With the purchase of Nightfall official, Nick is being promoted to officer of the guild. He has agreed to be much more active in the guild.

Welcome Nick!

PS, the clock starts NOW.

After being in several alliances that seemed more focused on raising their kids via GW than actually having fun, we’ve decided to form our own alliance. A mature, beer drinking alliance.

I understand that there are many alliances out there that like to have tons of rules and requirements. That’s not us. Have fun and drink beer. Those are the rules.

If the below describes your guild, let me know and we’ll get this BEER alliance going:

Guild “Requirements”:

• Play GW for pure enjoyment above all else.
• Relaxed, mature players. 21+. We’re mostly old guys in our late twenties/early thirties.
• Like to drink good beers. No coors light.
• Don’t have a problem swearing in alliance chat
• Most of the members have completed the game and been playings since the early days.

About our guild:

• Kurzick
• We love to drink. And even swear sometimes.
• 20 members on both coasts. Not all are super active. Yes, we have females.
• PVE and PVP Focused. 80/20 split. Though we would love to PVP more.
• Hardcore players like the challenging Elite areas (DOA/UW/etc)
• We also have several casual members.
• We do a fair amount of farming.
• Everyone is over 29 years old.
• We have TS , Vent, and good ole Skype.

IGN: Diks Devastator

Happy (Almost) Memorial Day Weekend!!! A much needed 3-day break.

While some of the guildies will be trying to destroy the forest (Urgoz), other’s will be admiring it (Lightning in a Bottle).

We are a diverse Guild indeed.

VS

Please take a few moments to review the by-laws in effect immediately.

Guild Wars Attention Deficit Disorder (GWADD) is a serious disorder that can affect anyone without warning. You start out helping out Koss hook up with Meloni only to find yourself farming swamp petals because you need those so that you can complete some stew-making side quest and then for some reason you’re grinding your Norn title because you had a few good rounds in the Norn Fighting Tournament and figure, it would only take 9 weeks to max that title…but it’s time for Alliance Battle…

Welcome to my head while playing. A more specific example; A few weeks ago, Gile and I tried the elite area in Nightfall called the Domain of Anguish. It’s pretty rough, especially without a few other guild members to help out (hint, get your a** online). It consists of 4 brutal side-quests, each with 2-3 sub quests, and a mega end-boss Mallyx the Unyielding. We made it through the first set of quests in the City of Torc’qua but once we reached Ravenheart Gloom, it was epic fail. I challenge anyone to complete the 10 waves of L28 torment demons with heros and hench.

So what did we do? Give up? Of course not. We probably dumped 20k each into building up heros with skills, runes, and weapons. We tried a dozen times and failed. At some point we decided that if we maxed out our Lightbringer title, we’d be doing 40% more damage to these goons. Two weeks later, the grind is over. We maxed out both our Sunspear and Lightbringer titles.

Of course, along the way we played some AB, killed 500000000 margonites in the wurms, farmed feathers, helped guildies complete missions, elfed it up, had a firework show and pet show down in the guild hall, drank lots of water, got some celestial mini pigs, and worked some nubs.

Nick asks me often why I play this game still.  Two words….Eternal Grind (and endless fun).

Finished up GW:EN this weekend… Great game if you haven’t played through it yet.  The rewards are better, the dungeons are great, and it’s more challenging than the other campaigns.  Some parts are near impossible with out other human players…though I was able to complete the final two missions with just heros/hench.

Classic Action Shot of Nick teaching Undead Rurik a lesson.

Here’s a video I shot this morning solo farming Singed Gargoyle Skulls outside Nolani. Music = Rancid “I Am Forever”. Video sped up just a bit ;-). Remember 2 Skulls = 1 Spiked Eggnog = 5 Ales.