Hello, lately there's been going around quite some rumours that we were assisted by GMs during our RF kills in Ulduar. This simply has no truth to it and I will dispel these rumours by giving you a vivid overview of MEMORIES, starting all the way back at the PTR-stage.
We started doing PTR quite early and like many other guilds we noticed that there was a lot of work that had to be done. We started to do PTR quite regularly, in the start we were mainly focused on discovering bugs and anomalies. By taking notes during the PTR raids, as well as browsing our logs from PTR very in-depth, we were able to identify the majority of them, which were forwarded as bug reports. Since we kept doing PTR regularly, we got approached by Malaco (GM) to do PTR runs with devs watching, to make collection of data (as well as tuning) easier. The first thing I did when I got approached was to recommend other guilds we knew were also doing PTR runs (Mnemonic at the time, Infinity, The Company).
We were doing 25-man PTR runs which lasted 3-5 hours, 3 times a week. Needless to say, it became very hard to encourage guildies to keep coming to PTR and eventually towards the end, we always had 4-5 new people with us, to fill up the raid (thank you). We kept doing this pretty much until release day, April 27th.
OK so, April 27th - release day. We had around 30 raiders ready at the time of release, we got a lot of preparation from the PTR and tactics/setup for all bosses had been carefully pre-planned. Our plan was to go for RF Yogg and to achieve this we naturally intended to skip the optional bosses (Ignis, Razor, Iron Council & Auriya). Starting on FL, we had all vehicle's pre-planned, as well as demo driver, demo launchers, chopper pickups etc. However, we do hit quite a bump since one of the turrets on FL bugs out, which leads to some confusion and results in getting a very slow FL kill (probably wasn't RF).
Nonetheless, we head straight to XT. Here, we get a very quick RF kill (4m 30sec) and we are now leading the race. Kologarn is also a rather quick one-shot without too many issues. Next is Hodir, which we kill RF in 3m and 39sec, not very far away from a HM kill. We got a lot of practice on PTR, to properly maximize Storm Clouds and other crucial DPS mechanics of the fight. Thorim is next. Not wanting to waste any time setting up P2 positions, they were all pre-planned, everyone knew their exact spot. Halfway into the gauntlet, the realm crashes and when we come back, we notice Thorim's HP has been buffed (now 61m without the -HP/-DMG buff he receives when Sif leaves, 40m or so with the debuff). We go again, gauntlet and arena P1 are without difficulty as expected. However, P2 is a bit more challenging, mainly due to a few newer players still not having complete understanding of the fight as well as melees chaining CL. We manage to kill him just as his stacks were getting unbearable, with around half the raid alive.
Freya is next, we clear the trash and kill the Elders. When we pull Freya, she spawns ALL THREE add waves instantly. We wipe it and move on to Mimiron while waiting for a fix. Mimiron is a bit troublesome but we one-shot him with a pretty slow kill.
After Mimiron is killed, we go and clear Auriya while waiting for hotfix on Freya. We start clearing some adds to Ignis while waiting also, then the realm restart is announced and we go back to Freya. We logon right as realm is up again and kill Freya without too much trouble.
We wipe one or two times on Vezax due to errors on our side and then we kill him as well without too much issue.
Finally, we've arrived at Yogg.
Yogg has around 115 million HP. Brain Link did not work at all (however, this is minor due to having Sanity Wells), Malady spreads to multiple new targets instead of ONE new target, P3 adds worked correctly. Crushers had just below 6m HP. We began altering our setup and strats, especially practicing our p3 execution. After hours of wiping and progressing on the fight, we managed to score a kill 1min before the enrage which can be seen in the last photo of this album: http://imgur.com/a/AZVQA . As for the Death's Demise, we obviously did not kill Yogg + 0, it was just a scripting error from the devs. Titles + Achi were reverted shortly after.
There has been a lot of talk about how bosses have been buffed after our Wednesday kills, in both 10m and 25m. We will have to see the difference ourselves tonight in our 25m raid, however for the people that believe our 25m kills were super-easy underbuffed bosses, we went into 10m to see bosses "after the buff" and that resulted in the following:
XT HM kill (on thurs, before buffs?): https://gyazo.com/b4a6fbb38680c1bdb059662459d5b8a3
IC HM kill (on thurs, before buffs?): http://imgur.com/9z5IT5T
RF Thorim HM kill (on monday, after buffs): http://imgur.com/gFhEsID (I know the Achievement for HM bugs sometimes, however this was a legit HM kill. We got a Mjolnir Runestone to prove it :P)
We then went on and cleared Ulduar 10-man yesterday and ended up getting a super clean Yogg-10 kill: http://imgur.com/bb3jjUw
inb4 TL:DR
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Wind of Northrend
Statement from MEMORIES
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Member
I don't think anyone doubts that Memories has alot of great players. Changing the difficulty right after you guys cleared Ulduar is just a slap in everybody else's face.
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Yeah, we will have to see tonight how the bosses are in 25m, but if that happened just after we finished 25m, it does indeed suck.
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Member
Dear Despondency,
Thank you for clarifying and congratz on the RFs, we didn't manage to be as prepared as you guys were for this. Something about people not taking PTR seriously enough i fear. Keep up the good work, sets the bar for us all.
Nonix, GM <The Company>
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Member
Dear Despondency,
We all know you're lying. Save face and tell the truth already bro.
Jk **** the drama starters.
Love,
Cleofatra
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Member
This is completely insane to blame <MEMORIES> for no reason
I can confirm that Despondency (GM of MEMORIES) is not such a low standards guy who will go for ***** tricks like people crap around for just realm-firsts. Because i had interactions with him a lot while i was on horde, but then shifted to alliance to play with old friends from deathwing.
The actual issue was : Why ulduar was buffed after realm-firsts were taken ?
But people termed it as for their personal grudges : Why ulduar was buffed after MEMORIES cleared it
They were raiding ulduar on i213 gear on PTR while we (most of us) were just going there getting ICC gear and doing ICC and bla bla
Its their hard work and dedication which paid them off with realm first
It not issue of any guild, if bosses were buffed or nerfed or whatever
This has sole to do with the devs, so stop blaming MEMORIES for such crap
#RespectMEMORIES
From,
Swordsaint, Alliance
<The Reveler Folk>Edited: May 4, 2016
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Kappa Kappa 123
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Member
I too support Donald Trump!
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Member
Well Yogg is the same as he was on wednesday and no other guild managed to kill it anyway , so is this realm first issue even an issue?:D
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Member
25 People and nobody frapsed any of your boss fights?. Some of those boss fights the adds evade and do nothing if you moved them around a bit. How do we know any of this was even legit kills?. Seems lot of bosses either bug or can be bugged and mechanics completely lost.
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Member
There seems to be a general bug where mobs evade in shallow water. This happens during Ignis, Yogg-Saron, and Freya (if you somehow pulled them across the river). You can also see this happening in other instances like Temple of Ahn'Qiraj and Magister's Terrace.
It has been confirmed for a while, but I don't think it is an easy fix.
http://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/9130
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Member
Theres more than that iron council the dorf can be bugged so he does nothing. Im not gonna say what u have to do cause i did it by accident while tanking him but ya. Theres quite a few bugs that makes some of these bosses joke mode and broke. I believe memories can clear it legit especially the ezmode version non buffed but this is 2016...Lets see more than a screen shot of the achievement...hell i can /inspect u and see ur achieve....Where the frapsed video of it to show your supposed legit kills non GM help etc etc.
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Member
Maybe they are playing on potatoes ...
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Member
About the Frapsing, to be honest I really thought about doing it, but I decided against it, because of a few reasons.
1. I'm Shadow...boring as f*ck to watch x).
2. I did not think that NM kills will get anything close to this amout of attention.
My thoughts were like, okay thats NM that's boring, everyone did this at least once already, and everyone saw at least 2 videos about it in the past.
So I was lazy and said I'm only going to record the HM kills...everyone who did such a video knows, its annoying and its work, I was happy to skip it. :D
Maybe I will start recording Bosses on NM, I'm not entirly sure since more and more Guilds manage to kill the majority of the NM Bosses.
But you can expect at least Videos of our HM kills, i cant promise you to upload them instantly after the kills but i will do it eventually.
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Member
Well done guys. Ignore the haters and people that are just jealous!
End of the day you have good players it seems and very good organisation/communication within your guild. It's a shame many of the other guilds alliance side were not like this then maybe they wouldn't be QQ'ing over no RFs!
You planned it from the start with the PTR which is what everyone else should of done. I know from the guild I am in no one wanted to go on the PTR for ulduar. Without it we are now wiping and having to learn bosses as a group on Live (which is now a waste of time) :/Edited: May 5, 2016
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