S Key Gamers

Hey All,

Due to the fact that this web host no longer provides us with the utility we need we are moving to a new one.

The new guild website is located at http://skeygamers.enjin.com/ 

Please use the new site for anything guild related, furthermore applicants are now required to use the new applicationtemplate designed for the new website located at http://skeygamers.enjin.com/recruitment

I will be updating the information on other sites as soon as possible.

It is official, S Key Gamers have become the first Saviours of Azeroth on Saurfang! As you would expect from an end of expansion encounter Madness of Deathwing was a difficult fight. That being said the worse part of this fight is the nature and length of it. As it stands this fight comes fairly close to a 15 minute encounter, even worse the mechanics for around 11-12 minutes of this barely change but become consistently more difficult to deal with, this repetitive nature make it very easy to lose focus likely causing significant damage to the raid. The second phase while not significantly different from normal in terms of mechanics the simple throughput requirements for healers especially gets absurd the nearer to a kill you get. Furthermore this phase needs extremely tight control of its various mechanics so that you do not face an overwhelming number of mechanics at any one time. While we took significantly less attempts to get this than Ragnaros it is commonly agreed that Ragnaros was preferable considering that every phase bought a new interesting challenge.

Thank You to everyone in S Key Gamers who made this possible, The selflessness displayed by many of our members in agreeing to sit out for the first kill and not raid while we worked on this is truly incredible, so while the people who got the achievement may have ultimately killed Deathwing, it truly was a full guild effort!

Fantastic work guys!

 Raid Team

• Bbedk
• Kleeton 
• Greenwaffle
• Jmickey
• Kitzie
• Trixxitruth
• Beliskner
• Brynny
• Ushio
•  Kåty

Honorable mentions

Brynny - I must give Brynny an honorable mention for the sheer amount of effort he has placed into the guild since its formation. In Dragon Soul Bryn not only did an extraordinary amount of research outside of raid time but also continually stepped up to do almost all raid calls, especially when a fight is 15 minutes long this can be an exhaustive job when you have to do it time and time again.

Bbedk - Just as Brynny has put a large amount of effort into our success Bbedk has invested a great deal of effort to research possible variations of strategies that could work for our guild, it is through his tireless efforts that we have been able to race ahead as we have.

Ushio - Ushio has put a great deal of effort in behind the scenes. His more visible contributions include never forgetting to provide consumables to the raid, something that he has certainly bested me on when I tried. His other less conspicuous contributions include assisting his fellow officers in sorting out any problems as they arose with great tenacity.

Greenwaffle - Greenwaffle has been an incredibly selfless player in that whenever he was needed to fill in for someone else for a night or part thereof he was always willing to do so without complaint, ever better when it came time for that other person to regain his spot Green graciously stepped aside, in doing so being an important reason why we managed to kill Heroic Deathwing when we did.

Define - Define is perhaps the player who sacrificed the most during our attempts, unfortunately since we did not wish to change the roster from the players we used in the kill Define got very little if any face time with Heroic Madness at all. Never once did he complain about this while always allowing himself to be called in should it have been needed.

Kleeton - I would like to thank Kleeton who always put in 110% to assist the guild whenever he could. Kleeton consistently put his own personal needs below those of the guild as a collective. 

All this being said everyone in the guild has put in an enourmous amount of effort to get us where we are today. I can never be said that one member of our team ever slacked or did not do what was in the best interest of the team when it was needed. The above list is just those who from my perspective distinguished themselves in their absoloute unwavering loyalty and selflessness to the guild.

Well after only a few weeks Spine of Deathwing has fallen to S Key Gamers. This fight is according to some in the guild (not all though) incredibly tedious and boring with a nice hint of frustrating. The main problem with this fight is that the mechanics themselves are not terribly interesting with the fight mainly being about pure numbers, that is DPS numbers, specifically burst dps numbers. Prior to the nerf this made class stacking of the best burst classes optimal and in many cases neccessary. What made this fight worse is that we mainly wiped in the later stages of this fight negating 10 minutes of progress requiring us to spend yet another 10 minutes to reach that point and get slightly further.

Unfortunately for us due to 4 or so weeks of interrupted or no progression we were unable to get serious face time with this boss before the nerf came down, However the time that we did have allowed us to sporadically arrive at the third plate and experience almost the entire fight. After the nerf you can certainly see that the burst dps requirements are lesser on the tendons lessening the need for all strong burst classes. That being said this fight is still not faceroll at all. The fight requires precise timing on several mechanics such a corruption breaks and kills, copious amounts of healing during the last tentacle burn on the tanks especially and a generally heavily focused raid. A single mistake on this fight can cause a wipe.

After only a few days of progression attempts S Key Gamers has managed to secure the server first Warmaster Blackhorn Heroic kill. Our kill attempt started off unremarkably enough, just like all the others and it was only until after we managed to kill Gariona did the fight seem any different. After Gariona died the raid was extremely focused with nobody making a sound and everyone working their twitch reflexes with not one person dying to a mistake. We managed to kill the boss quite comfortably without real enrage problems. Good effort by all involved, keep up the good work!

After taking a rather substantial break over the Christmas/New Year period and a little more S Key Gamers has gotten back into killing stuff. With the first boss to go down after our break being Heroic Ultraxion. In true S Key Gamers style we decided to make this boss significantly harder than it is by having people lag out on fading light and dying and others simply disconnecting at the worst times, hell we even had one person manage to screw up his key binds on his Razer Naga. All in all our kill was amusing to say the least.

Well it has been a fantastic year for S Key Gamers and we would like to share the holiday joy, So have a great holidays! Remember to be very naughty!

Heroic Hagara has been squashed by S Key Gamers like the buggy encounter she is. Without a doubt the most difficult heroic mode this guild has encountered this tier it was made exponentially more difficult by the sheer amount of bugged mechanics on this fight. From times when it seems the server could not do math by one shotting people who should not have been to refusing to chain lightning totems at all and forcing us into a relatively quick wipe due to this we have finally destroyed this encounter!

This encounter if it was not bugged would be an excellent test of a guild''s ability to execute a strategy extremely quickly and without mistakes, on this boss mistakes really do kill.

Good work all

Raid Team

Bbedk

Heavenstouch 
Greenwaffle
Defines
Jmickey
Kitzie
Trxxitruth 

Brynny
Ushio
Kåty 

This boss is certainly infuriating with the amount of RNG you must deal with with the order of the slimes. On this boss their are some very difficult variations to deal with and the irritating part is when these combinations are used back to back. We eventually tailored our strategy to reduce the difficulty of some combinations but one combinations in particular had extremelly ursty damage that was almost impossible to heal through. Definately an infuriating fight with us having both a 4% wipe and a 20k wipe before the final kill.

Raid Team

Bbedk

Jmickey
Kitzie
Greenwaffle
Trixxitruth
Beliskner
Defines
Heavenstouch 

Brynny
Kåty

Well we went in today ready to beat on Heroic Zo'nozz fully prepared to wipe for a long time. This bosses enrage timer is brutal and the healing needed is no better. However hard this was we persevered and managed to get this boss in under half the night. With each attempt getting us slowly closer the pure determination of the group ending up allowing to kill this boss a few seconds after enrage.

Raid Team

Bbedk

Jmickey
Kitzie
Greenwaffle
Trixxitruth
Beliskner
Heavenstouch 

Brynny
Kåty
Ushio