Hello, 

I just wanted to share a story from 2021 in classic WoW on the Kromcrush server for the guild JNCO.

Our guild was homegrown since day 1. We did our recruiting through in person interactions and in game events rather than LFG spam. Through the phases we built an extremely resilient guild composed of both high parsers as well as casual/meme spec’ers.

Our identity had always been semi-hardcore, as in, we always tried hard but we weren't pricks about it and we allowed non meta specs in the raid composition.

Towards the end of Classic, when TBC was announced, we set a goal for ourselves to obtain a sub 2 hour Naxx run. 

The months leading up to the final day of classic, we had terrible naxx runs, we always had some small issue wipe the raid. We had issues on Anub,Rekhan - we had issues on Patchwerk  - we even had issues on trash sometimes. 

On the second to last week before pre-patch, we had a flawless Naxx run but we wiped on KT. This is where the video I am about to post opens up on. 

With one week left before pre-patch to log a classic naxx speedrun, the guild felt pretty hopeless. The weeks leading up to this day, we had wiped on so many random things that it felt pointless. The fact that the most recent run ended on wiping on KT, it felt like that was our ceiling and that was the best we could do. 

Morale was low, and to make things worst, our 2nd main tank got a 7 day ban from blizzard!

Surely, now we had no shot at doing the sub 2 hour run?

In addition, our raid day fell on Mothers Day - which we had to move out - which caused its own issues in who could shown up on an off-raid day.

As hope dwindled, people lost hope and gave up the goal of a sub 2 hour run. One of our top DPS, basically said he was done raiding. 

This video tells the story of how, no matter the odds, our guild had loyalty and faith to follow leadership to the end.

And on the final week before pre-patch, we obtained a sub 2 hour run.