20th May 2009
Clearly its been a slow news year. Nothing much has happened at all. Oh, Blizzard released the long-awaited Wrath of the Lich King Expansion and Vetra released a baby bear. But other than that, nothing much ;)
Edit: I only went and forgot the FI event of the year, Jukk and Urana's wedding. We held the "official" ceremony atop the highest peak in Dun Murogh, above the secret Dwarven airfield, with much fanfare and rocketry. Belated grats to the both of you!
I'm slowly tweaking this site and hope to give it a more severe overhaul sometime soon. Who knows, we may even see more frequent news snippets in the future!
Posted by Buxton
8 July 2008
After a hiatus from Dark Venom raiding, we are slowly ramping back up with a return to Zul'Aman. Meanwhile, "Jukk's army" are planning their first tentative steps into Kara this week. The virtual "Dark Venom" guild on WoW-Raidar has now expanded to include L70 alts and basically anyone from Feral Instinct that is interested in raiding from Kara onwards.
In other news, we congratulate Lostsoul on his recent arrivals and Liz on being accepted onto her Master's course. Bring on the Stroopwaffles!
Posted by Buxton
3 January 2008
A new year is upon us already, making it 3 years since the beta and nearly a year since The Burning Crusade. In the last year alone we've had two marriages and spawned a tadpole and several other critters. This bear is very happy to see that Feral Instinct has come through it all and is thriving as strong as ever.
Posted by Buxton
16 July 2007
Following long discussions, the guild and raid leaders have decided that it is time to establish a separate raiding guild. Dark Venom is the successor to the Tribes Raid coalition and will be 'mains' only, with alts remaining in Feral Instinct, Silent Killers etc. We hope that not only will this better serve the more ambitious members, but also restore some of the quiet (in)sanity that FI has enjoyed in the past.
Posted by Buxton
17 April 2007
Not a lot of news in awhile, cos the bear has become allergic to typing maybe. Anyway, since last update (about a week after it) Raggy was downed; we now have first couple of bosses in Kara chalked off and tonight we finally extracted our revenge on Onyxia and spiked her head on a pole in Orgrimmar!
Posted by Buxton
4 March 2007
Today Tribes finally had its first ever pop at Ragnaros, with a mixed group of 20-25 people ranging from level 57 to 70. In typical style, we got him to 1%. At long last we were able to find a taker for all the pally loot that dropped, as well as a few other purples.
Posted by Buxton
2 March 2007
Well its been a busy time for the Ferals, lots of 70's now but still many quests to do, dungeons unexplored and bosses to kill. The big news is, this week we now made our 100th account in FI. According to WoWCensus, we are now the 6th ranked guild by level value on the Horde side of Thunderhorn.
Posted by Buxton
2 January 2007
The New Year has already brought a double first: A guild 45 min Baron and Tribes downing Hakkar in a single ZG run.
I think its a good point to reflect on how far we have come in the last year. Scroll down to 31st December, 2005 and you'll see that we'd just celebrated gaining a key to UBRS. Members hitting 60 was still big news back then. In February we took down Venny for the very first time as part of our raiding coalition.
Since then we have progressed to being able to kill 8/10 bosses in both ZG and MC plus 4 bosses in AQ20. I hope that this has not come at too high a cost in fun-factor...I think the Guild Xmas Party shows that we still have it in us to be silly!
The New Year will bring us new challenges, going back to old-school levelling up to 70, new 5 man content and a change to smaller, most likely guild-based, raids.
Lets keep the fur flying!
Posted by Buxton
20 November 2006
Moam and Buru the Gorger added to the list of "You've been done by Tribes!".
Posted by Liszenya
17 November 2006
After a long period of trial and error on the Friday night raiding nights with Tribes, finally progress has been made: We moved passed Geddon, took down Shazzrah and, after some experimenting on Sulfuron, decided to kill the big dog owner Golemagg and succeeded! On the road to Domo now, Tribes is moving on.
Posted by Koren
10 October 2006
Tribes has been making some pretty good progress of late, with multiple bosses in MC now on farm status, culminating in our greatest achievement in ZG last night: Tribes down Hakkar!
Posted by Buxton
29 September 2006
Yay we did Garr, and with that the first four bosses of MC in one week, as well as giving us some proper loot. Hoping we can get 2 raids a week going so we can soon do Shazzrah and Geddon etc etc!
Posted by Liszenya
19 September 2006
And news from Sunday night, where an intrepid 24-man tribes team decided to take a first look at Onyxia, getting her down to 58% on the first attempt; A few more practises to hone our tactics, and she's going down!
Posted by Asbach
19 September 2006
More tribes progress last night, as a team of only 32 take down the next MC boss, Gehennas; looking promising for working our way fairly quickly through MC especially if we can get more regular healers with us.
Posted by Asbach
13 September 2006
Last Monday Hakkar met up with a motivated team of Tribes of War Raiding.He Gave us a sample of wht he can do and they got him down to 52% on a third attempt,we all have the feeling this lizard is goin down next time!.
Posted by Koren
11 September 2006
Lots more progress for tribes over last weekend, as an NM/FI run takes down Rajaxx, the second boss in AQ20, and the Sunday night ZG run downs panther+tiger+bat+venoxxis (all on 1st attempts) clearing the way to Spider and Hakkar for this first time for the Monday group :)
Posted by Asbach
13 August 2006
Tribes Raiding is finaly moving on....it has taken some time but it looks like we are progressing again.
The Panther Aspect in ZulGurub finaly gave up to our relentless tries to kill her....
Grats to our Purple boy for yet another epic weapon!!.
Posted by Koren
26 July 2006
Grats to me on getting my [Frostwolf Howler] epic mount from AV at last. Finally a very happy Tauren riding a huge wolf :)
Posted by Asbach
15 July 2006
A fine day for guild instances today, with some quests done, a few nice drops (esp one wand for Vorpid) and finished off by 4 man Strat UD Baron kill - after the other group member d/c just before the third ziggurat, the remaining four (As, Vorp, Sant and Hurst) went on to kill the abominations, Rammstein and the Baron! :)
Posted by Asbach
9 July 2006
Grats to myself on my new [BBQ Belt] <Made by Ermintrude>. That's now 2-all in the battle of the purples between Tank kit and Healer kit.
Posted by Buxton
26 June 2006
Grats to all in the coalition ZG run last night, as they downed 4 bosses in one run for the first time (Ven, Manny, Marli and Jeklik) and prepare to head back again tonight for the Tiger (and maybe more).
Posted by Asbach
21 June 2006
Yesterday the mighty shammy Kintoll and his equaly devastating warrior frog friend Koren cleared the top ring of Sunken Temple together. Kintoll was after the Lolo, Zolo guys for the feathers for his Shaman quest so they teamed up together and pulled it off with only one wipe to speak off...these guys ROCK!! Lol!
Posted by Koren
13 June 2006
For the second time we were able to run two concurrent ZG groups. The training group came within a whisker of getting Venoxxis down, whilst the other group honed tactics on Marli (Spider Boss) and finished up with giving Mandokir a good smacking. Hurston was the lucky recipient of an epic sword to match Koren's, as well as a bloodvine harvester. A summary of the current DKP can be found here.
Posted by Buxton
4 June 2006
Tribes of War downs the first MC boss, Lucifron! Took a few wipes and, on the final successful attempt, 4 dead tanks before we prevailed. Loot included the +55 Healing Power weapon enchant (grats Lani) and a pair of Cenarion Boots (grats me).
Posted by Buxton
31 May 2006
The four Cows of the Apocalypse (Asbach, Buxton, Gangreen & Mastejo) raided Stormwind last night and sucessfully took over the Deeprun Tram, posing for photographs with Nessie in the aquarium. Unfortunately, no-one had a Large Seaforium Charge with them with which to collapse the tunnel and thus paralyze the alliance lines of communication. The cows then proceeded to Ironforge, where the 3 druids stealthed into the upstairs bar of the inn and partied the night away, joined by various gnomes, dwarves and elves.
Posted by Buxton
29 May 2006
Tonight saw the fall of our 5th boss in ZG, the arachnid wench. Although we only downed 2 bosses, we had 3 epic items and 2 primals drop. Big grats to Koren on his shiny new sword (shame its not an axe, how can ye be seen out with your fellow frogs carrying a sword?) and Greendevil on his robes.
Posted by Buxton
21 May 2006
The ever-civilised Tribes of War queue up for a cup of tea and a crab sandwich.
Posted by Asbach.
19 May 2006
The Tribes of War raid group has taken yet another step forward with the downing of the summoned boss Gahzhranka in ZG in a run that saw 3 boss kills without wiping on a single one of them.
In other news, our resident Purple Boy Rax has added to his collection with some groovy violet pantaloons.
Posted by Buxton
16 May 2006
Congratulations to our amphibian warrior on his shiny new and preciousssss ring. A few more 15-min Angerforge runs should see him ready to do battle with the nastiest of mobs (just as long as its not the deadly frog-eating Heron Boss...)
Posted by Buxton
14 May 2006
Another milestone for the Tribes, as we took down Emissary Roman'Khan today, a 40-man boss for The Calling quest, done with 28 of us. A bug unfortunately prevented a few people in the raid from looting his body, so we'll be back to get him again.
Posted by Asbach
Having got Kurinnaxx in AQ down, technically without a wipe, we then went on to another first: The downing of the Bat Lady in ZG. The druids were the biggest winners, with a new rank heal spell for Asbach and a pair of Animist's Spaulders for myself.
Posted by Buxton
8 May 2006
Grats again to our Purple Boy...Raxorblade for winning roll on [Halberd of Smiting], an epic drop from our ever watchfull friend Manny.
Posted by Koren
26 April 2006
Congratulations to our new guild Orificer, Asbach. Now the rest of us can recline and put our paws up whilst the new guy does all the work ;)
Posted by Buxton
24 April 2006
Last night was another milestone as the Tribes coalition took down the first AQ20 boss, Kurinnaxx.
Posted by Buxton
14 April 2006
What we lack in numbers we make up in sheer determination...Tribes raiding passed a milestone yesterday MANDOKIR DOWN. First run with two Zul Gurub bosses down with hopefully more to follow.Motivation went up like a rocket amongst the players there and we all went to bed with a grin on our faces.
Posted by Koren
7 April 2006
Feral Instinct welcomes its newest member Santanico, who isn't such a stranger as you might expect...a very fine effort and one very much appreciated.
Posted by Buxton
5 April 2006
Congratulations to Ermi/Vetra, having reached the respectable age of 30!! (old cow) [Edit: Actually 32, or in rhyming slang, "thirty moo"...Bux].
Also both Raxorblade and Koren are racing to the epics like flies to...The new patch 1.10 turn in quest for Valor had them flying all over the continents to get their first three set items.
Koren is stopping at the belt, gloves and bracers but Raxorblade is looking at the 45 minute Baron now for his legs and chest...anyone for Strat practice lol
Posted by Koren
30 March 2006
Patch 1.10 Storms of Azeroth has been applied...it marks the end of endless 10/15 man raiding on the instances.
The quality of players and groups is put to the test as most of the instances have been capped at 5 man and for UBRS 10 man.As a reward epic gear can be obtained by doing a close to epic questline.
It gives our Ferals a couple of new goals to go for beside the Tribes Raiding parties. Check my characters goals on forum for guild activities in the near future.
Posted by Koren
24 March 2006
Our efforts with Tribes of War have taken up a lot of our time ingame lately.
We are doing better all the time and have done a first MC run with Unknown Entity guild to muster up our numbers. Got to Luciferon on first go and got the adds down. Meanwhile, ZG runs will continue on Thursdays.
Time to direct our attention within our own guild, coming Sunday full Quest runs on instances yet to be decided on. Visit forum and post your wishes under 'My Characters Goals'.
Posted by Koren
13 March 2006
On our first AQ run, we succeed in getting Kurinaxx down to 52%. Could have done with an extra priest/druid and a shammy or two, but its certainly a battle we can win.
Posted by Buxton
12 March 2006
Rax is turning purple...[Darkmoon Necklace] and a [Lionheart Helm], grats mate. The coalition is slowly getting into its own, Zul Gurub farm runs are now common with 10 and the gates of Ahn Quiraj have been openend on Thunderhorn so AQ20 in the near future.
Posted by Koren
26 February 2006
A big grats to Raxorblade, whose patience in waiting around the AH was rewarded by his long-awaited blacksmithing plans. Several nice blue armour recipes now available to the guild.
Posted by Buxton
24 February 2006
OK, so it may seem like nothing has been happening for awhile based on the news updates. Truth is, we've just been too busy! Had a couple of alts break the 40 barrier and tonight, its Criptlord's turn. Grats mate, another piece of cannon fodder to throw at the MC bosses ;)
Speaking of high end content, seems we don't need a 20-man raid to enter ZG, 10 is enough in order to do some nice maiming and pillaging. Special grats to Asbach on his [Loaded Dice]...
Posted by Buxton
16 February 2006
On our first attempt at the Princess rescue we made it all the way and completed with only one wipe!! Gratz to Jukkorsis, Buxton, Greendevil and Kintoll for a great run. Hope to do this soon with other guildies since the Emperor has some nice loot...maybe even nice to farm in raid, then it should not take so long (3 hrs last night in 5 man).
Posted by Koren
14 February 2006
Second run on Zul Gurub with coalition partners brought down The Snake Boss. We also had a very good try on the Bat lady but she still did us in. Guess we should have brought out the lucky frog from the start.
Posted by Koren
13 February 2006
Congratulations to Raxorblade having obtained the key to Onyia's Lair. Will take some similair determined questing for fellow guildies to get the same, as all players entering the Lair must have a key. UBRS here we come!
Posted by Koren
6 February 2006
A Guild Raid on LBRS yesterday got us some nice drops. Omokk's Fist, a two handed hammer to smack mobs with for Asbach, a Beaststalker Girdle that eventualy will get to Gangreen and Buxton reluctantly accepted the Wildheart shoulders...he'll be parading around with the two dead birds on his shoulders around the dark streets of Ogrimmar...add a skirt and he is one happy puppy.
Posted by Koren
30 January 2006
We fought the dawg and the dawg won...not quite, but the Alliance had more people and they took the ugly mutt Omen down instead of us, after a very protracted fight. Grats to Vorpid who managed to get a quest completion.
Posted by Buxton
28 January 2006
Asbach's proposed run of BRD was a success, with help from a Holy Cow Warlock to guide them through the Arena, getting them the Shadowforge key and to the bar. Plenty of quests finished. Koren was invited in the end for Attunement, having a lot of dark iron ore to melt. Dark Iron mail made for Reddevil and Gangreen gets a raincheck for when he becomes 60. Rax got himself some Dark iron shoulders so some MC equipment made. Our armorsmith also bought the honored recipes from the Thorium Brotherhood...another reason to get to MC for cores...someday!
Posted by Koren
26 January 2006
It will not be long now ...our bear and his cute cow are returning from their skiing trip beyond the lands of Azeroth.
Hope they rested up and are battle ready, we have some hard fighting instance runs on our wishlist and we need their presence to even out our chances at succes.
Posted by Koren
22 January 2006
Our new 60's are on a roll! Having no need for frog tanking... they preferred the cow and went forth to roll up Cresent keys for all, the good water for Vorpid, our druid got his Royal Seal and they even finished this in the end without a tank. Not bad for a lazy Sunday.
Posted by Koren
20 January 2006
Yesterday evening the "fresh" 60's made themselves familiar with the DM East instance. Some nice druid gear dropped for Asbach and though we did not finish we will be back again soon. Our Troll warrior Hurston made 60 so another fine additon to the pack.
Posted by Koren
17 January 2006
A goal is achieved: <Horde on Tour> made the front page of the European WoW site.
May we have many more fun nights like this!
Posted by Buxton
16 January 2006
Sunday night was the first ever big guild raid on Strat. Ermi got an addition to her Beast Stalker set, and Vorter a nice little chopper. Too bad we were not a match for the Baron but next time we will be there with greater numbers to lay the gloomy guy down! Hope to see more of these runs happen in the coming weeks.
Posted by Koren
14 January 2006
Grats to Vorpid on reaching 60!
Posted by Buxton
12 January 2006
Thank the Gods of Azeroth the server is back!!!
Our efforts to level a new character on another server can cease now. Back to the business on Thunderhorn. Depending on guildmember attendence its time to start some guild raids on the high level instances - For the Horde!
Posted by Koren
11 January 2006
Server offline until thursday...but we will be getting a better game performance and 4 days free in return - lets hope Blizzard keeps this promise. To ease the withdrawal symptoms Reddevil and Koren are scouting out the PVP server Genjuros for the time being. Back on Thunderhorn on Thursday all...do they have a chewing gum or patches for game withdrawal?
Posted by Koren
3 January 2006
Checkout the forum thread, "Silly" for the plans on our forthcoming stupendous joint PvP raid with Death Angels through the very heart of the Alliance territory. This event will replace the regular 60's night on Monday, 9th Jan.
Posted by Buxton
31 December 2005
On the border of this year we as a guild gained acces to UBRS by finishing the key quest.This opens up lucrative Raid possibilities for the New Year. Thanks again to all that participated in this acomplishment.
PS For those people online on New Year's Eve there is a scheduled run on Sunken Temple, have fun all!
Posted by Koren
28 December 2005
Hope we all survived Christmas and are ready for a whole new year of trouble and fun in Azeroth. Our guild ranks have seen some nice additions this past year and we seem to be growing as a group. Next year we shall be ready to start full guild raids as we have had a lot of people (and a few up and coming) reach level 60. Looking forward to our runs in the new year.
Have a Happy New Years Eve and be careful...goblin fireworks are only mostly harmless.
Posted by Koren
23 December 2005
Last nights run into Maurodon had our Frog greener with envy at Hurston who had a great helmet drop. Still some quests to finish for our up-coming 60s but the Scepter of Celebras has been attained.
Posted by Koren
20 December 2005
The forums are online! Still some work to do yet, but we have our home back.
Posted by Buxton
19 December 2005
Monday has come around again and with it Schwarze Felsennacht. Assuming sufficient numbers, we plan to hit BRD with two 5-man groups starting at 8pm Server Time, then amalgamate into one 5-man for the final 'summit push' from the bar onwards.
Posted by Buxton
16 December 2005
Reports are filtering in that Koren has been incarcerated in Thunder Bluff jail after publicly mounting a Reindeer. A spokesman for Thuder Bluff constabulary commented "This sort of activity may be tolerated in Orgrimmar but we Cows have higher moral standards".
Posted by Buxton
12 December 2005
Its Monday - that means its the guild 60's dungeon party. No, its not an excuse to dig out those groovy flares. Don't forget your candles, a ball of stout wool for navigation and a blanket to hide under for those really scary monster encounters. Bring it on!
Posted by Buxton
5 December 2005
Update on the forum issues: Tidesofwar.net has purchased new, more powerful forum software. This is installed but there are problems migrating the old forum databases. It is all tied to MySQL and the new version does not like the old version's MySQL tables (this is a loose interpretation but close enough). The upshot is we will probably have to start afresh, including creating new user logins. Please bear them with during this period; Tidesofwar.net is staffed by volunteers who have day jobs too, and funded largely out of their own pockets.
3 December 2005
Unfortunately, the forums are down again. It seems when the underlying database engine was upgraded, the tables became corrupted. Tidesofwar are aware of the issue and working on a resolution.
Congrats to Deathmaw in taming Ermintrude as a pet. Ermintrude comes with a 2.0 attack speed and is capable of learning a special, group-friendly ability of Bring Beer :)
30 November 2005
Guild celebration time! Since the last update, Asbach has surpassed level 40 and attained 300 in Alchemy; we have a new member, Laphroix, a 60 Tauren Shaman; and last but far from least Raxorblade and Ermintrude hit 60 after dispatching Araj the Summoner in Western Plaguelands.
19th November 2005
Grats on L40 Vorpid (no doubt Asbach won't be far behind) and a belated grats to Vorter on 60 (hey, nobody told me!)
17th November 2005
As you will no doubt have noticed, the site and forums have been offline this week. But now we're back! However, due to a technical hitch, we have lost a few days worth of updates to the news page and roster. I'll be correcting this as time permits.
Also note that I'm away next week, so Koren will be herding you around on his brand new Epic Sheep (grats on that btw Kor;)
Finally for today's update, a raid with a heavy FI presence took down Teremus this evening (screenshot).
16th November 2005
Welcome to the guild Gangreen, a Tauren Hunter to boost our flagging bovine population!
15th November 2005
The first major raid event with Seikou took place in Zul Gurrub tonight. We got to the first boss but were unable to take her down, though I think we learned quite a bit.
10th November 2005
Welcome to the guild Chulaka, a Tauren Druid whose name a few of us will remember from old, and grats to Retrokai for hitting the dizzy heights of 60.
9th November 2005
Grats Greendevil on hitting 60! Now in new improved portable beer chiller (aka frost spec) flavour.
6th November 2005
Welcome to the guild Linnia and Retrokai, both Shaman, and Haphestous, a Druid! Congratulations are also in order for Hurston who has surpassed level 40 and in doing so earned promotion to Naik.
Whilst the planned MC comedy club was postponed in the end, we did have an epic run through BRD along with a couple of guys from <Redemption> (former <Ranger> members). Loot was good and there were no wipes - we are getting better!
3rd November 2005
Note that the Tides of War server which hosts our site and forums is scheduled for some maintenance over the next couple of days, which may involve extended downtime. Just have to play instead! Speaking of which, a reminder that Sunday is the Joint Guilds Molten Core Wipe Fest.
31st October 2005
Welcome to the guild Blackhair!
30th October 2005
Welcome to the guild Raxorblade, warrior and prime steak!
Congratulations are in order for Hurston for winning an [Arcanite Fishing Pole] in the Stranglethorn fishing contest.
27th October 2005
Welcome to the guild Trollson, a lizard of totemic tutelage!
26th October 2005
Congratulations and thanks to Koren for his dedication in farming a [Formula: Enchant Weapon - Crusader] for the guild. This is generally regarded as the warrior enchant. The guild enchants page has been updated accordingly.
22nd October 2005
A belated happy birthday to Vorter!
20th October 2005
Welcome to the guild Zenedar - a sneaky type to keep us feral druids company in instances!
15th October 2005
Happy birthday Vorpid/Kallian!
Congratulations are also in order for Greez, our first level 60 Troll. As a consequence (of hitting 60 not of being a Troll), he has been promoted to Havildar.
9th October 2005
Kallian, the latest addition to our massed ranks of Hunters, has upgraded from a trial to a full account - we always knew you'd weaken in the end!
7th October 2005
Happy birthday Rexan!
6th October 2005
Working our way up the dungeons, our "lowbie" group smote our way through Wailing Caverns. A couple of nice shield drops for the shammies and a single Fang set drop...we'll be back for more!
On the way out we picked up Hurston, a Troll Warrior, who has now joined our ranks.
4th October 2005
We bid au revoir to our top frog-featured shammy, Kintoll, but its not goodbye - he will be back come Xmas, greener than ever!
2nd October 2005
New faces over the weekend are Jid, an Undead mage, and Rexan, a Troll Shaman. Rexan (along with Basha, Staggart and Shardagus) is a Horde alt of a character in the ElvenLore guild.
Some of our "lowbies" - Asbach, Bluedevil, Rexan and Buxton(!) - went on a rampage through Ragefire Chasm, with only one wipe (oops). Perhaps not really illustrative of what an instance run is normally like...
27th September 2005
More new members! Inspired, a Troll Mage; Vande, a Troll Priest; Mattboi, an Orc Warrior; Staggart, an Undead Warlock; Ebonezergood, a Troll Shaman; and Shardagus, an Orc Shaman.
26th September 2005
Our new web site is live! Comments to mailcapn-feralinstinct@yahoo.co.uk
In celebration, the guild "raided" Thunder Bluff.
25th September 2005
Over the last couple of days we've swelled our ranks with new blood of fine Horde stock: Dreenor, an Orc Warrior; Freet, a Troll Mage; and Asbach, a Tauren Druid.
23rd September 2005
We are sad to lose two of our founding members, Masha and Narache. We wish them well in their travels. In the words of Douglas Adams, "So long and thanks for all the fish!".
28th August 2005
We've now formed a guild alliance with Death Angels. This is in addition to our long-standing alliance with Ranger.
Contacts at Death Angels are Rotten and Turthalion.
