Great job to everyone from TG and SD that participated this week. We downed Auriaya and also remembered to get a screenshot of Kologarn (he went down last week too).

Kologarn's head:

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Auriaya:

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On Tuesday night, we had the first collaboration between our newly formed alliance with Shattered Dynasty and we did very well on our first night, taking things at a relaxed pace to feel each other out.

Flame Leviathan
We smoked Flame Leviathan with no deaths on the first try. Next week we will begin hard modes on him.

Full Size: http://www.xdelux.com/images/tg/tgsd-ulduar-fldown.jpg

RazorScale
We had to make a slight adjustment after our first attempt and then proceeded to rip Razorscale apart!

Full Size: http://www.xdelux.com/images/tg/tgsd-ulduar-razordown.jpg

Deconstructor
We melted his face and one-shotted this annoying fool.

Full Size: http://www.xdelux.com/images/tg/tgsd-ulduar-decondown.jpg

I think I speak for everyone when I say it's great to be raiding again and making some serious progression.

Stay tuned for more updates and more TG/SD firsts!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We now have a dedicated TF2 server at our disposal

It's been a while since I set up a hlds and I've never actually set up a TF2 variant until today

tf2.xdelux.com
24 Slots
Instant Respawn
Standard map rotation (for now).

The server is hosted on my private dedicated box in Chicago, IL and is open to the public.

Enjoy!!

In the picture you see what remains of the late Kologarn. Behind us you see the ghosts of the 4 downed Keepers of Ulduar: Hodir, Thorim, Freya, and Mimiron.
(Full size photo here)

For many weeks, our 10man special forces unit (also known as Mega10Ultra) has been smashing their way through the depth of Ulduar. As we have been killing our bosses, we have been forgetting to screen shot most of them, including our first kills. Last night we made our best progression yet killing Mimiron and clearing the way for the last two bosses of the instance. We actually got several screenshots last night from Freya and I think Hodir too. More screens to come!

Hey All,

After a relatively brief hiatus from TG I'm back in action and better than ever. I celebrated my 3rd year of being a member recently, and am ready to trek back into the FPS realm. The FPS division has been fairly non-existent as of late, and I want to resurrect it like a phoenix from the ashes!

To give you a little background about myself, I was previously a CS:S (Counter Strike) member back when we had a 1.6 team, and when TF2 originally came out back in 2007 I was the one who established the division. We had a pretty good following for a number of weeks before a lot of people were drawn back to World of Warcraft when the Burning Crusade came out. I'd like to see about a little get-together with former members and hopefully inspire some new blood as well. I recently updated Steam and I wanted to know how many people would be interested in getting something going, possibly on a daily basis if things go the right way. If things really get kicking, we could possibly see about starting the FPS division back up, with council approval.

I'm trying to track down everyone that played before... Wedge, Keld, Thrio, Giz, etc. If you have changed your Steam ID's please let me know so I can update my friends list with the new information. If you know of anyone that is interested that previously didn't play with us, please let them know, and feel free to PM me or anyone else with information.

I'm going to copy and paste a chunk of information from the original TF2 introductory thread when we had that going. More or less everything still applies:

"I highly suggest that if you have any interest at all in FPS games, to take a look at TF2. I've been playing it since inception, and (with the help of fellow TG members) every time I play it delivers a unique, crazy experience. Its a blast, and quite a few people already in the guild have picked it up. The maps are incredibly well thought out, and above all, BALANCED. A good team can lock things down, or equally can break a defense. The maps are always objective based, and for the most part reflect around capture the flag or capture the area for X time settings.


Having been a part of the previous CounterStrike:Source TG team, I realize that one of the shortcomings that we had was very high expectations, based upon little interaction with each other. We never practiced, only occasionally hung out, and it was somewhat frustrating getting crushed by opponents every match. This game, being extremely easy to pick up, yet slightly difficult to master, allows for a multitude of play-styles through the classes it offers:

Conservative: Engineer, Demo, Sniper, Medic
Aggressive: Soldier, Spy, Scout, Heavy, Pyro

All of the classes have their strengths and weaknesses, and are fun to try. I feel as though this game will be fun for years to come!

A few things to note:

1. I want to have fun. That is my first objective. I'm a really easy-going guy and I think that this game would be incredible for a division especially if we had a lot of people into it.
2. If you say that you want to be a part of this team, you need to have a working microphone and be able to get into Vent.
3. Practices, if we eventually have them due to interest, will be on both pub and private servers, which will enhance team unity as well as serve to develop strategies on maps. This will be critical to playing as a team. I don't have a night set up yet, but the practices will probably be no more than an hour to an hour and a half, followed by dragging everyone into a pub and blowing stuff up.
4. Melee combat is highly encouraged in TG. Especially when it involves fire-axes, fists, shovels, swords, or other instruments of destruction.
5. Gizard and I will institute "LOCKDOWN" status on an area when we darn well please. If you don't know what this is yet, be prepared to be awed.
6. If you have any questions about TF2, please send me a PM. I'm on the boards for the majority of most evenings.
7. I'd ideally like to have a team of around 7-9 people, with at least that many in reserve for matches. If we don't draw enough interest, I'd like to institute a TF2 hour, maybe from 9-10 M-F for people to hop onto Friends from steam and get going.

Follow the instructions below, and I will update this post accordingly.

Please write your [TG] name below that you will use for TF2, as well as what times would work best for you for playing or eventually practicing during the course of the week."


THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED FOR DUTY:

1. [TG] Archangel
2. [TG] Gizard
3. [TG] Vrain
4. [TG] Calys
5. [TG] Tesh
6. [TG] Intermission
7. [TG] Thriolith
8. [TG] Barnaby
9. [TG] Brawli
10. [TG] DValkyrie
11. [TG] Admiral_Teal
12. [TG] Jaedan
13. [TG] Bane
14. [TG] Larabic

MIA:

[TG] Silencer (Kilmar- Spoke with briefly, in Japan?)
[TG] Wedge (Cannot log into the TG boards for some reason)
[TG] Shifted (College classes, login issues)
[TG] Brogen (MIA)
[TG] Ganemus (MIA)

Reach out to the MIA people if you see them or get a chance. We have the potential to be great once more!!!

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I know this is a few days late, though I still wanted to wish everyone a happy Memorial Day!

Our thanks, prayers and utmost Respect go out to all the Military Service people, at home and afar, that have served and are currently serving; and to all those in the history of our nation that have given their lives so that we may enjoy all the blessings and freedoms we do this day.

Thank you all our Service Men and Women for the selfless work you do to day in and day out. Without people like you, we would not be here right now. I always go out of my way to personally thank all the military personnel I see when I am out and about for their service.

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I would like to say a special congratulation to our own Rolsskk who recently got his Commission.

Other Service Guardians present and past from off the top of my head. I know this is not everyone so please let me know and I would be more than happy to add you to the list:

Donovan
Hunterr
Kilmar
Krawdad
kuni
Naf
Raguel
Ren (former member)
Rolsskk
Torynn


Thanks all!


LIBERTAS

ARA

AMPLUS

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Frequent visitors to Guardian HQ will have noticed a recent rise in spam attacks. Recently installed security measures have stopped a certain kind of attack while others continue. The attacks we've been getting currently have no security patch, however, we reasonably believe the bots executing these attacks are using a vulnerability in Google's GMail registration process to get an email account which allows them to register an account on our forums.

As a result effective immediately we will no longer allow new accounts to register using GMail. This policy will stay in place until either our forum vendor or Google is able to install a patch that will prevent these attacks.

Good Morning TG!

If you have ever wanted to throw fireballs at your boss, turn the Ice Queen at the office literally to ice or even run around on all four and bark at the moon you will soon get the chance to play a champion from Cryptic Studio's-Champions Online and do just those things! Well OK maybe not! But you will be able to use your powers to fight crime and hopefully win the day!

And that day is coming quickly! July 14th! And since there has already been a good number of TG members expressing interest in getting The Guardians up running in Champions Online it is with great joy that I open the Champions Online: Planning and Discussion forums! So, you know what they say, "I love it when a plan comes together!" "Plans inside of other plans" etc etc...So get in there and let's get to choosing what cape to wear!

Also for those that have been active in eRepublic, you will see that you have your very own forum as well! This will allow you guys/gals to better organize your endeavors to (Using his best Pinky and the Brain imitation) "Take over the world!" Best of luck !!

We are looking at other games in the near future! So stay tuned! Same TG time! Same TG channel!