Icecrown Citadel!

Icecrown is not far off! With the upcoming patch, there is so much new content I figured we could handle a post or three to ease us into all that info!

First: The background downloader has been enabled! This means the patch is just a few scant weeks away!

Second: Raid Gating in ICC!

Icecrown Citadel testing has been progressing very well over the last few weeks, and this has been a huge help to the encounter design team. We want to thank everyone who has logged onto the PTR and tried the encounters there.

As we’re now getting closer to the release of 3.3.0, we wanted to talk about our plans for access progression within Icecrown Citadel. Icecrown Citadel is going to be broken up into four distinct sections: The Lower Spire, Plagueworks, Crimson Hall, and Frostwing Halls. We plan on releasing these four sections of Icecrown Citadel over time and not all immediately when patch 3.3.0 goes live. At this point we can’t give precise dates for these release dates as they are determined by when patch 3.3.0 goes live. Once dates are known with more certainty, I’ll update the community so they can plan appropriately.

The first section that opens will include the Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Icecrown Gunship Battle, and Deathbringer Saurfang encounters. Progress beyond that point will be prevented for several weeks. Then the Plagueworks will open with Rotface, Festergut, and Professor Putricide becoming available. After another period of time, the Crimson Hall will open and you can then fight the Blood Princes and Blood-Queen Lana’thel. The final Frostwing Halls unlock then occurs after that, making Valithria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa, and the Lich King available. We believe a staggered release of the content will allow players to experience Icecrown Citadel at a sustainable, measured, and ultimately more enjoyable pace.

There are other elements that gate access along the way. Players may not attempt any Heroic versions of 10 player encounters until they have defeated the Lich King in a 10 player raid. Similarly, players must defeat the Lich King in a 25 player raid before they can attempt a Heroic 25 player encounter. So players must master every normal difficulty encounter in Icecrown Citadel before attempting Heroic difficulty.

The Lich King may not be attempted until Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, and Sindragosa are defeated. Furthermore, the Heroic difficulty of The Lich King encounter may not be attempted in any week unless the three aforementioned encounters have been defeated in Heroic difficulty that week.

The Ashen Verdict provides reinforcements and material for players to assault Icecrown Citadel, but this support is not endless. Raids will have a limited number of attempts total each week to defeat the four most difficult encounters in Icecrown Citadel: Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. As these boss encounters are unlocked, the number of attempts available per week will increase. The initial number of attempts provided for defeating Professor Putricide is only five. When Blood-Queen Lana’thel unlocks, the amount of total attempts remaining will increase to 10. Then when Sindragosa and the Lich King unlock, 15 total attempts will be available to defeat all four bosses. After a raid has exhausted their attempts for the week, the Ashen Verdict must withdraw their support and the four most difficult bosses all despawn and become unavailable for the week. The limited attempt system is a feature of both Normal and Heroic difficulty.

There will be no explicit rewards for defeating the Lich King with a specific number of attempts remaining as there was with Trial of the Grand Crusader. There will also not be an achievement to complete Icecrown Citadel without being defeated by a boss encounter, or letting a raid member die. (i.e. A Tribute to Insanity).

In the weeks and months after all twelve encounters are unlocked, additional attempts against the final four boss encounters become available. This represents the Ashen Verdict growing more powerful and gaining a stronger foothold in Icecrown Citadel. To further help raids, Varian Wrynn and Garrosh Hellscream will begin to provide assistance by inspiring the armies attacking Icecrown Citadel. This is represented as an additional zone wide spell effect applied to all players that will increase their hit points, damage dealt, and healing done. This effect will also increase in effectiveness over time. Players may opt out of the spell’s effect if they so wish.

Lastly: Tier 10 and how to get it!

When you want to buy tier 10, you have to use Emblems of Frost to purchase the item level 251 variants. This is the lowest version of tier 10 you can get. In order to get the next level which is item level 264, you’ll need to get a class specific token which presumably drops from Icecrown Citadel on 25. You then have to turn in your 10man piece of loot with the token for the item level 264 version. The same applies for the 25 Heroic tier. Currently, the 10man level gear, item level 251 costs 60 emblems for Shoulders and Gloves, while Helm, Chest, and Legs cost 95 each.

Look for more information as the patch draws near!

Glory of the Hero Completed!!

Devon lead a small band of intrepid adventurers deep into the dungeons of Northrend. Not only did this group defeat everything in their path, but they did it the hard way at every possible opportunity! (Hey, we’re intrepid, not intelligent ^_^) Congratulations to Devon, Gyson, Besha, Shylo, and Anshari on completing this difficult achievement!

Pack up your bags, we are setting sail!!!

With the launch of WotLK we have also launched a new site. Thanks to Zandra for all the hard work. The new site looks great and functions superbly.

March 2nd – Day of a Hero!

After another successful night in Serpent Shrine Cavern we learned of Gyson’s birthday! Sauces were prepared and gnomes were sacrificed! In honor of him, I bring for your viewing pleasure, Gyson vs. The Sea Monster!

He’s so Shiney!

Cookies Run for Charity

Azeroth News
November 17, 2007
Staff writer, Evelyn Windfallen

Loch Modan residents awoke this morning to loud fire works and tiny gnomes as a celebration for the first annual Make-A-Wish Cookie Run was in full swing on the Stonewrought Dam. The usually quiet Loch was awash with the squeaks of tiny cookies being chomped on by local wildlife, a local dwarf mused smugly.

Cookies running through a Cave

This reporter was able to learn that a well-known gnomish warlock, Mustuv, also known as the huggable warlock, and his gal-pal Whimsey had set up the race from Coldridge Valley to celebrate the coming holiday season. “The race was also to help kids via Azeroth’s Make-A-Wish Cookie Foundation. We hope that we also brought joy all of the residents of the Loch,” noted a tiny gnome who was too busy eating cookies and setting off fire works to give her name.

Winners of the race are reported to be Starbar and Samoha, both gnomes declined to give any other identification.

Looks like this holiday season is going to be full of excitement!

((Night and Whims are also making a real life donation to the Make-A-Wish foundation in the League’s name. Thank you both for the great run!))

Lady Liadrin of the Blood Knights Slain!

Lady Liadrin was defeated tonight in an attempt to release the Naaru which the Blood Elves are holding captive. We were unable to release the Naaru due to Horde response. We hope to find a way to break the barrier that makes his captors immune to death.

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Flood Protection on…

I have re-enabled flood protection for site. So when you visit take your time to go through the site. This is to help with database issue I have been seeing for the past month.

Thanks
Zandra Windrage

Fund Drive: Success!

The Guild Website fund raiser was successful! We raised 251.77 to run the guild website for the next year! I am very very grateful to this community for helping out with the cost of running the website.

Those who donated this year:

• Daerwylliren – Jun-21 – 5.00
• Ryusuke – Jun-21 – 5.00
• zigonzagoff – Jun-20 – 10.00
• Lhianna – Jun-18 – 10.00
• Syrix – Jun-14 – 20.00
• Fireflower – Jun-12 – 10.00
• Tyrin – Jun-12 – 15.00
• calihan – Jun-11 – 30.00
• Sylnara – Jun-11 – 20.00
• TifaStryfe – Jun-10 – 25.00
• Gyson – Jun-10 – 10.00
• Argalbargle – Jun-9 – 10.00
• Mustuv – Jun-9 – 50.00
• Keowyn – Jun-9 – 20.00
• Lunestra – Jun-9 – 10.00
• Dangablad – Jun-9 – 5.00
• Zandra – Jun-9 – 5.00
• Grenwalis – Jun-9 – 5.00

Thank you very much!
Zandra Windrage

Congratulations to Rivaa and Jaqes!

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Jaqes and Rivaa were married at an amazingly exciting event today! Check out their album in the Gallery as well as congratulate them both on becoming our Newest Bard and Warder of the League of Intrepid Adventurers!

Special Thanks to Jyico and his gang of kidnappers!

Site Fund Drive begins!!!!

This is a one month per year fund raiser. Our goal is set based on the cost to run the website for one year including renewing the domain. This years fund raiser will run from June 9th – July 8th 2007. Goal for this year is $251.00.

We are a guild that will be completely supported by you, the members. Many guild have web sites, servers and Internet bandwidth donated by it’s members. We pride ourselves on being run and owned as a family, and not by a few power-hungry members. This means that we need you to be a part of this family. We encourage every member to contribute to the guild in any way that they can but is not required.

Since we do not have our servers or bandwidth donated, we have pay our bills every month to keep things going. For those of you who can, we ask that you make a monetary contribution in whatever denomination you’d like. Every little bit counts.

All Donations will be processed through PayPal. Don’t worry you don’t need a Paypal account to donate.

Note: Please remember to click “return to site” after using PayPal so that our records are updated. If you get a gutted guild site (only header and sidebars) don’t worry we got your donation. You should also get a receipt in email

Thank you for your support!
Zandra