Worst wipe/best kill - horror stories/success stories

[Rompido]

Just had an awesome kill this past sunday. We choose to go ahead and put an effort to do all the ROTP achiv's for Conq. Well we came up to Gen's Achiv "Str of the Gods" man let me tell you. took us a 3-4 try's but when we got the healing set up just right.... Our raid landed the killing blow at the SAME EXACT time he choose to enrage and cast his deathblow which took out 8 out of the 10 members we had. It was pretty epic! I'm loving my new pet Ashe.

[Nankoto]

We had our first Akylios kill last night, with very few deaths. It was a pretty satisfying feeling to see him go down after some painful progression nights. We 2 shot him and didn't know what to do with the rest of the night haha.

[Asteldian]

Best kill and first wipe...hmm, well they are one and the same for me. When Rise of the Phoenix was released my Guild were in there each week, we were fairly small at the time and had never even set foot in HK...or RoS for that matter, so as you can imagine, compared to most, our gear was below par. After successfully killing boss 1, 2 and the mini bosses on our first outing, we were stumped by the General for a LONG time (like 90 or so wipes). This fight was unforgiving for us as the DPS check was harsh for our gear lvl - so much so we could not afford a healer, so just had our Archon/Chloro and Bard as our main healers, with a cleric on full time cleanse duty - prior to the nerf to 4s instead of 2s.

After a few weeks of trying, we heard about the incoming nerf and gear changes and were desperate to kill him before this happened - we wanted to kill the hard version, we deserved to given how much effort we had put in. So, we popped in a second time in the week to have a full night trying.

Eventually we found ourselves matching the DPS race - 83%, 66%, 50%, 33%, 17% - it was all getting exciting, but we started to lag behind towards the end, the Incinerate started, no priests left and he still had too much health to kill him before the cast completed. Panic set in and everyone mashed the buttons like crazy - Incinerate went off but our quick thinking Bard in desperation had hit Virtuoso - he spammed his heal and everyone hit their potions and fought on, we killed the General! We earned the server first (on Argent Server) for the achievement of no one dying during the fight....we cheered and then the entire raid wiped from the DoT. So a Guild success, server first and a complete Raid Wipe all in one