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by Melbufrahma » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:22 pm
Charlie bit me! CHARLIE that really hurts!
by Melbufrahma » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:15 pm
New slightly more difficult content is still easy
by Melbufrahma » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:28 pm
Happy New Decade!
by Palin » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:42 pm
It's hard to believe that just over a year ago, we were contently farming Naxx and just had gotten our first kill on Sarth +3, enjoying the new WoLK content. It seems so long ago, as we're now 3 Tiers deeper and a good 60 ilvel above Naxx gear. Goes to show how fast WoLK has moved compared to TBC.
2009 was a big year for Spike Flail. Initially unsure if we'd even be a 25man raiding guild come WoLK, the more casual raiding schedule, coupled with solid performances giving us time off, allowed us great success while not burning ourselves out on hardcore progression. While other guilds complained, whined, and became jaded with WoLK's Hard Mode system, we took advantage and jumped out the gate in Ulduar, securing a server first and top 50 US position that we've been fortunate enough to maintain over the following 6 months. We look forward to 2010 and the progression races it brings, as after three years of raiding, we'll finally begin a year near the top of the pack, competing at the level we've been striving for since Karazhan.
2009 was also a year of rebuilding for us. It seems no matter what level you play at in this game, you can't get away from the constant cycle of attrition and recruitment. We were hoping WoLK would keep us a more long-term stable roster, but the strains of raiding and real life took its toll on us as well. Just take a look at our raid setup during our first Sarth +3 kill a little over a year ago to see the difference in our roster then and now:
With fond hearts we say goodbye to our fallen friends. The likes of Payload, Swole, Mish, Facts, Actovision, Solkid, Ettoo, Nox, Denic, and Naosu were mainstays in our raids for a great period of our history, and we wouldn't have achieved the success we did without them. You guys are missed.
That being said, with every attrition cycle, we gain the opportunity to meet new friends and add them to our family. We've been blessed with great recruits who have made their home with us in 2009, and we're honored to have them with us: Ngata, Meaning, Apoc, Neonjoe, Cptn, Genuin, Cheroba, Nello, Martyr, Kaleena, Ippon, Methios, Rallik, Cptn, Eightseven, Nikolaii. You've all been wonderful and welcome additions to our guild, and we're glad to have you guys in our family as we start the new year.
Of course, we cannot forget our veterans either, who's stabilizing and long-term presence kept us going no matter what roster attrition was thrown at us over the year. Big thank you to our guys who've been here forever: Tier, Melbu, Zepp, Aelin, Nightfright, Qou, Rejekt, Patty, JC, Rill, Wolves, Varn, Book, Killa, Ello. It's been an amazing ride raiding with you guys over the years, and I sincerely hope that I'll be repeating all your names again in next year's post. Thank you for everything!
So I'll end this tribute to 2009 by again thanking every member of our guild, both past and present, who helped us have the wonderful 2009 that we did. No one expected what we achieved out of this year, or even how much fun it may be. Here's to an even better 2010. Happy New Year!
Edited for swole nig
2009 was a big year for Spike Flail. Initially unsure if we'd even be a 25man raiding guild come WoLK, the more casual raiding schedule, coupled with solid performances giving us time off, allowed us great success while not burning ourselves out on hardcore progression. While other guilds complained, whined, and became jaded with WoLK's Hard Mode system, we took advantage and jumped out the gate in Ulduar, securing a server first and top 50 US position that we've been fortunate enough to maintain over the following 6 months. We look forward to 2010 and the progression races it brings, as after three years of raiding, we'll finally begin a year near the top of the pack, competing at the level we've been striving for since Karazhan.
2009 was also a year of rebuilding for us. It seems no matter what level you play at in this game, you can't get away from the constant cycle of attrition and recruitment. We were hoping WoLK would keep us a more long-term stable roster, but the strains of raiding and real life took its toll on us as well. Just take a look at our raid setup during our first Sarth +3 kill a little over a year ago to see the difference in our roster then and now:
With fond hearts we say goodbye to our fallen friends. The likes of Payload, Swole, Mish, Facts, Actovision, Solkid, Ettoo, Nox, Denic, and Naosu were mainstays in our raids for a great period of our history, and we wouldn't have achieved the success we did without them. You guys are missed.
That being said, with every attrition cycle, we gain the opportunity to meet new friends and add them to our family. We've been blessed with great recruits who have made their home with us in 2009, and we're honored to have them with us: Ngata, Meaning, Apoc, Neonjoe, Cptn, Genuin, Cheroba, Nello, Martyr, Kaleena, Ippon, Methios, Rallik, Cptn, Eightseven, Nikolaii. You've all been wonderful and welcome additions to our guild, and we're glad to have you guys in our family as we start the new year.
Of course, we cannot forget our veterans either, who's stabilizing and long-term presence kept us going no matter what roster attrition was thrown at us over the year. Big thank you to our guys who've been here forever: Tier, Melbu, Zepp, Aelin, Nightfright, Qou, Rejekt, Patty, JC, Rill, Wolves, Varn, Book, Killa, Ello. It's been an amazing ride raiding with you guys over the years, and I sincerely hope that I'll be repeating all your names again in next year's post. Thank you for everything!
So I'll end this tribute to 2009 by again thanking every member of our guild, both past and present, who helped us have the wonderful 2009 that we did. No one expected what we achieved out of this year, or even how much fun it may be. Here's to an even better 2010. Happy New Year!
Edited for swole nig
14 More days
by Melbufrahma » Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:34 pm
New content is Hard!!!
by Melbufrahma » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:36 pm
now we only have to wait 28 more days for them to break down a door 
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Tribute to Spike Flail's Insanity: Grand Crusaders
by Palin » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:53 pm
We hate Immortal-style progression.
We should have had this 3 weeks ago unfortunately. Can blame it on a roster hiccup and logistical problems, can blame it on whatever. The truth is we just dropped the ball and had 3 weeks of 49-tribute clears, including two weeks in a row where we one-shotted Anub and lost our tribute on stupid Twins wipes. Knowing we had cost ourselves irreplaceable US ranking, we knew we had to get it this week; or risk losing our chances at the Realm First title to the other Ner'zhul guilds that had made great progression on the Tribute run. We knew we couldn't be complacent, lazy, and take things for granted any longer. Building off our mistakes from the past few weeks, and continuing our great performance one-shotting Anub from the past 3 weeks, we pushed and made it happen.
WoL
There's not much to say about this, because we're all still a little disappointed in ourselves for not having this a few weeks ago and solidifying a top 20 US ranking. There's still much to praise in our solid performance over the past few weeks in the grand scheme of things, even though small silly mistakes held us back. However we learned a lot from what we did screw up on and took it with humility, and didn't give up. A lot of people would have grown frustrated with our mistakes and missed opportunities and given up in anger or disgust, but we kept our heads down and pushed on, looking to learn from our setbacks. And we finally were rewarded, even if a bit late. Thank you for not giving up out of frustration or anger, Spike Flail.
Now to farm and rest with a bit of a load off our chest until 3.3's release, where we're anticipating a strong start and another push for top 20 US. Just remember, don't get complacent with our shortended raid schedule and "easy" farming. We still have to repeat these 50-Tribue runs for our cloaks, and we still need to stay sharp for ICC's release, which will be quite a race in itself. Use this time to relax SF, but be ready for 4-night raid weeks and progression-mindsets very soon.
On a lighter note, new newspost feature! "On this day in Spike Flail."
On this day in Spike Flail:
Two years ago to this date, we were pumped and excited to be venturing into a new instance after an amazing performance in TK, we finally had keyed enough of our raiders to start our T6 push. Spirits where high as we entered Mount Hyjal, marveling at the amazing sites and actually enjoying the waves of trash (oh would we learn). Rage Winterchill fell without a sweat, and and a few hours later after some strategizing, Anetheron did as well!
Who can forget such lovable names as Formose, Roty, Balluh, Summonlight, Hotblooded, and Illist. Oh happy times! And of course, much love for our fallen friends, as we remember names such as Krispyable, Zxt, Payload, and Swole. And behold a myserious Vaprak sighting! Wait who? Also many laughs at homosexual Nattyice trying to be a real Shadow Priest.
On a sidenote, where the hell was Tier on this date? And Nightfright?!
Stay tuned for more "On this day in Spike Flail" in the future!
We should have had this 3 weeks ago unfortunately. Can blame it on a roster hiccup and logistical problems, can blame it on whatever. The truth is we just dropped the ball and had 3 weeks of 49-tribute clears, including two weeks in a row where we one-shotted Anub and lost our tribute on stupid Twins wipes. Knowing we had cost ourselves irreplaceable US ranking, we knew we had to get it this week; or risk losing our chances at the Realm First title to the other Ner'zhul guilds that had made great progression on the Tribute run. We knew we couldn't be complacent, lazy, and take things for granted any longer. Building off our mistakes from the past few weeks, and continuing our great performance one-shotting Anub from the past 3 weeks, we pushed and made it happen.
WoL
There's not much to say about this, because we're all still a little disappointed in ourselves for not having this a few weeks ago and solidifying a top 20 US ranking. There's still much to praise in our solid performance over the past few weeks in the grand scheme of things, even though small silly mistakes held us back. However we learned a lot from what we did screw up on and took it with humility, and didn't give up. A lot of people would have grown frustrated with our mistakes and missed opportunities and given up in anger or disgust, but we kept our heads down and pushed on, looking to learn from our setbacks. And we finally were rewarded, even if a bit late. Thank you for not giving up out of frustration or anger, Spike Flail.
Now to farm and rest with a bit of a load off our chest until 3.3's release, where we're anticipating a strong start and another push for top 20 US. Just remember, don't get complacent with our shortended raid schedule and "easy" farming. We still have to repeat these 50-Tribue runs for our cloaks, and we still need to stay sharp for ICC's release, which will be quite a race in itself. Use this time to relax SF, but be ready for 4-night raid weeks and progression-mindsets very soon.
On a lighter note, new newspost feature! "On this day in Spike Flail."
On this day in Spike Flail:
Two years ago to this date, we were pumped and excited to be venturing into a new instance after an amazing performance in TK, we finally had keyed enough of our raiders to start our T6 push. Spirits where high as we entered Mount Hyjal, marveling at the amazing sites and actually enjoying the waves of trash (oh would we learn). Rage Winterchill fell without a sweat, and and a few hours later after some strategizing, Anetheron did as well!
Who can forget such lovable names as Formose, Roty, Balluh, Summonlight, Hotblooded, and Illist. Oh happy times! And of course, much love for our fallen friends, as we remember names such as Krispyable, Zxt, Payload, and Swole. And behold a myserious Vaprak sighting! Wait who? Also many laughs at homosexual Nattyice trying to be a real Shadow Priest.
On a sidenote, where the hell was Tier on this date? And Nightfright?!
Stay tuned for more "On this day in Spike Flail" in the future!
Call of the Grand Crusade
by Palin » Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:09 am
The final fight in Trial of the Grand Crusader proved to be quite a challenge after all. Anub'arak pushed the limits to our strategy executive and raid composition unlike any encounter we've seen since Sunwell. It's been a while since we found a fight that needed more than a few days to down, and the class requirements, DPS checks, and Tanking setups tested us quite a bit. We revised our setup and strat multiple times until we found our way to handle the fight, and we truly should have had it last week. We came in tonight and things clicked. We had consistent P1 and P2s, and made great progress in P3. Once we figured out how to adjust for Shadow Strike in P3, we were close, and ended up hitting the zerk at 0.8% due to overactive healing (love you Zepp). Two attempts later, we repeated, just barely missed Mad Skill at 42 attempts left. Even still, it was a great feeling when he finally fell.
WoL
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Thanks for sticking it out and showing the long term dedication to learning this challenging fight everyone. It was a rough few nights the last few weeks as we struggled with P2 consistency, and everyone was getting a bit jaded with the fight. We kept at it though and found a setup that worked, and pulled it out. Great job and congratulations to everyone, we earned. Back to shortened raid weeks!
WoL
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Thanks for sticking it out and showing the long term dedication to learning this challenging fight everyone. It was a rough few nights the last few weeks as we struggled with P2 consistency, and everyone was getting a bit jaded with the fight. We kept at it though and found a setup that worked, and pulled it out. Great job and congratulations to everyone, we earned. Back to shortened raid weeks!
Ulduar - Fin
by Palin » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:25 am
So! After the Alg kill last week, we were ready to take it nice and easy for a few weeks, farming our shiny 239s and enjoying our shortened raid week. Surprisingly, Bliz decided to smack us in the face with 3.2 the Tuesday after. Deciding to postpone our lazy raid week until later, we opted to instead focus on the nerfed Alone in the Darkness, pushing to grab our Death's Demise title and potentially a higher US Ranking.
We went in Wednesday with the goal to master P2 DPS and get experience with P3. Things didn't well end that night, with our best attempt around 10% with multiple Empowers. However, we ended up performing extremely well in P2, mastering the DPS needed and intricacies to staying alive, that we felt confident in our abilities to down this encounter within the coming night. We went in for a rare Thursday raid, and pushed the encounter for a few hours, hoping for a kill. Unfortunately the night ended in heartache as we had multiple attempts ending at 8%, 6%, and then finally 2%. We knew we had everything in place needed to get the kill, we just needed to refine our pickups and Empower Shadow taunt strategy a little bit, and a little bit of luck.
And thus, we had to wait. We rested and recharged over our raid break, took Sunday off to counter the Thursday raid, and came in tonight, eager and determined. We quickly two-shot our repeat Algalon kill, and we knew we were on our A games for the night. Our first pull on 0 Light left him at 8% with one Empower. Slowly but surely our taunts and Yogg DPS were getting better. And three attempts later...
WoL
Video to come!
And thank you to you all for the gift of my amazing floating baby head. Time to farm some more!
I gave my epic progression speech for the Alg update, but this really was the culmination of Ulduar for us. We again jumped another 20 spots to land a 20th US kill, top 10 Horde, finalizing our Ulduar score atm to #24th US. The jumps we've made in this 3.1 instance have been amazing, and we have a lot to live up for in this 3.2 patch with ToC Heroic encounters, but we're up for the challenge. Thank you for your dedication and persistence to everyone in the guild, and thank you for the support of our friends on Ner'zhul as we accomplished our goal of achieving these prestigious two server firsts.
Pat yourselves on the back boys, we did it!
(So what if its outdated, first page was nice for an hour)!
We went in Wednesday with the goal to master P2 DPS and get experience with P3. Things didn't well end that night, with our best attempt around 10% with multiple Empowers. However, we ended up performing extremely well in P2, mastering the DPS needed and intricacies to staying alive, that we felt confident in our abilities to down this encounter within the coming night. We went in for a rare Thursday raid, and pushed the encounter for a few hours, hoping for a kill. Unfortunately the night ended in heartache as we had multiple attempts ending at 8%, 6%, and then finally 2%. We knew we had everything in place needed to get the kill, we just needed to refine our pickups and Empower Shadow taunt strategy a little bit, and a little bit of luck.
And thus, we had to wait. We rested and recharged over our raid break, took Sunday off to counter the Thursday raid, and came in tonight, eager and determined. We quickly two-shot our repeat Algalon kill, and we knew we were on our A games for the night. Our first pull on 0 Light left him at 8% with one Empower. Slowly but surely our taunts and Yogg DPS were getting better. And three attempts later...
WoL
Video to come!
And thank you to you all for the gift of my amazing floating baby head. Time to farm some more!
I gave my epic progression speech for the Alg update, but this really was the culmination of Ulduar for us. We again jumped another 20 spots to land a 20th US kill, top 10 Horde, finalizing our Ulduar score atm to #24th US. The jumps we've made in this 3.1 instance have been amazing, and we have a lot to live up for in this 3.2 patch with ToC Heroic encounters, but we're up for the challenge. Thank you for your dedication and persistence to everyone in the guild, and thank you for the support of our friends on Ner'zhul as we accomplished our goal of achieving these prestigious two server firsts.
Pat yourselves on the back boys, we did it!
(So what if its outdated, first page was nice for an hour)!