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Limited recruiting is open
Posted by Soulcatcher on Mon, 22 Dec 2008
At this time, NGD is opening up recruiting for the limited purpose of adding high quality DPS to our raiding core. We are seeking players that want to join our community- short timers and those not interested in getting to know the people you play with need not apply. For those select few who have a personality, can treat guildmates with respect, and want to push their playing ability to the highest level while experiencing new content, please proceed to the forums and read about our application process.
Naxxramas Cleared!
Posted by Soulcatcher on Sat, 29 Nov 2008
Downing Prince Malchezaar took almost a year for us when TBC came out. It's been two weeks since release, and our first raid instance is clear. We've also established our measuring stick for all future instances- NDU's, or Nylock Death Units. For the record, Kel'Thuzad rates at around a 3.
This victory is the result of hard work by a lot of people- as more and more people have reached 80, we've successfully rotated players in and out of our raids. Its a tribute to our membership that people have volunteered to stand aside to allow others a chance to see inside Naxx. To those who have made that sacrifice, we say thank you.
Our plan to hit the ground running in Wrath has thus far paid dividends. We now need to get our second Naxx raid up and running, and look toward the 25s that await.
Once again, congrats to all!
Our Dark Passion
Posted by Kharma on Tue, 25 Nov 2008
The hunt has begun anew.
Despite being a fairly old raid instance as far as WoW is concerned, Naxx is still around and kicking. Its like a zombie, you smack it around a bit with a 2x4, break some bones, pick up a metal folding chair and hit it over the back of the head and then DDT it but you just can't keep the bitch down. Ok, so maybe its not as mindless as a zombie. Some of the fights might have been simplified for the purpose of smaller raid sizes. But that doesn't remove the inherit difficulty or even the sheer fun of some boss mechanics, aka Heigan. Since we weren't part of that retardedly small 0.5% or something of wow players that got to see Naxx prior to BC, it's with a certain amount of glee that we punched our way around Naxx this week. Since we hadn't been in Naxx before our guild first kill list is kind of long, for those who are reading this butt naked and hoping for smut, log onto Bloodscalp and whisper an individual named Meatwagon, he is willing and ready. Anyways, the list, all 10 man:
Anub'Rekhan
Grand Widow Faerlina
Noth
Heigan
Loatheb
Instructor Rav
Gothik
Four Horsemen
Patchwerk
Grobbulus
Gluth
Thaddius
Sartharion
Archavon
So far we've killed everything we've encountered. The final three bosses still alive in Naxx we're hoping to get around to fighting, and killing, in due course. We might even take a screenshot...if we remember.
Go, Fight, Win!
Posted by Kharma on Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Like a large bright multi colored gay lighting bolt our one and own coupling of Val and Eliss dinged 80 yesterday. In the true spirit of a couple bound to succeed they did their damnest to both pop the big eight O at the same time and no the big eight O is not Eightbal's big asshole...perverts. From staff twinsies to soul mates, everyone is happy.
Big congratulations have to go out to Armok who managed to get the server first 80 DK achievement. Most of us can only dream of doing something this mind boggling grueling. Then again we can dream about it, a benefit of sleeping.
Good things always come in threes...or maybe that's bad things, whatever. Mac and Soul have done everyone proud. At first we thought that their arthritis and Alzheimer's would limit their ability to level effectively but in a valiant attempt to spit in the eye of today's youth they managed to both get ahead of the zerg and outpace the majority of the guild.
Concerning Wrath itself, it can best be summed up with a couple of key words, energy drinks and a lack of sleep. It's hard to really say anything else that could be so resoundingly positive about it. All there is during the moment is the game, a proverbial digital haze. Wrath then, love or hate WoW, achieves what many other games don't, the complete and total involvement of its players for sometimes obscene amounts of time. Oh and Icecrown, go there, look around and stand in awe, so epic it hurts the brain.
Salute ladies and gentlemen, its been one hell of weekend.
Sentimental musings from your GM
Posted by Soulcatcher on Wed, 12 Nov 2008
Okay, it's a few hours until the release of Wrath, and it's time for me to get maudlin. About this time in 2006, we were all looking forward to the release of Burning Crusade, which was just a couple of months out. Changes in the PvP system meant that raiding had basically died. Getting 40 people together to try BWL just wasn't happening. Instead, we were busy slaughtering alliance in premade ABs and playing around with the talent releases.
Then came TBC, and we went thru a LOT of transitions. 40 man raids were a thing of the past. Team Brute Force blazed a trail by manhandling its way thru the basic dungeon content, the rest of us hot on their heels. One of my most vivid memories is trying to heal the tank in the first heroic I ever went in, and being COMPLETELY unable to get him past the first group of trash mobs. Eventually we made our way past the heroics and stuck our toe back into raiding- on our first Karazhan attempt, the 20 minute timer to Huntsman seemed like an insurmountable obstacle. Everyone had to be completely focused just to have enough time to get one or two attempts in before respawns. Over the course of months, we struggled as a guild to overcome the obstacles both within Kara and within our guild makeup. We swung from good times to bad times, and every point in between.
In March of that year, I put a post up on the front page "With our recent successes in Karazhan, it will be interesting to see how the rest of the raid content is. As an experiment, a run into Gruul's Lair is scheduled for 03 19 2007." Thus we started our foray back into raiding as a guild. It's been a while since then, and we've gone thru a lot of changes. We've evolved a lot as a guild; many folks who were with us back at that point have moved on to other guilds or out of game. But I think that the community that has emerged since then is stronger in its own way than its ever been. We've moved beyond our "casual raider" status. We've cleared high level content and closed out Mount Hyjal. We've seen the inside of Black Temple and beaten many of the bosses there. With all that, we've still managed to remain a community- we still have friendships, we still have drunken PvP nights, we still actually ENJOY playing with each other. Of everything we could have done as a guild, THAT is thing that I'm most proud of.
So, thanks to all of you for sticking with us thru the good times and the bad. Thanks to all of you who have worked hard to make yourself and your guildmates better players. Thanks to all of you for trusting in me as your GM, for putting up with me when I'm being a grouch, and celebrating with me when we get something right. Most of all, thanks for making NGD a place that I'm proud to be a part of- you guys can't imagine how I felt when we downed Archimonde this week. That kill ranked right up there with our first Ragnaros kill in terms of establishing ourselves as more than just a random collection of players.
As we head into Wrath, I expect we will still have our ups and downs. I expect will still hit what seem like insurmountable roadblocks. I expect that there will be times you'll be pissed at me and the rest of the guild. When that happens, just remember what we've built; remember that we are part of guild that has been around since November of 2004; that's about 3.5 YEARS longer than most raiding guilds survive. Remember how far we've come together, and know that we are committed to getting better, having fun, and making the game as fun and enjoyable as it can be.
See you guys in Northrend- I'm glad Tauren have thick hides, cause I hate the cold!
We bid TBC a fond farewell
Moosey Fate.
Posted by Kharma on Mon, 11 Aug 2008
So, like I said, another new post in short order. We ceremonially marched into Black Temple, cried as our rule #1 raiders did bad things, and then proceeded to mince up Shade of Akuma. Now I know what your all thinking. Shade of Akuma? No wayz, you guys win the game because PvE is the hard! But lets be honest for a minute, Shade is a loot pinata. The hardest thing about the entire fight was Soul and Mac's Nazi ISP ceremonially applying the KY for a quick session on both. While its plenty true that neither enjoy the experience, at least they can live with the fact that its over fast right? Who knows, maybe that's the way one or the other likes it in general. Nothing wrong with that you know. Each to their own etc and so forth. Things could always be worse. Instead of being Jew Lite, Soul could be a Jehovah's Witness and Mac could be a borderline radical feminists who thinks that breasts are just useless globs of fat. Yes I know, scary glimpses of an apocalyptic nightmare world.
I'll close with a wish upon a falling star to Santa Claus or whoever the fuck is listening. Pictures, I want to post pictures on this front page or...zomg...video. I swear, I'd only use this ability for the greater good. Pictures of boss kills and such, really, cross my squeedily spooch and hope there is bacon in the soap again.
Speer and Magic Helmut
Posted by Kharma on Fri, 08 Aug 2008
Who thought they'd see the day we'd successfully step into BT and kill not one but two bosses in a single night? Fuck, who thought we'd even see the inside of BT prior to Wrath? Don't lie, many didn't. Especially during those dark days of SSC burn out. Bleak was the future then. But fortune shined on us. Change came and with change came a re-consolidation that's morphed us from "We're a PvP guild, which is just really a way of saying we're we todd did at PvE" to "Holy fuck we be pimping slightly below top level purples". All of the sudden we're in the upper echelon of PvE raiding. Top 5% on the continent. Yes, if the guild was a girl I'd be eating her out right now while telling her she tastes like cake! Though she still wouldn't be Megan Fox...*shakes fist menacingly*
Enough oral pleasures, for now anyways. There will undoubtedly be more posts before Wrath with other various comments on boss kill this, Bijaz sleeping with e-sluts that, hi I'm Del and girls vomit on my sperm etc.
Speaking of which...hhhmmm, bad lead in. For those that where hoping the following would involve sperm and vomit, unless your in the physical presence of one of the following, its not happening...hopefully...please tell me it isn't. Anyways, we've got a swath of birthdays in the next 3 days. An undoubtedly homoerotic gathering of the who's who of the sexy male stars in the guild. We've got Drunkard Del of course, who performed his own C section to get out of the womb using a broken beer bottle because he needed to make a booze run. Shuka, the Mexicant pantless ninja who's probably standing directly behind you right now feeling the freedom of the breeze, don't look, that'll just be awkward. Some...guy...whats his name? He likes fried chicken and rap? Token black guy, come on, someone help me out here. He was part of Operation Blackie Shield. No one? Fine, fuck you too. And finally, but no least, Pretty boy Chee who has recently decided to stop using his charms on 12 year old boys and has moved up to barely legal girls. Mother's be warned, all it takes is a look. One minute he's flashes his pretty boy smile then you suddenly find yourself staring deep into his pretty eyes and the next thing you know your daughter is pregnant, the cat is walking funny, and your ass hurts in ways it probably shouldn't.
A Throw Back to the Days of Yonder Year
Posted by Kharma on Mon, 21 Jul 2008
We decided that in all our OCD glory that we'd back track and clean up a loose end. Enter Leo the handicapped and his gay demon friend. We'd attempted him several months back but a profound dislike for SSC eventually drove us out of the instance entirely, least till now. It took us a bit, namely due to a small collection of people who continually pulled aggro coming out of phases and whirlwinds...*cough*. But eventually they either forgot to fuck up or failed to do so and the gay lovers died. Jeebus would be proud...or maybe its Rush Limbaugh who would be proud...or maybe they're the same person. If that's the case I'm glad I chill with Baby Jeebus instead.
As far as significant kills go, this one has to rate both high and low. Low in so much that Leo really isn't worth squat from a progression stand point anymore. But rather high because he was one of our original stumbling blocks. Kind of like a high school bully. Back in the day he made your life suck and you thought of suicide via sleeping pills or a woman's bic razor. But 5 years down the line you meet him on a downtown street and he offered to suck your dick for crack money. Yeah, that's where Leo is at, sucking dick to support his habit, in an entirely symbolic kind of way of course.
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