March 24, 2008 
Scythe Some people note amusedly (and rightfully so) that even though we’ve been working on Illidan for the last two weeks, we haven’t taken down Archimonde yet. They’re right of course, nearly every guild completes Mount Hyjal before progressing substantially into Black Temple.
Then again, Omen has never really done things like other guilds and what those other people don’t know is that we set a guild goal of completing Black Temple prior to the release of Patch 2.4. We started talking about it back in late January when we were 4/5 in Mount Hyjal and 3/9 in Black Temple and needed something to really challenge ourselves to play our best.
Back then, we knew that the 2.4 patch would be released at some point in the “near” future and wanted to challenge ourselves to try and clear Black Temple before the patch was released. So we pushed and pushed, mowing down Black Temple bosses at high speed as we constantly refined our clears to be faster and faster, hoping to down Illidan before Patch 2.4 was released.
Tonight, on our 3rd night of full attempts on Illidan Stormrage, we accomplished that goal. We knew that Patch 2.4 was looming, with nearly every sign pointing to it being released tomorrow, so we rescheduled our traditional Sunday raid (which we normally may have just skipped because of the Easter Holiday) to tonight and got down to business. Our reward came in the form of a 20 minute epic battle in which we were victorius even though we had never taken Illidan below roughly 45% health in our previous attempts.
This kill represents a lot of hard work from all of us and to accomplish our goal literally right before our self-imposed “deadline” makes it that much sweeter. Congratulations Omen, I’m very proud of us all – we earned it!
Kill Video (Feral Druid PoV)
