Eminence

And so it… ends.

25man progress and in our eyes, the expansion, is now complete. Two attempts on the night was enough to finally put an end to the Icecrown Citadel grind. With an influx of new people, a new found hunger for the kill and the 25% buff was what it took in the end for Eminence to join “The Light of Dawn” club. The kill ranked about 174th in the world and 98th in EU. You can see the set up we used on the World of Logs parse for the fight.

Eminence: The Wrath of the Lich King

Eminence was created back in September 2008 simply as a levelling guild with no initial plans to take it much further. As time progressed the doors opened and we began to raid Naxxramas back at the start of the expansion. With the little people we had, we had to find random players to fill up our raids until the later stages of the instance. Once we had filled the ranks up a it we pushed on and gained our first notable achievement back on Magtheridon, Immortal! Gaining in strength we gathered momentum and pushed through The Obsidian Sanctum and Ulduar sitting in the ranking system about 1000th in the world. We weren’t hard core as such, but we had fun.

Things were to change on Magtheridon, bigger guilds such as Ensidia, moved away and stopped raiding which by default found Eminence looking at the server first spot. This new found position pushed us on with some new goals and recruits to reflect these goals. Throughout Trial of the Crusader we had a fight on our hands to land the Grand Crusader title, which on November 18th 2009, we did. Moving from rankings in the 1000ths, to 222nd in the world. This period was decisive for us, as it shaped the future of the guild, aiming much higher than we initially had hoped for.

After we played the waiting game for Icecrown to be released, we were ready to taken on what Blizzard was going to throw at us… we thought! After playing through the initial stages of Icecrown with a lot of lag on Magtheridon we decided to take the offer of free transfer and move off to Trollbane on 12th February 2010. We had a few wobbly moments when we first arrived, but we were able to continue with hard mode progress. Towards the latter stages of Icecrown we had a few core members go inactive which unbeknown to us at the time, would see us lose about six weeks of progressive raiding on Heroic Lich King. It’s been hard to get us back on track, with some harsh deadlines set to get things back on track. The now or never attitude finally got us on our feet again. With this new lease of life, we are left where we are today, reflecting back on the roller coaster which this guild has been. We got on at the bottom and after a one and a half year ride we get off at the top.

Eminence would like to thank the support of not only it’s loyal members, but everyone who flamed, congratulated, put down, brought back up and of course assisted us in the journey through the Wrath of the Lich King. Without this we would no doubt have achieved what we have done.

Eminence: The Future

We have decided to stop recruitment totally. If people take a break, or leave over the coming months they will not be replaced. With Blizzard making some changes to the 25 and 10man raiding system in the expansion rather than us trying to patch up any holes that are made and change the dynamics, social aspect and core of the guild we will migrate to a 10man raiding guild should we not have the member base to continue with 25mans. It’s in the interest of the guild to keep the people the same, and continue from there. Therefore, recruitment is closed. All the applications will still be saved should this idea change, or we do require a couple of people but please do not expect any replies.

Regards,

Eminence.

Shadowmourne

Congratulations to Mic who looted the guild’s second Shadowmourne on Wednesday.

In other news! We finally managed to get enough reliable raiders to properly start the Lich King 25man heroic grind in the last couple of weeks and expect a kill soon, with practice on the last phase now. Although we are still a little short on raiders, so there is a few spots up for grabs! Looking for -

• 1 Holy Paladin
• 1 Hunter
• 1 other exceptional player

Bane of the Fallen King – Server First

10man progress complete! Lich King down in heroic mode, roughly 117th in the world with a server first kill. Finished up with two attempts left, but it was looking like a kill from around six attempts left. We have two videos of the kill: Mage PoV – Eminence (Trollbane – EU) – Lich King 10 HC and Priest PoV – Lich King 10man HC kill (Eminence @ TrollbaneEU) Priest PoV. Stay tuned for 25man progress. The setup we used was:

• Crilljina – Protection Paladin
• Gromjin – Protection Warrior
• Baulon – Restoration Druid
• Sedan – Discipline Priest
• Ferk – Elemental Shaman
• Yi – Destruction Warlock
• Zelah – Demonology Warlock
• Raimonz – Balance Druid
• Wormpje – Marksmanship Hunter
• Nerzeja – Fire Mage

Shadowmourne

“Shadowmourne; a newly forged weapon already steeped in this world’s history, reborn into an unrivaled destiny. With this weapon you bear a solemn responsibility, and the time to carry out that charge is at hand. Take this weapon of myth and legend and march on the enemy. Avenge the countless heroes lost in his merciless campaign. Bring rest to their tortured souls. Steel yourself, Deathknight, and guide Shadowmourne to fulfill the purpose of its creation.”

Congratulations to Deleate who looted the guild’s first Shadowmourne. The quest line for the Axe begins at the start of Icecrown which requires you to hand in 25 Primordial Saronites, with quest items from Festergut and Rotface and Arthas’ discarded hammer – Light’s Vengeance. You are then rewarded with Shadow’s Edge, and need to go on and kill 1000 souls in Icecrown Citadel and infuse it with Unholy, Blood and Frost with various quests in the instance. Once you are at this stage you are allowed to collect Shadowfrost Shard from the bosses in Icecrown. After a mere 50 you are on the home stretch to Shadowmourne!