Three or four months ago we Legionnaires stood just inside the entrance to Karazhan wondering if we’d ever get past the first couple of bosses and how nice it would be to get some victory prizes. Often we’d have to cancel runs because not enough showed up.
Tonight as I write this, Karazhan has only Netherspite left in our saved instance. On Saturday we got him down to 6%. We had a great time in that room on Saturday. Finally the beams started making sense and people were getting the transitions down. We had lost some people early on, but it was manageable. Toward the end of the fight it really could have gone either way. Tomorrow when we face the phase dragon again, we’ll be armed with more experience and knowledge and we’ll have just as much fun.
There is a moment when surfers are paddling after a wave that it comes upon them. They are at the cusp. It takes only one more strong push and they catch it, riding it as far as it will take them.
This week is Steel Legion’s cusp moment. We have people willing and ready to do what it takes to learn fights, enjoying doing this for the sake of doing it, and placing the guild’s interest on equal footing with their own. I don’t think we’ve ever had so much fun in this guild. There isn’t another place I’d rather be in the game at this point.
Tomorrow we’ve got a damn good chance of clearing Karazhan completely. From that point we’ll all belong to a guild that has cleared Karazhan. Then we head towards more challenges and fun times in other instances. We’ll be farming Karazhan for a while to come. But that is a little bit ahead of us. For now one more strong push ahead and we ride the wave.