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Way back in the fading twilight of the Burning Crusade I decided I had had enough with the bullshit that characterized the raiding guilds I had seen and resolved to start a new guild. There were a few important keystones for the guild:

• People-focused – No more putting up with sorry excuses for human beings just so we could fill out a raid. If I’m going to spend this much time with you I had better like doing it. One of the talking points we had in the beginning was that we’d rather not raid at all than raid with people we hated.
• Interested – If you joined our guild we wanted you to be interested in the game and how it worked. The original members all enjoyed the frequent nerd talk about spell coefficients, ideal haste/crit balances, etc. We didn’t want to have to tell someone every little thing about everything about how to play simply because someone couldn’t be bothered to care on their own to find out.
• Progression-oriented – In Burning Crusade, this meant something a little different than it does now. Unless you were in one of the premiere guilds on your server you probably didn’t see a lot of endgame raiding content. I was lucky enough to clear everything but Sunwell. The guild I was in at the time of clearing Black Temple and Hyjal was just too horrible and toxic and repugnant to make me want to endure it for one last raid instance, otherwise I would have seen all that BC had to offer. With that idea in mind, we resolved that our guild was going to reach the end. Most the original members again had either cleared everything up to Sunwell or had cleared Sunwell too and we weren’t keen on stalling in Wrath’s Kara equivalent. We were going to see Arthas dead.

Its been a long trip from telling jokes over Vent to try and keep awake during the first phase of the Kel’thuzad encounter to screaming DEFILE IN 5 DEFILE IN 5 DEFILE IN 5 over Mumble but to a great degree, I feel like Nocturne stayed true to its original intent.

I’m waxing nostalgic for a point (this time). Last night, Nocturne downed Arthas for the first time. For so long, this was the benchmark I personally held as a sort of litmus test for the success of the ideas behind the founding of this guild. We had always been lucky in that we raided with friends and that overwhelmingly we were all geeks about knowing stuff about the game. Could we do it all?

Turns out yes, yes we could.

This is the culmination of over a year’s worth of effort and hard work and I know I for one am feeling pretty good about it.

So where does that leave us now? This is certainly the end of a long story. However, Nocturne will continue. We’ll roll Halion over and get excited over the Cataclysm development and when Deathwing pops up and the world breaks we’ll get to work starting all over again.

Some things are done and over though. My hosting for this site expires in, oh about two days. I’m going to take this moment of achievement and completion to hang up my blogging hat. Its conceivable that I’ll pick it up again in the future but for now I’d just like to say thank you for reading.

Suffer well.