SK Interview from Frostshock
by Mike Schramm 
May 26th 2008 at 5:00PM
Frostshock is a Hungarian site that covers World of Warcraft -- they've done us the kindness of linking to us in the past, but usually my Hungarian is so rusty that we have no idea what they're talking about. This weekend, they posted an interview with SK-Gaming, the group that nabbed the world first of Kil'jaeden, and while normally we wouldn't be able to tell a másnap from a kezdték, the newly redesigned World of Raids has a translation up.There's a lot of the usual stuff that you hear from guild after a big down, but there's a few new things in there, too -- apparently SK and other raiding sponsors are actually paying "premiums" for world first kills. Doesn't sound like a lot, but they do say they'll be able to do a meetup this summer thanks to their run in Sunwell, so that's a fairly substantial amount for playing a game. Both M'uru and Kil'jaeden are on their top 3 encounters in the expansion, along with Magtheridon, apparently. And the Sunwell "gates" system gets a pretty good review -- SK says it kept some guilds going even when they might have been burned out on the tougher fights.
All in all, an interesting interview. They dive into drama a bit when talking about the friction between SK and Nihilum, but mostly, they just stick to what it's like raiding as a professional guild in the Sunwell. It will definitely be interesting to see how these kinds of guilds react to the 10/25 man change in the expansion -- raiding has come a long way from the 40-man runs in vanilla WoW, and these guilds may have a lot more competition for the 10man world firsts.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, Bosses
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Me May 26th 2008 5:15PM
I'm somewhat startled by their review of the gates, but I can see the justification. I'm personally convinced.
hotwheel May 26th 2008 5:38PM
World second kill by method
Nogun May 26th 2008 5:46PM
Nobody cares about 10man world firsts, upto the point that they don't really exist. What guild is claiming a Nightbane, Malchezaar or Zul'Jin world first?
kr3wman May 26th 2008 9:13PM
Especially if *every* 10 man is somehow (either simplified or vice versa) a 25 man raid.
Iwanttobeasleep May 27th 2008 2:11AM
I dunno if Zul'jin was because it was a 10 man, or because by then plenty of guilds had the gear to beat him, since ZA launched well after tier 6, and much of the loot from it is around tier 5 or even tier 4. He was still a hard fight in a hard raid and if he'd showed up properly in the progression line, killing him might have been notable.
JeffreyM May 26th 2008 6:18PM
Click Hard Go Pro IMO
MightyDuck May 27th 2008 4:06AM
The link on Frostshock is in an articale about the WoW film (somewhere in the future), and WoW Insider are linked as source of informations. :)
Andy May 27th 2008 11:48AM
Actually, guilds were certainly claiming Nightbane world firsts when the expansion launched. Nightbane was a very difficult encounter that has since been trivialized by available gear and nerfs, but at launch it was the pre-25 pinacle.