First of all: congratulations to Shaniah for reaching the Weaponcrafting cap! :) We now have crafters with capped skills in 3 different crafts, go us! The caps will be slightly raised in future patches, but it's still nice ;)

The Midstock event that was supposed to be held next sunday has unfortunately been cancelled. What this means for the football tournament is not entirely certain yet, but as soon as I know I'll be posting on the forum about it.

Lastly, the Excalibur server seems to be down currently, along with Avalon. It's probably just some maintenance downtime, but no announcements have been made at all, which is a bit strange..

Update: as of about 11:40 AM CET, Excalibur was back up. There were some strange problems and they seem to be fixed finally after some more downtime :)

We finally bought our guild house today! (or technically yesterday as it's more like early morning at the time of writing)

We've ended up in Uldale, Erikstaad. It's not really the prettiest town around, but it's close to the market and and the Erikstaad zone entrance, making it a prime location. Also we managed to get 3 lots next to eachother (at a price :>) for some extra convenience (the guild house is on lot 1688).

I've whipped up a little explanatory text about our guild house, make sure you read it so you're aware of the house rules and stuff.

Enjoy! :)

I've opened a small poll with regard to the preferred location for a guild house. Please take a minute to fill it out :)
To view the poll results, click here. (You need to be logged in on this website and be a guild member to take this poll)

After over 24 hours of downtime, Excalibur is back up, with 1.63 and Foundations (patch notes here) !

Before you ask, we'll be waiting a little bit for prices to come down before we'll be buying a guild house, especially since GOA have decided to increase the starting price compared to the US prices (higher server population and more cash per character on our servers).

The character database was also rolled back to the state of early morning on Sunday due to several zonecrashes that day, leaving possible duped or disappeared items.

Lastly, some guild business. Two new members today: Aparax (level 50 Shadowblade) and Zavix (level 45 Runemaster), welcome both :)

As mentioned in the latest Friday News version 1.63 and the free Foundations expansion will be going live next Monday.

The servers will probably be down for most of the day. When they're back, the housing zones will be available.
We won't be buying a guild house right away, as lot prices will start very high, but I'll try to monitor the lot sales and get us a decent spot for a decent price :)

In the meantime, I suggest you download the Foundations expansion, it's about 55 MB and there are 2 different versions depending on which client you use (Classic / Shrouded Isles)

Donations for the Guild House Fund are still welcome as always. I'll have to chip in for a big part of the sum needed, but the more money we have, the better a spot we'll be able to afford.

First of all, I'd like to welcome Morto into the guild. He's a friend of Raghildur/Elme and currently level 16 Warrior.

A couple of other things worth noting:
Firstly, Kraig was promoted to Emissary last weekend, but it went unnoticed by me until now. Oh well, better late than never: congratulations :)
Last but not least: Ralgedi dinged RR7 tonight. Congratulations, stlong Flammen Herra! :)