Drui : Congratulations on your World First kill of Gul'Dan. You renew your Rank one after clearing the Emerald Nightmare. Are you going to own this expansion?

Alveona : Thanks! Well, we’ve been aiming to show what we can in Nighthold to prove that Emerald Nightmare was not the accident or luck. Talking about future raids - we’re currently discussing our plans and approach to raiding. Spending so much time with almost no outcome is pretty questionable.



Exorsus with the World First on Xavius

Your progression wasn't a smooth ride : you seemed to be bothered by both Etraeus and Elisande early but then you caught up on Serenity. Can you explain how you achieved to erase the 16 hours gap between you and Serenity?

First of all, it wasn’t 16 hours gap technically, considering every guild is sleeping sometimes (shocking news, i know!). Serenity killed Elisande before the end of the raiding day and we’ve made it early next morning, so it’s more like ~6 hours of raidtime. Initial gap showed up due to bad decision with split raids - we’ve started from progressing in Mythic till we’ve done with 6 bosses, as far as i remember. Ofc killing bosses with almost 2-3 ilvls lower than your opponents was a bad idea after all.

Let's talk about Gul'Dan, was the fight as difficult as you expected? Can you explain a little bit your thought process on an encounter like him? If you had to match up Gul'Dan with others final tier Bosses, where would you rank him?

Mythic Gul’Dan is definitely the hardest boss in Legion. Talking about his difficulty compared to other final tier bosses, he’s pretty good example of great final boss - hard, a lot of phases, secret phase, interesting ability lineup and he’s tuned so you can kill him without a lot of extra gear from weekly resets. I would place him among the best ones, close to Archimonde, Lei-Shen etc.

Talking about preparations and thought process - we’ve been discussing raid comp for Gul’Dan since his first test. So our roster for Nighthold mostly been adjusted for him, which led to some problems on previous bosses, but payed out really well in the end.

Of course we’ve been changing strategy and raid comp a bit after analyzing logs from our tries too, but it’s a pretty standard process for every top guild.



Exorsus with the World First on Gul'Dan

We know that the Emerald Nightmare has disappointed many players, with a progress that you completed in 18 hours, are you satisfied with the difficulty of Nighthold?

Difficulty curve of Nighthold is excellent, same goes for duration of progression. Overall one of the most polished raids up to date with no undertuned/overtuned/bugged bosses. We’ve encountered some bugs on secret phase of Gul’Dan when we’ve seen it first time, but developers fixed them really fast.

A progress relies a lot on preparation. What makes the difference between you and the other guilds? Some guilds like Method or From Scratch have done 6 splits of HM raids, was it the same for you?

We’ve been making some very serious preparations for Nighthold, including 54 traits for 2 main characters, gearing up alts, weakauras for every boss and some strategies for every bossfight. I can’t compare our preparations to other guilds, considering we’re not discussing such things with other guild leaders, but i’m pretty sure they’ve been doing almost the same, probably a bit less.

On heroic week we’ve made 6 split runs, similar to every other top guild.

We know that many guilds have a 10:00 am 2:00 am rhythm, what is yours during a progress?

Most of the time it’s 13:00 - 03:00 with some adjustments. We’ve been doing 1 big break (45m-1h) and 2-4 small ones (10-15 min).



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What does a guild like Exorsus do while waiting for a progress?

Doing some real life stuff, playing other games (both competitive and single), farming and so on.

Now that Serenity killed Gul’Dan, any forecast for the third guild to defeat the boss?

I’m pretty confident that Method will kill it either on Monday or Tuesday. Good luck to other guilds too!

When do you expect from the next raid to come?

I would expect ~5 months before next raid, seems like a good timing. It’s a safe bet, considering PTR tests are not even started.

Thank you for your time, all the best !

Thanks for the interview, thanks to all the fans for the support and of course thanks to all our members for the effort in achieving this World First!

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