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Sunwell will forever be my most remembered raid instance. That was by far my favorite time playing for many reasons. The people in the guild at that time were my favorite and I felt like it went continually downhill for me after that point.
The competition for taking server first over Afterlife was incredible. That was an amazing time and I felt like it was a huge driving force for the guild as a whole that really solidified us. We had a strong recruitment pool along with some great returning players to round off the roster. Even having Rathore around provided some great memories!
I still think that the Sunwell encounters were the best balance of boss mechanics, difficulty, and creativity. I did like some of the Ulduar content, but I was never really that impressed honestly. The only encounters in there that were truly great were Freya hard, no light Yogg, and Agalon. That's a small percentage of the number of encounters whereas I thought every single Sunwell encounter was fantastic.
I can remember many many nights where we would just sit around and theorize on how to do a boss. What changes to the raid composition were necessary, how to better position, our timings and transitions, and just plain ingenuity and creativity. It truly felt like a team effort that paid off.
And while Sunwell was incredibly difficult and challenging, our guild's morale was (almost) always fantastic. People wanted to play. They wanted to be there and wanted to push. M'uru was the pinnacle. We watched countless guilds give up at that point and I have always admired the perseverance and dedication we were able to put forth. I think a great deal of that was due to the officer core we had at the point, though. However, I think it caused a lot of them to burn out and was a contributing factor to our decline in Wrath of the Lich King (along with the shit hole of Naxx take 2).
Good times!
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