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- Mage
- Warlock
- Rogue
- Death Knight (DPS)
- Druids (Feral DPS)
- Priest (DPS, Holy/Disc)
- Shaman (Elemental, Enhancement, and Restoration)
Orange sticks are a plus, and any parsing DPS is encouraged to apply as well. Most of our best players don't come from other top-tier US raiding guilds - they're the best of their current server or guild, and they want more from the hours they put into excelling at their class.
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This was a US 19/World 76. This kill was later than almost all of our recent progression milestones, but at the end of the day, we pulled it off without much of an issue and reclaimed our usual US front page (25) standing. We have to thank several recent and exceptional applicants that helped push us through this one by boosting an already exceptional and dedicated raiding team.
This was the first gear and, to a certain extent, comp check of the tier, and being able to progress on it meant having all of your core raiders together (or bringing many DPS warriors and fire mages). Also required was all of that the gear we've been stacking our raids with since most of us in the higher end raiding scene decided it was a good idea to spend a dozen hours running LFR for two characters at a time. The ability to gear up this way is probably one of the worst things Blizzzard has done to competitive raiding and it encourages some behavior that can hardly be categorized as "fun" and that can probably be considered borderline insane. But, I digress.
We were expecting a nerf to this almost immediately after the first kills came out given the outcry about the DPS check on certain forums. We were happy to see that Blizzard didn't go the Yor'sahj 25 route and react unnecessarily to what's clearly intended to be a test of both gear and the ability to hit one's buttons in the right order when confronted with an especially angry training dummy.
Geared DPS warriors are apparently optional for this fight, by the way. We checked.
We look forward to competing in the mages-and-rogues-with-legendaries recruitment race that is Spine progression after burning down Blackhorn. See you out there.
