Since our first venture into 25-man Obsidian Sanctum, we've also been back to clear it again! In addition, we have been to 25-man Naxx on both last week's and this week's timer and have cleared the Arachnid and Plague quarters both time. We'll be going back tonight to attempt to get further!

We also ventured into Molten Core to get some achievements and cleared the place out in about 45 minutes (with 10 people) Woohoo!


It's awesome to see the great turnout and the incredible progress we're able to make!

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Last night, we had our first 25-man raid as a guild. We had 23 guildies in Obsidian Sanctum and successfully cleared it with no wipes!

We also went to 25-man Vault of Archavon with only a couple Pugs and cleaned that out as well.

Sartharion


It was very exciting to see the great turnout. Thanks and congratulations to all!

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Monday night Intemperance downed Kel'thuzad, the final boss is Naxxramas. We've been raiding Naxx for 5 weeks and each week we've made extraordinary progress. Thanks to everyone for the effort they've put in and congratulations to all. There's still much more to do, more bosses to kill, and much much more fun to be had!

Sapphiron



Kel'Thuzad



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Last night was our first attempt at the Construct Quarter, and we successfully downed all four bosses there, two of them on the first attempt!

Patchwerk



Grobbulus



Gluth



Thaddius



Great job guys, That's all four quarters cleared by Intemperance now! Two bosses to go for a full clear!

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Again to Naxxramas, and we've gotten guild firsts on four more bosses:

Heigan the Unclean



Loatheb



Gothik the Harvester



The Four Horsemen



Great job guys, That's three of the quarters cleared by Intemperance now!

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On Wednesday, we went back to Naxxramas again. We killed Anub'Rekhan, and demolished Grand Widow! We then moved to the final boss of the Arachnid Quarter and took her out on the first attempt! Congratulation on our first Maexxna kill!



After that, we downed Instructor Razuvious again, then moved to the Plague Quarter, where we also defeated Noth the Plaguebringer on the first attempt!


Great job guys, and congratulations to all!

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On Wednesday, we went back to Naxxramas to try again. We were victorious over Instructor Razuvious once more and had our first kills of Anub'Rekhan and Grand Widow Faerlina!





Great job guys, and congratulations to all who got upgrades!

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On Saturday, a group of us got together for an impromptu Naxxramas run just to check it out and we ended up killing Instructor Razuvious!


Then two days later, we went to Obsidian Sanctum and defeated Sartharion on our first time there!


Congratulations to all. This is a great accomplishment for us this early into the expansion and it's clear that there is much success to come!

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It's been a little over three weeks since the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and the overwhelming concensus is that it's a huge success! Intemperance already has a dozen level 80s and it looks like there will be many more in the near future.

If you're interested in raiding, now is a great time to get involved. It's a clean slate for people that hit 70 when many were burned out in Burning Crusade. Now everybody is loving the new instances and we're having a blast! If you've not played much in guild groups, I'd strongly encourage it; Run groups with the guild as much as possible and check out the posts in the Guild Forums. We'd love to have you!

We're continuing to make great progress in raiding. We just had our first kill of Halazzi the Lynx Lord in Zul'aman. He's been holding us back for a while, but we've proven we can do it! Great job all!

We're continuing to make great progress in raiding. We just had our first full clear of Karazhan in a single night! It took about 3 1/2 hours, and there was only one wipe (terrible placement of infernals on the first Prince attempt).
Great job all and Congratulations!

Unfortunately I didn't get screen shots before the boss despawned, but here's a shot of the group at the end of the run (note how tired everybody looks).

On the first attempt of clearing to and killing the eagle boss Akil'zon in Zul'Aman within the 20 minute timer, we did it and unlocked the bonus chest!
Once again, congratulations to all!

Another new first; The Eagle Boss in Zul'aman, Akil'zon, has been defeated by Intemperance!
We're continuing to make great progress! Congratulations to all!

...and this time we one-shot all but one of the bosses!
We've come a long way in a very short time! Congratulations to all!

That's right! Intemperance has officially fully cleared Karazhan. After our first kills of Illhoof and Prince just two weeks ago, we have now also downed Netherspite and Nightbane! We even went back and killed the Animal Boss, just for the sake of completeness!
Congratulations to all!

We had two firsts on the same night last night. Intemperance has downed Terestian Illhoof and Prince Malchezaar. We also downed Shade of Aran for the third week in a row, and this time we one-shot him!

We're making great progress and there is a guild meeting scheduled for 03/21/2008. Please sign up on the Instance Scheduler to attend and discuss.

Note that this meeting will be held over Ventrilo. Please download, install, and configure it ahead of time to ensure that you can at least listen. If you need help with Ventrilo, please ask. We have plenty of great guildies that would be willing to assist.

Intemperance is making great progress in Karazhan and we are currently discussing the possibility of adding a third raiding night and/or creating a second group.

Everybody is encouraged to express their opinions and ideas. Go to the Guild Forums under the Karazhan section and add to the discussions today. Direct link to the forum topic on this - here.
(Note that you must be logged into the forums for this link to work.)

Patch 2.3 has gone live and there are many changes for everybody. Faster leveling from 20 to 60, more heroic badges and more rewards for them, new flight paths, guild banks, changes to skills and abilities, daily instance, cooking, and pvp quests, etc.

Check out the official release notes here

Check out the Holiday scenery, Trick or Treat in the Inns, Bob for apples, Kill the Headless Horseman, and more!
Ends November 1 - Click here for more information.

According to the screen we've all seen when logging in over the past two days, Zul'Jin will be down from approximately 2:55 am on 08/14/07 until 2:55 am on 08/16/07. According to the blue post on the WoW forums, those times may be off by 3 hours. Either way, We'll be down until sometime in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

Read the WoW Forum Post here

Enjoy the break, and we'll see you on Thursday!

Guild ranks have been updated. Check the Guild Rank sticky in the Guild Discussion forum for full details here

We are making good progress with getting heroic keys and getting some heroic runs under our belts, and we're hoping to be back in Karazhan soon!

Get plugged in and become part of the action! Speak to any officer, any guild member you see doing a lot of level 70 runs, or post a message on the forums.

Patch 2.0.3 has arrived! We are now prepared for the expansion which is scheduled to be released on 01/16/2007. See the Guild Forums if you need a mirror to download the patch.

Read the entire patch notes HERE

Mages and Shammies get new their new talents! Also included is the new high-end raid dungeon Naxxramas, along with things such as new Argent Dawn rewards and key rings.

If you want to download the patch externally, you can get it from Fileplanet

For a more detailed decription of the new features, click HERE

The SK list won't be working until Friday or Saturday, but the forums have been successfully transferred over to the new hosting space. Thanks to all who donated and made it possible for this. We will have more than enough room now, so no more bandwidth exceeded messages :)

As many of you may well know, our site has become increasingly popular over the past few months. Last month we managed to max out our bandwidth halfway through the month. So now the council is deciding on a new plan that would increase our storage and bandwidth so that the site can continue to grow and prosper. To facilitate this, Guild Leader Arsilon has setup a Paypal account to accept donations from any guild members willing to help out the cause. Participation is completely voluntary and on an anonymous basis, but all donations that are received will be put 100% back into the guild, through web space and to pay for our Ventrilo server. If you wish to participate, a link below is provided. Thank you in advance for any kind donations that we receive :)

Novus Dominus, which has been an allied guild with us for quite some time, has joined the ranks of Intemperance. It's always seemed as if we were one guild with two separate tags anyways, but now we are officially one! Look forward to many new faces in guild chat over the coming days.

After many months of grueling grinding, Gublop has finally achieved the rank of Grand Marshal, the highest PvP rank possible. His actions have put Intemperance on the radar for many of the people on the server, and for that we are grateful!

Congratulations to everyone on our first endboss boss victory! After several attempts over the past couple of weeks, High Priest Venoxis was finally downed by the likes of the Intemperance crew!

Grats to everyone on a hugely successful second MC run. Mumford received our first epic drop (Felheart Belt), and we cleared nearly halfway to Luci. We cannot wait to see what this group is truly capable of!

We walked out with little more than a repair bill and a beaten dignity, but now we have several people attuned that weren't before. The fact that we half-killed a Molten Giant with only 1 priest says a lot. Next time we need a few more priests and a couple more tanks, and we can take them for sure!

After a meeting that was held on Monday, 2/6/06, it was decided that Intemperance will not be transferring servers. As Arsilon said in the official post on the boards:

"There was a lot of good debate last night and I thank everyone that made an effort to attend and voice their opinion as well as those that took the time to talk to me one on one. Ultimately it came down to the definate risks and drawbacks a move would create vs. only the possibility of better things on a new server. Ultimately it was decided it was better to accept the known, whether its good or bad, that we have on Zul'jin rather than go to Eitrigg with no way to guarantee it would indeed be any better and/or stay better.

There are some concerns some people raised last night that we will continue to address as a guild if we can. Others we will have to hope that Blizzard can continue to manage and deliver to us as lag-free and stable playing environment as possible.

You will be hearing more from me in the coming days about what we will be doing to rebuild our alliances strategy with the departure of Frozen Blades. In addition we will probably renew recruiting efforts and perhaps even reach out to any Frozen Blades members that decided to stay for whatever reason. In addition, I have continued to have discussions with Black Forest and what would happen if we stayed vs. if we went. If you were at the meeting last night you already know it is the intention of at least a small group of them to leave Black Forest and join Intemperance if we stayed. I have also already started preliminary discussions with another smaller guild. They were aware of our pending decision and we have agreed to pick up talks should the outcome end up with us staying on Zul'jin. I'll let you know more if/when those discussions progress.

I know the past several days have been hectic and created a lot of anxiety about what we would do and what would happen and the risks involved with possibly moving. I thank you for your patience with the process and for your support and dedication to the guild.

Now that our direction is clear we can pick up where we left off and continue to work towards a bigger and better Intemperance."

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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03)
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The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj
The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj will house two massive, unique dungeons -- the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, a 20-man raid dungeon, and the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, a 40-man raid dungeon. As players delve deeper into the mysteries of Ahn'Qiraj, they will discover revelations of the Silithid infestation and their shadowy masters, the Qiraji. Players will have to complete a world event of massive proportions before they can open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj on their realm.

Linked Auction Houses
Players will now be able to buy and sell goods with greater effectiveness using the Linked Auction House system. Auction
Houses in Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thunder Bluff will now share the same pool of Horde player-created auctions, and Alliance players will find the same to be true when visiting Ironforge, Stormwind City, and Darnassus Auction Houses. This system has been expanded to support the neutral Auction Houses as well. Tanaris, Everlook, and Booty Bay will all be linked for players of both factions to access. In addition, the "Looking for Group" and "Trade" channels have been unified among the corresponding cities, meaning, for example, that you can trade your goods or look for groups in Ironforge while in Stormwind.

Multiple Battlegrounds Queues
Players will be able to enter multiple battleground queues. No longer must you make the hard decision of which queue to join -- when queued for all three, you can join the first one available or hold out for that particular battleground which you've really got your heart set on. Should a queue open while you are already in a battleground, you may switch to the new battle or remain in the current on.

Soul Shard Bags
Tailors now can make soul bags to hold soul shards. The smallest is a 20-slot bag, the recipe for which can be purchased in Gadgetzan. The recipe for a larger bag can be found in Scholomance, and one for an even larger bag can be found in Molten Core. In the main UI, these soul bags will display how many shards they contain. So long as the soul bags have room, any soul shards a warlock creates will automatically go into the bag.

Raid Calendar System
The raid-lockout system has undergone a significant change. The new system will have all instances reset at a certain server time, regardless of when you were actually saved to the instance. The reset schedule is as follows:
Molten Core: Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance.
Blackwing Lair: Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance
Onyxia: Every 5 Days
Zul'Gurub: Every 3 Days
Temple of AhnQiraj (40-man): Every 7 Days, resetting during weekly maintenance
Ruins of AhnQiraj (20-man): Every 3 Days
All resets will occur during off-hours, when the least amount of raids are active.

For full patch notes, click here

Spent the morning trying to fix the double-login problem we were having...and managed to make things worse :D Basically, the forum software has been updated since our forum was setup, so trying to use our backup files with the new version were causing a lot of problems. The fact that partial mods were in the old directory (for the photo album and the portal page) were causing problems too. So....I've set up a fresh forum! Give me some time to set it up right so we don't have anymore problems.

It is Winter Veil, Azeroth! Come, raise your glass!
A new year is coming, the old one will pass!
Kill Greenches, drink egg nog, get presents each night
For the Earthmother loves you, and so does the Light!

     

The Feast of Winter Veil has once again come to Azeroth! In addition to the quests and fun that were available last year, there are all-new activities and goodies for you to enjoy! So come, embrace the holiday spirit with your fellow adventurers through late December!

As luck would have it, our LBRS run last night finally produced the 3rd gem needed for the key. Now we have full guild access to UBRS from here on out!