So a simple introduction of who I am. My name is Courtney, I work as a safety guy for a forestry company in South Africa. I have a four year old son that demands a lot of my love and attention and an understanding wife (been married almost 7 years). I play World of Warcraft whenever I can and consider myself a semi-hardcore raider. I have played since late Cataclysm (post-post-post nerf Deathwing). Before joining The Dambusters (Xavius-EU) I was in a friends and family guild approx. 8 players and considered LFR to be ‘raiding’. I then one way or another joined The Dambusters (many boring details in between). I killed Heroic Deathwing and bam, became raid leader.
We started through Mists of Pandaria and killed the bosses slow and steady and had fun along the way, and learned what it meant to wipe A LOT. Personnel chopped and changed due to drama and recruitment so we lost and gained many friends during the period but managed to maintain a team and in certain periods even managed to have 2 solid raid teams running simultaneously. Xavius server was dying and we finished it off by deciding to move to Ragnaros-EU which lasted 6 months until the noob Fatboss guild joined horde side. Their arrival ruined the previously perfect alliance/horde balance and rendered login queues unbearable, so much so that we could no longer enjoy life there. A timely Free Character Migration popped up and we collectively decided to head for Grim Batol-EU where we remained throughout the whole Siege of Orgrimmar thing and beyond.
Warlords of Draenor was an ugly start but raiding steadily improved as the raiding roster gained experience, doing well in Blackrock Foundry led by Idioms and improving again with Lonok leading for Hellfire Citadel. With only Heroic Archimonde to finish off, having progressed the fight to within an inch of his life, the team exploded in a pile of drama and we never fully recovered! We lost too many people to raid appropriately and we stopped raiding for months before returning to the instance as the guild leader was able to get more game time after an inactive period and we had some fun runs to finish off Draenor.
During that low period, I decided after a lot of deliberation to the leave the Dambusters and join Solidarity-EU in search of Mythic kills, I got to the plateau of 5/13 Mythic with them and then hit a wall. I then applied to join Absolutum Dominium and I got in, progressing all the way to Mythic Archimonde and killing that son of a bitch enough times to eventually roll the mount and then waited for Legion (HYPE!)
Legion rolled along and I grabbed my trusty main Spyrot (only real char I have ever played seriously since I started) and rolled along. Had a meeting on TeamSpeak prior to legion with Damsy(formerly Lonok, who had returned to The Dambusters) and he somehow convinced me to help him lead The Dambusters raids to glory once again. We started off well despite me levelling and gearing behind the rest because of work and shit, but still managed to keep up even though after 6 weeks I still do not have a legendary (word is banned from all communications in Ironwall raid team)
I am now starting a new adventure enforced upon all raiders, an alt (Yuck, never loved alts) got 6 level 100’s and only 1 at 110 so now I need to level an alt, please help… haven’t yet decided yet on what this alt will be…
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