[WoW Geekery] Wow... And I thought MH was bad.
Before we mutally decided to take a pre-expansion break in progression raiding (many of our key players were being poached by other guilds looking to fill their rosters while their regular raiders took a break from the game, plus the whole pre-x-pac ennui that sets in), our guild was making some strikes in Mount Hyjal.
Mount Hyjal is different from your usual 25-man raids in three distinct ways. First, it's set in the past. You're basically replaying a battle that was fought at the end of Warcraft III, except rather than it being a strategy game you're actually in the fight in a first-person sense (like all of World of Warcraft). Secondly, the whole thing is scripted. When you start the fight, you can actually get your allies (the NPCs) to fight along side you. Most guilds use this to their strategic advantage. Third, once you've started it, it's going. There's no break until you've either wiped or you've killed the boss. You fight eight waves of trash (anywhere from 10 to 16 mobs at a time), followed by the boss. No going AFK, not much time to discuss strategy for the next wave, and hardly any time to drink or ressurect the dead.
Generally, the fights took our guild about 15-20 minutes for trash, and another 8-10 minutes for the boss. So, sometimes we were glued to our keyboards for 30 minutes at a time of intense concentration. That's hard, you know... Keeping the whole teamwork thing together for that long, and making sure everyone was doing their job. Fun, but hard.
Well, pfcottontail (who is in our guild, for those who don't know him) pointed out an article about the new Final Fantasy XI bosses. Apparently there is a guild who fought one boss for eighteen hours straight before finally giving up. (They estimated that with another 4 or 5 hours of work they could have killed the boss.)
... I know that people may disagree with me, but - see, I have this thing called a life...?
Anyway, right now I'm quite happy whiling away my spare time by doing casual raids on Friday nights, farming herbs for when inscription becomes available, and levelling up my new toy, a troll warrior. (Berserker Rage plus Flurry plus Berserking, baby.) If I can get her to 70 by the time the x-pac rolls around, I'll have four 70s: 1 spell ranged DPS, 1 physical ranged DPS, one healer and one tank. ^.^
Mount Hyjal is different from your usual 25-man raids in three distinct ways. First, it's set in the past. You're basically replaying a battle that was fought at the end of Warcraft III, except rather than it being a strategy game you're actually in the fight in a first-person sense (like all of World of Warcraft). Secondly, the whole thing is scripted. When you start the fight, you can actually get your allies (the NPCs) to fight along side you. Most guilds use this to their strategic advantage. Third, once you've started it, it's going. There's no break until you've either wiped or you've killed the boss. You fight eight waves of trash (anywhere from 10 to 16 mobs at a time), followed by the boss. No going AFK, not much time to discuss strategy for the next wave, and hardly any time to drink or ressurect the dead.
Generally, the fights took our guild about 15-20 minutes for trash, and another 8-10 minutes for the boss. So, sometimes we were glued to our keyboards for 30 minutes at a time of intense concentration. That's hard, you know... Keeping the whole teamwork thing together for that long, and making sure everyone was doing their job. Fun, but hard.
Well, pfcottontail (who is in our guild, for those who don't know him) pointed out an article about the new Final Fantasy XI bosses. Apparently there is a guild who fought one boss for eighteen hours straight before finally giving up. (They estimated that with another 4 or 5 hours of work they could have killed the boss.)
... I know that people may disagree with me, but - see, I have this thing called a life...?
Anyway, right now I'm quite happy whiling away my spare time by doing casual raids on Friday nights, farming herbs for when inscription becomes available, and levelling up my new toy, a troll warrior. (Berserker Rage plus Flurry plus Berserking, baby.) If I can get her to 70 by the time the x-pac rolls around, I'll have four 70s: 1 spell ranged DPS, 1 physical ranged DPS, one healer and one tank. ^.^