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While there are a lot of memorable experiences (breaking Fear and Hate, logging to chat to save buffs for Lady Vox), I think my favorite encounter was finally defeating Rallos Zek in Tactics with my guild.  Some of us had done the event on open raids before, but as a guild it was a long process.  We'd go through a round of flagging, then a round of gearing up, then take a day to try him -- each time we'd get closer and closer, and it got more and more frustrating when we lost.  Rallos and how we did on the encounter was a measuring post for our guild over the months.  Growing in numbers, skill, and gear always seemed a bit nebulous until we did Rallos again and could see just how much better we were against a known target.

"A few more AAs for the healers and the DPS," we'd think, "And better gear on our tanks and kiters, and maybe a few more people, and we've got him."  It took us a long while -- a few months at least -- until we finally broke him down.  We finally had the gear to handle the AEs and the adds, the AAs to deal the damage and keep the tank up, and enough kiters to keep the adds away from the rest of the raid for just barely long enough.  I don't remember what items we got from that kill any more, but I'll remember the experience of taking him down with 27 friends for a long, long time.

Ed Hardin, Game Designer