The Lords of Nordrassil

Our Guild Master is Moonfire and our team of Officers are Tarn, Winter, Besti, Throttle, Espe and  Raduah and we will shortly be announcing 3 more Officers to compliment our team as we head towards The Mists of Pandaria.

The Lords of Nordrassil dinged guild level 25 this week, joining the small number of Nordrassil guilds in this elite group. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to the guild levelling and helped us to reach top level! Special shout-out to Zaryá who was 1st *and* 2nd best contributor – great work.

As well as having access to all the perks, Lords members can get the extra bonus of easy access to the perks via their UI, as guild officer Turalagon has created an addon for guild perk access (available using our guild forum).

Let’s start with a hearty welcome to all the new guildies joining us through the Cata recruitment system. It is great that so many wish to join The Lords of Nordrassil.

Secondly, in guild news, the co-GM position has been cancelled as Durathor is busy with RL commitments and has requested to return to being an officer. Arvariena has remained as GM. The officer corps now consists of Winterfold, Tarn, Turalagon, Bestiarius, Angeya and Durathor, as Railor and Revver have left the guild.

Looking forward to seeing you all in game.

Love
Arv

A warm welcome to all the recently joined guild members. We aim to be a friendly, social guild first and foremost and hopefully you’ll find it a welcoming place to be.

The ‘about us‘ and ‘conduct‘ pages should give you an idea of the kind of rules and behaviour that is expected within the guild to help maintain the friendly atmosphere.

I’d also like to point you to the forum, where you can join in the discussion. Once you register, I’ll promote you to have access to the rest of the forum as soon as I can. In particular please say hello in the ‘introduce yourself thread’

Enjoy your stay
Durathor

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.

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.

Two guild firsts were achieved with kills of both Maiden and Moroes on Saturday. This was preceded by a warm-up on Maiden on Friday, Attumen down on Thursday and an encouraging first look at Opera on Sunday. All in all a great team effort from all the guildees who were able to come along over the entire weekend’s raiding.

Special congratualations to Arvariena, Ragnesis and Bestiarius who got drops of [Shard of the Virtuous], [Barbed Choker of Discipline] and [Emerald Ripper] respectively

And for posterity, here are a couple of pictures of our happy faces post-boss fights – click the image for link to larger versions.

Last week’s Karazhan run sounded like great fun, a positive first step into Karazhan and Arvariena got some nice purple loot ([Gloves of Saintly Blessings]) to boot. I’ve got a message from The Boss (Railor), on how it all went:

Our first Karazhan run the other night was a success thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of the Lords and also from Lamagra’s advice and guidance. Lamagra is a paladin that we discovered on the LFG channel and subsequently recruited(!). He volunteered to join actually, which is a great bonus as he has a wealth of Karazhan experience. When I say success I mean in terms of what we learnt about ourselves.

We killed Attumen but suffered at the hands of the Maiden. It’s clear that our gear will need to be that little bit better. We aren’t tooled up enough for want of a better expression. To that end I personally will be attending as many heroics as I can, to pursue the better purples. Speaking for myself, I have the firepower, I just lack stamina and mana.

However Kara isnt a learning instance, so those folk that want to go on the runs really ought to be as good as they can be at their various characters. I think heroic runs beforehand will help to give everyone that knowledge. But Karazhan is fun, hard work and I think everyone that goes will really enjoy it.

Another pair of runs are provisionally scheduled for Friday / Saturday night. Check out the signup thread on the forum, and / or sign-up on GEM in-game. I’m regularly updating the minimum stats for Karazhan post with extra details on gearing up, so please keep checking back. If you find any great resources on the same lines for your class, please let me know so that I can add it.