Gundrak and Halls of Lightning Completed...

Obsi, Shisukii, Trulsan, Vebo and Vetle cleared this one by 21:50!
Took about 40 minutes all together...

We cleared it so fast infact, we thought we'd give Udluar : Halls of lightning a go....

And although Loken apeared unimpressed...

...He soon felt otherwise :D
Cleared at 00:16

GO Still Alive! He He :)

Culling of Stratholme Completed...

Completed by Stantz, Vebolina, Trulsan, Obsidanse and Suddrik at 22:40 ...
A fun time was had by all ^_^

Azjol-Nerub and Ahn'Kahet completed!

A double run tonight!
We finished Azjol-Nerub with Sugarpuffs, Vetenari, Obsidanse, Fimro and Shisukii at 22:04 server time.



















...and then completed Ahn'Kahet and hour and a half later at 23:39.
Sadly Fimro had to leave to take a flatmate to hospital just after the second-to-last Boss, and Vetle joined us to finish off the Final Boss ^_^



















Hope everything's Ok with your Flatmate Fimro! Send him our wishes :)

Violet Hold Completed...

Vetle, Fimro, Trulsan, Stantz and Obsidanse, completed Violet Hold on 5/12/2008 at about 20:30...

It's pretty quick!...Only took us about 30mins o.O

Stantz hits 80!

Last night, our first member to hit 80 was Stantz.
Who's gonna be second?...Oh come on, we all know it's Fimro lol

Below is proof of the time and date!

Obsidanse on the news..

Im on BBC camera! (about 1:00 in to the video in a pink T-shirt and green hoody)
If more of me were in shot, you'd jave seen our guild name and Infinity symbol, but sadly it's a close up :(
I'll do better at flying the flag for guild next time guys....Next time I'll be first Mwa Hahahaha!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7726099.stm

The Nexus Completed...

By Felixes, Fimro, Sugarpuffs, Vetenari and Obsidanse.
At 23:38h 14th November!

And Obsi died....

Utgarde Keep completed...

By Stantz, Fimro, Sugarpuffs, Vetenari and Obsidanse.
At 00:25h 14th November!

Fimro first to break level 70!

At 21:10 server time on 13th November, Fimro ws first to hit level 71 in the guild.
Who's first to hit 80 then, eh? :p

New Beginnings...

On your marks,
Get set,
Northrend!

With the start of a new and exciting expansion, we're firing up the Guild web site!
From this point, we'll be keeping carefull record of Boss kills, and dates.
Also general Guild happenings too ^_^
Keep a carefull eye on the site, first Dungeon run is this Friday night! (servers willing)

See you after the hellish lag lol

Obsidanse :)

Coilfang - Steam Vaults

Well, we didn't go for heroic after all, but maybe that would have been just a touch too tough ;)
This week we welcomed Fimro to the run for the first time. Our first level 70 Rogue!
We had, Obsidanse, Felixes, Anylrama, Fimro and a welcome return from Trulsan as our healer.
From start to first boss, there's a pretty open area. In every corner is a Giant Bog Lord. Simple enough to take down without hindrance, but deadly if caught unawares!
Naturally, there was plenty to hinder!
Several groups of Water Elemental patrol the zone, all moving close to clusters of 3-4 Caster/Mellee mixed groups.
Carefull work selecting one of the mixed group to freeze with a trap (ussually a caster) is needed, or you could end up being overwelmed with healing enemies or OP cast attacks!
2 and a half years experience of being a hunter has given Felixes the incredible skill to freeze any or the group easily. Had we not had him along, I'm not sure if it would have been nearly as easy ;)
Well, first boss was pretty much a pushover. She's got two Water guardians, but keeping her on the tank while the rest deal with the guards makes the whole thing easier.
Make sure you switch on the machine behind her, you'll need it to get to the third boss!
Back we go to the two guards at the tunnel.
Similar situation of patrolling groups, all the way round to the entrance to boss two. Pulling them back into the corridor helps a lot, as thier fear effect isn't a welcome spanner in the works in such an open area!
But having cleared these, we find the door ahead is locked! Time to find the second locking machine..
Turn right and find a large packs of non-elite Meat-Treats....sorry Gnomes....Is seems the traitorous little devils are supplying help to the Naga in the form of one of thier Gnomregan robots!
Keep the Metal Meance on the tank while making sure the Gnome adds don't get out of hand.
Health levels got a bit dicey towards the end on this one, but I think we avoided any deaths that time :)
Finally, on to Mr Big!
After switching off the Gnomes lock and returning to the landing, we've got a load more mixed groups of Naga to dispatch....ahh bliss ^_^
Ok, this boss took a little bit of work, but it's mainly down to method rather than power.
He's not greatly powerful in himself, but he uses tanks of water set at points around his room in order to heal himself and go into rage mode!
Whilst you keep him on the tank, keep an eye out for which water tank he goes for, and smash the thing as soon as possible!
After we figured that out, he was ALMOST a breaze :)
Incredible work by all. Anylrama is showing massive signs of improvement to gear al round, Felixes continues to be a dab hand with the bow, Fimro is our new capable Rogue (with potty agro! lol) and of course the Legendary Trulsan, with bonus healing of 2000+ I believe *_*
Oh, and Obsi...who's slowly getting some epic tanking gear together at last hehe

1st Aug - Steam Vaults

Since we did so well in Hellfire's Shattered Halls last time, we should step up a gear and go to Coilfangs level 70!

All in favour say 'AYE!!' ;o)

I'm all up for giving Heroic Ramparts a quick try before we go though!

Epic up!

My appologies for not updating this sooner. I'll try and get reports on the site a little quicker from now on.

After friday's attempt at Kara, it's pretty obvious we need to improve the gear a lot ^_^
On a plus though, 7 of us turned up!
Considering the only known missing members were Trulsan, Vebolina and Felixes, getting the numbers together was a success!
But, as Raids are a little above us right now, I though rather than plan which run we're going to do every week, for now it may be better just to do whatever we feel is best at the time.

If you still have greens, look on wowwiki.com and thottbot for replacement dungeon rewards. Run's arent planned in advance anymore, so if you really want to do a particular run, let it be known when we meet up on Friday nights!....or even midweek if enough of us want to join in.

I know some of us already have worked extremely hard on our gear and are more than ready to start raiding with other players of like-level.
If you can help out fellow members with any advice or production skills so we can all get to a similar strength, we'll all be raiding as a team much sooner ^_^

Keep comunicating folks, we need to get us all Purpled up hehe

4th July Karazahn Raid!

We're heading to Kara this Friday guys!
Contrary to popular belief (and a cheeky Hunter who thinks it's a laugh to mess with the message board) we ARE running Kara on the 4th July.
We'll be meeting at 8:00PM Uk Time (21:00 game time) and we need 10 level 70s. Lets make it a full Guild Raid!
Celebration drinks are bring your own this week, we'll have photo shoots and prize giving at the end ;)

Caverns of Time - Opening the Dark Portal

This all went a little aury to start with but fast became a night to remember!
In the first instance, I think it was myself (Obsidanse), Vetenari and Lefal.
Because there simply wasn't enough of us with high enough equipment to run a Heroic dungeon, we had to drop the decision to run Heroic Coilfang, in favour of finishing off the Black Morass run in the Caverns of time for Lefal.
It took some time, but we managed to get a preist from outside the guild into the run, and started to move.
As so often preists are, this one was intensely impatient. We lost him quickly, and sadly the next almost as quickly as the first.
After including Kurtsteiner in the group, who'd just arrived, Lefal understandable couldn't stand it any longer, and decided to stand down.
Kurt, myself and Vetenari started (The Old Hillsbrad Quest) alone.
By incredible good luck, Sugarpuffs and Ernestine logged on soon afterwards.
We easily bashed our way through to the end and moved on to the Black Morass.
Quite simply one of the most intense, but extremely enjoyable quests I've done yet!
Essentially what has to be done, is keep the magician Medivh alive while he creates the portal to allow the Orcs access to Azeroth (this is ooold history ^_^).
A total of 18 portals open from which an Elite Portal Guard will emerge. As he is being destroyed, many adds are spewing from the portal (which I must say both Ernestine, Vetenari and Sugarpuffs did an excellent job of wiping out throughout the entire run).
The Sixth Guard I believe is your first Boss. He hits you with an AoE debuff that slows you down by over half, and Arcane damage of about 2500.
We dispatched him, no prob ;)
Same again.
By the Telfth wave, we have our second Boss. This one's a Melee guy, and a hell of a Brute. But Kurt kept him subdued for the duration :) He bashes you away, Buff his own speed, generally dominates with as much damage as possible. Also a rather nasty debuff that reduces healing :(
5 More waves then on to the big Kahoooooona!
He's pretty much like the first, but with bells. He STOPS time for 4 seconds, by AoE aswell which is nasty, and also hits for nearly double the Arcane of the first guy.
The one almost had us!
Both Ernestine and Myself were downed pretty quickly. But incredibly Kurtsteiner, Vetenari and Sugarpuffs held the fort long enough for us to watch for a short while to check it was worth going for it, and for the full walk across that massive cavern that seems soooo much longer when you're in a hurry.
Amazingly, we got there in time to finish the Devil off and claim the prize :D
Incredible run, a lot of fun!

!!NEWSFLASH!!

This Friday's Run seems to have been "lagged off" I'm affraid Guildies...
A first ever in "Still Alive" history i think, so let's not be too grumpy at good old Blizz ;)
In hindsight...possibly I should have done my homework too, since both Sugarpuffs & Trulsan are away this weekend anyway :s

Vote Results - 27th June Dungeon Run

This months results are...

(Heroic) Hellfire Citadel - Hellfire Ramparts - 2
(Heroic) Coilfang Reservoir - Slave Pens - 4

I'm biting my nails, but we'll give it a go ^_^

Caverns of Time - Opening the Dark Portal

It turned out that a lot of us had to complete the Old Hillsbrad run first, in order to move on to the Drak Portal run in The Black Morass.
We had Anylrama, Trulsan, Vetenari, Vebolina and Myself, Obsidanse.
One of the smoothest runs we've had in a long while :)
Appart from an unexpected agro on our drop into the Orc holding area...sterling work by all concerned!
We dealt with Thrall's rather over-enthusiastic fighting with little problems, only initially struggling to keep thing organised.
We downed Captain Skarloc and his two lackies very easily. Vetenari's Fear move sorting out the ladies in the dying moments to buy us a little time.
And although we lost Trulsan near the end of the Epoch Hunter, he thankfully had a Soul stone, and bounced back to keep things organised in no time ^_^

On to the Black Morass....

Sadly, not so lucky on this one.
Lack of preperation for this one made the whole job very tricky.
This is NOT a standard run, where we take our time pulling in groups and desposing of Mobs in an orderly fassion..oh dear me no...
Anylrama sadly had to leave at this point, possibly totems would have helped too, but never mind.
Suddrik joined in at this point, and we were glad to have him onboard :)
We had to keep the Magician Medivh safe while he opened the portal. All the while he is being bombarded by wave after wave of level 70ish trash Mobs...
Sounds easy, but keeping them all under control was very tough, AOE would have been very welcome here!
There's no time to recover, and they come thick and fast in no time

Vetenari had an idea to take on the portal Elites which seemed to work well to start with, but keeping straglers from Medivh prooved very tough, and they wore him down very quickly while we took on the second portal.
After whiping again with this technique moral was a little low. I (rather unfairly) shunned the idea of splitting up for the portal, from vete. I felt we needed to go research this before going on further.
It seems we should have stuck with the strategy of taking on the portal elites one at a time while pulling in any adds as we went...
We'll do it next week! In the meen time, take a look at the vid ... Opening the Dark Portal Video

Vote Result - 13th June Dungeon Run

This weeks reults are...

CoT - Open the Portal - 0 votes
Tempest Keep - The Mechanar - 5 votes
Tempest Keep - The Botanica - 0 votes
Heroic Hellfire - Blood Furnace - 0 votes
Heroic Hellfire - Ramparts - 1 vote

A resounding Mechanar then!
However, in light of the need for key parts for entry to Karazhan, we'll put it to the group for a change if thats wanted...

Saturday 7th's Magisters Terrace run...

A report from Kurtsteiner :

I present my report of the trip we took on Saturday night (7th June) to Magisters Terrace.
Based on intelligence from a certain mage, we were told it would take 20mins to down the first 2 bosses.
Well we were soundly thrashed several times, giving up after the third attempt. The second boss was basically a voidy version of The Curator from Kara.
I feel that as it was late (23:00hrs) and it was arranged in 5mins we deserved a good beating. This was with me tanking, Suddrik as AoE/Off-tank, Vebolina and Ernestine for CC and Damage and, finally, Trulsan healing.
At least Suddrik came away with a decent axe, if nothing else, but we're all chomping at the bit for revenge! Plus at full tilt, if we learn this dungeon, I imagine it to be an hour perhaps ninety minutes tops for farming the four bosses and trash mobs.

Thanks Kurt, I'll put it as an option on next weeks Vote :)

Droooooll.....

Forget Rocket powered Lolcopters!
How amazingly beautiful is this mount?



















A drop rate of something like 1.5% from Kael'thas Sunstrider in Tempest Keep.
Who's up for running The Eye a few hundred times for me? ;)

Future Raid...

I've not put a raid on this week as I don't think any of us have the Key to Karazhan as of yet.
It would be an awfull let down if we didn't have it in time huh?
I'm working hard to make sure we get it over the next few days, and with any luch we'll have a Raid ready for the 20th June.
A word of causion...This will be tough, we will probably not make the full run simply because of the level of our gear. Always remeber, some of us are really well tooled up, others not so :)
Definately no shame in not managing the whole thing first time round folks. We've got to start somewhere ^_^

Caverns of Time - Old Hillsbrad run...

For me, this was a run I'd been looking forward to for a long time. I'd played Warcraft III and was looking forward to seeing a bit or Thrall's history :)
We had Myself (Obsidanse), Suddrik, Ernestine (for massive firepower!), Trulsan and Sugarpuffs on this one.
After a spectacular display of Hillsbrad from about 10 years ago, we landed just outside Durnholde keep. Courtesy of our Yellow Dragon friends. A simple fight through the trenches infront of the keep, allowed us to set the huts ablaze, and kill our first boss.
Suddrik won that drop, (of course hehe), think it was a Plate Bracer or Boots.
Then onto the Keep and to free Thrall!
Boy that Orc's a trooper!
After he blatter's the Armoury guard, he grabs the much needed armour and weapons and runs for the door.
From this point we meet collections of four enemies of random types. Ussually two Melee and two casters. Which can be any combination of Healer and Mage.
Took some doing, but because Thrall moves on largely without a pause, it was quite hard to keep our mana up. But we pulled through after a few wipes :)
Stirling work from both Healers and Ernestine. Not to mention a quite stunning show of tanking from myself and Suddrik! hehe
At the end of this unrellenting flurry, we then have to face a Palladin boss and his two lackies. Not too tough, but after such an intense approach (and you have to do it all again if you die) it was somewhat tricky!
Again, Suddrik won the toss for that item too! Grrrrr ;)
Finally, on to Tarren Mill to re-unite Thrall with his half sister (I'm taking Sugarpuffs' word on this!) and to face the final prize...
You're called out by a booming voice to face your Death....
No Chance!
Epoch Hunter, I think his name was, has about four sets of four minions, all sorts of names like Sabotage etc. They look a lot like Dragonkin draped in black smoke. Not too tough.
First two attempts we wiped, and I'm affraid at this point I had to stand down from the game bacause of time ristrictions.
From what I understand, Kurtsteiner saved the day quite impressively, earning a nice Item for Sugarpuffs :)
Another victory for Still Alive!

Vote Results - 6th June Dungeon Run

This weeks results are...

Auchindoun - Mana Tombs - 1
Hellfire Citadel - Ramparts - 0
Coilfang Reservoir - Undercity - 0
Caverns of Time - Escape from Durnholde - 6

See you all at 7:30pm GMT guys :D
Gadgetzan - Tanaris
"Let's do the time-warp agaiiiiin"....ahem, i'll stop now.

New MOB revealed...Magnataur!

Part giant?!...part mammoth?!
When will the madness end? Think of the children!
Seriously though, looks pretty cool ^_^

http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/features/bestiary/index.xml

Freedom....

It's an Alliance world, you know that?
"We've got it made" says I, "You're all pretty much cut off" I said....what a fool I was.
I Just turned 37 a little while ago.
Been bashing around some place called Dustwallow marsh. Do you KNOW how many alliance troops there are on that road? I swear I can't breath without half of Theramour beating me down!
And what about fishing?
Exactly how am I supposed to speak to some filthy Human, called Pat Nazel or something, for my fishing skills? He's out in the middle of the ocean, just beyond Theramour Island!
The only point of access if a tiny gap in the hills, just beyond some level 39+ spooks and Murlocks!
...How wrong I was.
I'd better get back to the grind. I can hear that fetted Undead Warlock, that's been following me around, calling.
Yes, yes Griff, I'm coming....

Appologies....

Sorry for the lack of run on Friday. A few too many people were unable to attend, so it was called off.
We'll be voting as normal this week, I've popped the Mana Tombs on the list though. Just incase we'd all like to run it :)

DIRE MAUL - Last Minute scheduled run...

We'll be doing a run through Dire Maul tonight at 7:30 (GMT) for Thephil's Epic mount. Currently we have Thephil (obviously) and Vetenari in on the run. I (Knems/Obsidanse) am happy to run this as tank/healer, but if there are people who would particularly like to do this I'm happy to stand down for a third member.
Remember, we start at 7:30 folks, so be ready! Summoning stone not an option sadly :(

Achindoun - Mana Tombs Run....

We started out with Obsidanse, Sugarpuffs, Vetenari, Trulsan & Anylrama.
Once we'd got our footing and wiped a couple of times we had a good thing going. Trulsan Mind controls the one we want dead, then we either finish him off if he breaks free from it or move on to target two once he's killed.
A few problems with Obsidanse keeping Agro, and often the stray MOB was taking chucks out of Vetenari and Sugarpuffs, occasional sacrifices were made and we had to ressurect fallen comrades, but we got through with little trouble for most of the second half of the Dungeon :)
Boss 2 gave us no issues at all!
Then...the Nexus Prince..
We wiped something like 6 times I'd say. Not much more than a quarter of his life removed each time.
Vetenari came up with the idea of mind controlling one of the small minions next to the Boss, but Obsidanse dismissed this idea....possibly to the undoing of the group. It was never attempted....
After a short while, Obsidanse left to allow Suddrik in on the effort, followed by Vetenari (who , being the only guy who could summon us back, haddent returned for a mend and was enduring seriously bad armour loss) replaced with Kurtsteiner.
Not even then could we squash this rather irritating Royal hanger-on.
"It was....Entertaining!"......Hardly!
I say Mana Tombs again next week! And we don't quit tilll he's dead!
Vetenari, we'll give that Mind Control a go...can't hurt ;)

Vote results - 23rd May Dungeon Run

An overwhelmingly unanimous vote for the Mana Tombs this week! Like Auchindoun, do ya guys? ;)

Mana Tombs = 9
Auchenai Crypts = Nil Point
Slave Pens = Zilch
Ramparts = Diddly

See you all in the Centre of Auchindoun at 7:30
We may well be splitting into two teams this week. We'll have to wait and see ^_^

New Info!

I tell you no lies!
Take a look at the latest info about the Heroic - Death Knight class and also some info about the changes they're making to the Raid system amoungst other things...
Death Knight - http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/features/deathknight/gameplay.xml
Raids & stuff - http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/features/gameplay/index.xml

Vote Results - This weeks run...

Hellfire Ramparts = 2
Underbog = 3
West Dire Maul = 1
Strathholme = Nill Point!

Underbog it is then guys! See you tonight ^_^

Friday 16th May

It's either Ramparts or Underbog guys. Whichever's highest by 12:00noon (gmt) will be the one ^_^
See you all at 7:30pm

BlizzCON 2008!

Who'd have though it?
Another BlizzCON!
So if you've got enough cash for the trip there, book yer tickets you lucky people! (and grab me a code for a Murlock suit while your there!!)
http://www.blizzard.co.uk/press/080512.shtml

Friday 9th May

We're doing Coilfang/Slave Pens tonight!

All meet up at 7:30pm and we kick off at 8:00 (or as soon as we get our 5!)

There's a few quests to pick up outside the instance, handy eh?

DING! (dong)

Congratulations to Vebolina and Trulsan!
They're getting married on Saturday 10th May :D
All our fond wishes go out to them, and the best of luck for the future guys!

(drop a comment as a well-wish folks)

Raid on Goldshire!

Witnessed (and shot) by Kurt :)

Vote Results - Raid or Dungeon Armour sets...

Well, seems the results for our very first vote-off are :

Dungeon Sets : 6 votes
Raid Sets : 5 votes
Don't mind : 0 votes

Dungeon sets it is!

Weekly Dungeon Run

As it's Thephil's Birthday this Friday (technically yesterday, see below) a fair chunk of the Guild are away this week. But from Monday morning till Thursday night, we'll have a quick vote on which Dungeon to run, and we'll meet at the ussual 8'oclock by the meeting stone on the Friday.
We'll have a choice of some from Azeroth, some from Outland!
Until then!....

From behind enemy lines...

We've got it made us guys. Back when I was just a little level Hunter, in Mulgore, It took me no work at all to see the sites of Azeroth!
Did you know, with just a short dash across the Barrens, you can go see your Orcish brothers? And with absolutely no effort at all, you can catch one of those Goblin Zeppelin-things strait to Undercity! Not only that, they've got some gadget the Blood elved put in there. It puts you right in the centre of Silvermoon City!
You poor old Alliance guys (especially the humans) are pretty much cut off from your mates for at least the first 20 levels! Unless you can find some hapless individual to guard you all the way through the Wetlands to or from your Menethil Harbour place.
Boats, who'd have 'em?
That said, I'm just a simple level 20 Hunter. I do my thing in the Barrens with my faithfull Cat ,Jeff (did you snigger? He'll scratch your eyes out!) The last thing I need is some level 40 Orc of same class challenging me to Duels every 5 minutes!
I can't help looking tough, now can I?

Happy Birthday Thephil!! (and Quokka...and Felixes)

Hip hip hurray! 'For he's a jolly good fellow!' etc, etc..
Have a great birthday sir from all at Still Alive!
May his mobs always drop frequently and may he not 'cap' at 70 :D

Screenshots

Post your screenshots to the e-mail address at the top of the page folks :)
I'll post all onto the "In Game Shots" slideshow for all to see!

Raid Attunement - Karazhan

The first Raid on the list is Karazhan.
(Don't forget you need to be 70 to do this by the way)
We've got to do a bit of a list of quest to get 3 key fragments. Then put them all together to gain access to the Dungeon!
These fragments are from Dungeons, so we all need to work together so everyone gets the parts they need.
Feel free to ask anyone in the guild for help forming a 5 man Group.
This attunement is apparantly NOT manditory to gain access, although as many as possible with the key to kara can't be a bad thing :)
More Raiders meens more Raids!....and more Raid items!
This link has all the info you'll need to get the Quest chain going :

http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan_Quest_Progression

It breaks away into seperate quests quite often, so try and keep track of things!

Introduction

Heya Guildies!
As we're all pretty close to hitting the 70 cap, I thought it was a good idea to start working on a better form of comunication in the guild.
For now, at least, we'll be using this blogging site. :)
Drop a post to one of the 'Keeper's in the guild if you've got any suggestions at all.

First things first, I've added details on the series of quests for gaining access to the first 10 man Raid, Karazhan!