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Frostbyte is a World of Warcraft guild on the european Bloodhoof server.

The guild was started as an offshoot of the Frostbyte Clan (which has existed through many years and games), but has since grown to be just about the largest guild on Bloodhoof. Admittedly, the size may be linked to the staggering numbers of alt characters played by some of the members.

A relaxed yet successful raiding environment, regular guild meets and an appreciation that real life can come first, make Frostbyte one of the least conventional guilds around... but in a good way!

This site is run using ClanWiki (written especially for Frostbyte) and PHPBB2.



Guild News

19/11/08 - Ding 80!
With the release of Wrath of the Lich King, many of our number braved the scariness of the outside world to obtain a copy, before settling down to a levelling marathon. Universally applauded by Frostbyte, Blizzard have done a magnificent job with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, making the levelling process not just a means to an end. Despite this, a few of us took up the challenge, and we can now boast 3 level 80 characters - so congratulations to Calyx (Balance Druid), Harlekin (Rogue) and Galadhrim (DPS Warrior). As lamented in guild chat last night, though ... Bring on the healers!!!

27/10/08 - Tidying up
Despite our rampage through Hyjal and Black Temple, there were still gaps in out boss repertoire - namely Vashj in SSC and Kael'Thas Sunstrider in The Eye. Both are fantastic fights, requiring keen raid focus from the entire team. In the last week, both have been dispatched, leaving us with one hole in our progression from Karazhan to Mother Shahraz in BT- Archimonde. Judging by Wowjutsu, he seems to fit between Gurtogg Bloodboil and Reliquary of Souls in difficulty, so we will approach this fight with a little confidence, but still aware of the problems a fight like this can cause!

21/10/08 - BT Nerf o'rama
Taking full advantage of the recent 'capability tweaks' to the mobs of Black Temple, a revived raiding team took on Illidan's minions, who have been resolutely refusing to keel over for us, and showed them what-for. After a customary clear to Gorefiend, he finally allowed us to continue our rampage, onto Gurtogg Bloodboil, who took only two attempts to brutally murder. Next in our sights was the Reliquary of Souls, who again took two attempts. An AoE rampage onto Mother Shahraz, saw us unexpectedly up against a boss who is rumoured to require a serious amount of Shadow Resist - something we'd not prepared for. Nevertheless, after four attempts, an almost flawless fight saw her killed in plenty of time.

Tonight sees us looking at the Illidari Council, and, if all goes according to plan, Illidan himself.

05/9/08 - Raiding again
Well (for most people at least) the break is over and we've managed to get some raids together in Mount Hyjal, Black Temple and Serpentshrine Cavern.

From looking at our roster we are a little light in some roles with some dedicated raiders focusing on real life and else where so we are in the process of doing some modest recruitment. We'll be trialling some new people in our coming raids so please make them feel welcome!

We are considering excellent applicants but healers will have the best chance of finding a home with us (Shaman and Paladin's especially).

13/8/08 - Summer break
Every summer, all guilds struggle to form raids. Generally this leads to disquiet and uncertainty. Having predicted this, and announced an official Summer Break, we've managed to avoid losing players. Tonight saw the end of the break, with a successful Mount Hyjal run. While people were rusty, we cleared to Kaz'Rogal in spite of a late start. With luck, our usual raiding schedule will resume, including our first peek into Sunwell next Monday for an evening of death and repair bills, and who knows, even a few lucky epics...

24/6/08 Addendum
[Amani War Bear] - Mikeyblue

22/6/08 - ... to maximum speed
With all this fuss being made over Black Temple progress, it's easy to forget there's more to the game than that. A dedicated group of our members have been striving recently to beat the Zul Aman timer, a challenge which would see us with our first bear mount. Tonight, this was achieved, with over three minutes left on the timer. Congratulations to all involved, and special congrats to Duvor, whose roll hack was working the best on the night.

Loot:

[Amani War Bear] - Duvor

19/6/08 - ...and slowing down...
With May being far more successful than we'd imagined, some tweaks were made to the calendar to allow us to see more content while avoiding spending time killing bosses with no loot for us. This saw us achieve our first 4/5 MH run in one night, but frustratingly, no new bosses.

This changed with a 2-night run to Black Temple, which saw a frustrating first night whereby Naj'Entus died only after 4 or 5 goes, and Supremus proved more difficult than we remembered. The followup (19/6) saw a much smoother one-shot of Supremus, followed by two attempts on Shade of Akama - a new boss for us. Both attempts saw us control the adds perfectly - kudos to the mages and hunters. The first attempt wiped as AoE casters were left uncontrolled/unkilled. The second was nigh on perfect, as Shade was killed while Akama was still at 20% health. A tentative look at Gorefiend's trash saw us clear to him, but very late into the night, a suicide attempt was made, exposing us to the complex technicalities of this fight.

Our plans for the rest of June are to see Lady Vashj die, and to make serious progress on Teron Gorefiend - our first attempt at Teron (67%) seemed promising!

Loot:
Shade of Akama:
[The Seeker's Wristguards] - Stormfist
[Wristbands of Divine Influence] - Scipio

29/5/08 - Picking up the pace...
When the June event calendar went live, some people (myself included) thought it looked a little .. optimistic. With only one night a week for SSC/TK, we were going to have to pick up our pace significantly, in order to give us the opportunity for new experiences (Vashj/Kael'Thas) on the "New-content Mondays". Tonight we prove that Frostbyte is capable of clearing to an end-boss in a night, as all 5 of Lady Vashj's minions were dispatched in fairly short order, with only one wipe all night. Thursday will see us attempt the same in TK, giving us the choice of either end boss on Monday night.


27/5/08 - T6-a-gogo
Last Wednesday saw the first three bosses of Hyjal killed in short order. Thursday saw us struggle for consistency on Azgalor. In true Frostbyte spirit, a call was made for a return before the reset, and more attempts on Azgalor.

Following an almost perfect set of trash waves, our first attempt saw us suffer 'tank-death', and a short-order wipe.

The second go, however, was about as perfect as first kills ever are. Despite both doomwalker tanks being doomed themselves, thus the last 10% of Azgalor's health being taken off while we were surrounded by doomwalkers, he was killed with about 10 people left up. A well-timed doom just before his death saw our celebrations interrupted as we killed a final doomwalker before handing loot out, and starting one of several goes on Archimonde, which saw him down to 78%. A full night on him will hopefully see an improvement.

Loot:

[Gloves of the Forgotten Conqueror] - Stormfist
[Gloves of the Forgotten Vanquisher] - Aysen
[Gloves of the Forgotten Protector] - Matrixo
[Don Rodrigo's Poncho] - Disenchant

19/5/08 - Supremus not so supreme
Our return to Black Temple saw us quickly dispatch with Supremus' trash, allowing us the whole night to concentrate on him, and his friends later in the instance. As new raiders got used to the fight, we got him to between 60 and 80% four times. A minor tweak in tactics saw us hit the enrage timer at 2%, followed by what appeared to be an easy kill, with 5 minutes left to enrage.

With time to spare, we had one go on Shade of Akama, which showed us what the fight is like, if nothing else!

Loot:
[Pauldrons of Abyssal Fury] - Detroid (Supremus)
[Band of the Abyssal Lord] - Pooky (Supremus)
[Blessed Band of Karabor] - Scipio (Trash)


19/5/08 - Naj'entus laid to rest
Past Thursday Frostbyte ventured into Black Temple for the first time. (seriously anyway)

Naj'entus put up a good effort, throwing everything he had at us, including his spine (which we kindly returned). After him getting the better of us the first 2 times, we managed to get it done on the 3rd try.

Supremus was next on the list. We had 3 goes, our best attempt was 44%, but we now know what he can do and he will be going down in the near future.

Loot:
[Helm of Soothing Currents] - Menoceros
[Rising Tide] - Detroid


12/5/08 - Frostbyte officially an 'uncommon' guild
Recent performance have seen our Wowjutsu European ranking shoot from around 8000th at the beginning of April to 4802 as of today. Being in the top 5000 gives us 'uncommon' status, and a green score to boot. Getting to the top 1000 will see us considered 'rare'. One day, eh?

5/5/08 - Kaz'Rogal is dead
1 wipe on the trash, 1 wipe on the boss at 11%, and a death. A lovely evening in Hyjal. Following on, Azgalor was taken to 65%. Not bad for our first week's raiding!

Loot

[Blue Suede Shoes] - Halfrek
[Black Featherlight Boots] - Disenchant

1/5/08 - Anetheron bites the dust
After an awesome April with 7 new bosses down, May started off with a bang as the continuation raid to Mount Hyjal did indeed lead to another conquest. Again a kill on the first go at the boss itself, after one wipe on the trash waves.

Trash was kind enough to drop:
[Nethervoid Cloak] - Smuttel
[Pepe's Shroud of Pacification] - Detroid
[Boots of the Divine Light] - Battlecleric

Anetheron dropped:
[Golden Links of Restoration] - Slimpie
[Glimmering Steel Mantle] - Whiteboy

Oh and just to pay for the impending repairs, we'd popped in to kill Maggy first - 25 minutes for 20 gold and 3 badges each seems like a good use of time! Tier 4 chests went to Scipio, Menoceros and Mandrayk.


30/4/08 - Winterchill down
Frostbyte's first venture into the Mount Hyjal raid got off to a fantastic start, when the event was started before everyone was in the instance, let alone buffed. With no way out of the event once it had started, our first wipe was on wave 1 of the trash.

After another wipe at wave 7, we got through all the trash, to look at Winterchill himself. We'd heard that the lead-up to the first two fights are considered as hard as the fights themselves, and this proved to be true, as Winterchill seemed to give up, dying the first time we saw him.

With plenty of time left, we had three goes on Anetheron, seeing a wave 8 wipe, a 63% and a 90%. He feels doable, and hopefully tonight we'll show him what we're made of.

With raid focus waning, we moved on for a look at Black Temple - having lost some tanks and healers, this was never meant to be a serious look, but we got to Na'Jentus' room. On seeing us, he immediately dispatched a trash group to comprehensively kill everyone. Some reading on tactics would be advisable before our first official attempt!

Loots

Hyjal Trash
[Hammer of Judgement] - Calyx
[Hammer of Judgement] - Scipio
[Hammer of Judgement] - Stormfist
[Chestguard of Relentless Storms] - Stormblood
[Claw of Molten Fury] - Kelmi
[Claw of Molten Fury] - Disenchant

Winterchill
[Cuffs of Devastation] - Vidu
[Bracers of the Pathfinder] - Gix


24/4/08 - Al'Ar Extinguished
Al'Ar is a high-mobility, high DPS fight, and had been causing us problems for a while. After one 'learning-wipe', Al'Ar went down in what was possibly the messiest ever kill - requiring DPS warriors and druids (and even, if I'm not mistaken, a rogue) to tank her for parts of phase 2 while we awaited a battle res cooldown. However, despite all this, we managed to get her down with about 20 seconds to enrage. These are the kills we really enjoy - our final kill on Karathress seemed so simple, it was a bit of an anticlimax. It was a guild ambition to be at least 3/4 TK and 5/6 SSC before we allowed ourselves into Hyjal/BT, and we've achieved it. Congratulations to everyone, and good luck in the Hyjal raid next Wednesday.

Loot:
[Talon of the Phoenix] - Kelmi
[Band of Al'ar] - Calyx
[Tome of Fiery Redemption] - Disenchant


21/4/08 - On a roll, did you say?
Unwilling to wait until our next set of SSC runs, we snuck in an additional run to our schedule, which saw us failing, abysmally to even perform the Karathress pull. On our 4th go, however, we proved that the pull is all, killing Karathress without a single death, with 2 minutes to the enrage timer. 5/6 SSC.

This was followed by a look at Lady Vashj, who we saw to 69%, and then a look at Loot-theridon (as we shall call him from now on) who died first time, adding to our epics nicely. It is likely that Magtheridon will be removed from our Raider-preference bosses soon - Casuals listen up!

Loot:

Karathress:
[Leggings of the Vanquished Hero] - Mandrayk
[Leggings of the Vanquished Hero] - Elriya
[Leggings of the Vanquished Defender] - Macewindu
[Fathom-Brooch of the Tidewalker] - Disenchanted

Magtheridon
[Chestguard of the Fallen Hero] - Canesten
[Chestguard of the Fallen Champion] - Whiteboy
[Chestguard of the Fallen Champion] - Crus
[Magtheridon's Head] - Menoceros
[Aegis of the Vindicator] - Slimpie
[True-Aim Stalker Bands] - Disenchanted
[Pit Lord's Satchel] - Gix
[Black Sack of Gems] - Lifa

17/4/08 - Leotheras can't see. Can't hear any more either.
Following a successful run in SSC yesterday, where Lurker, Morogrim and Hydross were one-shotted, we were freed up for a night of new content. After some silly mistakes on the trash leading to Leo's room, followed by a 5 minute break to gather our thoughts, we surprised ourselves with a 2% attempt, hitting the enrage timer. A quick regroup and rebuff saw Leo dead with over 2 minutes left on our second attempt.

The night was rounded off with a few goes on Karathress, where we managed to get him down to 75%, with all his adds down.

Loot:
[Gloves of the Vanquished Champion] - Stormherald
[Gloves of the Vanquished Defender] - Scipio
[Gloves of the Vanquished Hero] - Mandrayk
[Boots of Courage Unending] - Disenchanted
[True-Aim Stalker Bands] - Disenchanted
[Pattern: Boots of Blasting] - Canesten

9/4/08 - Magtheridon withers
•ahem• These things always come in fours, so my grandmama said, and boy was she right (rest her soul). On our fourth attempt (well, third if you discount unexpected paladin pulls) in our first night of Maggy raiding since the patch, Magtheridon wilfully laid down and handed over his bounty.

Well done to everyone, particularly Halfrek, who is our first fully-tier-4 equipped toon, and also to those who can now claim to be 'Champions of the Naaru'.

Loot:
[Chestguard of the Fallen Champion] - Astolpho
[Chestguard of the Fallen Hero] - Midknight
[Chestguard of the Fallen Hero] - Halfrek
[Magtheridon's Head] - Battlecleric
[Pit Lord's Satchel] - Pinkies
[Terror Pit Girdle] - Disenchanted
[Soul-Eater's Handwraps] - Disenchanted
[Black Sack of Gems] - Menoceros

7/4/08 - Astromancer Solarian RIP
These things always come in threes, and following a swift run through the trash, Solarian was one-shotted with hardly any deaths. With a whole evening free, three attempts were made on Al'Ar, climaxing in a 2% wipe on Phase 1. Al'Ar is a highly mobile, technical fight, and (almost) nailing phase one is quite an achievement in one night.

Loot:
[Trousers of the Astromancer] - Canesten
[Vambraces of Ending] - Puttedk
[Solarian's Sapphire] - Disenchanted


6/4/08 - Zul'Jin DEADED
Not that it was ever in doubt, but in one of the shortest follow-up raids in our history, Zul'Jin was one-shotted tonight, by the same group that killed Malacrass on Friday.


4/4/08 - Hex Lord Down
After far to long of being ignored by the guild, an intrepid band of adventurers set foot into Zul Aman once more with murderous intent. They were rewarded with a guild first kill of Hex Lord Malacrass whose crumpled body can now be seen on our guild progress page.

A well deserved congratulations to Blaatschaap, Crus, Detroid, Duvor, Menoceros, Midknight, Scipio, Smuttel, Stormfist, Togi. Rumor has it that Zul'Jin is quaking in his shoes with multiple attempts at 10%.


19/3/08 - Tempest Keep Massacre
Today we saw our first 1-shot of a boss in TK. Having concentrated on SSC for a while, we felt it time for a break, and steamed our way to Void Reaver, who we 1-shotted. This was followed by a few goes on Solarian, where a few of us used up our 'idiot vouchers'. However, progress was made, and once we get the hang of "The Bomb", Solarian will succumb.

Today also saw us begin using our DKP system in earnest, which we hope will see loot being distributed fairly based partly on raid attendance, and guild benefit. Casuals need not worry, as they're catered for too! More information is available to guildies on the forum.

Loot from tonight was:

Midknight - [Fire-Cord of the Magus]
Gix - [Void Reaver Greaves]
Stormfist - [Seventh Ring of the Tirisfalen]
Matrixo - [Destroyer Shoulderguards]
Whiteboy - [Crystalforge Pauldrons]

Congratulations to all.


7/3/08 - Murloc Murder
It looked promising and we delivered our first kill on Morogrim on time and as expected. After having a hiccup on our first attempt whilst we were moving we took him down in a straight-forward manner second time.

There was impressively amount of teamsmanship with Macewindu and Belegohtar both passing winning roles to others leaving a final loot line up of:

Scipio [Luminescent Rod of the Naaru]
Gix [Mantle of the Tireless Tracker]
Pooky [Talon of Azshara]

We went on to have a play with Karathress and will be doing our homework before we next attempt him (keep an eye on the forums!)


4/3/08
We had a great time in our last SSC run! Whilst no new kills to report we decided to have a night trying Morogrim to get the hang of the encounter. We were served with a blunt reminder that the trash on the way was non-trivial but went on to all get a good feel of the encounter.

After (re-)watching a video of the encounter we started our tries and made steady progress each time until getting a best of 61%. Up against the respawn timers we decided to have one last attempt as people thought they'd got the hang of it. Everyone must have put in there all as we culminated the night with a very nerve racking but satisfying attempt of 13%.

A Morogrim kill in our near future seems likely at this point so can we keep up with the signing to the raids as we continue to make end game progress.


7/2/08
A very successful start to the year seeing 5 (yes count them, 5!) new first boss kills. In the space of a few weeks we've seen new kills of Void Reaver, Hydross, Lurker, Halazzi and Jan'alai.

Lurker and Hydross have been killed often enough for us to feel confident (but not complacent) about the encounters and we've done little tasters of some of the other SSC bosses to get a feel. We are trying now to improve our pacing and our focus (first-try kills coming soon!) to ensure that we get the best use of our raiding time.

In other news there has been some discussion on whether or not to rethink our looting system and there has been some great input there, if you have any thoughts please contribute to the growing thread.

In all I think everyone involved can give themselves a pat on the back.

22/1/08
Keeping up the pace we are happy to report a new first kill. Lurker went down after a few tries. The fishy boss was no match for us and yielded the following shinies:

Togi [Ancestral Ring of Conquest]
Frostpriest [Earring of Soulful Meditation]
Crus [Tempest-Strider Boots]

Other drops included:
Gix [Pattern: Belt of the Black Eagle]
Creel [Wildfury Greatstaff]

Nice guy award goes to Blunkett for passing the staff to Creel.

17/1/08
In a frenzy of murder and mayhem we are happy to report our second new kill this week. Hydross in Serpentshrine Cavern marks our first SSC boss down with Lurker planned to follow real soon now.

In an evening of bad luck with Tank d/cs and other plagues of locusts the actual kill while not textbook was made all the more nailbiting because of it.

After losing our nature tank at ~15%, Creel, FBs little teddy bear jumped in as an emergency tank with a little help from our hunter Razorhawk and a lot of help from our heroically battling healers.

The officers would also like to give a special thankyou to everyone who farmed and contributed primals to actually make the run possible, it is a testiment to FB's teamwork to see people pulling together like this. The primal grind is not over however, we still have more gear to get to guarantee that we will be able to farm Hydross in the future.

The loot:

Slimpie [Blackfathom Warbands]
Pinkies [Robe of Hateful Echoes]
Scipio [Wraps of Purification]
Frostpriest [Pattern: Boots of the Long Road] (Nice turn of speed on getting them made and enchanted!)

Finally congratulations to Matrixo and Pinkies in earning their raider status!

15/1/08
As the guild frantically farms primals to gear up more tanks for Hydross, Frostbyte managed another first kill this time in Zul Aman.

Halazzi (the lynx boss) was defeated after a single failed try yielding shiny [Spaulders of the Advocate] for Evoh. Other loot grats go to:

Pooky [Jungle Stompers]
Silke [Akil'zon's Talonblade]

2/1/08
After a short break for Christmas Frostbyte got a late present in an extremely successful night in the Eye. A very professionally executed Void Reaver kill marked our first boss down in the Eye and yielded shinies for Nitracles, Anime and Calyx.

Nitracles [Deathmantle Shoulderpads]
Anime [Mantle of the Avatar]
Calyx [Girdle of Zaetar]

Santa was also generous enough to give a blizzard of trash shinies also:

Mandrayk [Mantle of the Elven Kings]
Pooky