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by **Dworz** on Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:59 pm

It's my sad duty to inform you that after nearly three years as a raiding guild, the Archaic Legion will be closing the doors to its grand guild hall for the last time. From a humble start in Zul'Gurub through both hard times and great success in the Burning Crusade to clearing the current raid content, we've had a bumpy ride but always come out on top with a wonderful set of people.

Due to member loss and loss of leaders, we cannot keep this up any more. I want to extend my personal thanks to everyone who's been a member at any point through all this time and to all the friends of the guild.

by **Dworz** on Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:55 am

In order to get some change in the guild, we've decided to go Shaman-only! We've urged our current members to reroll shaman, but in the process it's likely that we'll need to recruit new players, especially Shaman Tanks.

In order to fit in better, we'll also be moving to the new RP realm Frost Shock.

by **Dworz** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:21 pm

We've been slacking with the updates, haven't we? Well, Naxxramas Heroic is now clear, and we killed Sartharion although we seem to have forgotten to take a picture in what has become a reliable Legion tradition. Here's some snapshots of Sapphiron's corpse and Kel'Thuzad's demise however -- fireworks included:

by **Dworz** on Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:53 pm

I'd like to wish all Archaic Legion members, previous members and all our friends a very happy new year. Let's make 2009 just as kick-ass as we've made 2008!

by **Xzar** on Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:15 pm

Today, the Archaic Legion ventured forth once more into Naxxramas and slew Sapphiron and Kel'Thuzad.

Sapphiron:

Kel'Thuzad:

Afterwards we headed to the Obsidian Sanctuary to slay Sartharion, but we forgot to take a picture of him.

by **Dworz** on Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:19 pm

After a first raid on Naxxramas (10-man), Archaic Legion has now cleared all of Spider wing, all of Plague wing and Instructor Razuvious. An extremely well executed raid, thanks to everyone who showed up!

Anub'Rekhan:

Grand Widow Faerlina:

And in the eagerness to move on, we apparently forgot to take a picture for Maexxna. Oh well...

Noth the Plaguebringer:

(did we forget a Heigan picture too? damn)

Loatheb:

And Instructor Razuvious:

Not bad for a few hours in a new instance!

by **Dworz** on Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:07 am

The Archaic Legion today led a raid with other of our Horde friends to be the first on the server to complete the For the Horde! achievment, for the first Black War Bears. Over a series of raids ending with an epic end battle against many alliance defenders in Ironforge, we killed all four Alliance leaders.

Here's an image of the first raid charging over water into Stormwind Harbor:

And of course, the Cavalry nicely lined up on their new mounts in a strategic position in Dalaran:

I'd like to thank everyone who joined us for this, and congratulate everyone on a job extremely well done.

Oh, and for those who weren't allowed onto the last raid... well, if you pay attention to what you're doing in a raid rather than watch TV, you'll have a better chance at being accepted for future raids.

by **Dworz** on Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:13 pm

We couldn't just leave it, could we? Well, even though the content has been nerfed to the point of silliness, we had to finish it off, so we went in and cleared the place in one off-raid. Here's the result:

by **Dworz** on Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:33 pm

So, with a final raid on Illidan, the Archaic Legion closes it's chapter on raiding in the Burning Crusade. We got him to 50%, which I can only call outstanding considering we only had one night of attempts. We're now taking a break until Wrath of the Lich King.

I think this is an appropriate moment to look back at what we've achieved the last months, and marvel at the performance we've put up. Everyone in the guild has done absolutely great, and I'd like to especially thank everyone who showed up for the long haul trying to get Illidan, including some friends from out of the guild who came in to replace members who had to leave.

Thank you all, and see you in the cold north

by **Dworz** on Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:54 pm

I'm happy to announce that there's been a shift of rule in the Black Temple! The Illidari Council has been replaced by the Archaic Council.

A big thanks is in place for all those who showed up on such short notice. The Illidari Council died on our second night of attempts after a mere 3 hours total.

by **Dworz** on Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:06 pm

The web site had a 24 hour downtime due to a connectivity issue, sorry about that. It should all be fixed and back to normal now.

In other news, we've now opened recruitment again for a number of classes. See our Current Class Demand post if you're interested in applying!

by **Dworz** on Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:20 am

... and down she goes after just a few attempts in a very good raid. Awesome work Legionnaires!

by **Dworz** on Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:13 pm

After a few tries tonight on Bloodboil, we got our first kill after an awesome display of healing power and good reactions from everyone. Here's a nice photo of it:

After that we got our second Reliquary of Souls kill nicely wrapping up the raid by unlocking the door to Mother Shahraz. Exciting times!

by **Dworz** on Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:09 pm

The raid tactics that have been used to great success by the Archaic Legion are now available for anyone to read. Check out the Raid Tactics forum.

These are tactics that we've used successfully. All constructive critisism is appreciated, but do note that it's meant to contain one highly specific strategy for each fight, which may not match the one your guild has been using. Some of this information is extremely hard to find in other places (like Black Temple trash guides), so enjoy!

by **Dworz** on Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:35 pm

Some ugly talking heads with an attitude have now been forced to yield the loot they so defiantly guarded. Awesome work to all the legionnaires involved in this kill, that happened on the first time we ever reached Essence of Anger.

by **Dworz** on Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:48 am

Two attempts seems to be the name of the game nowadays... After a good first attempt and some fun games with constructs chasing people across most of Black Temple, Teron Gorefiend died on a brilliant second attempt. Here's a photo for the album:

Awesome work everyone!

by **Dworz** on Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:50 pm

On the second ever attempt, Archaic Legion completed the Shade of Akama event:

Awesome job everyone!

by **Lethania** on Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:02 pm

After some hard times wiping and not really getting anywhere, Dworz remade the tactics, posted them on the forums and we gathered all our strengths and went into The Eye to meet this terrible foe. After almost 5 hours of raiding, we finally managed to defeat him, and our reward, well. See for yourselves.

Really nice work everyone! And Grats Dworz on that Phoenix! Very well deserved!!

by **Dworz** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:05 pm

Our old ventrilo provider, http://www.game-hosting.com has stolen more than half a month's payment from us. We've now switched providers and would like to warn others to stay clear from that site.

Members can find the new ventrilo details in our ventrilo information post.

by **Dworz** on Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:53 pm

Archimonde died today by the hands of the Archaic Legion on our second night of attempts. Great work everyone!

by **Dworz** on Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:07 pm

Today a group of ten legionaires completed the full Zul'Aman timed run! An [Amani War Bear] was awarded to Psykewne for his hard work in getting our tactics together and leading the run to victory. Here's a picture of the gang that pulled it off:

And of course, a closeup of the bear-mounted legionnaire:

Awesome work everyone!

by **Dworz** on Mon May 12, 2008 7:27 pm

Well, it's been a bit quiet lately, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy! To revisit the good old days, we went into Molten Core for a laugh last week. Since the Archaic Legion only did 20-man raids before the release of The Burning Crusade, I guess this counts as a first for us. Anyway, here's Ragnaros

Thanks to everyone who attended, it was a blast

Then we decided to go visit our old friends the trolls of Zul'Aman, which resulted in us leaving the place completely cleared. Hex Lord Malacrass says hi:

And of course, Zul'jin sends his regards:

Then, last night, we ventured onwards into the Black Temple. High Warlord Naj'entus just topped the ugly-meter, so we just had to rid the place of his face:

And finally we decided to show Supremus that volcanoes are so last year.

by **Xzar** on Sun May 04, 2008 11:16 pm

After some strategy tuning and a bunch of healers getting doomed, Azgalor goes down. Congratulations to all the Legionnaires present!

by **Dworz** on Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:03 pm

On a second expedition into Hyjal Summit, Kaz'Rogal died on our first attempt. Here's the photo that'll fit neatly into your album:

by **Dworz** on Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:35 pm

So, what do do with that extra bit of time Vashj left us then? Well, why not go and one-shot two bosses in Hyjal Summit? Sounds like a good idea to me.

Rage Winterchill's chillin'

Anetheron:

Good work to all the Legionnaires on site.

by **Dworz** on Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:01 pm

So, Vashj dies leaving us with only some nice loot and a completely over-allocated raid time. Good work to everyone who attended!

by **Dworz** on Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:54 am

Since the grass is of course greener on the other side, it's been decided that the Archaic Legion is switching factions! We'll be forming the Archaic Alliance on Moonglade, a gnome-only guild (exceptions can be made for Female Night Elf Hunters). Members are expected to start levelling their gnomes as soon as possible (10 bonus EPs are awarded for pink hair).

The raid plan has been updated to reflect this change.

by **Dworz** on Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:26 am

The Archaic Legion is looking to recruit two skilled shadow priests. If you think you have what it takes to join our raiding group, go to our Recruitment forum and fill in the form today!

by **Dworz** on Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:20 pm

Early Tuesday evening, Leotheras the Blind fell to invading Archaic Legionnaires. A security camera captured this image of the perpetrators:

Congratulations to Zyla and Jetr for their Tier 5 gloves.

by **Dworz** on Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:32 pm

Al'ar and High Astromancer Solarian were forced to surrender to the might of the Archaic Legion.

Photo time! What better backdrop can you have than a burning bird?

Or, if that doesn't float your boat, here's a group photo in front of some huge elemental fragments:

Also, for the statistics nerds out there, a WWS log

by **Hávar** on Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:46 pm

Nice one-shot of everyone who was there on the second night of tries on him. Really good work everyone.

WWs

by **Hávar** on Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:42 pm

On our way to Magtheridon tonight we saw that Kazzak was alive so we decided to kill him. A few tries later and he was dead. Good work all 23 of you who were there.

by **Dworz** on Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:49 pm

So, a quickly assembled party consisting mainly of Archaic Legionnaires was sent into The Eye. After realizing they were missing some other Legionnaires to take down the beast Al'ar, they went on to dismantle Void Reaver.

Here's a picture of the factory floor with the pieces:

WWS log

by **Dworz** on Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:58 pm

So, on our second week of adventures in Serpentshrine Cavern, we've one-shotted both Hydross and Lurker. The brave Legionnaires then swiftly moved on to Morogrim Tidewalker, where after some initial confusion about who heals who and who lifetaps when, they waded through hordes of ugly Murlocs to kill the even uglier Morogrim.

Congratulations to everyone on a well executed first-time first-kill again. And of course, someone had to snap a picture of us all messing up his hairdo:

WWS log

by **Dworz** on Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:16 pm

The Archaic Legion expedition into Serpentshrine Cavern is happy to report that it has found and slain two vile monsters on the first trip into the Cavern. The creatures Hydross the Unstable and The Lurker Below both went down following just a few attempts.

Congratulations for the heroic effort of the Legionnaires who participated. Postcards of the event are now available in your local gift shop:

WWS log

by **Dworz** on Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:29 pm

Magtheridon (also affectionately known as Jim) met his fate today at the hands of the Archaic Legion, after a few wipes. Well done to all those who came, and congratulations on a a job well done -- killed on our first raid.

Special gratulations to Kolchek who got to hand in the first [Magtheridon's Head] for the Archaic Legion.

WWS log

by **Greipur** on Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:09 pm

Group 2 cleared all of Karazhan yesterday, with 2 healers, 1 tank and 7 DPS (where one DPS offtanked at times). Things died in record time. Click here for the WWS-log.

In less exciting news, Greipur only received five epics this time around.

by **Hávar** on Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:51 pm

Scamming is something that's not tolerated in this guild and is something that will lead to an immediate removal from the guild without any exceptions. It will also lead to a report to the GMs so that the items can be restored to the rightful owner and so that the scamming party will get his punishment.

We apologise for the fact that someone like this has been seen on Moonglade with <Archaic Legion> under their name and we'll do anything in our power to compensate the scammed party.

We have a reputation to protect and we will go to great lengths to keep it intact. We also wish to keep good relations between us and other raiding guilds on Moonglade.

by **Dworz** on Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:15 pm

Happy new year everyone! All our best wishes of fun times and phat loot in 2008.

/Officers of Archaic Legion
Hávar, Dworz, Xzar, Zai, Greipur

by **Hávar** on Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:44 am

Merry christmas everyone!
/Officers of Archaic Legion
Hávar, Dworz, Xzar, Zai, Greipur

by **Hávar** on Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:16 pm

Tonight we kill Halazzi and Jan'alai. Nice one-shot of Halazzi. Hex Lord Malacrass and Zul'jin will meet their demise soon.

by **Dworz** on Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:15 am

We've now completed our transition to running two separate groups in Karazhan each week, as proved by group 1 yesterday that cleared the instance in around 3 and a half hours. Worth mentioning is a Netherspite kill with a healer disconnedted for around half the fight unable to log back on, and a Prince kill of only 9 people since another healer had a total connection failure and couldn't get back on. Nice work everyone... now group 2 has a target to beat. Also, congrats to Greipur for more epic items than he previously had blues, or something

by **Dworz** on Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:47 am

Last night, Akil'Zon - the Eagle avatar of Zul'Aman met his fate at the hands of ten brave Legionnaires. Congratulations and good work to all those who came there, fought a long hard battle and spent a fortune on consumables! We were rewarded with a [Mojo Mender's Mask], which was awarded to Dworz. A special thanks to Kolchek who passed to Dworz for overall raid benefit.

by **Dworz** on Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:16 pm

We're going to do some pretty heavy updating of the web site this week. Hopefully, this should just improve the usability for you all, but you never know if things break when you change them.

If you see an error or have any feedback, feel free to post it on the forums or talk to Dworz or Hávar about it.

by **Hávar** on Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:11 pm

Yesterday evening the 18th of November we the Archaic Legion together with the Cracktusk Gang killed Gruul for the first time. Good work everyone who was there.

The first boss in Zul'Aman Nalorakk the bear avatar met his demise 15/11 by the hands of the Archaic Legion.

by **Hávar** on Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:05 pm

So we've done it. Karazhan got cleared today when we killed Netherspite for the first time. Good work everyone.

by **Hávar** on Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:14 am

Tuesday 4/9 was a glorious evening for the Archaic Legion. Price Malchezaar succumbed to our might and shortly after Nightbane was defeated as well. This was the third raid we tried Prince and it was the first time we raided Nightbane. The glorious ones were Ballo, Dworz, Ghosterberry, Hávar, Jetr, Rastur, Trelekus, Xzar, Zai, Zhaku.

Great work everyone.

by **Dworz** on Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:18 pm

The rumours are true! The Archaic Legion has risen out of the ashes to once again do battle for the Horde.

by **Dworz** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:26 pm

There has been some changes in the structure of the guild.

First of all, we'd like to congratulate Xzar on his promotion to Officer in the guild.

Second, Hasseth has agreed to step down from his Senator rank to Officer as he's not playing as much anymore. We still aim for a 3-person senate, but currently have no candidate for the this place.

Also, it's been decided that in order to not end up in a situation where a raid has no leader, senators will be guaranteed places in raids. This priviledge comes with the obligation to actually lead the raids. Since we don't want anyone to think this is a reaction to anything about current raids, this will not apply to any raid that already has a signup post.

by **Dworz** on Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:41 pm

I just merged all the posts from our temp forum into this one... they're not all sorted correctly with regards to posts done later, but that shouldn't cause too much problems I hope.

by **Dworz** on Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:19 pm

After some quite extensive downtime, our website at http://www.archaiclegion.com is now back up. We'll be working on fixing its design as well as moving all the DKP and stuff there.

by **Aoede** on Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:05 pm

Sorry for taking the server down for 1½ day. I fried the PSU of my regular computer playing wow and in my desperation I stole the PSU from the server. Well, new PSU bought, server got back what belongs to it. Everyone happy or something like that.

by **Hávar** on Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:35 am

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from your beloved senate

by **Dworz** on Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:55 pm

... is thursday. See your local guild message of the day for info.

by **Hávar** on Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:29 pm

We will raid ZG on Wednesday (13th) between 19.30-22.30 and on sunday (17th) between 16-20 and possibly later if people want to...

by **Aoede** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:48 pm

I'm having huge addon problems here, not only are my beloved Discord mods not working at all, my square minimap is no more! Oh the pain the horror. Hopefully this mess will be over in a couple of days when addon-writers get's working (lazy bastard). Post yout whines/UI-problems here please: http://mneme.mine.nu/mneme/viewtopic.php?pid=67#p67

by **Aoede** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:33 am

You can no longer post replies in the news thread, discussion on any news that might show up here (before the real forums are up again) will take place somewhere else, like for example in the "Chat" forum for example, but that is just a suggestion.

by **Aoede** on Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:48 am

Welcome to our new, as in temporary that is, forums. Not to mention the very cute new first page displaying news on login. (Oooooh!)

by **Dworz** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:45 pm

I've just fixed the problems we had when registering. If you registered, feel free to log in as the registrations worked, even if the proper pages didn't show.

by **Dworz** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:51 am

We now have our web page back up and running, as you've noticed. We'll be working on fixing the design, moving DKP here and other fun stuff now.

by **Hávar** on Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:10 pm

Congratulations Hasseth and Picnic on your new positions as officers.

by **Hávar** on Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:34 pm

Congratulations Ugglug who has been promoted to pvp-officer. Talk to him regarding guild pre-mades and other pvp-related stuff.

by **Dworz** on Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:06 pm

I'd like to say a warm welcome to our new members from the Silver Twilight, who decided to all join our guild.

Also, I should mention that we've found a bug in the signup here, which means that your race/class may be messed up when you sign up to the webbpage. To fix this, just go into your profile and set the correct values.

by **Dworz** on Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:59 pm

We now have a roleplaying forum. The thought behind this forum is that you can post your character background there, as well as discuss any other storylines you want. This forum is open to anyone, so you can invite others to roleplay there, even if they're not a member of the guild!

by **Dworz** on Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:33 pm

There's now a page with the RP Story detailing the background of the guild, and its place in the history of the Warcraft world.

by **Dworz** on Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:23 pm

We now have a page available with the guild rules!

by **Dworz** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:27 pm

We now have the web page up and running, and the problems with DNS we had the previous week should be resolved. As you may also note, we now have a register link again :oops:

If you're already an archaic legion member, go ahead and register (using the in-game nick of your main character!) and then tell one of the officers (in-game or via PM here), and we'll give you access to the private parts of the site.

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