The Cataclysm in the World of Warcraft was more than a change in content, but also a significant change in our guild as well.

Due to declining player numbers both within the guild and also on Turalyon, our loyal team of raiders have become increasingly frustrated in attempting to fill raids.

Online, forum and mumble discussions have discussed the future of the guild, and how currently, the guild isn't able to meet the demands of its most active members. A consensus was reached that the guild should transfer to another realm where a more active horde side will provide greater opportunities and recruits to continue 'in Concordia's' fight into Dragon Soul heroic.

Our team of raiders have done fantastically well with both Firelands Heroic and Dragon Soul Heroic.

Thank you to all the hard work and wiping from our active raiders - Thecoldevil, Jubz, Moony, Cooman and Mulch. A special mention to Wrexial, who was "appointed" Guild Master at a particularly difficult time for the guild, and he has made some difficult decisions to make.

You can continue their fight into Heroic Dragon Soul at their website on Twisting Nether inconcordia.enjin.com

However, the guild will continue on Turalyon for our social and afk members. Unfortunately our esteemed Guild Master (Mistress?!?!) Tulitine, is having a few problems with her internet, but updates will come soon (TM)

At last, after weeks and weeks of running firelands, thecoldevil, our second most awesome mage, finally obtained his version of dragonwrath! We did this in a very final run where we got a fair number of people their corrupted firehawk. Thanks to all those that killed anything in that horrid place over the last months and thanks to all tonight for wanting to do the alysrazor achievement for me!

The Dragon Soul raid instance has been live for a little over three months now, so about time for some progress updates.

On the first day of T13 we cleared all the way up to ultraxion, which was a lot, but of course not enough. By monday night we killed spine and progressed on madness with such great results that we squeezed in another raid on tuesday and around 10 we got the entire instance down on normal in the first week. we were the first and only horde guild on the realm to do this.

After the heroic firelands nerf -at which point we were stranded at 2/7-, we all cruised through the remainder of the bosses with only a legged Ragnaros to beat. Sadly, heroic Ragnaros requires a certain setup to facilitate the encounter, leaving us to wonder where on earth our Moonkins are hiding.

It has been far too long without a proper status update. That does not mean we have not achieved anything in the past two weeks. Quite the opposite, in fact. After two nights of learning the encounter, we have defeated Ragnaros and thus unlocked the heroic modes. And for good measure, we thought it would be a good idea to kill Heroic Shannox as well, after just two hours of practice. Good job guise!

As an aside, we have accumulated the 25 required Eternal Embers for the legendary staff. Depending on how lucky we get with the Cinder drops we may see our guild-first legendary weapon soon! (not counting Illidan's daggers or Thunderfury, which we got at least an expansion late...!) Stay tuned!

After killing Alysrazor we decided to check out Majordomo Staghelm as well. It did not take us long to get the hang of bunching up, healing Flame Scythes, spreading out and not standing in the fire. Once again, we killed two new bosses in a single evening. Congratulations Team!

Ragnaros awaits...!

Very fun fight to do and to learn. We struggled a little bit with surviving all the phases multiple times, but after we managed that we killed her quite nicely. Small surprise that she didn't go up again for a third time!

Congrats to all those involved!

After spending a week learning Alysrazor and Ryolith without getting them down, we started this weeks lockout quickly killing Shannox and Beth'tilac before moving on to Baleroc. It took us a few tries to get the hang of stacking healing buffs, balancing tank and torment healing and moving out for torments, but it did not take us long before we had a go where everything clicked. So before we knew it, we were looking at a dead baleroc.

We then went on and had a fresh look at Ryolith, with a slightly adjusted strategy: One tank tanking all adds, with three dps killing them, and three dps on Ryoliths' legs: One on the left, one on the right, and one steering him around, calling out swaps as needed to steer sharper. This seemed far more controlled than having dps swap from legs to adds and back. So there, too, we were looking at a dead raidboss before we knew it!

Next on the list is Alysrazor, again. Stay tuned!

This wednesday we made our first venture into the Firelands. First off the view from the entrance is amazing and I really like how this is an "outdoor" raid instance.

Since we hadn't tried out Firelands on the PTR we first struggled a little bit with the trash, which made some of us reminisce to Molten Core, but better.

In the end it took us 1 hour to clear enough trash to fight Shannox and then around another hour to kill him. The fight wasn't too complicated and on the first attempt where we had dodging traps and trapping dogs down reasonably effective he went down.

Then we cleared up to Beth'ilac which went down even more quickly, we rearranged a bit who killed which add and when and we killed her the first time she came down for the 2nd phase.

Good job everyone, and I'm looking forward to more progress in this new tier.

After a few tries over different evenings we finally got round to really putting some effort into this fight. After perfecting the way we like to handle the adds: Kiting them till their first Toxic Spores, get them out of the Soothing Breeze and aoe them quickly.

The whole thing was over before we knew it. Good job all!