Paragon world first Lich King 25 Heroic nerdscreams

Not that i'm too excited about the pve race anymore. IMO the real pve race died when they introduced things like gating in sunwell, to slow down the progress of endgame guilds. But anyway, for what it's worth, gz to Paragon! A finnish only guild that is relatively young that really started out around Ulduar times. Mby me being half finnish made me slightly more glad they got it, who knows.

Since this is the last boss in WOTLK (that i think will matter, i wont count on the dragonbosses coming later. if i change my mind I'll make a new updated blogentry about this), I want to make a personal recap of who I think did the best in the PvE race, based on actual kills. As a quick explanation how i judge progress: I think showing dominance over the "normal" bosses is a good SIGN of skill. However, killing the hardest boss in each dungeon, usually the endboss, is the real pointer as to what guild is the best in the world at that point in time.

For example, Paragon has completely DOMINATED the ICC 25 HC progress. But IF another guild, say Ensidia, would've got ICC 25 HC Lich King world first, then there would be alot of people who would say "ye paragon was doing well on the "easier" bosses, but Ensidia showed they are the best guild in the world by killing the hardest boss" and they would basically be right, or at least have a very good point. For I also believe that what shows who the best guild is, is who kills the currently hardest encounter. This can be argued against, but this is at least my opinion. Ok here we go!

1. Wotlk Launches, and we got naxx + sarth malygos available. Who's the winner here? It's a tough choice between Method and Ensidia. Ensidia showing dominance over all content that was available once they reached 80. But was the killing of this content a proof of their skill, or proof of them being first guild to 80? IMO it's the latter. The only real hard encounter that was released and available once players hit 80 was Sartharion 3d 10 man, and Method got this kill world first. Some say against this reasoning that "10 man is serious business, who cares" but on the other hand, IF the hardest fight can be found in a 10 man raid, isn't that where the battle would be for what guild is the best in the world? IMO yes it is.

Method wins here but only barely.

2. Ulduar. Again here it's worth considering, what bosses should count? What's the real endboss in Ulduar? As you might remember, Ensidia got Yogg 4 watchers world first, and at that very moment it was a big thing. But as alot of other guilds got it down, and after people realising the difference between 4 watchers, and for example 0 watchers, they started wondering. Anyway moving on from that, Ensidia continued with a nice killing streak and got Algalon world first aswell. Now they were arguable the best guild in the world for showing such dominance in progress. But what happens next? There's silence, nothing happens.. and then SUDDENLY, out of nowhere, a chinese guild called Stars surprises the world and brings the world first Yogg 0 watchers. Now here's some drama, on one hand, you have the "ensidia is excused cause they didnt bother trying yogg 0" argument. and on the other, you have the "well bohoo, if you dont try you cant win and hence you loose by your own fault". Ensidia fanboys and ensidia haters argued alot about this. (Worth noting here is also that this is the point in time where Paragon shows it's face in endgame raiding for the first time, doing the world 2nd and eu 1st yogg 0 kill.)

Stars wins here. They didn't show dominance on the other bosses, but they did do an impressive world first kill in what is actually the hardest boss in Ulduar, Yogg 0.

3. TotGC. At first people thought killing Twins HC was pretty good. But turns out, the only real challenge in this instance is killing Anub HC.

Paragon wins here, simply by killing Anub 25 HC world first

4. Icecrown Citadel. No argument here. By dominating the HC progress and delivering the world first 25 HC Lich King, they have proved without a doubt they are the best guild in the world.

Paragons wins here.

Ok, to sum it up. When it comes down to impressive performance, WOTLK has been about Ensidia, Method, Stars and last but not least Paragon.

The true best guild of WOTLK is rightfully Paragon.

That's it for todays blog, hope you enjoyed reading it, and please put up your opinion in the comment section!

/gd