Challenge Modesssss!

Since killing the Thunder King last month we've had a lot of downtime as many people have been out on vacation or have just gotten burned out of ToT.  We've made a few attempts at Heroic Jin'rokh and Heroic Ji'kun, but most weeks we just haven't had the people and end up running it on normal while pugging a few spots.  After getting accustomed to one-shotting everything (besides Durumu and Iron Qon when we don't have a lock for portals) bringing in new players and wasting time wiping on farmed bosses just lost its appeal.  So this week we tried something different: Challenge Modes!

I've always been really excited about Challenge Modes- they remind me of old-school dungeon runs where you had to LoS and CC and be actually organized for a dungeon, unlike the zerg-fest of today.  Although, granted it still is a zerg-fest since we are on the clock, but it is a well-organized zerg-fest.  So, for two raid nights when we didn't have a full ten, we ran challenge modes.  And it was awesome.

We finished them all and got silver, next week if we have other free nights we are going to try for gold.  That's going to be a lot harder, there were some runs where we did everything flawlessly and we still missed gold.  Others we messed up a bit and missed by a lot.  I'm looking forward to it, though, and that awesome looking shammy transmog set.

I'm pretty sure we're the only horde team on our server to get silver (just from looking at wowprogress).  Although it's kindof sad that cross-realm groupings mess up server leaderboards.  For Khaz Modan, for example, there's one group that is #1 for every dungeon, and they are all from Blackrock except for one person who is on Khaz Modan.  A workaround to get a higher ranking on a lower pop server?