0. Blackrock Information & Guild Progression 5.1 03/09/2009 11:37:22 AM PDT
Blackrock Information & Guild Progression 5.1
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About Blackrock:
It's a high population US server. Upon the release of WoW this server was full and chosen as the unofficial Australian PVP server by the Australian WoW community (also acknowledged by Blizzard in the Australian trial WoW DVD booklet, along with Spinebreaker and Proudmoore). Since then Oceanic realms have been released and many Australians have rerolled, slightly alleviating the long queues suffered by this realm. However, because of this history, Blackrock is still a harsh and unfriendly server when it comes to transfers or new players, GTFO.
The official motto of the server is "Blackrock is full, GTFO."
The default accepted pug loot rules is to roll Need on all BoEs regardless of quality.
This realm is infamous for the Argent Dawn gnome raids, also known as the "escape from Gnomeregan" role playing event. These events would occur when the server has unbearable lag or goes down. Many, sometimes hundreds of Blackrock players would create level 1 gnomes on the Argent Dawn role playing realm and raid Ironforge, spamming text in chat channels and annoying players. The majority of players joined a guild named "EXILES OF BLACKROCK". This behaviour greatly annoyed the Argent Dawn population and was discouraged by Blizzard.
On a final note, if you plan on rerolling or transferring to blackrock... ITS FULL GTFO>>
we do NOT want anymore scrubs xfers, do you understand that blackrock is full, the last thing we need is more trash, more people thinking they are cool for being on blackrock, more posers thinking they're old school, I dont know what else I can say, GTFO our server, GTFO our forums! (PS: Argent Dawn is that way --- >>>)
Play Times
Blackrock is primarily a Pacific Standard Time server - however, the largest chunk of our population is of an Oceanic playerbase so blackrock's peak population times usually run at AEST(NSW/Sydney Time) or UTC/GMT +11 hours.
Server Transfers
We've had four server transfers:
Blackrock>Daggerspine - Mar. 05'
Blackrock>Bloodscalp - Aug. 05'
Blackrock>Frostwolf - Oct. 05'
Blackrock>Garithos - Jan. 06'
Notable Former Blackrock Guilds:
Nowhere to Run - Daggerspine (H)
HolyWar - Daggerspine (A)
NoMAAM - Bloodscalp (A)*RIP
Greysoul - Bloodscalp (H) *RIP
Lords of Death - Garithos (H)
25 Man Raids
Kel’Thuzad - Death and Taxes (H)
Sartharion - Death and Taxes (H)
Malygos - Death and Taxes (H)
3.0 Notable Achievement Firsts:
Immortal: Eminence (A)
Undying: Death and Taxes (H)*
25OS3D: Death and Taxes (H)
10OS3D: Death and Taxes (H)
25 6 min Maly: Death and Taxes (H)
10 6 min Maly: The Dark Ministry (A)*
*Unconfirmed.
3.1 Server Firsts: (25) Algalon the Observer:
(25) Hard-Mode Mimiron:
(25) Hard-Mode Freya: Nurfed (H)
(25) Hard-Mode Thorim: Nurfed (H)
(25) Hard-Mode Hodir: Nurfed (H)
(25) Hard-Mode Iron Council: Death and Taxes (H)
(10) Algalon the Observer:
(10) Hard-Mode Mimiron: Death and Taxes (H)
(10) Hard-Mode Freya: Defenestrate (H)
(10) Hard-Mode Thorim: Man vs PVE (H)
(10) Hard-Mode Hodir: Kith and Friends (A)
(10) Hard-Mode Iron Council: The Dark Ministry (A)
Rankings for guilds are pretty much done by achievements now, just killing a boss doesn't seem like no mean feet and I don't think that will change. Achievements are the way of guild ranking in the future.
17. Re: Blackrock Information & Guild Progression 03/10/2009 12:40:44 AM PDT
Updated to here.
*Thurokiir armoury isn't showing your achievment just yet, will add it in when it updates.
**Edit: Armoury updated, added your achievement.
@Betony, the fact that only 5 guilds have completed Immortal so far refutes your claim that it's a walk in the park - and with the announcement regarding the mounts being removed from GotR & H:GotR in 3.1 more than a few guilds will be trying to get it.
Malygos 6 minutes isn't the hardest achievement in the game by a stretch, but it's the hardest for that instance - hence its inclusion.
In any case, post on your main and I may take your arguments a bit more seriously.