Where does Havoc go from here?
Well, in a sense we’ve been victims of our own success. We’ve tried several times to down Kalecgos, getting as close as an excruciating 1%, but ultimately we’ve not been able to move forward yet. There are several reasons for this, the most obvious being that SWP is not linear progression-wise like the other dungeons are. It was designed for players who’d been farming BT/Hyjal for months. Even now, probably at most half the raid group has four-piece T6, and probably only 2/3 have their two-piece.
In addition, we lost members due to school, and some people lost interest after Illidan died. This is no surprise, since it’s hard to replace that adrenaline rush once you come out on top and things start to slow down. We received several excellent transfer applications once the server became open to transfers in late August.
However, we have decided for the moment Havoc will become a casual guild, farming ZA bear mounts while we still can and continuing to gear up members, but not placing a hardcore focus on SWP. We decided as a whole that our goals were met, and we did not want to burn ourselves out on raiding before WotLK.
Speaking of WotLK, though, we fully intend to pick up the hardcore schedule again once WotLK comes out and continue to pick up server firsts and pioneer new content. It will be interesting to see how our raid group holds up when there are no definitive strategies to read about or videos to watch! I’m sure we’ll be superb.