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Heroes of the Alliance is a European guild on the Auchindown server. We are focused mainly on PvE content and some casual raiding.
We are a friendly Guild and all our members are willing to lend a hand with their guildmates. We aim to chill out in a fun and social atmosphere while making progress through the Wrath of the Liche King content. We are well respected on our server and we are ready bring our values of friendship, teamwork and progression to Northrend.
Heroes "It's not my turn to write!" Update 2009-06-23
Quite some time since last update. I blame everyone else but myself. If you look at the front page, the majority of the updates are mine, mmk? I deserved to be lazy! In any case, got some news for ya'll, so read closely!
Raid progression
We have gotten quite a way in Ulduar 10. Now that dreadful "summer" thing hit us though, and people want to spend time outside it's slowing down a bit. Go figure... ;) We are 11/14 in Ulduar 10, and the second team have gotten some way as well.
Not as much luck in Ulduar 25, but we are heading in there this week with some vengence for the previous wipes! Make sure to sign up for it if you have not already!
News in Hota
No news in the World? It's comming, be calm. Got more important news in guild however!
When we now finally start seriously in Ulduar we will hopefully go in with a full HOTA team, and be able to use DKP. DKP will have a few changes made, as we are not 100% happy with the current costs of different items.
Important note is that these changes only go for Ulduar. For Naxx & Malygos we will keep using the same prices as before. The changes are:
Minimum Cost of Tier tokens lowered to 40dkp
Minimum cost added to Weapons. They are now at 40dkp
Offspecc items won on a roll will cost 5dkp
Raid Leaders will be able to give out extra, time based DKP on new content. This is decided by the raid leader.
There ya go. Rule page will also be updated any day now, as soon as I've decided how to write it properly so that there's no mixup with the old costs.
News in the World
Patch 3.2 PTR have just hit. Some quite big changes there, together with a new Battleground, a new Raid and some major changes to our beloved Wintergrasp.
As always I recomend MMO Champion for all news concerning patches!
The Fun Part
Hey, I already wrote 4 sections! Can't ask for too much!
Ah well, guess I might as well. But no funny pictures this time. A gnome joke will have to do!
A Dwarf priest was wandering the beach when, upon looking out over the ocean, he saw a gnome splashing and appearently almost drowning. He started to rush out to help, but then noticed two humans on the beach had already gotten a rope out to the gnome and were pulling him in.
"I'd just like to commend you two" the Priest said. "It's all too rare these days to see people helping each other out in a time of need. Bless the both of you!"
As the Priest was walking away, one of the humans turned to the other.
Welcome to the latest News update. Let's see, what do we have for you this week? How about Ulduar progression, a new Rank in the guild, and some raiding drama from another server? That sound good?
Raid progression
As you can't fail to have noticed, Ulduar has landed, and our raiding teams have hit the ground running, clearing the first 5 bosses on normal mode in just a couple of weeks!
Initial impressions are that it's going to be a much tougher raid than Naxx, and indeed many people are happy that they will now have to work for their upgrades instead of the "Purple Shower" that was Naxxramas.
With Ulduar comes a new Tier of DKP, so when 25 man raids begin properly, you will not be able to spend your Naxx DKP in Ulduar. Sorry, but it's the only way to make sure people don't save up loads of points in Naxx and spend them on Tier 8 loot!
News in the World
Although not technically "in the World", this is news that will affect all our raiders so I felt it needed a section to itself.
Starting from today we are introducing a new rank in the guild called "Knight". This rank is effectively for our raiding elite, and the consequences of this are that from this Wednesday's reset only Knight-ranked guild members will be able to raid in Ulduar and beyond.
The Officers and Raid Leaders felt that, unless we put some sort of minimum requirements for raiding in higher Tiers, the guild will be unable to progress as fast as we would like it to. By enforcing these requirements, we will be able to make sure that the Ulduar raid team is the strongest it can be, and that everyone in there is fully committed to clearing it as efficiently as possible.
Full details of the Knight-rank, how to get it, and what is expected can be found on our Rules page
The Fun Part
This recent story from WoWInsider really amused me. Basically, a guy on a different server got his account hacked, but eventually he got it restored by a GM. If you didn't know, when you get hacked they can't easily restore all your bank contents and other stuff, so they send you a load of random stuff to get you back on your feet.
This guy was looking through the stuff he got sent and he found Martin Fury. Now... what would you do if you got this item in the mail? It was clearly a mistake by the GM, but he didn't report it. What he did was pass the item to his Raid Leader, who decided to bring it along to their next Ulduar raid.
What followed was a tour of 1-hit-kills on all the Ulduar bosses, which earned the raid a load of loot and indeed many World First Achievements!
Blizzard responded by perma-banning the player in question, so let that be a lesson to us all!
As many of you will know, we cleared Naxxramas Heroic this week.
Raid progression
Well the big news of the week is of course that we downed the right hand man of the Lich King, the venrible Kel'Thuzad. We went on Monday night having cleared everything upto him and after a few wipes we dropped him.
From everyone of the officers we'd like to congratulate each and every person who took part. While I suspect Thaddius will still give us a few problems yet, I think pretty every other boss can be one shotted if we focus and bring our A game.
With Naxxramas down, and the achievement in the bag we're going to be off to finish last of the content, the Spell Weaver himself, Malygos. The raid is already in the calender for this Sunday and we'd love if you could sign up to book your place.
Finally when the content is cleared we'll be looking to setup a few "achievement" teams to push people through the variously achievements large and small that are out there.
News in the world
Well, it's all about the 3.1 patch these days, isn't it?
If you haven't seen the changes for your class I suggest you head over to
www.wowinsider.com and have a look. With Ulduar hitting soon, predicted date is 13th April, the game is going to be changing, and for many it'll prove to be a tough adjustment.
Specifically healers will be struggling for mana quite a bit more and MP5 is apparently going to become much more useful. Similarly life is going to get tougher for the DPS classes as threat is going to start to ramp up very, very quickly. Most of us have been spoiled by the high threat that our tanking teams have been putting out since the expansion but going forward people are going to have to be checking Omen much more regularly.
When Ulduar does hit, rest assured we'll be on the first guilds in there and we'll do our best to get people ready and trained up on the fights. In the meantime, please head over to Wowwiki and read up on the boss battles.
The Fun Part
Continuing the theme of famous people that WOW, which legendary hard man do you think spends his spare time in Azeroth? Well obviously as the picture suggests it Vin Diesel. When interviewed by Johnny Ross on the BBC last week he talked about WOW, raiding and life etc (wow stuff starts 5 minutes in).
Yeah, some real updates for once! Just out of raid, and for those who weren't there, hear this!.
Raid progression
Thaddius FINALLY down in Naxx 25. We spanked Sapphiron as well while we were at it, just for good measure.
Big Kel is still alive though. We had a jump at him to get a feel for the fight, but didn't press it. It was late, and we are going back.
Next raid for Naxx25 is Monday at 8 - and that means a full clear and on to Malygos. I told ya'll, we will be done with this content come ulduar!
News in the world
Who cares? We are clearing naxx after so many times of messing up, that's world news enough for ya!>/p>
Alright, want something? Lets see what we can find...
...Ah yeah, some WoW tournament is going on. Deathknights and Holy Palas is still kicking everyone's ass. Not much news in that, but alteast something, eh?
The Fun Part
Going with tonights theme, here's Thaddius with pink manties for your... enjoyment?
About that DKP eh... Still having some problems getting it perfect, so we keep messing about with it. New changes to the bidding system. Read on, and also remember to check out the Rules page.
Raid progression
Not much new on this front. Still struggling with Thaddius. Spider and Plague quarters are truly on farm, and if we do Military as easy as we did last week, that will be considered farm as well.
Something new on the 10man raiding front is the Late Night Team that runs late fridays and weekends. If you are a parent that can't raid early evenings, or for some other reason prefer to be up late nights, don't hesitate to sign up!
News in the world
Well, it's all about the 3.1 patch these days, isn't it? Not much new to say, as always, if you want to see whats new on the PTR go check out MMO-Champion
DKP Changes
Last night we noticed that if people have lots of DKP, they can just outbid everyone fast, and then only pay 25dkp. Now, that doesn't seem fair, and we decided to once again overhaul the bidding system.
After some Addon Modding by in house coder Azthal (that would be moi) we can now use Silent Bidding again. That means that from now on, bids will be done in whispers.
If you bid lower then highest bidder you will get a message telling you so.
If you bid the highest current amount you will be told that you are highest bidder
If you are highest bidder, and someone bids over you, you will be told that you are no longer the highest bidder
You will never be told what the highest bid is, only if you are highest bidder or not. This to encourage people to bid as much as they want to spend on the item.
As an old timer hunter I love hunter pets. Comming in 3.1 is a new Spirit Best called Gondria! It will be a rare elite just like the current spirit beast, and will truly be a nice catch for any hunter. Video above by the always funny BigRedKitty.
