[Briscoe]

The only thing I lament about waking the Sleeper is that some members of Rampage weren't able to be there that night. It was a fun moment and our guild worked hard to get to that point.

Initially I was a bit ambivalent on how I felt about it, but looking back on it now, I don't feel any guilt and I don't think we really took much of anything from anyone. It's just a convenient outlet for people to channel their blind hate of guilds at the top end of the raid scene.

It's easy to resort to the "greedy" argument, but it's a weak one. How many people have honestly had something taken away from them by us waking the Sleeper when we did? If you want a primal, you can still get a primal. You can't get a shroud or a SoD or a gnome mask now, but how many people came to P99 with the sole purpose of getting one of those anyway? Again, if anything I feel sorry for the Rampage members who didn't get one of those items.

The other false idea that gets advanced is this notion that if we didn't wake him, then no one else would have by now, which is of course not true.

Over two years later and we still have a vocal minority that is upset over this for specious reasons, but I think the majority of people on P99 either don't care, or thought it was neat:

[Mon Feb 01 00:31:27 2016] Valse shouts, 'grats rampage on the sleeper thing tonight. thanks for streaming so the rest of us could watch it! =P'