Comments on: The Fine Art of Boss Kill Videos

By: DarthKeller

DarthKeller — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:32:28 +0000

“In fact, two guildies, Random and Red, spent over an hour talking about food additives, allergies and healthy eating, and I swear it almost put me off my McNuggets.”

I LIKED your guild…. Now I want to stay way. AND GIVE ME BACK MY DAMN NUGGETS!

Bears….

By: Tyben

Tyben — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:07:32 +0000

Not ours, but some favorites of mine from YOGS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Y0FUvQqo8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGqaOROXyGA

By: Aidrana

Aidrana — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:16:17 +0000

I do!

You can find a video of mine that I’ve put online: http://www.misspewpew.com/2011/09/guild-main-raiding-team-video/

This was when we were struggling on trying to kill Ragnaros. I had an idea to make a video of everyone in my raid team in an attempt to inspire people again. People were feeling very disencouraged and I hoped that the video would help people feel reinvigorated. After releasing this on you tube, we killed Ragnaros two days later, so I guess the video did the job :)

I was asked to do one for Dragon Soul, so that’s in the works now since we’ve cleared DS on normal and am trying to work on heroics. I’m not sure how I’ll do the Dragon Soul movie, but I might try filming during normal attempts and uh… try not to get myself killed ;)

By: Talarian

Talarian — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:04:36 +0000

For T11 I threw together a medley kill video of Blackwing Descent, from the PoV of me (a healer). It was normal mode, because, well, we’re not cutting edge raiders. But the guild rather enjoyed the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5OstG9CAc

Considering this was the 3rd? time I’ve ever thrown together any sort of video, I was pretty happy with it. Yeah, could be better, but hey, get better by doing, right?

By: Vaxas

Vaxas — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:12:49 +0000

My guild is a PvP guild, so we don’t have any “boss kill” videos, but I do fraps our random/rated battleground matches sometimes and record arena matches when I can. My purpose isn’t so much for the memories (though sometimes it is) as it is to look back at matches to find mistakes made and improve on them.

One video I did from last season came to mind as something that was more or less just for us and “for teh lulz”: http://youtu.be/7bWDuIvdNcc
It was meant primarily to be funny, though perhaps I’m the only one that finds it so.

By: Vaxas

Vaxas — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:07:53 +0000

Like most stereotypes, this one exists for a reason. Thankfully, it’s not as bad as it once was now that the bar for entry into raiding is significantly lower than it used to be.

By: Vaxas

Vaxas — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:06:15 +0000

That policy has been the bane of many of my YouTube videos, to the point where a few times I’ve found myself looking for alternate hosting sites for some of them. (None were as quick and convenient as YouTube, sadly.) I don’t see why they can’t just embed links or advertisements pointing to where one might purchase the song(s) in question on those videos, rather than take a crap on the hard work someone put into making the video that contains the song.

By: Navimie

Navimie — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:06:01 +0000

I make guild videos, mostly for fun and silliness, and they do involve just kills but not a whole fight. Those videos you linked are awesome and give me ideas! I’m too embarrassed to link some of them as it’s mostly for guild fun but here is my favourite guild video:
Frostwolves in ICC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHXFm8dZgkQ&context=C34afa0bADOEgsToPDskI67ZcWwv5pLyj8iH5mYdSI

By: Heidy

Heidy — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:05:00 +0000

Hi Big Bear Butt,

I love your comment on what “hardcore” raiders look like. I too wondered if maybe asshat “hardcore” raiders are just hyped up. I’ll have to level up fast in order to find out!

By: Rades

Rades — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:55:14 +0000

Whoever made that should be very proud, that is a really cool video style. So personalized!

I do videos for our guild, and while most of the time they’re just set to music, sometimes I like to incorporate our actual vent audio over music, to capture the emotion and irreplaceable sense of euphoria from a successful boss kill. :D

Here’s some samples of what I mean:

Warmaster Blackhorn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPFeFaRtuA
Al’akir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9YM9Il7gU