An epic congratulations goes out to the Progression raiding team in my WoW guild, The Risen on US-Thorium Brotherhood. Not only did they get their first Ragnaros kill this past week, they scored the server-first kill for the Horde. It's the first time in the guild's history we've accomplished something like that on the raiding scene; for years players like us have been living in the shadow of guilds like Bloodrite and never actually considering that we could get a kill like that without being uber-hardcore. Last week, we liberated ourself from that kind of limited thinking.
Of course it couldn't have happened without Blizzard's changes to their design philosophy, the efforts to make content more accessible to guilds like ours. We have teachers, professors, students, lawyers, and other professionals that all have full-time jobs and full-time social lives, but still manage to put in one or two nights a week to join nine other online friends and slay some digital dragons. And I couldn't be happier for them.
My own team, the Core raid group, also turned a corner Tuesday night by killing three of the Firelands bosses in one night. We one-shot Shannox, two-shot Rhyolith after taking a wrong turn and ditching into the magma, and then four-shot Beth'tilac to get our first kill on her. Before we'd been struggling to just kill one boss a night, so going in and kicking down the door that quickly on three bosses means big things, and hopefully a Rag kill of our own sooner rather than later.
RISE UP, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE HORDE!
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