SC II: Day 3

Mission 04 - Amon's Reach
Difficulty: 3,5/5
Tries: 3
Savegames: 19
          For this mission I've chose Dragoons - their damage is huge and the range is good, they serve as firepower - and Zealots with added ability - Whirlwind. The hardest point is to deal with Void Giants - to defeat them you must mix invisible units with your regular army, or you will never break through zerg bases. When the last Giant is defeated to finish the mission is not a problem - I was even able to ravage all zerg bases :)

 

Mission 05 - Last Stand

Difficulty: 4,5/5
Tries: 3
Savegames: 20
          Do you remember this mission from Brood War? I remember! The last and the hardest mission - the defense of the temple of Xel'Naga. This is not the same temple, though, but the mission is very similar. And VERY difficult. The advice is - use Dark Templars - their invisibility serve both as block and additional firepower.


 

SC II: Day 2

Mission 03 - The Spear of Adun

Difficulty: 4/5
Tries: 3
Savegames: 30
          Now the first REAL difficult Brutal mission :) I cant express how I like this sense of difficulty! :) When you play WoW and defeat the bosses you've already defeated sometimes you are even yawning. When you play, I don't know, Civ 5, SimCity, Hearthstone you don't feel adrenaline that rush through your veins, but here you feel it - when you barely complete the mission when the enemy almost overwhelmed you.
          The difficult part is not the one, that enemies are strong and numerous. Usually you just make units until 200\200 and fortify your base with zillions of Photon Cannons. But here your resources are very limited - you cannot just sit on your base forever rebuilding broken Photon Cannons. I made it from the 3rd try, and even then I was close to be defeated - on my last assault, when my resources was over I decided to abandon my base and just rush to last point.

 

SC II: Day 1

          A.W.E.S.O.M.E.! This is only what I can say after first two missions :) This game is a good example how games today should be made. Genius plot, marvelous cinematic, just flawless!
          And do you remember, how I like to evaluate things? :) As I completed WoL and HotS campaigns on Brutal difficulty, I'm going to complete LotV on Brutal too. Every several days I'm going to complete few missions and post something here. I thought how can I rate each mission? Just to share my opition on difficulty wont be enough, so I'm going to stress 3 things - difficulty obv., amount of tries, and amount of savegames - I thing this will show the real effort I put on each mission :) So lets start, shall we?

Mission 01 - For Aiur!
Difficulty: 1/5
Tries: 1
Savegames: 9
          First mission is the first mission, obviously easy. There is no tactic, since you don't have the base. You just gather your army and rush forward. Though, it can be considered wise to attacks with Collosuses first - light units as Zerglings will die even before they reach your army, so you save more Zealots.

Mission 02 - The Growing Shadow

Difficulty: 2,5/5
Tries: 1
Savegames: 16
          "My life for Aiur!" ... I cannot believe Zeratul has died. He was with us for the very beginning - from SC I. But the cinematic was just incredible. Such spirit, such fight!
          As for mission itself - this is the first real Brutal mission :) Not very hard, but still. You have to act very fast and gather big army, if you want to advance. Since there are only two units, there is no choice but to make them.

 

For Aiur!

          At long last we can finally try the last SC II campaign! 5 years of great saga is coming to its end. I cant even express how long we've waited for this, and finally today we can set our foot on Aiur again!
          For now I've completed only first three Prologue missions, but even this filled me with anticipation! That long forgotten sense of difficulty! Missions on Brutal difficulty made me sweat once again :)

          Congratulations to everyone! EN TARO TASSADAR!!!

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Fel Lord Zakuun Mythic 9/13M

 

Tactical requirements: average
DPS requirements: high
Overall difficulty: 8/10
Attempts: 38
World rank: 1160
          Another "Patchwerk" of HFC. And none less hard than original Patchwerk, especially in the last phase. We were lucky to kill him that fast.

          Check dat dps btw :)

Socrethar the Eternal Mythic 8/13M

 

Tactical requirements: average 
DPS requirements: average, high for shielding add
Overall difficulty: 7,5/10
Attempts: 38
World rank: 1367
          Due to some problems with atendance we wasted more time than we intended to. Definitely easier than Gorefiend this one is still a challenge for unprepared group. You have to have good offtank to manage the golem.

 

Back to casual gaming

          Btw, suddenly I remembered I didn't tell you where I've played and where I play now :)
          Meanwhile I plan to continue raiding - I started to look for casual guild with average progress. My requirements were so:
          1) First of all I was looking for Russian-speaking guild. That may sound weird since I'm writing here on English :) But my native language is Russian (one can probably notice this by amount of mistakes I'm making^^), and at least for now I feel more comfortable to play with Russian fellows.
          There are several such guilds: http://www.wowprogress.com/?faction=&raids_week=1-2&lang=ru&class=&spec=
          2) No more than 2 days per week (for now I can spare only 2 evenings)
          3) No more than 8 hours per week (no point to play just 2 days but 10 hours per day)
          4) Good progress (at least world top 1000)
          Looking from link above there are only 4 such guilds. Problem is their raid time is Saturday and Sunday, but I didn't want to waste all my weekends on WoW. There is a guild with raid time of 2 evenings - Thu and Sun called Rock'n'Rolla, what sounds perfect for me. I tried to apply, but they were full on mages :( That's why I had no choice but to join Static guild on my server.
          Speaking short, I could not make it to arrive in time - even my weekends were too busy and after a month my GM asked me to leave the guild. But after a month Rock'n'Rolla was in a need of a mage, so finally I joined them :)
          I hope this guild will be my new home for a long time :)

          p.s. Actually I want to thank Static guild members and their GM called "Зкология" on Russian. Thanks to them I was able to catch up with my item lvl and Mythic progress, I hope they don't mind me.