Titanias (L70 Warlock) is heading up a new Karzhan team formed primarily of Ye Olde Geezers. This new team, christened Team Green with Orange Spots, had their first Karazhan run on Thursday evening (January 31, 2008), where they successfully took down Attumen/Midnight. It was so successful, in fact, that the rare purple Fiery Warhorse's Reins dropped and were awarded to Titanias.

At the moment, Team Green (with Orange Spots) seems to be running on Thursdays. Some spots will be filled with non-YOG members, although I think the final team composition remains to be seen.

However, it all works out, we wish them lots of luck in their Karazhan adventure!

PS: Remember that you can follow their adventures on the Karazhan Raid Progress page!

As you may have heard, the guild Cursed Crusaders has applied to join The Honourbound Alliance. To help make it easier to get to know them and for them to know us, their guild leader and a few representatives have been given access to the Honourbound channel. So please make welcome:

• Aelhaern (guild leader)
• Laraelia
• Moonsugar
• Kargill

If your group is having trouble finding people, be sure to check with the Cursed Crusaders and then give your Honourbound representative feedback.

Pink is the new blue. Be the first on your block to get this year's Festive Pink Dress, because it's everyone in pink, baby!

Kalimdor

Elder Riversong - Ashenvale - 35,48 - NW edge of Astranaar Elder Skygleam - Azshara - 72,85 - Ravencrest Monument, SE Azshara Elder High Mountain - The Barrens - 45,58 - NE edge of Camp Taurajo, next to the forge Elder Moonwarden - The Barrens - 51,28 - Next to Crossroads Wind Rider Elder Windtotem - The Barrens - 62,37 - In Ratchet, outside the Engineering building, north of the bank Elder Starweave - Darkshore - 36,46 - South East of the Hippogryph platform Elder Bladeswift - Darnassus - 33,14 - Center of the Cenarion Enclave Elder Runetotem - Durotar - 54,44 - SE edge of Razor Hill Elder Nightwind - Felwood - 37,52 - Just North of Jaedenar Elder Grimtotem - Feralas - 76,37 - Lariss Pavilion, NE of Camp Mojache Elder Mistwalker - Feralas - 62,31 - Inside the Dire Maul PVP arena Elder Bloodhoof - Mulgore - 48,53 - North of Bloodhoof Village, next to the bridge Elder Darkhorn - Orgrimmar - 41,33 - Outside Thrall's Chamber, Valley of Wisdom Elder Bladesing - Silithus - 50,36 - Standing in the moonwell in Cenarion Hold Elder Primestone - Silithus - 23,12 - Center of the Crystal Vale, NW Silithus Elder Dreamseer - Tanaris - 50,28 - Gadgetzan Elder Ragetotem - Tanaris - 36,80 - Valley of the Watchers (Uldum) - West side Elder Bladeleaf - Teldrassil - 57,60 - South edge of Dolanaar Elder Skyseer - Thousand Needles - 45,50 - Middle of Freewind Post Elder Morningdew - Thousand Needles - 79,77 - Mirage Raceway - near the race starting line Elder Proudhorn - Thunder Bluff - 72,23 - Elder Rise Elder Thunderhorn - Un'Goro Crater - 51,75 - Just north of the Slithering Scar Elder Brightspear - Winterspring - 55,43 - South Eastern edge of Lake Kel'Theril Elder Stonespire - Winterspring - 61,37 - Center of Everlook Elder Splitrock - Maraudon - In the tunnel that leads from Rotgrip towards the Goblin Elder Wildmane - Zul'Farrak - SE corner of the room where the gong to summon Gahz'rilla is

Eastern Kingdoms

Elder Morndeep - Blackrock Depths - Inside the Ring of Law Elder Stonefort - Lower Blackrock Spire - At the first of the rope bridges Elder Bellowrage - Blasted Lands - 58,55 - Dark Portal Elder Rumblerock - Burning Steppes - 82,46 - Dreadmaul Rock Elder Dawnstrider - Burning Steppes - 64,24 - Flame Crest Elder Goldwell - Dun Morogh - 46,51 - Kharanos Elder Windrun - Eastern Plaguelands - 39,75 - Crown Guard Tower, north of Darrowshire Elder Snowcrown - Eastern Plaguelands - 81,60 - Light's Hope Chapel Elder Stormbrow - Elwynn Forest - 40,63 - Pond at Goldshire Elder Highpeak - Hinterlands - 49,48 - Creeping Ruin Elder Bronzebeard - Ironforge - 29,16 - Mystic Ward Elder Silvervein - Loch Modan - 33,46 - Thelsamar Elder Ironband - Searing Gorge - 21,78 - Blackchar Cave Elder Obsidian - Silverpine Forest - 45,41 - The Sepulcher Elder Hammershout - Stormwind City - 22,52 - The Park Elder Starglade - Stranglethorn Vale - 53,18 - Zul'Gurub (in the right "courtyard" in front of the steps up to instance entrance) Elder Winterhoof - Stranglethorn Vale - 26,76 - Booty Bay (near Horde flight master on top of the bank) Elder Farwhisper - Stratholme - North part of Festival Lane (Near The Unforgiven) Elder Starsong - Temple of Atal'Hakkar - Sunken Temple (first left up spiral stairs, through dragonkin at top landing, stay left into main room with dragonkin) Elder Graveborn - Tirisfal Glades - 59,51 - Brill Elder Darkcore - Tirisfal Glades - 66,22 - Undercity, upstairs in the throne room Elder Moonstrike - Western Plaguelands - 69,73 - (On World map) Caer Darrow (Scholomance), upstairs in the tower Elder Meadowrun - Western Plaguelands - 66,47 - North of the road, south of Weeping Cave Elder Skychaser - Westfall - 56,47 - Sentinel Hill (on top of the keep, NE of Sentinel Hill)

The Honourbound Alliance is pleased to announce the formation of the first fixed Zul'Aman team, led by Wandjina (Roses of Dawn), running on Wednesday evenings each week.

Leader:

• Wandjina (Roses of Dawn) - Leader (Warlock Ranged DPS)

Tanks:

• Juffa (The One) - Paladin Tank
• Kanine (Roses of Dawn) - Warrior Tank

Healers:

• Elsheindra (The One) - Druid Healer
• Gimlinox (Phoenix Legion) - Paladin Healer
• Jeanda (The One) - Paladin Healer

Melee:

• Derthon (The One) - Paladin Melee DPS
• Sqog (Phoenix Legion) - Rogue Melee DPS

Ranged DPS:

• Muaddib (Roses of Dawn) - Priest Ranged DPS
• Phoebus (Roses of Dawn) - Mage Ranged DPS

Look at all that One paladin goodness. I'm not sure we could cram more paladins in if we tried. (-:

They're off on their first adventure tomorrow, February 5th. Good luck, Team Terracotta! We'll be following their adventures on the Zul'Aman raid progress page.

The newly formed Team Green (with Orange Spots), led by Titanias (L70 Warlock, Ye Olde Geezers), is making some solid progress for a new team. Since they started last week, they've managed the following bosses:

• Attumen/Midnight (first visit, Jan. 31st)
• Moroes (second visit, February 4th)
• Maiden (third visit, February 7th)
• Opera Event: Wizard of Oz (second visit, February 4th)
• Opera Event: R & J (third visit, February 7th)

Nice work in only three visits!

Follow their progress yourself on the Karazhan Raid Progress page.

Hi all, dear Elsheindra,

Im leaving The One, first of all I want to thank you all, I had a great time at The ONE. Specially I wanna thank our GM Elsheindra for making this all possible.....

Im leaving because I wanna try someting new, change guild to meet more people and to get a new challenge.

THX ALL, and I hope to see you soon on WOW and I hope we can still play together.

Best regards Cantika

Team Pink is there! Over Thursday and Tuesday (yesterday), they did their second complete clear of Karazhan with minimal fuss and bother. Total time across the two runs was about 5 hours. Their next task is to whittle away the time spent on trash mobs so that they're completing the whole lot in 3.5 to 4 hours. Good luck with that, Team Pink!

The 2.29 version of GEM has been released with some interesting "features", some of which look more useful than others. From a user point of view, one of the potentially interesting features is the removal of the "throttle" that made GEM so slow to update. You might recall this was added when Blizzard suddenly changed guild and private channels (which is what we use for GEM) to have a limit on how many messages could be sent to the channel over a certain period of time, which caused GEM to start losing information. If this is no longer necessary, GEM updates on the channel should be much faster. This is certainly my hope!

You can download the new GEM from the usual locations:
Here at WoWKindness or from the author's site.

Posted by Jungore, copied from Ye Olde Geezers forms Karazhan Team Green Team

Copied here by Elsheindra.

PROGRESS REPORT for Team Green (with orange spots)

1st Kara Raid (Thursday 31st January 2008)
Was a great try, we managed to get Attumen down easily enough. Moroes was a bit of a pain, after a good try several times, we decided to call it. As this was the 1st attempt as a newly grouped set of people, it went well. Some times there was sum hesitation involved on what targets belonged to who and which order they were ment to die, but im sure this will come with practice as a new raid group.

2nd KARA Raid (Monday 4th February 2008)
(Continued run from 31st jan '08 with Attumen downed then) Straight in on Moroes. Moroes downed after a warm
up, followed by the Maiden We then proceded swiftly onwards to the nights opera event.. Wizard of OZ. After some discussion on tactics, we had a warm up battle to practice positioning n kill order. Outcome? WIZARD OF OZ cleared!! we well done all n gratz on slayin 3 bosses on 2nd run!

3rd Kara Raid (Thursday 7th February 2008)
Fresh new Karazhan. Attumen, Moroes and opera event (R&J) all attempted and defeated. Maiden was attempted,
but not downed as far as i recall... <Could this be ammended on the Team Green(with orange spots) Raid progress please> Team Green progressing fast each week Good result all!!

4th Kara Raid (Monday 11th February 2008)
(Cont raid from 7th Feb '08) Kara seemed spookily quiet to start as most mobs and 3 bosses slain the
previous visit, we proceed onto the trash mobs Towards the Maiden. After 2 tries she was down!! Well done all. Following the mobs onwards we made our way to the Curator. After tactical discussion and several attempts later, the Curator refused to fall. With a bit more tactical tweaking we will defeat him next time!

So far, Team Green (with orange spots) has made sum great progress in the 2 weeks it has been running. Since starting team Green YOG's hav welcomed many fellow THB members (and also recruited newly proposed
applicants.. Cursed Crusaders)to join and with help from these hav made these runs possible. Many thnx ALL!

Tonight was Team Terracotta's first venture in Zul'Aman and they got off to a great start, taking down Nalorrak, the bear boss, within the 20-minute limit. Kanine (L70 Warrior, Roses of Dawn) picked up Fury. For downing Nalorrak in 20 minutes, Muaddib (L70 Shadow Priest, Roses of Dawn) was the lucky winner of Shadowcaster's Drape.

With the sweet taste of a quick victory on their lips, they headed onwards to tackle Akil'zon, the Eagle Avatar. While he didn't fall on the first attempt, he was quickly downed on a second attempt. Lucky Juffa (L70 Paladin, The One) walked away with Amani Punisher.

The team did make several attempts after that on the Lynx boss, Halazzi, but that was pretty tough going and will have to wait for another visit or two. Nevertheless, a fantastic showing for Team Terracotta.

Your local Team Terracotta is:

• Wandjina (RoD, Leader) - Warlock ranged DPS
• Juffa (TO) - Paladin tank
• Kanine (RoD) - Warrior tank
• Elsheindra (TO) - Druid healer
• Gimlinox (PL) - Paladin healer
• Jeandra (TO) - Paladin healer
• Muaddib (RoD) - Priest ranged DPS
• Phoebus (RoD) - Mage ranged DPS
• Derthon (TO) - Paladin melee DPS
• Sqog (PL) - Rogue melee DPS

Congrats, Team Terracotta. We look forward to more exciting exploits in the future!

Honourbound Alliance guild Circle of Elder has disbanded. Guildmaster Bingley made arrangements with Mymosa for Circle of Elder members wishing to stay on in THB to join up with the Roses of Dawn. Several Circle of Elder members are now Roses and will continue to play with us.
It's always sad to see things end. Best wishes to Bingley and those who have passed on to other guilds and adventures.

Basil and I are trying to buy a house around London. We made an offer this weekend, which the owners have agreed to. The next step is to get a mortgage in principle to cover the cost of the house and do the legal bits like getting it surveyed and checking titles, etc.

This is a big step. This is a scary step! EEEPPPPP! Send best wishes and donations of £20k ASAP, thanks!

Some Pictures (view as slideshow)
	The front of the house on the outside.		Bedroom 1: A view of the built-in dresser on the other side of the master bedroom. It is a bit of a tight squeeze between the bed and the dresser with a king size bed in there.
	Bedroom 2: One of the "spare" bedrooms.		Most of the conservatory.
	The main bathroom with the jacuzzi bathtub.		Garden 2: Taken from the opposite end of the large part of the garden, so this is the same space as the first back garden picture but from the other end.
	Here's the dining space in the other half of the kitchen.		Garden 3: The smaller part of the back garden around the side of the conservatory.
	The jacuzzi bathtub in the upstairs bathroom.		The cooking half of the kitchen. The other half is the dining area and window (out of sight).
	Garden 1: Taken from the back of the large part of the back garden -- that's Kari and me hiding behind him. The conservatory door to the back garden is off to back right there.		Living Room 1: Half the living room. The other half is out of sight.
	A partial view of the open wooden staircase going up to the 2nd floor.		Living Room 2: The other half of the living room. Kari's standing near the doorway from which the first living room picture was taken.
	Bedroom 1: A view of part of the master bedroom. The wardrobe cupboard on the left is built into the wall. There are cupboards over top and and a matching set of double wardrobe cupboards on the other side of the bed.

Following a slow start, our team of epic purples made quick work of Karazhan, downing Attumen, Moroes, The Big Bad Wolf, Curator, Chess, Prince, Aran, Illhoof and Nightbane in under 4 hours.
Next week.. Netherspite!

Good luck Team Purple.

The Honourbound Alliance ran its first run into Gruul's Lair after the New Year's Exodus of Players to the Promised Land. Armed with only 6 on-spec healers (and borrowing two or three off-spec as needed), the team downed Maulgar after some practice. They then went on to tackle Gruul himself. On our best effort, we got him down to 26% and the raid's combined DPS was over 5800. That's got some excellent potential for completion if we just keep up the good work.

Thanks to all those who came along!

February 25th 2008 marks the 3 year anniversary of the founding of The One.
See the Guild Charter Members

A party will be held at 3pm (server time) on Sunday the 24th to celebrate this exciting event. Anyone (everyone!) is invited, so let any and all friends of the guild know too.

The Party will be at the Shrine of Aessina, in the guild's (unofficial) official home of Ashenvale (see the pic at the top?)

See you there!

Well I have been with you for a few days now and I would like to thanks everyone that has made me feel so welcome !

I had a fairly long break from the game before I came back, things have sure moved on and you have all helped me settle in again.

So again I thank you all for your time in explaining things to me and showing me around

Faber aka Gavin

The One and The Roses of Dawn are both holding parties Sunday, February 24, 2008. The One will be celebrating its third birthday. The Roses are celebrating the arrival of several former Circle of Elder members into the Roses. Everyone is invited. Come, join us for the fun and festivities!

The One's Birthday Party
Place: Shrine of Aessina, Ashenvale
Time: 15:00 Game Time

The Roses Welcome Party
Place: Nagrand 70, 69 (Summoning Available)
Time: 19:30 Game Time

There will be fun, games, fireworks, and frolicking. We hope to see you all there!

(view as slideshow)
	The One Party: All the party attenders, with their names. Whoot!		The One Party: Shinyterra (Shinytoaster) and Lupus (Schnurbart) visit from The One's sister Horde guild, The Other One.
	The One Party: Friendly Interloper :)		The One Party: Lucky Phoebus (Roses of Dawns) shows off his new rare Raven riding mount.
	The One Party: Gakari (Kariandra) visits from The One's sister Horde guild, The Other One.		The Roses Party: What's a party without fireworks and flares?
	The Roses Party: The Steam Tonk competition. Who will be the winner?		The One Party: Shinyterra (Shinytoaster) visits from The One's sister Horde guild, The Other One.
	The One Party: Spuzzin (Bad Dream) is an old One member who attended and shared his thoughts on The One.		The Roses Party: People people everywhere on the floating Nagrand island.
	The One Party: The One welcomed its newest initiate, Keziah, at the birthday party.		The One Party: Zuraya (Zuri) visits from The One's Horde sister guild, The Other One.
	The Roses Party: Team 5 wins the first Steam Tonk round!		The One Party: The One are smokin' good dancers, in red, green, and white!
	The One Party: The One party members all in a line.		The Roses Party: Steam Tonk Team 5 with Wandjina (RoD), Katsui (RoD), Elsheindra (TO), Popcorn (TO), and Ratonka (Nightmare)
	The One Party: Is everyone tired out from dancing? They're all sleeping on the job!		The One Party: EveryOne is Italian. Dig those red, white, and green flares.
	The One Party: Fireworks		The One Party: Group shot
	The One Party: Ratonka (former Roses member Tatonka) stopped by, noticed that Lupus (Schnurbart, The Other One) was set to PvP and killed him!		The One Party: Everyone, dance in a straight line!
	The Roses Party: Oo! Fireworks in a variety of pretty colours were available for firing and seeing.		The Roses Party: Oo! Sparkly, sparkly! I love sparkles!
	The One Party: A few ppl...		The One Party: Dance, everyone, dance, because it's a party!
	The One Party: We're so rockin', we're on fire!

The Honourbound Alliance is pleased to welcome a new guild to their midst, the CursedCrusaders, led by Aelhaern. We hope you'll enjoy your THB adventure. We're glad to have you!