Yogg-Saron +0 US First Kill, Goons in Wintergrasp

[Boubouille]

Goon Squad captures Wintergrasp in less than 2 minutes
I don't think there is any word to describe this video, but I guess that "clever use of game mechanics" works. Goon Squad on US-Mal'Ganis managed to capture Wintergrasp by using a lot of engineers and a lot of grenades.

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Yogg-Saron +0 US First Kill by Premonition
The last first kill of Ulduar is now claimed, Premonition (US - Sen'jin) just defeated Yogg-Saron with no guardian helping for the first time in the US. This is the 3rd world kill on Guildox. Congratulations to them.

From Premonition (Premonition Website)
This kill was a long time coming. We were working on it for weeks (months?) and theorycraft began ages ago. All of the silly forum threads and "math" that proved it impossible were quite obviously not even close to accurate.

The progression phases a raid goes through on this fight while learning are just amazing. From how to keep ahead in phase 2, maximizing stun times, getting all corruptors down, then dealing with mob handling in phase 3... with your tanks having extremely limited time, sanity, and tons of pressure to even figure out what they have to do to maximize efficiency, while your DPS is trying to not lose their own sanity while the boss is killed.

The strategies we went through and brainstormed were pretty damn bizarre at times (rogues sprint kiting, priest fade kiting, warlock demonic teleport kiting), all seemed insane. We settled for a split strategy which required insane AOE dps to pull off successfully, and that's where the summertime + holidays showed up!

It was an absolute blast, Blizzard truly designed something marvelous here, and we were very excited to know it wasn't going to be nerfed after all (reducing the number of beacons that go out would really ruin the complexity and ways to handle phase 3).

Great job by everyone in guild, and our members who couldn't be there, and especially our trials who stuck it out. Much respect to STARS and Paragon.

Video will be coming, frostmage/tank PoV.

Yogg-Saron +0 Video by Paragon
Paragon released a video of their kill earlier this week.

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[Axlash54]

1st. And incoming: I bet the exploited, US EU rivalry stuff

[Sveini]

Gz guys, finally the US's turn

[Kooshkrusher]

Woo. Grats guys. They fixed the exploit btw dummy.

[Narit]

gz on legit kill

[nobanme]

gz guys

[gunshotmalfurion]

grats premo

[Zival]

gz

[Zulathar]

1st. And incoming: I bet the exploited, US EU rivalry stuff

Your full of crap, for just mentioning that.

Your a troll with out even knowing.

[Plawsky]

Grats - really cool strat by the way, with the fades and all - seems like it definitely took a LOT of thinking and practice.

[stupid11]

grats.

[jjcoola]

Grats Premo!

And as for the WG antics, I guess grats on getting your own hotfix soon

[TheRabidDeer]

That is one epic strategy. Must be ridiculously hard to pull off.

This is absolutely the hardest encounter ever though... the amount of precision and teamwork required to pull it off seems to be insane.

[Adagietto]

I love the strats people are coming up with for this fight.
MD'ing Priests? The rogues must have had a hay-day when they heard that. xD

Gratz.

[Vehemence]

Congrats guys ;D

[demonocus]

GRATS.Reminds me of the first fight in bwl, lots of kiting.

[tremulant]

lol mmo-c got trolled...
the fade tactic was a joke post by one of their members,
click the source link: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...18164&sid=1#10
and read Xav's post on the 3rd page.

[Adagietto]

lol mmo-c got trolled...
the fade tactic was a joke post by one of their members,
click the source link: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...18164&sid=1#10
and read Xav's post on the 3rd page.

T_T

I wanted my Priest to actually be useful for something beyond MC'ing. D:

[Tigercat]

Oh dear god, not the goon squad.  Why must you encourage them?

They get points for using Hell March, at least.

[Mystie_shaman]

I like the wintergrasp Vid, I would have loved to have been there.