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  • Server-First Glory of the Cataclysm Raider, barely!

    All complaining and pessimism aside, this tier of raiding has been quite fantastic and a joy to participate in with all the good friends of Vox. And as if things couldn't get any better, we've managed to squeak in Heroic: Ascendant Council the night before the patch, completing the Hyjal server-first Glory of the Cataclysm Raider and bumping us into the top 100 US 10-mans as well as top 70 US Achievements!

    While there are a great deal of highs and lows throughout this tier, I think above and beyond everything, Nefarian definitely has to be mentioned as the stand out encounter for our guild. Both Normal and Heroic Nefarian, as well as the achievement, had that great sense of difficulty but controllable chaos that makes a strong encounter stand out above the rest.

    That said, given that we're moving onto a new tier this week (though we'll still be going back to finish Sinestra), I thought it might be interesting to have a look back at Tier 11 through the magical world of numbers, therefore, below you will find some of the more interesting stats for Vox raiding throughout this tier!

    Total Raids: 77 raids
    Total Raid Hours: 261.8 hours
    Total Boss Kills: 309 kills
    Total Wipes: 1611 wipes
    Average Kills Per Raid: 4 kills
    Average Wipes Per Raid: 21 wipes
    KPH (Kills Per Hour): 1.18 KPH
    WPH (Wipes Per Hour): 6.15 WPH

    Some pretty silly numbers all around, but now let's take a gander at some more specific, boss-oriented stats, like for starters, the relative difficulty (for Vox) of the various Normal and Heroic bosses prior to our first kill:

    Easiest Normal Boss: Magmaw (4 attempts)
    Hardest Normal Boss: Nefarian (55 attempts)

    Easiest Heroic Boss: Atramedes (11 attempts)
    Hardest Heroic Boss: Nefarian (189 attempts)

    It should come to no surprise that the achievements also range very wildly, though I must admit that it certainly felt like Stay Chill took far more attempts than it actually did in reality.

    Easiest Achievement: Tie Parasite Evening & Achieve-a-tron (0 attempts/accidental)
    Hardest Achievement: Stay Chill (61 attempts)

    This one also says a lot, as it shows which bosses were the easiest/hardest for us to farm, or repeatedly kill. It's worth noting that this doesn't include bosses we only killed once and thus never farmed for obvious reasons, but still somewhat amusing and how random those crazy dragons could be!

    Easiest Heroic Farm (Fewest Post-First Kill Wipes): Halfus (7 wipes)
    Hardest Heroic Farm (Most Post-First Kill Wipes): Double Dragons (51 wipes)

    Finally, here's the full list of wipes we saw across all bosses over the course of this tier. It should come as no surprise that encounters with difficult achievements like Conclave and Cho'gall have inflated overall numbers, but even still we can clearly see that Nefarian takes the prize by a huge margin in both Normal and Heroic categories. Also we certainly had a greater number of wipes just due to opportunity on earlier bosses that we spent more time farming, but I admit even I'm surprised at some of the attempts for first kills on some bosses. It seems very strange that Heroic: Chimaeron took us more attempts than Al'Akir, Double Dragons, Cho'gall, or Omnotron, all of which felt like much harder fights to get that first kill. Also while Heroic: Neferian clearly takes the cakes in quantity, both Heroic: Conclave and Heroic: Twilight Council were much more uncontrolled fights and victories.
    BossAl'AkirAtramedesChimaeronCho'gallConclaveHalfusMagmawMaloriakNefarianOmnotronTwiCouncValiona
    Normal First Kill85891113455513267
    Normal Total Wipes10101152731373213754338
    Heroic First Kill521191451045834581896510849
    Heroic Total Wipes5252127451049154123220104108100
    Total Wipes62621389717710461155357109151138
    All the stats and numbers aside, I can't express how proud I am to be a part of such a wonderful team and nice bunch of people. I suspect it will be a long while before I can get a similar high to that of watching Heroic: Twilight Ascendant Council fall knowing we have a mere 2 hours left to pull this off before the last pre-patch raid ends! However, as much fun as beating up monsters is, the ordeal would be a mere shadow of itself without the chance to experience it with the likes of our fellow Vox members -- hanging out in Mumble for a few hours a week is a great deal of fun and beating up dragons for phat lewtz is merely the icing on the cake.

    Ragnaros: It is far too late to be "too soon" my friend; soon we shall descend upon you in the depths of your fiery abode!
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