You deserve your #1 rank (if some could sill have some doubts). Well done guys ! Btw best reward for that event is the kill, screww the lewts.
Congrats RoI As someone who has wiped on this raid my fair share, this is a seriously impressive achievement. The loot was meh, but the title and sense of accomplishment are reward enough. Thanks for showing everyone it's actually possible to down this event!
Congratulations on a wonderful accomplishment! So that other guilds can also experience the joys and the excitement of a kill like this, I will share with the community the rumored strategy behind such an accomplishment- Enkel and PMJ pet tanked both named via chain casting earth pets. Obvious I know, but at least the cat is out of the bag now...
We finally recruited another 18 mages to be able to pet tank everything. It's working out really well.
To be honest, the beta meant nothing. You did however spend like a month working on it, which was more than the 2 hours of developer resets we had to endure. Seriously though guys, congratulations on beating the event that was seriously not possible when it was originally released. Whether the new AAs/spells helped out or not, who knows, but it's definitely an event that 99% of EQ players won't get a chance to defeat until level 105, for sure.
No, the new AA/spells wasn't needed, people showing up was what was needed. Stubar has been very giddy and sarcastic as of late, since his class got no boost. But, he is still my favorite Canadian by a kilometer . We spent 8 nights raiding it in all, not a month. It was spread out over a month, but we had large gaps between attempts. This was partly due to ToR release, and the then subsequent fall off in attendance.
All beta means is an event is beat a few days or a week before it would of been otherwise. If this were 2000 i would say beta helps a ton but everyone finds out the winning strat eventually anyway now so beta really doesn't do much. Grats on the win.
I expect the whole guild to now post that everyone has the achievement for the doing all the War group content. Grats and all on the raid .
Thank you for the kind words and everyone elses as well. This really was quite a memorable win and makes me even more proud to be apart of RoI. Everyone had their parts to do and they all did them amazingly. A raid like this really shows what being a team is all about. With that said, thank you to all the members of RoI as well. On another note, I find it funny about the whole "you did or didnt beta this raid". Even without it being beta'd, people love to make some laughable remarks of time spent or needing the smallest AA to win (the real secret to this raid is the 15 skill increase in forage).