Doing The "Impossible"
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Bastosa on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 17 Comments Tags: Ulduar, achievement, alone in the darkness, bastosa, impossible, world first, yogg +0, yogg-saron
Bastosa on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 17 Comments Tags: Ulduar, achievement, alone in the darkness, bastosa, impossible, world first, yogg +0, yogg-saron 
Being someone who likes to keep tabs on what the major raiding guilds are doing, I must say the last several weeks have been among the most interesting I have seen in a long time. If you are not familiar with the recent news I am talking about the whole ordeal surrounding the "Heroic: Alone In The Darkness" achievement, which is the hardest of the Yogg-Saron hard modes.Killing Yogg with the help of zero keepers means giving up a lot of help. There is no one to save you should you nearly die, the tentacles are much nastier than usual, there are no sanity wells, and most importantly you cannot kill the immortal guardians in phase three. Winning this encounter is considered the peak of the current raiding content; it is more difficult than taking down Algalon himself.
What is interesting to me is when people first started trying this encounter not only did they think it was hard, many thought it was impossible. That's right many theorycrafters at sites like Elitist Jerks thought it was literally and mathematically impossible.
This belief was so commonly held that many top guilds, including guilds like Ensidia, seemed to give up on it, waiting for a nerf before they continued working on this encounter.
It is this belief that made so many people cry foul when Exodus first got the achievement by exploiting the encounter.
The point I am getting to is just how utterly impressed I am that despite all this; a few guilds, most notably Stars, continued to grind away at this night after night until they came up with a strategy that was able to beat what they are calling the most difficult encounter in the history of WoW.
Being the raid leader of a guild who has spent nights wiping on much tamer hard modes, I can imagine the type of dedication and endurance that doing something like this would take.
Since Stars' world first we have seen two other guilds, one EU the other US, win this fight. It is impressive all around, but I think special recognition needs to go to those that strived to do something that was deemed unobtainable.
I have to hand it to Blizzard for not caving in and nerfing this before guilds like Stars could prove everyone wrong. For the rest of us, maybe it proves that nothing is impossible after all.
Reader Comments (17)
FIRST
gratz to all the guilds that were able to do this encounter! (excluding the one that used an exploit, of course)
grats to everyone that did the alone in the darkness :) excluding the one that used the explot
must of been very f in hard on my server they haveint downed yogg yet i think so to do the alone in the dakrness is awesome :D grats stars
Grats to all the guilds that have done this without exploits it goes to show that nothing is impossible :D
Nothing is impossible when you have the determination to get it done.
you always gotta keep trying. we always die alot when we first try a boss in ulduar. and we always kill them in a while. (were just at that big dude with the right arm and left arm)
and i am trying to do as much while it aint nerfed yet. at first that big tank (forgot the name) was hard but now we dont even have to think while we do it.
I don't know, doing something so hard that you die 100 times before you manage to beat it doesn't sound like fun to me.
"Nothing is impossible when you have the determination to get it done."
What if I'm really, really determined to flap my arms hard enough to fly to the moon? I suppose in the quantum sense there aren't really any true impossibilities, but if the chance is 1:8,000,000,000,000,000,000 then it's effectively zero.
And cocopuff: you're a moron.
what realms are Ensidia and Stars on?
The first picture looks like a blood elf with a big thing of hair on its face...
gratz to everyone that did it INCLUDING exodus. These guys put enough thinking into it to find this exploit, that by no means makes the encounter easy, and they are banned becasue blizz has some wounded pride about there own mistakes. you should follow the link to their website and see how they were not the only one who had used exploits before, yet they were the only ones who blizzard felt made them look bad
it's better that cocopuff left the one word comment rather than his regulary stupidity
gratz to and other guilds
@ noobalicious
i agree XD now he has a whole bad rep in PL blogs :P
Gratz to the guilds that did this achiev,they should be proud of themselves downing yogg without a keeper.Takes skill,determination and patience to do it.
@cheatdeath
Ensidia is a horde guild on Magtheridon EU
And Stars is a horde Chinese/Taiwanese guild(correct me if im wrong)
And for the record Ensidia claims world 4th on this 14th of july.
gezz im happy my guild just downed yogg on reg
dont think we will try hard mord for awhile
belfhunter-Phoenix-Khaz Modan
I'm glad that someone downed him on alone in the darkness before Blizz nerfed it.
Anyone else think it's funny that all the best guilds gave up on it, and then some with, perhaps, less skill (or at least publicity) stole the world first right from under their noses? xD