Tuesday, March 11, 2008

We were heroes






Finally Acies has triumphed over the incredibly challenging fight with Archimonde! After many weeks of dying over and over and over again (Over 300 wipes at the last count) we persevered and saw him lying dead at our feet. Now I don't like to brag or anything, but yours truly topped the damage charts by a significant margin. It was such a rush as I saw his health go below 20% (at 10% you automatically win the fight) and each percentage he dropped after that seemed to take forever. Time itself slowed down as we saw the culmination of our efforts materialize in each percentage that it dropped. The jubilant shouts of my comrades over ventrilo (think of it as a 25-way phone conversation) made all the effort and frustration worth it a million times over. Right then and there nothing mattered in the whole world, not our problems in real life, not what loot dropped, absolutely nothing mattered except the fact that we had accomplished something that no one else on the server has. All of us together, not just one or two people. Anyone who has ever played a team sport knows this feeling, the feeling of winning that big game to clinch that play-off spot, the feeling that we felt was akin to that. We all stood in front of what was left of Archimonde for a guild photo, and then the remote control tank gadgets were passed out by our guild master Xaas and while listening to "We are the Champions" by Queen over vent, we had a blast blowing stuff up with our little tanks. All in all the experience reminded all of us why we choose to devote a large portion of our evenings 4-5 days a week to playing this game and raiding. Even though it was in an imaginary world, it really felt like we accomplished something great. We were heroes.

Here is the video of us killing Archimonde, recorded and edited by my guildmate Drayton:
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