The Lords of Nordrassil

It’s a new year (it’s still January, so that counts, right?), so it seemed like an appropriate time to have a new look for the Lords of Nordrassil website too. The change includes an upgrade to the forum too, so you may need to update your bookmarks. Everything should still be there in the forum, now on the latest version, so some things might work a little differently.

Any comments on the design, or problems encountered, please let me know in the comments.

A couple of months have passed and with the Winter’s Veil incoming this seems like a good time to stop and take a look at how the achievements have been progressing.

No changes at the top of the table, but some movement in the mid ranks.

The achievements were taken on Sunday afternoon and there’s some interesting latest entries there. Quite a few from the newly release Icecrown instances and from the recent Pilgrim festival. A few people are clearing out ‘classic’ instances, while others seem to have spotted a festival I missed and got a Children’s week prize.

A final honourable mention goes to Besti for two reasons – firstly he’s the only non-level 80 in the list, beating quite a few of his top level rivals – and secondly as it looks like he snagged a trip to Blizzcon 2009, or at the very least managed to beg, borrow, buy or steal ‘Grunty’ the Murloc pet from someone who did!

As chasing achievements is key part of the WoW experience these days, I thought it might be fun to have a look at the guild stats on the armory to see who our top 20 achievers are.

The results are below – I’ve also included the latest achievement to see what we’re all working on – hover over the latest achievement to see the details.

There’s lots of brewfest, as expected, but a fair mix of other things too, across PVP. instances, exploring, questing, collecting etc – including some pretty cool achievements. Also no-one in the list has the same latest achievement, which works out a lot more interesting than if we had 20 Brewmasters

I might revisit this list in a few months to see how the standings have changed…

The Lords became an explorer’s guild earlier in the month with an off the map trip to an island south of Tanaris. Many thanks to Mia for organising the tour and keeping us pointing in the right direction. Click the pictures below for full sized versions.

This announcement is a little belated, but as most of you are aware, that in the last couple of months, I (Durathor) have taken on the GM role for the Lords of Nordrassil following Railor’s decision to stand down. I’d like to thank Rai for the incredible amount of effort he’s put in, from taking on the GM-ship back in 2006 when there was barely a guild at all and building the guild to what it is today.

I’m not going to rush to change any of our guild policies or how the guild operates, but would be interested in any thoughts and feedback people have. In particular I’ve started a couple of threads on the forum: one to discuss what people want from the guild (e.g. raiding, somewhere to chat etc), and another to post any suggestions that people have.

The general feedback so far is that a friendly guild that performs occasional group activities such as raiding. To support this, please feel free to use the in-game calendar to organise instance runs and other events. Also if you encounter a friendly player who might want to join the guild please ask – guild officers and level 80’s are able to invite new members. And of course please keep up the friendly chat and helpfulness in guild chat – that’s part of what this guild is all about.

Cheers
Dur

The Lords are back into the raiding business.

The two constructs of Naxx are nearly cleared and we march for the other two. Considering the amount of time we spent on this I have but to congratulate all those who participated thus far and put an effort into it.

Voa will also become a steady run as some will be able to update their gear and gather some emblems. Put runs up and remember not to be saved into the instance.

Invitations for raids are restricted to Grand Knight ranks for the time being. We expect all those attending the raids to have a relative knowledge of the Boss fight, be prepared with food, pots and lots of coffee.

For those who don’t have the Grand Knight rank but want to participate, feel free to talk to an officer or the GM, as we highly value the desire to help the progress of this guild.

The Lords of Nordrassil have appointed three new guild officers in readiness for the release of Wrath of the Lich King – Congratulations to Tarn, Jermar and Krakenoah!

The officer corps now comprises of Arvariena, Bestiarius, Durathor, Etharil, Jermar, Krakenoah, Revver, Tarn, Winterfold.  Our Guild Master is Railor / Trailor.

Guild members should familiarise with the conduct page of the website, for guidance on acceptable behaviour.   The officers can assist if more details are required.

Shade of Aran was recently killed by The Lords of Nordrassil – another ‘first time’ for the guild!. I say recently, it was actually Easter weekend – real life has been hectic since, so it’s taken me an age to post it. We then followed up with the Chess event and a sightseeing trip to the Prince.

Here’s a screenshot for posterity: click the image for a link to larger version.

Curator was downed last Sunday – another first for the guild!. Sorry it’s taken so long to report, real-life can be a drag. Great result though and we had a first look around the upper tower on Monday before the reset.

Congratualations to Ragnesis who got his Tier 4 gloves: [Gauntlets of Malorne]. Also grats to Jermy who earlier in the weekend was lucky enough to get [Fiery Warhorse's Reins].

Here are a couple of pictures of our happy faces both immediately post fights and also once we were organised enough to line up. Click the images for link to larger versions.

Another guild first was reached in Karazhan with Big Bad Wolf killed in the Opera event, opening up the chance to have a look at Curator now. This was preceded by good kills of Maiden and Moroes.

Special congratualations to Rudi, Panoramixs and Tarn who got drops of [Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch], [Red Riding Hood's Cloak] and [Nethershard Girdle] from the bosses.