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Halion and is Red Dead? by qeath - 4.7.2010

As Blizzard gave us some new content, last raid content before upcoming Cataclysm to be exact, <tontut> of course rushed to meet new baddie-dragon Halion. First for getting some feel of it we went for 10man heroic version on wednesday. And after that didn't go that well we thought to take the safe route and take normal mode down first week.

As expected, that didn't take long. To be honest it was our third attempt, with people not having seen videos or read tactics. Not too hard content on normal, but maybe that's just for the best, and hardmode doesn't see nerfs anytime soon.

Since that last patch Ravencrest has been red in the serverlist, and one has to choose it every time logging into game.

Is this Blizzard indicating the state of the server? We'we had our (not anymore so) beloved server crashing more than half of nights in last two months. Usually quite exactly at 19:30 servertime. Even for us who have been there from the beginning, this has bought most serious conversation on migrating away. And on top of everything there hasn't been almost any indication on Blizzard fixing things and even less on free gametime. Maybe it is supposed to be OK server crashing on every raid-night... Yeah. Those nights server doesn't crash, we don't have raids. <tontut> -luck again maybe? Of course according to wow-europe forum blue posters, Ravencrest being displayed as red is just a display issue

And for last words, Congratulations to Cior, one of our DPS-DKs who finished our second Shadowmourne. Well see what kind of changes that brings us... (check last newspost for thoughts about that).

Tankmourne and other legendary blasphemies by qeath - 23.4.2010

So, after two and half months of questing and gathering pieces of some silly prison or throne or whatnot, <tontut> once again overcame worst luck of orange pixels. Sp?na became wielder of Shadowmourne.

And keeping up traditions, she is a happy tank wielding tankmourne.

A brief climpse in history:
Back in Vanilla days, in a guild from which <tontut> was more or less formed. First legendary item, Sulfuron, was given to a healadin, Sivari. Second orange mesh of pixels was the same. Sulfuron and healadin Thyrasus. Both went more or less crazy with those new shines and quitted the game, one naked in Orgrimmar Bank. With our third legendary, we had a misjudgement since it was given to our mighty gnomish tank Palin. Last legendary in vanilla was given to Drezdereth the healer druid, we believe this made him quit raiding quite soon into TBC.

TBC was alltoughter quiet in orange frontier. Only one pair of Glaives was found at the top of the Black Temple. Though there was plenty of offhandies. No one knows what insanity kept Uglybeard, who completed the set, playing. Kil'jaeden didn't share any of his bows, which may have been for the best, knowing the drama hunters had back then.

WotLK and golden age of farming things orange, in fact plentiful of them but in form of shards, fragments and other things broken. First was titanic Hammer of Val'anyr. Farming duty was given to our restoshaman Talia (which is actually new main of player who had Palin), who upon completion of steaming hammer-device promptly switched to throwing lighting bolts instead of chaining heals. Having enough tanks, it was just logical to have a tank receiving Shadowmourne, who knows what a dps player would've gotten in mind...

In other news...

As a keen visitor could have noticed, we have had quite some progress through hardmodes in Icecrown Citadel after fall of the Lich King. We of course didn't take hardmodes in order of bosses one faces, but after a bit of Practice all of first part of the Citadel fell infront of <tontut>.

Next fully bitten wing was all red, pointy Princes and Queen of Blood did face their final death (for a week atleast) with <tontut> collecting shiny fangs to make necklaces.

We haven't stopped nor even slowed down, all but three have been slain. One pesky professor taking aces from sleeves very near his end. Cheating bastard!

The story of <tontut> is all but finished, voyage in Icecrown Citadel continues while waiting for Ruby Sanctum not forgetting upcoming Cataclysm of Azeroth.

Oh, and an afterthought, one of our 10man teams is currently gone through all of content in smaller scale, only heroic Lich King stands in the Citadel.

The king is dead, long live the king! by Kaotik - 15.3.2010

Yes, it took some time, but hey, you try climbing up a damn mile high tower of ice with mere icepicks and safetylines made by gnomes! (No, no-one bothered to tell us there's a teleport up there!)

When we finally did get up there, we saw Tirion Fordring standing there, burning Bolvar Fordragon chained up above the throne, and Lich King himself sitting calm, waiting. Lucky for Tirion, someone went to actually ask him what on Azeroth was going on, why was he there, with Lich King, how he got there (Teleports!) and why he hadn't attacked the Lich King yet, before the <tontut> execution team got their noose fitted to his neck for clear treason and joining the Scourges team.

After quick negotiations and tactic meeting, we decided to go for it together with Fordring, but as these big gun paladins usually do, he went on early and got frozen inside a big ice cube by Arthas (First paladin I've heard of who doesn't know how to bubblehearth home!), so <tontut> ended up, yet again, fighting alone.

The battle was long and tiring, and costed us our lives, but in the end we got resurrected by Terenas Menethil II himself, and dethroned the Lich King.

So, as titled, the king is dead, long live the king! <tontut> laid Arthas Menethil, the Lich King, to rest with the aid of his late father Terenas and Tirion, who used Ashbringer to bring down and shatter the Frostmourne.

The journey has been long and bumpy for us, mostly due the fact that some of us insist on trusting gnomes and their so called engineering miracles (I tried to tell them using mind control cap doesn't work on the undead, but noo, they wasted weeks on trying to mind control the big guns of the Scourge, and delivered only bruises and broken bones when they came back), but we finally did what the world needed us for - to end the tyranny of the Lich King, and bring down the evergrowing menace of the Scourge.

I, Kaotika, personally would like to take this opportunity to thank the guild for all we've done together, thank those who have joined our journey in the middle of it, and remember those who left us early.
It's been an honor to fight on your side.

Enough! I tire of these games! by Kaotik - 12.2.2010

After dealing with the risky epidemia of bloodthirst spread by Twilight fans and their Queen, <tontut> ventured towards new challenges behind a chilling doorway to darkness. My trusty tourists guide told us that Lich King likes to call this part of his citadel "The Frostwing Halls", and mentioning this instantly brought new life to few of our group, as it sounded promisingly like we'd be seeing dragons tonight!

While most other groups we've seen have been shivering from cold around these parts, we just shrugged it off and I think I heard a dwarf or two mumbling something about "This is what we used to call a warm summer day back home", with a crowd of agreeing rumbling started to shake off the frost from walls.

Surely enough, as the name promised, we soon did find a dragon! Valithria Dreamwalker, the guide called her. Our hunters were already polishing their weapons, brushing off the frosting from their scopes and starting to tell tales how it would be his or her shot that would bring this monster down tonight, when we had to bring them the bad news - we were told that this dragon is infact a friend of ours, and we should just help her to break free from the cold grasp of the Scourge instead of killing her.

With few disgruntled hunters and some healers I swear I've never seen smile so wide, we ventured towards Valithria and started the tiring progress of freeing her. Luckily, I had brought a book with me so I could just sit back and enjoy myself while the healers healed like never before, I think I even saw a druid grow a new branch or two in the process due just being so excited about this new turn of events.

With such enthusiasm, nothing takes long and soon Valithria was free from her chains, and thanked <tontut> with a chest full of treasures.

As expected, the enthusiasm of our healers got struck down fast, as they learned that there were no more friendly dragons around to heal, instead, the hunters were starting to get the spark back to their eyes, they saw her from far, zoomed in with their scopes and almost dropped their jaws - Sindragosa, the Queen of the Frostbrood! - the mighty frost wyrm risen by Lich King himself!

We quickly pushed her friends, Rimefang and Spinestalker, off the balcony with wings chopped off, and started to plan our attack.

Hunters, like expected, didn't listen and went on and started shooting at her from the edge of the balcony and almost fell of it themselves without getting even close to hitting her. After this humiliating experience, they agreed to listen our plan aswell.

We figured, it being close to Valentine's and all, that she might be lonely up there, so <tontut> engineer team quickly built a totally convincing looking male frost wyrm model, and started whistling at the Queen.

It turns out she was indeed lonely, as she bursted down from the sky like an arrow only to crush our brand new model dragon. After noticing that she got betrayed by this mockery of a dragon, she was nothing short of furious at us.

Thankfully our healers fingers and branches were still warm enough from the previous encounter with Valithria, so they had no problems keeping our brave men, women and gnomes alive on the slippery floors.

While Sindragosa no doubt did her best, she was soon nothing but a.. hmm, dead undead? dragon lying in the freezing wind on the balcony, looking tremendeously similar to the fossil my pets dug up from my backyard.

Tontut - A 100% Finnish WoW Guild
Server - Ravencrest / EU, Alliance

<tontut> is a 100% Finnish guild that plays mainly with a PvE focus. Although the name might suggest otherwise, playing a gnome isn't a must. It's the right attitude that counts.