Twin Emperors - Drag Queen show CANCELLED - "We create better shows!" tells Ujaw to press!

Written by Gare
Monday, 29 May 2006

Hey Kids! It’s your favorite slacker-pimp-daddy back updating teh frontpage. Mommy got so mad at me for sitting in my lair watching reruns of my favorite anime, Sailor Moon that she dragged me *gasp* to meeting of Anonymous-Anime. Claimed I had obsession! So mean. Despite the lack of updates to the frontpage, we have rolled forward and killed more than ever. Now it was time to replace ghey dragshow in AQ40 with something more appropriate, Umbrage style.

Umbrage proudly presents - Aquel & Stomper - Emperors new clothes, that will serve in C’Thuns pimpshow for future generations of drag fans!

It’s the package, it is all about the package.
What can I say? It was magical, feeling was superb when we obliterated this encouter. Our Teamspeak exploded for a non stop scream for over two minutes - people complained that their hands where shaking, faces covered with sweat - that magical feeling you get when team overcomes something huge. At 4am folks where still drinking whiskey just to be able to get sleep. Adrenaline was pumping high in the veins. We started fighting around 1830cet on sunday and after numerous attempts with minor adjustments to the strategy, we killed the twins just before midnight. On the kill, one of the most memorable moments where when twins reached 9% and Sil screamed on TS: "I do not want to see single digits, I want to see them dead!". Just brilliant. And indeed they died.

This encounter, in design, is one of the best I have seen in World of Warcraft. It not only defines main tanking in a new light, it brings a totally new aspect of raiding to the table. Twins is made so that there is no lockdown in the encounter. When you fight older designs, like BWL or MC ones, encounter always gets a "locked" state. Your package can be failing left and right for example when you fight Firemaw and still win. But not here, on the Twin Emps this leads to a guranteed wipe. In Twin Emps you fight as one single "package", if one part fails, the recovery is extremely hard, one could argue that its even impossible. A quick example is, that in this fight you make a "pull" of the boss mobs every 40 seconds. If you fail the pull even once, it’s game over. Absolutely brilliant design, it makes everyone play close to perfection, otherwise you won’t make it. In my opinion encounters should not be like most of BWL ones are, where you can get a solid state lock and grind it down even when people die around you due medicore gameplay. AQ40 proved that Blizzard is heading for the right direction. Players need to do perfect Min-Maxing of their chars and at the same time care about their own gameplay. Nothing is more intresting than seeing all your guildmates pondering how one should setup for this particular fight gear wise, since every bit now counts. A good example for warriors out there, plan your char so that you will survive this with items available ingame, since if you don’t, you are pretty much just a liability:

My hopes are high for Naxx, early reports say that Naxx will take this way of fighting to another level. Requiring teamwork, voice communication, min-maxing from all classes and no slacking at all. That’s how we like to play and it bonds the guild together in ways I never saw in Everquest. No longer can you walk with the guild and expect bosses to die, every single one in the guild actually has to play well and in AQ40 case, extremely well. Lessons learned in AQ will proven valuable in Naxx.
Proud team Umbrage after the kill. Male ponding required for this screenshot makes Boy George look straight:

Loot: Grats Venya for the Bracers, SoMann for Circlet, Tryllerylle for Scepter, Arathornz for Diadem.

Here are some screenshots from our earlier kills:

Umbrage is still looking for few good souls to join our ranks, if you are interested check on our recruiment section at forums. We are always looking for outstanding players in every class, even if they are closed. We don’t add many nor we add people often, but there is always room for awesome people. We will leave you with this awesome line recorded by Aquel agains Twin Emperors with Enrage on. Not everyday you get struck by 44k of ability damage. =)

It’s time to sign out and go test the might of C’Thun.