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Imrahil · 09-07-2012, 15:05

HoT - House of Thule

When the next expansion was released everyone assumed a more forgiving expansion than Underfoot and this proved to be the case indeed. Although the event "Ritual of Terror" from the first tier was commonly deemed "too hard for its intended tier", it wasn’t the event itself which stopped the top end guilds, but the bugs in the event script leading to random resets, not triggering third phase etc. Once again the race between SoD and RF began with SoD entering the second tier 2 days ahead of RF.
That small lead was extended among other things by the fact that the raid "The Force of Eternity" (deemed the hardest raid in all of HoT by many) was made unavailable for two weeks 1 day after RF wiped at 5 % while SoD had beaten it the day before. SoD kept that 2 week lead during the rest of that tier, beating the last event in T3 just before Christmas while RF followed after their break during the first week of January.

The hopes of Raging Fury, that the endzone Sanctus Somnium could be able to hold SoD on their march towards being the first guild on AB to beat House of Thule were misplaced as the complete zone was cleared by SoD in 10 days, making them the fourth guild serverwide to beat the expansion with RF following as number 5 about 2 weeks later. D’Pikeys consolidated their third rank on AB by beating HoT a bit more than 3 months later as 12th guild serverwide.

The whole expansion had lasted less than 4 months for the top 5 guilds with many more beating it before the release of the next one, among them Ancient Dominion (AD) as fourth guild on AB, so once again there was a level playing field among many guilds when the next expansion hit the virtual shelves in November 2011.

09-07-2012, 15:05	#5
Imrahil Administrator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 8,278	Re: History of Raging Fury HoT - House of Thule When the next expansion was released everyone assumed a more forgiving expansion than Underfoot and this proved to be the case indeed. Although the event "Ritual of Terror" from the first tier was commonly deemed "too hard for its intended tier", it wasn’t the event itself which stopped the top end guilds, but the bugs in the event script leading to random resets, not triggering third phase etc. Once again the race between SoD and RF began with SoD entering the second tier 2 days ahead of RF. That small lead was extended among other things by the fact that the raid "The Force of Eternity" (deemed the hardest raid in all of HoT by many) was made unavailable for two weeks 1 day after RF wiped at 5 % while SoD had beaten it the day before. SoD kept that 2 week lead during the rest of that tier, beating the last event in T3 just before Christmas while RF followed after their break during the first week of January. The hopes of Raging Fury, that the endzone Sanctus Somnium could be able to hold SoD on their march towards being the first guild on AB to beat House of Thule were misplaced as the complete zone was cleared by SoD in 10 days, making them the fourth guild serverwide to beat the expansion with RF following as number 5 about 2 weeks later. D’Pikeys consolidated their third rank on AB by beating HoT a bit more than 3 months later as 12th guild serverwide. The whole expansion had lasted less than 4 months for the top 5 guilds with many more beating it before the release of the next one, among them Ancient Dominion (AD) as fourth guild on AB, so once again there was a level playing field among many guilds when the next expansion hit the virtual shelves in November 2011. __________________ On my signal NURN! Last edited by Imrahil; 09-07-2012 at 15:24.