Blood Legion is leaving the competitve raiding scene.
Wow.
They were top guild in NA for the duration of my WoW career.
Wow.
holy shit what
A lot of the top end guilds are having problems right now. Especially in the US. In order to compete in the top spectrum you literally need to raid more hours than a full time job. We’re talking 7 days a week and some guilds do it for 16+ hours a day.
You’re running the exact same raid upwards to 4-5 times a week just to funnel loot into a few folks per raid at the start of every tier as well.
Even in my former guild just one tier later I stepped back in to help with one of those “split raids” and I couldn’t recognize half the names. The burnout is that high.
With Blood Legion in particular they lost several key members such as Shinafae, Landsoul and thatonerogueIcan’tremember along with the general burnout. Rigg himself posted last tier he was extremely unhappy and I swear I thought he quit. There was absolutely no way they were going to be able to keep the momentum up with so many key folks getting hit with burnout.
The competitive scene is killing itself with it’s own expectations. This is the consequence. As somebody who has been surrounded by people in the top scene for the past 2 years I can see what it’s doing to itself and how it’s affecting the people who play at that level. Especially those with jobs and families.
Personally I’m just happy they did the right thing and put their personal lives ahead of the game.
“Well, then it is a good thing you are dating me then, isn’t it Frostbane?” The larger elf inquires as he pushes Ro’liath from where he was sitting onto his back, before kissing him deeply “Right here.”
*tour guide voice* and if you look to your right you’ll see the steven universe fandom collectively screaming
*tour guide voice* and if you look to your left you’ll see the gravity falls fandom collectively screaming. notice how both fandoms collective screams forms a perfect harmony.
This definitely qualifies as a career highlight for me! The song was composed by Rebecca Sugar, and an initial demo arrangement was made by Jeff Liu, which Estelle sang over. Estelle is one of my favorite modern R&B singers, so this was a daunting and yet enticing proposition to arrange.
Taking Jeff’s arrangement as a guideline, we really wanted to emphasize the euphoria of Garnet being reformed. Rebecca told us to capture the feeling of “there’s no way she could lose”. I also felt that the new Garnet design warranted a new Garnet bass sound (for those of you keeping score: where Pearl is piano, Garnet is represented by synthbass), so this was a great opportunity to showcase it. I also felt like the bridge needed a synth solo, so I went all out on this one!
Aivi did a fantastic job adding to this arrangement by making the string sections magical (especially at the end when the song turns dramatic) which were then beautifully performed by Jeff Ball. Everybody did such a great job with this song, and I’m extremely proud of the final result.
Thank you all for watching the season finale! Tune in tomorrow for Full Disclosure!
