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The endless night, Story.
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ModrakVA
The endless night,
It was just another regular day in World of Warcraft, nothing new, nothing special happen, me and my guild companions, a group of best friends, got ready for our first raid of the week.
It's a Wednesday in the mid of May, and its our first raid our first try. We finished 10man ICC (Icecrown Citadel) raid several times, we killed lich king 3-4 times and we decided to go heroic, for our 2nd time, in our first try in heroic we arrived until 6th boss and we stopped there.
It's 22:00 hours, as we all gather up at the entrance of "ICC" (Lich King) to start our 10 man heroic raid. While we all get ready, get on TeamSpeak, prepare our buffs, equipment, etc.. around 30min pass and we still didnt start the raid, but we all knew what to do, and we were all there just another regular day to start our "daily routine".
After 30min or so, we do start, we enter and we begin to kill the first bosses pretty easily, it takes us around 3h to do so. After we finish killing "Deathbringer Saurfang" the 4th boss in ICC, we took a small rest, to go get something to eat, drink, WC, etc. We were so into this raid, that nobody said anything, and we simply continued (when usually you end raid after 3h-4h and wait for next day to continue), but we were not tired at all.
And so, we head to kill our 5th boss "Festergut", and as all raid, we keep up our pace up, and we kill him in our first try (surprinsgly we never wiped yet). On teamspeak while, we were all having our laughs on how well we were doing, as we usually wiped (died) on the boss fights, but not that day, as if it was "our" night, our special night, everything was going well, we were at the end having a great time together, that to me thats all it matters.
It was 2 AM of the midnight, but nobody says anything about going to sleep, as we continue and move to our 6th boss "Rotface", here we finally died, we wiped for our first time, but that didnt stop us, we go back in, and do it for our 2nd try, without mistakes this time we kill him easily.
We keep on going, and head to the 7th "Professor Putricide", this one is pretty complicated and so we died 2-3 times until we finally got him down, as we do, we keep going for the next ones, while we on TeamSpeak were motivating each other to keep going. And so we did, nobody really was worried about what time it was, as we were so into it, it didnt matter.
We head to kill our 8th boss of that night "Blood Prince Council", we kill him well on the first try. And as we do so we start to see the end of the raid, how we reaching it, slowly but steady, we keep on moving, its a long night, hours pass and seem to go by so fast, like seconds.
We keep on going and head to the 9th boss, the "queen" knowingly to be an "easy" boss to kill, and so we do so, we finish her fast. On teamspeak while, it was getting quieter and quieter everymore. Few people were talking at that time. Understandably too as it was around 4 AM of the midnight.. but we were seeing the end of that, and nobody hesitated to end. We were all tired, sleepy, but it didnt stop the 10 of us of that night. So we head to the 10th boss "Valithria Dreamwalker", we kill her on our 2nd try, while all this happens, its 5AM, and on teamspeak it was just 2 people talking me, and my companion of the raid. We were 2 bosses away from ending, but the silence on teamspeak was saying it all.
At that moment we were just moving forward to our 11th boss of that night called "Sindragosa". But It was not sure we would continue and fight her, as everyone was so quiet. We sit in the entrance of the fight, in a complete silence, for several minutes. But in that very moment, a person who almost never talked on Teamspeak, gave a speech that to this day I quite remember it went like this (not exactly like it, as I cant remember the exact words to this day, but similar);
"You guys are the best thing that happened to me in these past few months, this day I will remember it forever, as I feel like home, to me you guys are my best friends, its an amazing feeling to be part of this, we are just 2 bosses away from ending it, to do history, I believe in all of you, I deeply think we can do this, we can end this, and remember this day for many years to come. Lets do this, lets go and kill Sindragosa and Lich King".
He was the main tank, a warrior, always a very quiet person, he only said the only necessary during the raids. We all had a mutual respect with each other, and everyone who wanted could say whatever they wanted on teamspeak, as we all listened. As much as we had respect, we also had our jokes with our mistakes we did, when we wiped for bad moves some of us did. Everything was always in a very friendly way. And we all knew nobody was serious, nor perfect.
And so.. after those words we went for Sindragosa boss fight, we die, and die, up until our 3rd try that we can finally get her down, it seems like we are so close to end, but yet so far.. its only 1 left.
It's already 6 AM. As we head for Lich King, the last one, the hardest to kill, Lich King a 10+ minute boss fight, constant moving around, and having to be very concentrated. We start it, and we die up to 4 times but we dont give up, on the contrary we keep motivating each other to kill him but we kept on dying, like his HP wouldnt go lower than 20% every time. The time passed like an 1h, and its 7AM. We all knew how to fight Lich King, but we were so tired, and sleepy it seemed we couldn't do it, it seemed it was impossible to kill, was like trying to climb a endless mountain, we couldn't see the top of the mountain.
And at that 5th-6th try, we said this has to be our last try, if we cant kill her now, we must end raid for today.
So.. we start the fight again, this time we get into the 3rd phase of the fight the most intense fight of all night, the last part, and the 10 of us are still alive (being the 10 alive at the last phase is really important), but its the last part, the hardest, everyone is moving like crazy, the DPS and me( hunter) are shooting like and using everything, as some start to die... at that moment I started to see we were all going to wipe once again, my heart was racing like if i was doing a marathon, but he has 10% of HP left, and the priest dies too at that moment, but we still had healers up, and the tanks, we get lich king down to 5%, and while that 2 more die, (DPS). I started to see how we were all gonna die again, and wouldn't end. As it was lasting forever the fight, we were so close, but yet it seemed so far away.. the 7 of us alive were just wasting all mana, trinkets, abilities, energy, left. And that HP bar of Lich King didnt seem to go down.. Like trying to climb an endless mountain. We didnt see the top of it.
AND FINALLY we kill Lich King the fight seemed like it lasted 10h, but we did it, we really did it. The raid has ended, no more boss fights, its all over, and its 7:30AM, we felt like we accomplished something important in our life that day, playing WoW. There was a breath of relief when we got him down, few people shouted probably because we were simply exhausted, we revived all, went for the loot, and disbanded raid pretty fast. But it was a night to remember till this day. 9-10 years ago from now.
In those very next hours, minutes, some had to go to school, university, others to work, etc.
That very next day, when we all return from our duties, we head back to teamspeak, to basically revive what we have done that past night, to explain our experiences, how we felt, we had our laughs, etc. The 10 of us were there. Some are known to have skipped work (saying they had broken their bone), others went to class, but returned home after a while. And me myself, went to class, but after some hours, I said I was sick and returned home. Some just simply went to bed, and skipped class that day. I honor them for doing so.
Some said that thats what "gaming" truly is. Having a fun time, forgetting about real life problems for a while, with a group of "strangers", that we met once all in the same guild, and became best friends, we all respected each other as the most, we were like family honestly. But we still had our jokes and laughed when some died, when some did mistakes and made us all wipe, at the end nobody was perfect, and we all knew that. It was 9 guys, and 1 women, she also thanked us for that night (and how much 9 guys respected her to the most still kinda surprises me, but in a great way).
I didnt want to say anything, as I was one of the raid organizers, I wanted to give all the credit to all my teammates of that day, I was just a simply spectator. But inside of me, thats the thing I wanted when I first started playing WoW, and being a raid leader, having a group people who respected each other and had fun, for the time being while we were together, we all forgot about all our problems and didnt worry about anything. It was a place to hang out with, even when someone had any kind of difficulties in some aspect in his/her life, he/she could say anything and would get support from us, and if it wasn't me, it was another one in guild who would to be at his or her side.
At the end I did tell them. That I was happy for what we were, what a group of people we gathered up. We kept talking about general stuff for a while more, and we disbanded.. that moment when we disbanded, It felt like "something" was ending there, I cant say exactly what "something" is, but the feeling inside of me, felt something was ending.
The next weeks and months to come, we kept on raiding, but slowly we were raiding less and less everyday, as it felt like we "accomplished" something already, like if we finished our "journey" in WoW. Some of the "veterans" of the guild had to leave for work reasons, some others for family problems, and some months later a new expansion pack Cataclysm was released. There is where it all ended, like out of nowhere, it ended, just how the guild started tho.. things happen when you least expect them, and when you open your eyes you see them just there, in front of you. Thats life.
Nobody was left on the guild as they quit playing. It was only me from the guild left and a friend of mine. I kept playing for few weeks more, but had completly lost my interest in the game itself. I was feeling completly empty playing the game, but I was happy at the end of it. It was a wondeful adventure, the memories of raiding with the 10 of us, every day from monday to friday, will last, they were 3 years but 3 intense years of raiding together.
And to me this is how I enjoyed World of Warcraft, and how I see gaming.
One of the stories that we had with the guild (Spanish server Uldum), I wanted to share, at the end this is what life is, people come and go, just gotta enjoy the good times. And appriciate the good things..
Its a personal reflection,
We get obssesed with money, with "fitting in" todays society, you must do what makes you happy, and if that is playing a videogame for a whole night, then do it. Yeah its true, if I explained this to random people in the streets, probably people would give you bad look, and tell you can't "waste" your time like that, that I should do something "productive", and all the other society *cliches*, but if you are happy doing it, its never ever a "waste" of time, at least thats how I see it.
Do what you want, and be proud, we live once. By getting older I realized once you care less for the people around you, the better it will go.
I feel like gaming nowadays is changed, its different, I seem to see its more about "who can do this the first, the fastest", It seems sometimes like there is a "competition" between each other, to see who does more damage, more kills, more whatever.
A community like the one I found back in the days in WoW, is hard to find. I keep on gaming, but in other type of games, but my passion for gaming like I had before, is gone.
The companionship, friendship, and the relationships we had thanks to a videogame, like WoW, for what i see, it's a hard thing to happen anylonger. Newest games most popular ones, all are known, and Ive experienced in first hand, to have toxic communities, and generally a bad behaviour. Of course there is exceptions to that. Not all is bad.
Sorry for the
long
post (and apologizes if it's not at the right forums). And, for the horde! :D
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Onyx1831
Moved to Off-topic.
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