Death's Demise Part II

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On October 4th, after many hours of work, we killed Yogg with No Keepers, thus completing every encounter on Ulduar and defeating what is widely considered the most demanding Bossfight in Wrath of the Lich King

 

 

It nearly drove us to eating each other. Grats to Zergg on his [wowitem]Mimiron's Head[/wowitem] mount!

 

What's the suckiest part of Death's Demise? That after weeks of working on it, only the 25 people in the raid got the title. In fact, the entire guild deserves it. Everyone was in for a long period of time. Everyone played a part, gave an idea, and researched it. We wanted it so badly, we even said "fuck Anub" while we focused on it. It was the right choice then, and the right choice now (400k left on Anub Thursday... sighhh). My only wish, is that everyone who participated could have benefited from our hard fought and well earned victory.

 

We said from the get go it would just take that one attempt where the stars aligned an we went deep, and sure enough we got it. We persevered through heartbreaking 2%, 3% and 4% wipes. And honestly, it was worth it. Every near miss made our strat a little tighter and a little more controlled. In that way, it confirmed something we long suspected about this guild - that we succeed best when we control the fight. In that way, this fight made us a better, smarter guild.

 

If I could describe Death's Demise in one way, I would say it is "success by a thousand tweaks". Every step of the way we tweaked this fight to perfection. From DPS make-up to DPS allocation to healing make-up to number of healers.  The results were so finely tuned the night we got it we could safely say that we had mini-max'd the raid from a composition and strategy standpoint, that there is nothing more we could do but simply execute.

 

And sure enough we did that.

 

Best fight of the goddamn ex-pac, and easily the most rewarding kill we've had since Sunwell. Congratulations to the members of Tyranny. We truly earned and bled for this.