Skroesec

Hello past members of Tyranny! It's wonderful you've come and check in on us with the release of WoW Classic. On behalf of the guild, we hope life has treated you all well and you should know that regardless if you were here for one tier or ten, you made an impact and helped us thrive for 13 years and counting! Even if you haven't been involved in Tyranny in years, you're still a part of it. And we would love for you to be involved in our community again. If you're looking for the guild on classic, we're on Herod (PVP). This plan is for this guild to do raiding. If you're looking for the guild on retail, we're on Bleeding Hollow and progression raiding. Your toons may be on our older servers we left (Lothar, Drak'tharon, Shattered Hand). Please come join us on BH! My battletag is strife#1977 if you just want to say hello! If you're looking to join our Discord, just whisper one of us in game for an invite link. If you lost forum access, just request it by posting below. You are _all_ welcome to hang out with us, and we can't wait to hear whats been up with you! Come join us! -Skroesec (now Strafe)

Jesus christ, lol.

Screw you jake.

Juls if you could put that up on the Frontpage while I finish this image off. Because I'm actually trying to edit out the background. Fuck thal's wings!

Hi Jacob.

Meats. What else with Jake.

OMG ROFL, this is amazing. <3

I got rid of them incase they were causing the warning. I left this thread though, because it's important.

5 days to kill you off then.

Oh hey... didn't see you there! So it's what... Dragon Soul week 26? Something like that right? NOPE! Wrong! It's Mists of Pandaria 25-Man Beta Testing week 1! And Tyranny was out in force! I Over the last few weeks our team has been getting our guild ready for this moment and were we prepared! Our Beta guild (Tyranny) on Gilneas is Level 18, and most everyone who has a Beta Key is 90 and Tuesday night we got to work! After a few attempts we "killed" Garalon in Heart of Fear... I say killed because we called Wipe at 5% with the entire raid alive at the same time Blizzard disabled the boss. Then we went to Terrace of Endless Spring and downed Tsulong here in a few attempts (as seen above). Do you know how great it is to do? new content after the longest interval without a new raid in WoW's 7 year history? It was orgasmic. Really. Orgasmic. I went there. So what does this sampler tell us about MoP raiding? It's going to be fucking awesome. DS had some seriously hard fights at 0% and 5%... but it was, how shall we say... stationary (likely due to Blizzard experimenting with making fights LFR friendly). These fights are the exact opposite of that. In fact, I don't think I've moved so much in two back to back fights since AQ40. I haven't been this excited about an expansion since TBC. So Tyranny is here, and we're doing just great. MoP is on the horizon and our army is getting in order. Two fights in the bag, 12 to go, and the future looks very very bright! Oh, and since we're recruiting as always, if you want to join us in our quest to be the top 16 hour a week guild in the US, apply today! We're recruiting everything.

Over the last three and a half months, oranges have happened... a lot. First up was Vlade's guild first Fangs of the Father back on February 29th. Congrats Vlade! It's fitting that one of the smartest, most reliable, most gifted raiders we've had the fortune of playing with since Ulduar get the weapons he deserves! About a month after that Yuffy completed his set. He started building them before he joined Tyranny, but did the bulk of it here, and boy were we glad! Congratulations to you as well man! Truly you have far surpassed your namesake! Most recently however Furcouch was up to no good now that he completed his pair of legendary daggers! He's totally the fall guy for why you can't play Diablo 3. Seriously! Way to go! This completes the three primary sets we've built, and happily they've gone to three truly excellent rogues who are the backbone of our present and future! But wait, there's more! Legendary Staffs may be from 4.2, but they're still BiS and we worked dilligently to get all our raiders them. And sure enough Dxe completed his. It's kind of criminal he got his this late considering what he can do with it, but boy did it go into the right hands now that it is finished! Congratulations! Our boomkin Oltanya built his at about the same time as Dxe, in our twice (sometimes three time) weekly ten man Firelands, as we farmed the guild their Rag mounts. Sometimes they even drained the same bosses in the same run! But shortly after, our good thunderchicken completed his, truly topping off a ten month guild exercise that spanned dozens of rag kills, Fireland runs and many staffs. Congrats Olt! It was a long time coming. So here we are... ten months and nine staffs! This pretty much caps off Dragon Soul and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. We've done everything. We've farmed around three dozen Deathwing and Ragnaros mounts. We've built about a dozen legendaries. Now begins our preparation for Mists of Pandaria and a whole new world of raiding!

Back in early April we took a (long planned) week and wrapped up SERVER FIRST GLORY OF THE DRAGON SOUL RAIDER capping our list of Dragon Soul achievements. The first half of our raiders got theirs when we activated Kalecgos first that week, and the second half when we activated Nozdormu first (on Heroic at 15%) the following week. The latter was especially fun a good challenge for folks farming DS looking to mix it up. The result? Dark horned dragons. Admit it, it's the best one.

Tyranny, an equal opportunity employer. Except if you're from Switzerland. We don't serve your kind here. Sooooo....Grats to Laodead on her Legendary Staff! LONG time coming, and hard earned over the last two tiers. I'd say I'd be excited with what you will do with it, but looking above... well... we already know. I envy what you can do with that long throbbing legendary sta... err *ahem*. So yeah... Lao's staff is more potent than mine. So what! Nobody's perfect. Doesn't make me any less of a man....

8/8 Heroic and US#37. Let's take a second to look at that. After an absolutely stunning two months, where 8 demanding and technical fights as have ever been put in the game were killed at higher ranks in less time than ever before... where the guild faced the challenges of the holidays and new work schedules, ongoing recruitment, comp issues on fights like Spine... where the guild raided extra hours, extra days and raid extended without complaint or worry... now here we are at the end of our labors... Deathwing is dead and Cataclysm is over. The fight was surprisingly fun (compared to Normal) with a very fun and fast paced last leg. It took some solid problem solving for 4th Platform and Phase 2, but in true Tyranny fashion, the last attempt of the night, Madness of Deathwing is no more... right at 11:59. It was the perfect way to win the fight, the expansion and our amazing rebuilding story. Congratulations to Asked and Komma on their mounts and Pizzo, Asked, Eref, Foolish, Meks, Shogun on their server first madness weaponry. For the past 11 months the assembled members of this guild, past and present have lived the most remarkable of comeback stories, a story that belongs to them. You see just over a year ago, after six months of farming Heroic Lich King, planning for Cataclysm and getting a strong start to the expac, Tyranny fractured for terrible reasons and we decided then, that it was the end. After that I got sick, we formed a bunch of casual 10 mans and some people raided elsewhere. In March Pizzo, Danaros and myself took our 10 mans, merged them into a brand new Tyranny and started from scratch, with nothing. No planed comp, tons of tanks, just people and an idea to do this and do it right. Three months later all of Tier 11, including Sinestra was cleared... quite late but cleared... as we planned for whats next. Then Firelands came out From July to October we pushed fiercly through that - through some incredibly demanding fights like Baelroc and Beth'tilac pre-nerf, and finally Ragnaros US #75. We were back to where we were historically, with Lich King, Yogg+0 and KJ before that. But it wasn't enough. A year ago we went into this expansion with a goal: do better than we ever have. And a year later because of the efforts of every single person with a Tyranny tag active and recently retired, we were consistently more accomplished than ever before and finished at a rank that at one point, we once could only dream about. We did it because we worked hard. We did it because everyone put the team first. No matter what our people find themselves doing in Mists of Pandaria, or years from now when Titan is out, everyone in Tyranny, today, who raided, who helped, offered advice, who cheered us on, participated in something extraordinary and truly rare. Tyranny is not one of the guilds that the raiding changes in Cataclysm killed. Tyranny is the guild that fought back from absolutely nothing - puggers from trade chat and friends and people who found us in the WoW forums and thought that we'd be a good place to call home. Tyranny is the guild that finished Cataclysm with unprecedented life in it. Tyranny finished US #37. No guild in the world worked harder for what they accomplished in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, than Tyranny. To all who raided with us in Tier 11, Firelands and Dragon Soul, and is in good standing, thank you for your trust, your patience and your faith that there is something special about Tyranny that made it worth achieving this come back that few MMO Raiders will ever so completely understand what we had to do, to do this. To me, that's worth a hundred thousand Deathwing mounts. We did something this tier and this past year that I hope you'll tell people about years from now as something you were a part of. Alas, we still have much to do... more legendaries, lots of movies to publish, mounts to get.... and months and months to prepare for our next act.... improving on this foundation for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria!

World of Warcraft is a game where people spew bullshit regularly. The stuff we heard about Spine of Deathwing was a new peak for it though... that you NEED 7-10 mages and 5 rogues. You NEED a Feral Druid. You NEED to have this many healers of this comp. You NEED to do this thing this way. That you NEED to use your CDs this way. Yeah that's all crap. People outside this guild run their mouth like nothing else. We had none of that, developed largely our own, better strat (with some helpful tips by friends of the guild) and Spine of Deathwing is now another notch our our belt, pushing us 7/8 Heroic and US#33. Why? Because Team Tyranny showed and and fuckin' played and used their brains and did what worked for us! I do want to say that every member of Tyranny went above and beyond their normal awesomeness on this fight. People were very willing to go with raid extending, with playing mage alts (for a while), sharing alts, gearing alts, coming in, rotating out and sitting. This fight was a test of the guilds cohesiveness if nothing else, and damn, did we come through. Everyone saw several dozen of attempts on this thing, and the final shape of the strat and kill was in flux really until the hour we killed it. All that's left in Cataclysm is Madness.... and with an hour of work we're already on third platform. Also late congratulations to Romanko on his Legendary Staff! Long time coming man! Very well earned!

Captain's Log, Stardate 20121.12. An unidentified distress signal has led the Starship Tyranny to the discovery of a strange flying boat filled with what we thought were hostile Romulans orbiting Galorndon Core, a Federation planet. Unfortunately we later discovered they were not Romulans, but a Vulcan away team, but only after the unfortunate slaying of their Klingon mission commander. The Captain of the Federation vessel that dispatched the away team was understandably displeased with the untimely demise of one of his senior officers. Captains Log, supplemental. After consultations with Horde Fleet Command, we have confirmed that our actions on Galordon Core and the slaying of Lieutenant Commander Worf brought us to 6/8 Heroic and US#34. Romulan Ale is being distributed in Ten Foward as a celebratory gesture to the crew.

Yes, that's our man John Madden feasting on Ultraxion's decapitated head! Because honestly, this guild has never had higher DPS than it has now, or tighter heals, or smarter players... and we pulled out all the stops... and I DO mean ALL the stops, to scale this obscene mountain with 1.7 seconds to spare and losing only one person in the last half second of the fight. So Heroic Ultraxion died, pushing us to 5/8 Heroic and US#32. This after a heroic effort by the ENTIRETY of Team Tyranny during less than ideal raiding circumstances (the holidays) and on top of that, a 5 hour raid the night of the kill that the guild went with without complaint because they knew... just KNEW, we had it. This is a fantastic fight. You do it or you don't. No kiting around. No last second trickery to win. It took nights of work and a lot of heart ache and hard slogging by our entire crew, to get this son of a bitch where we wanted him, with a high DPS attempt with everyone up 6 minutes in. Damn, we just scaled one hell of a mountain. Congratulations Tyranny... crushing a fight like this is one hell of a way to end 2011.

Boy have we been busy! Let us get to it. So last week (the first week of heroic content), we killed two heroic boss... Morchok (obviously, see below) and Zon'ozz. He's pretty much one of the most ridiculous non-end of tier fights we've done in ages. Good god does Blizzard really try to stretch every raiding muscle. Anyway, US #16 kill of one ridiculous encounter. This week, after about a night of work we ripped into Yor'shaj. Slightly less of a ridiculous encounter compared to Zon'ozz, he was punctuated by pretty much continuous 10 minutes of "we're all going to die" moments where we prayed the next set of oozes didn't put us over a barrel. I think I exhaled so hard when we killed it I dislocated a rib. Good luck to everyone who did Hagara before these two bosses. You're in for a treat and a lot of wiping. Our kill was US#21! Lastly, Thursday this week we finally got around to killing Hargara... you know after a good 60 or so other guilds. Sorry, we were busy doing tougher content first. Ranked kills first, purps second! The hardest part about the fight was finding where to stand at the start of frost phase. That makes us US 4/8 Heroic in 25-man after 2 raid weeks with a good hour of Heroic Ultraxion attempts already invested. This has been the strongest start Tyranny has ever had. Keep on pushing team!

When you go to war, the plan is always the first thing out the window. So here we are with this incredible plan to maximize raid DPS on Heroic Morchok by tanking them close (I know)... only to find that in implementation it was retarded. So we just treated it like two 10 man bosses and won 3 attempts later. Moral of the story, don't cheese the easiest boss in the tier. Great job though guys on rejigging our entire strat in like, 10 minutes. World #21 Also I, Tyrant god-king Skroesec finally got my everyone-gets-an-award-award like guild 5th because I wasn't one of those douchebag GM's who took it first. Ask me nicely and I'll let you touch it.

Hey everyone! Hagara is with child! WITH CHILD! Well no big surprise considering that the two Deathwing encounters were all about avoiding tentacles sticking it far up everyone's... well never mind. Somone had to get nailed. Might as well be her. Anyway launch day... Tyranny starts raid at 4pm, clears Madness of Deathwing US#14 25-man by 1:30am in a fun and pretty hilarious raid. No one's orifices were violated, except Deathwing's. People played superbly and efficiently. What more can a guild ask for on launch day? Grats to Aushion on his his server first.... horny drake? This tier is gonna be rather unique, huh?

Tyranny just did perhaps the greatest thing it has ever done... it killed the Hardest Boss the game has to offer (maybe ever) in a single night, on two CONSECUTIVE nights, in the same raid week with a guild-wide server transfer sandwiched between raid nights. Don't believe us? Look at this and check our world of logs (link on the tab at top). Kills number 3 and 4 in the bag. So Tyranny has landed on Shattered Hand. On Tuesday we had our "Last Raid on Drak'tharon" and made ourselves proud by killing Ragnaros 25 Heroic (3rd kill) for the first time ever in one night (6 attempts). 18 hours later we moved the guild as we have planned for several week, and much to our surprise, our raid ID reset, so we got ALL of our raiders over to Shattered Hand in a few hours, started raid 90 minutes later than our typical start time, and then managed to kill Rag yet again, in just 4 attempts. Tuesday Rag Dies, Wednesday Rag dies. That's how we roll. And if only that was the end of it... but oh wait they're more! Bass (formerly Bassmaster) finally completed his long time coming Legendary Staff on that kill as well! Congratulations man! This fight does not fool around, and to do it in a handful of attempts on successive nights with a very complex (and expensive... all of our members and many retired members came with us) server transfer in between is a testament to the inner resilience and commitment of our entire guild. So Why did we do this? A few weeks before we killed Heroic Ragnaros, we decided it was time for Tyranny find a new server to call home. It wasn't an issue of numbers or recruit. It was of neighborhood. 18 months ago we moved from Lothar to Drak'tharon, and the server was a fantastic move for a long time, but the stress of Heroic LK and then Tier 11 wiped out much of the raiding community on the server. It wasn't a fun place anymore, so we up and moved to a much more vibrant (and vastly lower ping... 288ms to 40ms for fucks sake) home. Tyranny will be on Shattered Hand from now on, well into the future, but everything we do from this day to the day we aren't started with a truly incredible and memorable transition. Well done, every single member of Tyranny. Also very important to note: we're very interested in seeing what Shattered Hand (and other Server) off and enriching our guild with really clutch players who want to raid 4 days a week at a high level. So we're opening recruitment for every class, every role, with special interest in people who have the Legendary Staff. So apply today, and join a guild that can do the above, because how many guilds can really claim they've ever just been through what Tyranny has since Tuesday?

After around 370 attempts, an incredible amount of work, effort and heart on the part of the entire guild Tyranny has achieved one of its biggest ever victories and Defeated Heroic Ragnaros 25 on 10/26/11 at US #79. Although opinion is divided in the guild between this and Heroic Lich King, this is without a doubt one of the most demanding encounters we've ever done, on the level of M'uru, Kil'Jaeden, Yogg+0, and yes, Heroic Lich King. We've had no favors done for us on this boss. We dealt with Hurricanes, burn out, schedule conflicts, computer problems of sorts. Some old faces departed, but some great new faces joined in the course of it. The guild never gave up. It never lost faith! Tweak after tweak, nuance after nuance, breakthrough night and pointless wipe night... the guild persevered, and achieved its historic victory. This was a big f'n deal. Why? Because Firelands and Heroic Rag is the reason Tyranny 3.0 exists. We broke up after four years of non-stop raiding in early January, and reformed in the end of March, all about clearing Tier 11, but with our eye for Firelands being our coming out party. In March and April, everything we did was looking forward to this raid instance. We started it with very high ranked kills (see right), we had people raid on vacations, from Europe, on Birthdays and get their friends over here to help the effort. And it took months. But what a way to finish it, to be so completely back in the saddle, and higher ranked than we've ever been at this point in an expansion. The guilds reason for being, for reforming, has been validated. Rag is the kind of fight that comes along once a year, and is in many ways the best kind of fight because winning a fight like this and hearing the cheers on vent certifies it as truly a whole guild victory. Every member has seen hundreds of attempts and devoted weeks of work. Everyone felt the pressure to perform and the sting of setbacks. Everyone devoted time to up their game, be it healers running every which comp for hundreds of attempts with 3 then 4 then 3 to DPS moving average DPS frm the mid 20ks to the mid-high 30ks. This is the reason why we raid is to wipe, recover and hear peoples insights, then execute a small change, and see what happens until the win comes. The iterative process of strat design, the coreography and cordination is raiding. There hasn't ever been a fight like Rag to this degree, and truly the very best of Tyranny was brought out in it. This is an exclamation point, a foundation, for where the guild plans to go in 4.3 / Dragonsoul. Congratulations Tyranny. We just beat something very damn hard. So what's next? 4.3 and the Madness Deathwing, which will be the next fight like this. It's not over.... it never ends.

Haven't heard from us in a couple months eh? Oh yes, because we were working on that whole Heroic Ragnaros thing (see above). Lot has gone on in that time! Beware! This post has mounts..... lots of them! Most recently, Locktopus, warlock extraordinaire and one of the top DPS in the guild completed his long planned Legendary Staff. Grats man! Exceptionally well earned. Admit it... Invincible (earned here in 2010), Legendary Staff... Warlock... Goblin.... You want to be this man! And like all summer action movies, it left room for a sequel... Sanwitched between these two events was something else long time coming. You see, we reformed the 25 man back in March planning for Firelands, and had unexpected success in Tier 11, clearing all bosses on Heroic, but we never got around to completing the Glory of the Cataclysm Raiderachievement... we simply didn't have the time to not be farming Heroic Tier 11 before Firelands hit. Soooo.... we procrastinated.... and well, an intrepid group of warriors sealed the deal a couple of weeks ago. And all was right in the world.

Really there isn't any coincidence... We got fucked hard by Irene and couldn't do Baleroc on Sunday. The tristate area got fucked, and New Jersey inmates got loose somehow. When we started again yesterday after recovering from the devastation, well we killed the , Heroic Balerocafter a quick 7 attempts (plus 2 nights and change total last week) and then continued to pass the hiv around for a good 20 minutes. We're now 6/7 and US #95, with the long road to Ragnaros ahead of us! Good golly good gosh, a multi-month Heroic Lich King level progression boss! Hold onto your hats! It gets better though! Because we're going into that particular fight well armed! May I introduce Tyranny's first legendary staff recipient, destroyer of worlds, and official tyranny close air support, Skelet...errr Miser!!!!! Admit it, we look pretty f'n badass.