A year ago, I quit SWTOR because my friends and I could not find a consistent group to progress passed Zorn and Toth in Denova Hardmode

 

Now, we went back and 4-manned it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMw6-1kZxg

 

What's your sweetest victory?

Edited May 30, 2013 by Taleaboi

What's your sweetest victory?

 

Old, but my sweetest victory is still pulling Soa under a pillar so that the group could kill him. Not that great of a achievement for any tank, but I did it on my sawbones. It was a bad moment healers both got lightning bubbles, or something at the same time. Tanked died just as I hit him with a big heal, so I got aggro. Had to fight the urge to hit escape as everyone yell at me with directions. Some how got him under, pillar fell killing me, but also knocking down his shield, rest of the group finished him off. In groups for most other content thus far, but that is still my most memorable victory and did more to give me confidence moving forward. That is where I figure out that everything did not have to run smoothly for the group to win. Now when stuff goes completely wrong, I still look for a way to win.

After about 50-70 wipes on Nightmare Kephess, finally clearing him. Getting the title was exciting too, but the first clear was incomparably rewarding. I also found HM Styrak to be extremely rewarding to clear, even though we two shot him. The fight was just so stressful from a DPS perspective when we were all undergeared.

 

I love this thread, btw. Sometimes it's the struggle before the victory that makes it all worthwhile. Remembering these moments reminds us why we play the game and why we tolerate wipe after wipe during progression.

The first time I beat LR-5 in HM LI. Up to that point I had spent perhaps 250k in repair bills wiping wiping wiping wiping.

 

There seemed to be so much going on at the same time, and it seemed immensely confusing, despite all the instructions I would read online, or videos I watched.

 

Then one day, with a friend in vent who had run the fight successfully already, we beat the little bugger. I felt like a million bucks and we breezed through the rest of the instance. I also felt like I "grew up" as a player that day, and what seemed like too many things going on at the same time (attack, interrupt, move out of lightning balls, kill adds, stay out of lava) suddenly became manageable.

 

I think it was this feeling that got me interested in running harder content. The feeling of having beaten something that used to be too hard to do.

Oh actually, I'm going to amend my "sweet victory". I think that even more than Nightmare Kephess (which was a heady victory), killing SM Jarg and Sorno 3-man pre-2.0 was unbelievably rewarding. We did about two nights of full wipes, which was slightly humiliating given the level to which we over-geared the content. Like Nightmare Kephess, it was a fight where the slightest mistake was punished mercilessly and almost immediately. As I was healing it, I felt like even the merest delay in activating a heal (and the *right* heal) would cause me to fall behind. This made the final victory ( ; ) unbelievably euphoric.

My Guild and I have just started doing regular raid nights, so our sweetest victory was finally getting past HM EC after a week of trying. And then clearing him in one take in our next try.

 

Runner-up is probably four manning Primal Destroyer and SM EV (we were SO CLOSE to doing SM EV three man) in our 66 gear.

Edited May 30, 2013 by AlixMV

Old, but my sweetest victory is still pulling Soa under a pillar so that the group could kill him. Not that great of a achievement for any tank, but I did it on my sawbones.

 

Lol, I did this recently on my sorc healer. Only difference is that at lvl 55, the pillar doesn't kill healers

 

Now, how my healer ended up with aggro when the whole group was lvl 55's, I don't even know.

Have several different ones.

 

Top 3 must be, in no particular order

 

1, When we first 4 manned EV SM at few months back, we had a blast in voice chat.

2, When we 8 manned EV SM 16 man a few months back, if we had a blast with the 4 man, the 8 man was EPIC

3, when we 11 manned TFB 16 man SM the other day (2 tanks, 2 healers and the rest dps). One shot of everything till TFB itself. there **** went abit iffy, and ended up with a tank down. So in the end i tanked TFB in second phase on my sorc healer (Static and force barrier FTW). with a little taunting magic and threatdumps from surviving tank, it worked

Edited May 31, 2013 by sripakdee

Definetely 1st will be Kephess EC HM. When I first came into the game around last December I joined a very nice social guild that was in a bit of crisis in terms of doing ops but I managed to get people into it and we were doing EC HM every day in the very last weeks before 2.0 to get him before the patch comes out. I think patch was on Tuesday and we killed him on Sunday. There were cries of joy over TS ;-)

 

First time we 4-manned SM ops it was also incredible Our gunslinger killed 3 or 4 of the infernal council I think That was real fun.

I think it would be when we first downed Dread Guards in HM pre2.0.

 

We'd been wiping for a while and this particular attempt we lost a healer halfway through Kel'sara and a Tank not too long afterwards.

 

Ended up having the other Tank drop aggro for Leech and a DPS kiting her around whilst we carried on. Soon started losing more left and right when it ultimately came down to just the Tank and myself... i foolishly messed up my defensive CDs and died when she was ~7k leaving just our Tank to duke it out.

 

They both slugged away with barely any health remaining until the slight lag you get when the boss resets and in Vent we were all "ohhhhhhhh", then suddenly we noticed it's actually the lag of the fight ending and our Tank is standing there with 200 HP and we all started cheering.

Hmmm, I have two that are tied.

 

1) Healing NiM Jarg and Sorno waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when. That fight was (is) one of the hardest in game. The stress level was there and everyone was taking loads and loads of damage. When it finally went down................I never wanted to see it again!

 

2) 16 Man NiM Firebrand and Stormcaller. As a dps that fight was a HUGE check for awareness and actual output. I had to push my class further when we were progressing on it. It felt good, real GOOD to down it

These are all great stories thank you all for sharing!

I can definitely relate to LI HM (friends refused to try SM, so we got our behinds handed to us) and SOA victories

 

I only recently killed Kephess EC NM, so kudos to getting that done at level 50. Fight is intense!

 

And, I agree on Jarg and Sorno, BRUTAL in Columi gear, I thought it was the hardest fight to heal as well... until first attempt of Dread Masters in Black Hole gear ouch... Right now, I would have to say Thrasher HM takes the cake

 

Here's to hoping the new FP gives us a challenge for smaller groups

Edited May 31, 2013 by Taleaboi

And, I agree on Jarg and Sorno, BRUTAL in Columi gear, I thought it was the hardest fight to heal as well... until first attempt of Dread Masters in Black Hole gear ouch... Right now, I would have to say Thrasher HM takes the cake

 

I honestly think that NiM Jarg and Sorno is harder to heal than the Dread Guard in 8 man. 16 man Dread Guard has a couple different tank-hitting abilities that require some serious healer awareness to deal with, but J&S has those sorts of abilities in every mode for the entire raid. It's just non-stop, unrelenting damage with big, frequent spikes. It was the first fight in which I broke 2k EHPS on my commando (pre-2.0, obviously). I didn't break that line again until a really, really fail 16 man Dread Guard HM run, where I had 2.1k-ish (effective).

 

I know healers that still couldn't heal NiM J&S even in Dread Guard gear. When unmitigated gear smashing isn't enough to boost a fail healer's output enough to match the fight, you know it's gotta be good. Overall, NiM J&S is one of the few bright spots in the launch content (and it wasn't even there at launch!). I still really enjoy the fight on any class.

Edited May 31, 2013 by KeyboardNinja

Soloing ratcatcher with my merc and Mako after 15 tries Edited May 31, 2013 by tanerb

. Only difference is that at lvl 55, the pillar doesn't kill healers :

Yeah, I was 50 in columi gear with a little Rakata. So a stiff breeze would have killed me back then.

 

 

People bringing up Jarg and Sorno made me remember. My first alt after my main sawbones is an Infiltration shadow. Still is my favorite class to solo play with. When she first hit 50, I was healing random guild runs and alliance runs on my sawbones anytime I was not locked out, guild master thought I may quickly get burned out, so he started getting me to come on their runs on my shadow (I still don’t think she has been in SM EV or KP. I got a little gear from HMFP and ran both EV and KP on HM, third Operation they took me too was NIM KP. I had healed it many times, most likely had been there more times than anyone in the group, just not as DPS. We have 3 mDPS, I am setting there listening to the raid leader give instructions, next thing I hear is the raid leader say that I am on Jarg……Jarg, everything I have read said keep melee away from Jarg. I start think about all my defensive cooldown, force speed and how to max my dps at the same time. We start the fight, I am super nervous. Thinking to myself why did he put me of all people on Jarg. He should have put a more experience dps player on Jarg. The fight went perfect, infiltration burst dps was perfect for the fight, I hit my defensive cooldowns at the right times, force speed was always up for the probes. Anytime I did have to back off, project was up. We easily one shot them, not only that the two better mDPS players on Sorno never had to come over to even up the dps, as a matter of fact we were always ahead of them (mainly thanks to the other rdps on Jarg). Now they were all Rakata, we have great healers and tanks, but still I was rather proud of myself because the guildleader trusted me to be on Jarg as mDPS and that I did not let him down.

 

Now my shadow does not do many operations, but any time we do HM/NIM KP or SM TfB, I try to talk them into letting me take her instead of my other dps, I feel Jara and Sorno and Terror are the only fights designed for an Infiltration Shadow. Otherwise I take my watchman or sawbones.

Edited May 31, 2013 by mikebevo

Guild wise, most satisfying kill for Covenant Shadows 8M HM Tanks. Through two different ops groups (not IDs, but actual raid rosters due to people leaving and recruiting) finally dropped them.

 

My personal sweetest victory, amongst our first few kills of Kephess in TfB We had two kills in a row where I was the only one left alive, and solo kited the circles for the last sub 8%ish to the kill.

 

KBN can attest to just how durable and the survivability of my PT though.

Killing Operator IX in TfB HM just recently. That was the best thing that ever happened in my raiding career.

I joined a little after work guild and almost directly joined one of the raid groups. They were doing Denova HM at the time and we spend so much time wiping on Kephess. Again and again and again and again. We only got him down shortly after 2.0, though that didn't really feel as awesome as downing Operator IX since we were overleveling and overgearing the fp and had two different people with us.

So, the other raid group in our guild cleared Denova in January thus leading them to feeling superior in comparison to us, which of course annoyed the hell out of us. So we wanted to kill Operator as fast as possible since they have been wiping on him since they finished Denova. We got two different DPS, due to one quitting the game and the other being incompatible with us and finally cleared TfB HM. Before the other group. We were shouting in TS and raving in guild chat. That was the absolutely best moment. We cleared the op and we showed them that we could do it (since they said we weren't ready for hm ops and couldn't do damage with our measly gear [we were in 69's!]).

Man, that was so incredibly exciting. Half of the raid died due to error with the deletion protocol but we downed him. I was literally shaking after it because I got so excited and couldn't calm down for hours and when I went to bed I was just laying there and grinning to myself. This was just the best thing ever.