After several attempts and multiple trips to refine our strategy, The Elders of Turalyon took down Malygos in the Eye of Eternity on March 24, 2009. Congratulations to all! This was one of the few encounters that we had not conquered as a guild.

This was a hardfought process to get this boss down and I am extremely proud of the support that we all show for each other as we continue to experience and conquer new content, no matter what form it takes.

Guild Members in attendance were:

Macks
Tribian
Arthert
Cellesia
Twerp
Shemo
Vorissa
Windfaller
Mezav
Khary

I thought I'd steal the spotlight from our illustrious leader for a few moments and introduce myself and give an update on what The Elders have been doing. First off, I'm Rhus, one of two new Recruitment/Orientation officers for the Elders, a Restoration Druid by trade. The other new R/O officer is Celi, a fellow Tree.

We've been busy since the last update to the blog:
- Wrath of the Lich King leveling contest
- Questing, Instances, Heroics, Oh My!
- Guild Winter's Veil Party
- "Elder" titles from the Lunar Festival Achievements
- Raids!!!
So far we've cleared Naxxramas, Vault of Archavon (Reg. and Heroic), and Obsidian Sanctum (Reg. and Heroic). We're currently focusing on Naxxramas Heroic and Frostwyrm Lair 10-man.

And, as the 'postcard' shows, we're taking on Malygos in the Eye of Eternity too!

All in all, it's an exciting time to be an Elder! If you're not, have a look around, check out our membership rules, and if you want to be an Elder too, just submit an application! See you soon!

We downed Gruul and Mag in one night! Much fun was had by all, and next we're moving on to Tempest Keep!

Our second major charge into Gruul's Lair went decidedly better than last time, but nevertheless he still used us as his veritable napkin for that endless supply of Drool he seems to have. Out of the three attempts, the best was when we dropped him to 30%. It seems that we are hitting a rather consistent string of bad cave ins that leave our tanks pasted to the floor.

High King went better this time around, dropping him on the second try. We didn't even have to sacrifice an Enjoy to make it all happen. A bunch of Hunter/Mage/Lock tokens dropped and yours truly rolled teh suck as is standard.

If I were to ask anyone what we could do differently, it would be to die a little more. We need some more practice on Gruul's and were limited because some folks had to bail. We need more corpse runs to get the fight down, because I think we really had it. Its all about making sure that when you hit the ground before shatter, you get away from people near you instead of trying to get back to your original spot.

All in all, the run was absolutely fantastic. For having so many new folks in we did absolutely spectacular. There isn't a doubt in my mind that we will get the ugly one soon...so I'm hoping the raid gods smile upon us and grant us another run soon :)

Over the past few months, a lot of new changes have been made to the site:

• We abandoned the event calendar on the main site...it was simply too big a pain.
• We implemented Marshcal, a new plugin for SMF that one of our own built, to register all future events
• We reverted back to the old application process
• Other things I can't think of

Stay tuned for more changes...and hopefully faster updates to the blog!