Gruul Down!
Our guild alliance went into Gruul’s lair last night for the first time and cleared the whole thing. It was a very impressive performance. High King Maulgar took us three tries (plus one premature pull). Gruul himself only took us two tries. It was amazingly smooth for our first 25 man run. This was the first time that many of the raiders had ever run anything bigger than 10 mans. About a third of the raiders had run Gruul’s before on other characters, so that helped. We had to PUG 5 people to fill out the raid and they performed their roles admirably.
The progress that has been made is incredible. When we rerolled on Quel’dorei, my goals were to get to 70, run the 5 mans and maybe hit a few heroics. Now we’ve done almost all the heroics, cleared Karazhan in a night, downed 3 of the six Zul’Aman bosses (so far), and cleared Gruul’s our first night there. Sleep Deprived and The Train have worked together admirably for over 5 months now and we’re still going strong.