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All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsEnsidia gets 10-man Algalon world-first
by Eliah Hecht 
May 18th 2009 at 5:43PM
Ensidia, the European super-guild that resulted from the merger of SK-Gaming and Nihilum last year, has just made the world first kill of the 10-man version of Algalon, Ulduar's true final boss. Algalon is only accessible after completing every other hard mode in Ulduar, and guilds are only given 60 minutes per week of attempts on him. 25-man Algalon has not yet been killed.
For details on the loot, see Ensidia's announcement; there's some great stuff there. Mek, from Ensidia, had this to say about the fight: "It's a pretty intense fight but not quite as hard as Blizzard made it out to be. The 1 hour timer is the real challenge since you must do a perfect attempt within it." Of course, I think "not quite as hard" for Ensidia is probably a pretty good challenge for the rest of us mortals. Congratulations, Ensidia!
[via MMO-Champion]
Filed under: Guilds, News items, Raiding
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
random May 19th 2009 6:44AM
EDIT: they down met him last week and down him this week
lolret May 19th 2009 9:51AM
Reply code Omega happens every Tuesday and patch days.
How does anyone not realize by now?
lolcat May 19th 2009 1:33PM
Everyone's making a huge deal about this but the real question is, in a month is anyone still going to care?
Ensidia will most likely get 25m algalon down first and maybe all the other hard modes/gear restriction achievements before anyone else but hey that's their thing.
I'd rather spend the time from now til the next major patch slowly working on ulduar and the hard modes rather then blowing through all the content in 2 months then sitting around doing nothing for the next 4 waiting for something new to do. But that's just me.
Chamual May 20th 2009 2:28PM
Someone has to get the world first at some point, and if people want to push to make it themselves then good for them :)
mungyun Jun 8th 2009 12:16PM
Do you really think that beating uld in a short period of time is going to gear everyone for the next content? I never knew that full sets of gear drop for everyone the first time through! It takes months in 25 man to gear everyone enough for the next content patch so beating it right away doesnt affect the guild progression other than saying the bosses are down
Franlkin May 19th 2009 4:18PM
A wowinsider primer:
if you play the game more hours than I do or accomplish more, you are a cheater or a no-lifer.
if you play the game fewer hours than I do or accomplish less, you are a casual terribad.
Only each individual poster here is at the EXACT RIGHT spot for Wow nirvana.
NoNo Jun 3rd 2009 1:49AM
No one is pointing out the obvious here. These guys have had weeks and months perfecting strats on the test realms to prep for this before it ever went live. When you have someone sponsering you to play WoW, have insanly easy bosses in 25 man nax, easy 3D sarth and then Oculus, which all 3 can be cleared in about 6 hrs of gaming a week over months and months of play and then factor in the test realms....its not that freaking hard.......if u stop giving everyone who wants PTR access access to the fights it would decimate these tool's progession. I /yawn at their "acheivement". These are the same guys that QQ;d over AQ40 being too hard, gime a break.
mungyun Jun 8th 2009 12:08PM
This is where you are wrong. There was VERY little on the PTR and they had the same chances that each of us had at all of the content. They might have a little extra insight because of their status but content wise they are just the same as every player. They just dedicate more time to doing this. And if its so easy, you do it!
Aislingi Jun 24th 2009 5:22PM
I'd congratulate these guys but they needed to cheat to get there. Normally I'd be happy for Ensidia, an amazing guild of talented raiders. I'm not jealous either. I'm always happy to see people accomplish things I'll never do. That's life.
However, they play this game for vanity and that is without a doubt the least deserving of respect, no matter how good they are.
Their egos just wouldn't allow their precious world first to slip away so they cheated on Hodir.
This wouldn't be so bad if Blizzard weren't such hardasses when players who aren't their precious little Ensidia (complete with Blizzard employee cheering section and live feed) also "cleverly use their surroundings" to win.
They cheated because a guild beat them to the punch, and Ensidia is so vain and egotistical that they did an exploit they knew was wrong to spite everyone else.
They report it AFTER the fact, AFTER they won, AFTER they got the all the glory their arrogant minds needed. Then everyone else gets blocked from doing it period and, Ensidia still gets to benefit from cheating, when so many others get perma-banned.
NO DIFFERENCE. I don't care how many people were involved, whether you somehow think a wing of Naxx that everyone can do is worse than a World first, endorsements, fame and loot and having access to the end boss no one else can fight.
Bottom line, they cheated and were rewarded because Blizzard has a hard on for them.
The excuses are staggeringly ridiculous. They all boil down to "We really wanted the world first! Blizzard made it impossible so we cheated because we really wanted to be first"
asinine.
Their fanboys are just as bad.
If this was any old guild, every last one of you defenders -including Ensidia- would be crying foul and denouncing the victory and demanding a reset.
Ensidia only gives a fuck about Ensidia. If they regret the victory so much, ask Blizzard to revoke it. Let's see how strong your conviction is in your claims about said victory. Somehow I don't think it will over power the "glory".
oscarucb Jul 27th 2009 4:10PM
>Their egos just wouldn't allow their precious world first to slip away
> so they cheated on Hodir.
Your rant would have been far more credible if you hadn't gotten the boss wrong. The kill in question was Yogg-Saron, not Hodir. And this Blog is about their kill of Algalon, yet another completely different boss, and one that doesn't technically even require a Yogg kill to reach.
Something tells me you've never even seen the inside of Ulduar, let alone have any true insight into the politics of Ensidia and Blizzard. Next time get your facts straight before trolling with second-hand info and obvious fabrications.
Aislingi Jul 27th 2009 8:54PM
That "something" that told you that is wrong. That something being your creepy man-boy-esque love of a some guild of losers who dry hump a video game for glory and fame.
Listen fanboi. I know that doing so is hard being both a WoW player and an Ensidia fan so I'll type slow.
They cheated on Hodir to GET to Algalon. That pretty much makes the credibility of these guys zero. You need to kill hard mode Hodir to do it. They couldn't because Blizzard buffed the fight.
Blizzard lets them cheat.
Shut the fuck up about "true insights" on anything because you haven't any either. I see a guild cheat, I see Blizzard fix the issue, I see the guild keep their victory, I see others banned for the same thing. It is the same, I don;t give a shit what little logic loophole or semantics based crap you have lined up to justify what they do as different. They cheated because they wanted it. They felt it was unfair of Blizzard so they did something they knew and admitted was wrong and Blizzard thanked them for it.
My "facts" are commentary based on common sense -and Ensidia's own fucking words-
about a Euro-trash World first guild that Blizzard has a hard on for.
Take your fanboy bullshit and shove it up back up your ass.
Next time you decide to fuck with me, make sure you have more than your deluded fan wank to back it up.