Just refreshed our old realm forum recruitment thread, nothing moar!

Well, the picture explains itself - that's what WotLK has been in a nutshell.

Plainly said, not enough content.

 

For a couple of resets we've actually gone for some retarded achievements - as it seems to be what the guilds in the world concentrate and compete on, and what the whole of PVE currently and even in the future is. According to the blue posts and so forth.

Why did it have to change from killing bosses - to do some weirdass shit what doesn't actually matter at all? Blizzard will probably implement usb-compatible dildos, and achievements for doing all the instances and the bosses with the dildos shoved up your asses. Have fun then.

 

 

But just as always, what Blizzard wants - we shall follow.

I knew the day would come. A realm first, world #4, Europe #3 on Heroic: Spore Loser!

http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/eu/neptulon/Aphase

That seems to be the new place to actually observe our "progress", as realmhistory.net - and the old boss kills don't mean zilch.

 

 

And on another note, we are going for other realm firsts when Ulduar comes. Hence why the recruiting page has been updated:

• Mage
• Paladin(retri)
• Shaman(ele)

 

That's what we need. Apply via the recruiting page if you've got the minerals for it.

 

Currently were merely raiding 1-2 days a week, depending if were trying an achievement or not, but the normal Sunday-Thursday 1900-0000 Server Time schedule will pop back into the place, when the next content patch is here. Who knows, this time it might actually take a reset to clear the place?

Ater a lot of this..

..some of this..

..too fucking much of this..

..never enough of this..

..some practice in here, as he's the leader of the black dragonflight..

..too unbelievably much of this crap - even with the practice..

 

 

...but in the end lies the reward...

..for whom?

Yes, 'tis Christmas.

Another fun fucking spend-all-your-money and waste em for stupid gifts for the relatives, so-called friends and/or coworkers, get yourself stuffed via 15 courses of "good" food and get yourself drunk in the meantime as well-fest!

So, have fun with that and it and so forth, and heres the new Christmas poll - go and vote!

hahahahhhhhahahhahhahahhahhahhahahhhahhahha

 

And yeah, we actually killed Sarthie with a couple of drakes up yesterday, but due to all of the good dps being on holidays, and having problems with healers a week or two back - no 3 drake kill yet.

Oh lookie lookie.
Somebody managed to actually change the default character from his old main
to his new female gnome mt!

..and oh lookie lookie #2 - it seems we can create polls for retarded questions
and votes nowadays as well, here's your first one!

Oh yeah, we downed Malygos 25 on Sunday a week back,
on the 7th of December. We checked out the latency on Lagtulon at around
1900 - noticed it was unplayable, and postponed up until 2200.
One or two-shotted the boss, cannot remember anymore.

After that there was nothing left for us to clear, so Pelk and myself decided to hop
on a casual drinking cruise to Stockholm on Tuesday, missing Wednesdays raid as well.
And on Thursday, 'twas merely Sartharion+3 drakes up for us to kill this reset.

Sundays raid didn't quite materialize as our new guys were saved to their old instances,
Monday was cancelled beforehand due to an Opeth gig which didn't materialize,
and our focus didn't quite materialize on Tuesday, when we actually attempted Sartharion,
and his lovely drakes.

Shit DPS, shit tanking, shit focus.
Well, they're all dead the next time were there.

What a nice start for the fourth reset of WotLK.
Server problems continued on Wednesday, and even with
22 guys left on Thaddius, we did a couple of wings in Naxxramas,
only leaving Thaddius, Plaguewing and Sapphiron/Kel'thuzad for
Thursday.
Moar recruiting was merely on our minds after the raid.

But on Thursday, Blizzard struck with a heavy hammer of good old latency
and/or extreme troubles with the load on the instance servers CPU's.
Basically, no lag or latency prior to bossfights, but the second you
engaged something more stressful for the server - it felt like playing
in porridge, glue and oysters at the same time.
Yummy.

Not like Malygos - bugs were already haunting in the back of the brain.

And anyways - we engaged on one of the most memorable raids ever,
due to the chitter, yelling and chatter on Vent, due to undoable bosses,
weird trash respawns at Four Horsemen - the Eye towards Sapphiron
wasn't glowing - Ibuycandy stealthed through the trash and noticed that
Four Horsemen weren't standing up - nor was the portal back there usable,
due to Yours Truly buying accidentally a wrong enchant from a reputation vendor -
not once but twice, and then the third time from the right vendor - a spelldamage
enchant for shoulders instead of the tanking one, due to Natrii keeping us company
on vent, and due to the general mayhem of the randomness on what the hell we could
actually do there and due to other unimaginative events taking place.

Nonetheless, we we're stubborn as fuck, waited for all the other guilds to actually get
fed up of the instance servers, and actually managed to clear the remaining bosses -
in a truly memorable raid.

Only promises good for Malygos on Sunday - if it's playable that is.



And on other news, Menoann, the lol-specced warlock actually had
the most threat for a while on Grobbulus on Wednesday.
And heres a screenie to prove it!


Which is actually quite shameful for every single other dps in the guild.

Once again I've been busy ingame or irl to actually write some progress
news (my ass), and the best way to actually catch up on our progress is
at realmhistory.net

And talking about ass, I heard that Drooly enjoys shoving some stuff in there,
especially calculations.



But on the other news - we actually cleared Naxxramas 25 on the third
reset of WotLK!
Two nights it took - to actually get more people than 21-23 online, and
that just tells you how easy it is actually to clear the instance.

On Monday we ventured on our first evening of Malygos 25 - and after a big
revamp with the tactics, on Tuesday, we finally cracked P1/P2 DPS-problems,
if the instance servers would've not been buggin, a kill should've emerged.
Not to mention the three instance server crashes we encounted over the evening.

And what kind of bugs did we encounter then? Well, for one hour, Malygos
timers we fubared, so he decided to do the Arcane Breath towards the raid
instead of the main aggro target, and on top of all, Malygos decided to
attack us in Phase 2 - but still remain untargettable.
Lovely 13k hits, somebody BoP'd me, and the wanker of a dragon started
oneshotting the remaining dps in the ground.
Here's a nice screenie of him in Phase 2 attacking us!


But anyways, we decided to call the raid early, even though we had less than 20% attempts.
Just better to leave the kill for an evening when the server actually works? (Not happening on Neptulon?)
Though, the evening wasn't completely wasted, as a 10-man group of ours emerged,
and oneshotted Malygos.

Oh so slow with the updating of the news again.

Mere a day after forming the second Naxxramas(10) group,
and on the last day of the SECOND reset of WotLK,
we actually ventured on our first 25-manner - consisting of 21 players.

Sartharion was no match without any adds, and we even did full
spiderwing in Naxxramas with a lolraid.

More people needed for the serious progress, so apply please,
if you think you have the guts for it.

You know where to apply.

So much crap to be posted, and yes, I know, I've been lazy with the news.
I'd rather spend the extra 30 to 60 minutes of my news-writing time doing
heroics or such in-game, just like everybody should =)
But as now there's no upgrades from heroics any longer, there's actually
 time to write some news.

Yeah, one group cleared Naxxramas on the second reset of WotLK -
and we had an amazing luck with the tanking loot!
Almost two epics, from 15 bosses!
Great, isn't it.
Congratulations for Aluin, Elan, Canismajoris, Drooly, Hacker , Ibuycandy,
Lavish, Oval, Purpleranger, Regeneration and Valadra for being the first
lucky 80s in the guild to do it!



And now, the recruiting for the 25-manners has started as well.
The recruiting was on hold during the leveling up process, and the old
applications have been answered and let's say - taken care of.

And check for the top of the page for our current needs for 25-manners.



And yeah, here's Purpleranger and Canismajoris reigning from the throne of Kel'thuzad.
Any bets on when we can see a 25-man version of this?

..and yur making out wen the phone rigns.
U anser it n the vioce is "wut r u doing wit my daughter?"
U tell ur girl n she say "my dad is ded".


THEN WHO WAS PHONE? 

Oh yeah wut? Some time no update-y.
This might not come as news for you: Wrath of the Lich King
was released on November 13th, unless you have been living
in the real world for a couple of months instead of the
lush meadows of the lolworld we live in.

That's now a week ago, and not much has happened.
First reset in the expansion, and leveling up has been on everybodys mind.

And speaking of that - congratulations for Lavish for reaching
level 80 the first in the guild, and for Purpleranger
for the achievement for the first Dwarf at level 80 on the realm!
I remember Pelk querying me, "who are these chinese Drooly invited?".
The swedish (chinese-related?) mob has certainly took us by a storm =)

And on a personal note, just managed to grab myself the last level today as well,
with a handful of other players in the guild, which takes us to 10 guys in total
as level 80 in the guild.

Naxxramas is in my and everybody elses sights, but I guess little Canismajoris
isn't tanking any bossas she's still crittable =)

Merely one ultima thule has been reached, and there's still a lot of work to be done.
Keep leveling as the 10-manners are obviously starting this reset.
It's up to you when were starting the 25-manners!
Keep up the good wor... HAHA, DISREGARD THAT - KEEP LEVELING FAGGOTS.

While we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond:

Yes we can.




We can only hope that the world is a better place.

I know, I've been slacking with the news for a while, especially when there has
actually been news to be posted.

It sort of reminds me of pre-patch. Just a lil' bit. Just like the good old days.
3 progressbosses down in a single reset, (remember, we managed to pull off 6
Tier 6-quality bosses in a single reset?), but yeah, well. You know how it is.
Patch 3.0, so we're not really patting ourselves in the back, like some other guilds.
*cough*cough*TDT*cough*
Now where the hell did I catch this cough? I hope I'm not getting sick.

So yeah, we went and got the ring for some people from Kael'thas Sunstrider,
and after that, twas time for the freelootlike Kalecgos and Brutallus.
Not that ultimately shabby for a reset - like months before - plagued by
attendance problems. Let's see how peoples interest to raid continues,
we've got only two resets to go until WotLK. That means 14 days and counting.
Do go check out the kill-screenshots from the gallery.




And in other news, the recruiting situation.
Currently we're recruiting people for the expansion, which makes the gear obsolete.
If you think you've got the nuts, activity, maturity and a sense of humor -
why not level with us and help us progress in WotLK!
Apply at the recruiting page, and do spend some time in your application.

Lots of crap has happened during the past couple of months. The lack of attendance has pushed
the energy of the players, and the attendance to an all time low.

All time low you say? The patch, and the expansion are the reasons? Who knows.
The realization of the upcoming changes, in talents, itemization and so forth? 

Meh, perhaps it was merely the hardships and the incredible luck we have encountered.
Raidingwise, inter- and extraguildwise, and never forgetting the mighty IRL.

Easily infamous Mother-Heart-deal, MT disappearing (among other trusted guildies),
accounts getting banned, computers and minds getting shattered.

K. Such is life, and like all life struggles to go on, so did we.
Some had the energy to push forward, some didn't.

In the beginning of the guild, early June, our (unrealistic) hopes and goals were to see
Illidan Stormrage dead. Who would've believed us.

Let's be honest, our 8 percent try months back, even plagued with the aforementioned
problems, is our greatest achievement in TBC. Not this nerfed kill.

Lest not rejoice too much, and focus on the expansion ahead.
I'd shurely take a close look on the kill screenshot.

The clock is ticking, and the time is flying.
Blizzard is already manufacturing discs and putting the final touches to WotLK.
And like every single guild besides TDE/BBM here on Neptulon, Aphase is struggling
with raiding attendance just a few days away from the upcoming patch, 
and mere weeks away from the upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

Shure, the massrecruiting has started once again, to counter the lack of attendance
for 25-man raids, whilst bearing in mind that we're actually trying to find ourselves a
good core for the new expansion.
We do need to keep some sort of raiding schedule before the expansion hits,
it's no longer about any items as all of our gear will be replaced with level 75 blues,
but it's about keeping the guild intact, active and running.
Perhaps we need to lower our raiding schedule, so that the people would actually want
to come online on those few days we raid?


Anyways, the attention, comments and discussion from your part is required now.
The expansion is soon upon us, would you prefer to to play another class and/or a spec there?
Are you actually starting to raid in the expansion, have you lost your love for the progress and the
game? Are you annoyed by the fact that we haven't managed to throw up raids just recently, and
you're worried about the future?
What are your thoughts?

This plea goes especially for the old core members - read raiders.
We want to see you in the WotLK!

Please, engage in the discussion in the member forums.