Greatest Personal AccomplishmentFollow

In the World of Warcraft millions of players play. Some of them are hardcore, downright talented individuals who group up and do some pretty insane things in this game that the average player may never participate in. What may be a great accomplishment to you or your guild, may be a joke to others. Thinking of my guilds recent clear of Naxx 10 inspired this question...whats your GPA? Or Greatest Personal Accomplishment in-game?

For me it was leading our alliance guild through Naxx 10. We're a small Christian guild with a very small membership. Most people joining our guild aren't looking to raid or do anything hardcore. They are just looking for nice like minded folk to chat with and chill with. Trying to get the into the raiding scene has been a difficult and at times painful endevour.

To those raiding Ulduar and ToC and Hardmodes Naxx is nothing more than an over sized heroic that you run in your sleep. But for my group of players it was a major obstacle. Nothing felt better than hearing those cheers over vent as KT fell after our second try.

This is the background story... our first obstacle was one of our main healers health. She was in and out of the hospital and doctors for months. Often times so sick she couldn't even play with us. Which was a total spirit killer for her. She's sick to the point of not being able to leave her bed and then getting sick to the point of not even being able to turn WoW on.

Another obstacle was more or less a very pathetic person who joined our guild. Craftily she convinced the guild she was dying of leukemia. Her story sounded pretty real. She was an expert manipulator. We grew very fond of her. Some far more than others. Only for her to die...and find her on another server starting the same thing with another guild. That did some damage to morale. Some of us didn't want to play for weeks after that let alone sign in. When you spend months counseling and cheering up a person. When your guilds main function is befriending people in need. Only to get shafted like that...hurts.

If that wasn't enough a couple in our guild after this happened...lost their baby. They weren't around for weeks...and when they were you could just feel the grieving. The husband did dailies and signed off. Barely saying a word. Nobody blamed him. And our raiding was delayed.

This is just three of the obstacles we faced over the months. Countless more crisis and tragedies forced delay after delay. So when we downed Naxx 10 it wasn't about awesome skill or awesome raiding. It wasn't about a game and it wasn't about loot. It was about a group of friends who bonded together and kept each other going and I was honored to be their leader. Even if a hundred guilds clear Naxx10 a hundred times a week. Our one little unnoticed and insignificant victory I will remember for years to come.

And now you've been reported for trolling, thrashrr. As long as you kept it contained to one thread, that was fine. When you start dragging it into other threads, that's when the admins step in.

I can completely understand your sentiment there.

Back at the beginning of TBC, I was an officer in a guild plagued with drama and infighting(we had like 12 officers, so the fights got huge). I knew I wouldn't end up staying with the guild forever after having witnessed the drama during vanilla, but I was determined to make the best of it until I couldn't take it anymore. As such, 3-4 months into TBC, I began a push to get people excited and keyed for Kara, that raid instance everyone on here was talking about but I had never managed to do.

It was an uphill battle, but eventually we had people ready and we started running it. As the gear flowed in, a bunch of folks wanted to get in on the loot train, so we soon found ourselves with enough people wanting to raid that we began looking at Gruul's Lair. This too led to a ton of drama. Eventually to enough drama that the friends I was staying in the guild to hang out with quit the guild. Without ever downing High King Maulgar.

That was enough. I left with them and we founded our own guild. As the most level headed person who had ever been an officer of that former guild, I was made leader. The idea was to see what we could do. So we began recruiting. We got back into Kara rather quickly and started gearing up some of our new folks. A few of us even had to play alts just to fill in spots on a second run so everyone could get gear.

Eventually, we got enough folks. I planned out our raid and we hit Gruul's Lair for the first time in months. Using the same strategy I had been using before, I gave my first real push at raid leading. We downed HKM easily and then downed Gruul as well. That day was a vindication of ourselves. Our way of doing things hadn't been what was holding us back.

The guild eventually fell apart, but I don't think that there has ever been a moment I felt that good in this game before or since, maybe aside from when the guild I'm in now, with myself included, downed Vashj and Kael'thas for the first time after weeks of hard work on each.

Honestly? The best achievement I had so far was working with my guild to clear OS 10 0d(the guild, overall, is much more 'casual' than 'raiding.' It felt like an achievement for me because I got roped into leading the fights (I raid noticeably more than most other people in guild, with a separate group). I ended up having to explain everything and teach the tank what to do and where to stand in the fight (which was a neat trick for me because I had only done that fight as my shadow priest and didn't have a clue.) It took us a number of wipes, but we were improving each attempt which was heartening and eventually managed to down Sarth. Even though it was something I had done countless time before, that time felt special.

P.S. (The group I raid with does Ulduar 25 (Now ToC 25) and the farthest we've gotten is Freya, just for a point of reference in my raiding ability)

Errr, I've got a collection of those things, I think.

Soloing a 42 elite at level 40 on my mage (which was a pretty bad challenge),

being on top of healing done in our raids together with a healadin (who'se pretty kick *** good),

achieving 1800 rating in the arena (200 below what I aimed for, but I'm beginning to think I'll never get to try long enough to actually reach that),

soloing the two elite abominations in the Ghostlands on my hunter,

making Blood PvP on my DK work (for as far as I've been able to test it, anyway, which shamefully isn't much =( )

and

all the raid progress I've done so far (Naxx+Ulduar cleared, hardmodes up to/including Freya cleared, TotC cleared).

Say what you will about WotLK, downing Kel'Thuzad my first time was epic.

EDIT: ***** KT with something hard and sandpapery. We just downed Anub-25man, and it was fun. 2nd Horde on our server.

Edited, Sep 7th 2009 12:31am by IDrownFish

A great accomplishment it isn't, but this Archavon kill with the guild sure is good for my e-peen. :P