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    Shiny Guild History 

    by
    The Council
    Published on Tuesday, 5 April, 2011 12:28

    Where do we come from?

    The guild was originally named Champions of Draenor (CoD) and was founded way back in Vanilla WoW, about 5 years ago. It started off as a small guild with close knit friends on Silvermoon. CoD was originally formed by Seratorz and Crushbone. After growing steadily and a few changes to the leadership (after real life issues took the original leaders elsewhere) the guild progressed to a point whereby a couple of 10 man runs could run concurrently even during some week nights. During the latter stages of The Burning Crusade, through an inter-guild partnership, CoD participated in 25 man raids on a near weekly basis. On top of this the guild population and ability allowed for the guild to also run their own solo 25 man raids.

    CoD moved to the Chamber of Aspects realm due to Silvermoon being over run by Alliance (95% of them to 5% of us) and the realm server being over-populated. (Who likes to queue to login!?) The guild has never been a hardcore guild; however does raid regularly; some weeks a couple of times and others four or five times.

    After spending close to a year (maybe 2) on Chamber of Aspects, we took the very difficult decision to move once again. Sadly, the CoA realm server appears to be dying. Recruitment is effectively dead and like many less populated servers, the exodus of many players retiring from the game left slim pickings. Lots of research brought us to our new home here on Draenor. During the move we decided to reboot our guild by naming ourselves . (We felt remaining as CoD could be seen as pretentious given our guild name featuring the realm name!)

    What have we done?

    In The Burning Crusade expansion we've seen: Black Temple, Mount Hyjal, Tempest Keep, Serpentshrine Cavern, Magtheridon's Lair, Zul'Aman, Gruul's Lair and Karazhan. Most of these were on farm status.

    When Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out we started our raiding venture all over again. We cleared Naxxramas, Vault of Archavon, Obsidian Sanctum +3D, Eye of Eternity, Ulduar, Trial of the Crusader, Onyxia's Lair & Icecrown Citadel.

    Under Cataclysm so far we have cleared Magmaw, Omnotron Defense System, Chimaeron, Maloriak and Atramedes In Blackwing Descent.

    Our future

    We have always been a casual raiding guild but not a lazy one. Our motto has always been "Casual does not mean lazy". We take pride in our raiding, but we also have fun doing it. We're very excited and confident about Draenor.

    For the Horde!

    Our current recruitment [OPEN] 

    by
    The Council
    Published on Friday, 1 April, 2011 05:42
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    At the present time our recruitment is open.

    Please read the recruitment post below:

    Hello all,

    is recruiting! We are new to the server but are a long established guild whom originate from Silvermoon, moved to Chamber of Aspects and have now come to Draenor looking for more like minded people to solidify our raid team and member base.

    We need you!

    *points in a poster propaganda fashion*.... *at you*

    So I hear you scream/moo/mumble, why join us? Well....

    is an old and well-established guild. The guild has existed since vanilla WoW and until very recently was known as Champions of Draenor. Our move to Draenor has prompted a slight rebranding (cos we are shiny) but also because we wish to recruit some fresh faces into the guild. We've heard great things about this realm, and are hoping it doesn't die in the same ways Silvermoon and CoA have!

    We've always been a guild for adults, we ask that you're 18+ with a mature attitude when dealing with others, we understand not everyone gets along, but everyone is here to have fun.

    We're into casual raiding, whilst maintaining high standards and progression. We like to get those bosses down but we also want to be enjoying ourselves whilst we do this. Over the last few years this ethos has historically allowed us to progress through content at a good pace whilst still enjoying being social with one another.

    So..we're looking for a few good men/women... taurens...

    We raid 2-3 times per week between 21.00 and 00.00 servertime. Typically Wednesday, Thursday/Friday and Mondays. We try where possible to plan our raids a month in advance on different nights to allow those with commitments to attend as much as they can/they like to.

    So what do we need from you?

    * You need to be afraid of the fire
    * You need to be 18+. The older the better. ;P
    * You need to be a bit passionate about what you do. Take some pride in your gameplay. Don't expect others to pull your load.
    * You need to maintain the guild reputation. We're serious about maintaining a good standing in the community. This means no trolling, no chit-chat in trade, no dragging your heels in pugs and so on.
    * You need to be friendly in guild matters. Help others. Being selfish is good in single player games. WoW is meant as a social game with guilds being the pinnacle of social gameplay.

    If you would like a chat with a council member about anything written here please feel free to contact one of us in game or leave a note under this post. You may contact myself (Shayda), Elvyra, Maine, Cankles or Krystalwruin with your questions.. (please bring cakes).

    We will consider all high quality applications.. yep, even if you're a mage...

    If any of what I've written made you giggle, smile, nod in agreement or do a little dance then please head over to http://shiny-guild.eu create a forum account in the name of the toon you'd like to join with and fill out an application!

    Cheers,

    Shayda