding end-game in May 2007. My guild is currently working through 25-man WotLK content. I've tried playing other classes, but Priests are my passion. I am extremely fond of Dwarves.... especially with Ketchup. 
My name is Sydera and I like to heal things--think Florence Nightingale with foliage. I play a night elf druid on Ner'Zhul, and I raid 12 hours a week. As a guild officer for Conquest, I coordinate healing and recruit new raiders. I started playing WoW in Fall 2005, and it was love at first click. Before I discovered the joys of Broccoli-stalk healing, I raided as a holy paladin, and I now have alts in all healing classes. I have to say, though, bark beats poofy dresses and heavy plate in my book.
Graaaaaaatz!
grats! Did you feel that it was anti-climatic at all? His slow goofy death animation had us wondering what the hell was going on when we got our first kill.
This especially true when he is in demon form during the kill shot.
Well, since we were mostly all lying dead on the ground, while being both elated and confused at the same time as to whether we actually did kill him or not, I think most of us actually missed the closing speech (I know I did anyway). Of course I had the added benefit of having my graphics card on the fritz, with my screen pixelated like some kind of abstract art.
I’ll second Alb’s comment. I didn’t notice the death speech–I was too busy shrieking and wishing someone would rez me.
Gratz
Congratulations!!!
Gratz!
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Gotta love toppling milestones in a time of expansionitis!
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Congratz!
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You were prepared!
Gratz
WTG! He’ll just get easier and easier from this pt forward. Sunwell awaits!
Grats on your Illidan Kill!
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Gratz