Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:18:03 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/images/logo.gif http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/ bonchu@bonchu.com http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49 I've finally canceled, paid till January 15th. Any old timers that want leader of our level 26 soon to be 27 guild should speak up soon. If none of the core group steps up I'll probably pass leader to someone in Elysium (well now the Legion of Boom). Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:18:03 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48 In a second round of server merges, STORM has moved to the Badlands server. Not a good sign for the game overall but say this, they are still taking care of their customers! A destruction guild ninja'd our name, so we are back to Stormhammer there. Anyone listed on the guild page should be able to add any of you lost stormlings. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:39 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=47 And now proudly displays their heraldry on standards and cloaks! Yes, the chicken on purple and gold is finally available for all to see! Unfortunately those sneaky copy chickens downfall not only stole our mascot but got to show it before we did. Oh well, despite that we've already gotten some very jealous comments from Elysium, wishing they'd had Ara and Water's knack for heraldry picking! Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:59:58 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46 The few (ok two) remaining active stormies have successfully joined an alliance with Elysium (dydyn, dorf, earf and a few others). Our focus is casual rvr, the "circle of silence" not only a reminder of daoc gone by but also our commentary on the vent requirements of hardcore players. Elysium has a web site set up to coordinate the 2-3 nights we will be grouping up for rvr, its a guild launch site just like the old trendkill brigade one, check it out at Elysium. Wed, 20 May 2009 10:58:55 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=45 Thanks largely to our new members Stubing, Luciela and Roj, we can all now buy guild hall recall scrolls. Only 30 copper each, they bring you right to the flight deck in the guild hall, its like a second hearth. Grats all on 17! And if you haven't seen it yet, check all the events planned for the call to arms live expansion. Two new classes (choppa and slayer), live events every month, new rvr unlocked dungeon (darkness falls:). Official stuff on the warhammer herald. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:41:49 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=44 And gains the ability to claim keeps! On the plus side, apparently the cost to maintain a keep has been reduced... but owning the keep does nothing for guild xp like I'd thought. I DO know for a fact from passing a claimed keep recently that all defenders in the keep zone gain the buffs from the standard, so that's nice. Grats all on guild level fourteen! Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:01:28 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=43 The war between Order and Destruction has truly begun to smolder as the territory between Altdorf and the Inevitable City has started changing hands. It began early last week with a planned event resulting in Destruction locking dwarven Thunder Mountain, pushing Kaldrin Valley into a contested state, ending all speculation that Destruction may be outnumbered (they'd pushed and taken a fortress previously so pff). Friday valiant Order forces from literally dozens of guilds rallied together for more than five hours, holding keeps, retaking objectives, even running scenarios and public quests (did you know there are t4 scens available only when certain zones are contested?) to lock Kadrin valley. Elated with their victory, Order pushed on and locked Thunder Mountain as well (alas Oopsie hadda sleep slightly before that). It was crazy fun. Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:49:47 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42 Ok not really, but my heart DID skip a beat when I realized I'd been ninja-leadered. FYI WATER, "shruggies" does NOT mean "yes make me guild leader", it means "don't worry we will be fine if you guys can't be on for a couple weeks". Anyone wanna volunteer for guild leader before I ninja it on the next person online at the same time as me? :D Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:03:05 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 STORM officially celebrated two new wow converts by sweeping across the tier one rvr lakes and crushing them neath our mighty tread!!! What little opposition we encountered was swiftly zerged to horizontal dirt nap flatness. Twas but a foreshadowing of the later levels, which are basically that with more keeps, destro and wipes (we did get a taste of the last with our lemming route back to the pointy ear warcamp lol - I note pae figured out the fastest way back eerily quickly!). Welcome balin and pae !!! We woulda done paepalooza but that does sound kinda funny and balin did get on first. Malf and whisp we got a palooza for you too, you may have to yell at bonchu a bit to get his attention if I aint on to do it. Heck if anyone wants a palooza just holler, I'm always glad to hop on an alt! Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:58:04 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 STORM has moved to the Magnus server. Turns out Kragg was like the 5th lowest population server, and our low level stormlings were suffering from long queues and deserted public quests. Happily this is not the case in our new home! I think we've got just about everyone moved over. Free Character Transfers - Round 3 Free Character Transfers - Round 1 Free Character Transfers Yay, malf, whisp, balin and pae have joined the shenanigans! There are now only two kragg stormlings missing: moochy and chooch, you may need to reroll, what with maybe not being high enough to qualify for transfer, but please come join us on Magnus we miss you! And to those stormlings who have yet to join us in warhammer, cmon in, the water is great! Looks like this is gonna be our new home for the next couple years. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:38:27 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39 Funny thing happened last night in tier three rvr lake. Bonchu, May, Ara, Water, Ryknar and I were up to the usual exploring and objective taking. We bumped into Pinnick (our alliance leader lol, apparently running around solo in the lake... our kinda guy!) at the second last red objective. Pin gave a shout out to /a to see if any were interested in helping take the last one. In a few minutes we had a keep taking force of almost 20 or so, something that USED to take a whole night of roaming and advertising to collect. The keep was defended and we ultimately didn't get it, but the attempt was fun as heck. And a keep taking force materializing out of no where that late at night tells me... we are in the exact right alliance. :) Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:00:37 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=37 What with us owing Aldred and Gamino each (1) Convincing That Warhammer Is Fun, bunch of us that were on got on some tier 1 characters (some of us making them as required) and we all tore up the tier 1 scenarios and world objectives. We got control of Nordland and Nocsa before any destruction opposition showed up, and in the scenarios proved that level 1s can do very well indeed with a little teamwork. When a few destruction showed up to try to retake the objectives, chaos ensued as we fought em off in between scenario matches. Personally I had a surprising amount of fun, nearly as crazy as some of the higher level stuff. Thanks all and here's hoping Aldred and Gam were convinced. :) Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:44:52 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36 Surrounded by enemies on all sides, the scattered remnants or Order's defenders have united to defend against their green skinned, warped and scantily clad foes! STORM is now part of the Trendkill Brigade Alliance! Pinnick of Bloodline has forged Brewing Company, Bloodline, Warriors of Ostland (formerly DILLIGAF), Elysium, RasCals, STORM, and Vulgar Display of Power into a weapon to be reckoned with. Welcome all, and may destruction fall neath our mighty tread! Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:32:57 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=35 A small but determined group approached the gates of Fangbreaka Hold. 'Twas a path they'd trod many a time in recent days. Silencing the sentries, laying covering fire for the ram, the mad rush to the keep roof, these were all done swiftly with the precision of long practice. But then, a difference! A realization, as the band leapt from the undefended roof to the keep ledge. The keep was undefended! Still, victory has been wrenched from their grasp before. Fierce Bonchu baited Fangbreaka's fungal overlord onto the ledge, with a wary eye for for the evil forces of destruction. Moments passed as they struggled with their foe, and he began to grow weary. The valiant attackers hearts began to soar - truly, no defenders were coming to the rescue! Finally the terrifying greenskin lord succumbed to the determined assault, and the keep fell! Victory for the forces of Order! Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:40:30 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34 The furious din of battle raged amongst the hills of Barak Varr. STORM washed upon the walls of the keep, very nearly slaying its vile fungal usurper but for the cowardly misdeeds of a larger force of destruction. Undaunted our heroes regrouped to free the nearby Ironclad and Lighthouse from neath our enemies hobnailed feet. And when our opponents sought to reclaim them, we SMOTE their RUINS upon the shores! Let this victory be a harbinger of the one to come: the liberation of Barak Varr! Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:50:28 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=33 In the wee hours of the morning, STORM achieved rank six! The reward for this prestigious accomplishment is the ability to form alliances (hello Wendy? :) ), and entrance to the guild tavern! An hour's search and a two minute google revealed the guild tavern is in the southwest corner of Altdorf, right behind the guild registrar (duh). As a reward for our collective effort, we get access to reknown gear merchants of all tiers, and flight access right on the roof of the tavern. Congratulations everyone! Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:39:58 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=32 Stormhammer has arrived in Warhammer Online!!! We are on the Kragg server, on the vastly outnumbered side of Order. We tightened up the guild name a little for lower visibility in pvp, we are now called STORM. Check us our current guild level and roster here. For any stormhammers who have a hankering to try Eve Online, we also have at least three members thoroughly hooked. Check out the Eve forum for details. Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:34:53 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=31 Well its been forever since a news story has been posted but here goes. There have been a few recent successful dungeon runs into the Burning Crusade Hellfire Citadle. On Banchu I have been into the Hellfire Ramparts three or four times now successfully with fellow horde guildmates. We also had a successful run of the Blood Furnace last night. Most of these instance runs are just a spur of the moment sort of thing. If we see 4-5 folks online who all want to try it we head in. So if you are interested in trying an instance run just let everyone know :) Most of the instances in BC are for 5 man groups, so if we get more then 5 we will have to either split into multiple groups or do world PvP which is also fun. Fri, 04 May 2007 20:12:02 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=30 Am upgrading everything and it is taking some time - hopefully will get most stuff working in the next couple of days or so ... - forum looks like it is working .... Well most stuff is working. I haven't upgraded the gallery yet so no screenshots - but I think everything else is... - Bonchu Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:30:15 -0400 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29 Sometime last week Balin did ding. One level and now he is king. Hit sixty on Pali, Great job on that, Bali, But the training costs, oh my, ka-ching! Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:28:19 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28 Whisp to provide the fascinating, humorous and enjoyable details in an edit to come very soon now! Or will she? Does she even read the front page? There is only one way to know... stay tuned! Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:05:07 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=27 And there was much rejoicing! Yes, this Friday Stormhammer achieved a significant milestone in their bitter feud with the evil Zul'Gurub. We not only made it to her without a wipe, we actually managed to get her to 50% with the help of some brilliant hunter feign death frost traps. Darn timing on that last bat wave... congratulations!!! Stormhammer's future plans for Zul'Gurub: an investigative raid to test our might against the snake boss, rumored to be much easier than Jeklik. As for Jeklik, our next attempt may include a warlock group with a concentation pally and another healer to deal with the adds (warlocks can lifetap) with assigned healers during bat phase. Mages and hunters will briefly help with bats but mostly stay on the boss in the hopes of getting her to 50% quicker. Thanks for all the fun (not so much the limericks) and see you next time!!! Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:02:22 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26 "It started this past Friday around midnight", said a bewildered Ragnaros. "The temperature around here just plummeted. My hammer's flames nearly went out!". But that was only the beginning of the weekend's mysterious events. "It was that thrumming sound, as from far, perhaps even from the world above, amost like the sound of some pesky newb dinging" continued Raggy, "right after that, the whole place just froze over! Frozen flameguards... corehoundcicles... I just don't understand!" In unrelated news, congratulations Stormhammers on breaking the Rend bad luck streak and sending him off to his eternal reward this Friday around midnight. Also huge unexpected GRATS to tier on finally dinging 60!!! I was going to post this yesterday, but thought "Tier dinged 60? Impossible... I'd better check the guild tab one more time before posting." Grats Tier!!! Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:38:28 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 As Faille continues to clobber Oak with all her lvl 60 alts (is that 3-4 now?), Ashenkal working diligently to stay ahead of the young sprout named Volzz has slid in under the wire beating Volzz by a whole day!!! Grats to the three of you on your efforts!! Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:20:09 -0500 http://www.bonchu.com/stormhammer/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24 In the Uggles school of sneaky levelling, Ms. Gugie joined the ranks of Stormhammer 60s very, very quietly. "Yeah, I kinda stayed up late last night" she was finally heard to admit, as we all logged in the next day. Tired of having multiple interruptions, (phone calls! guests! dogs barking! cats climbing her shoulder!) Gugie finally put the hammer down in true guild spirit. Grats Gugie, get gutsy, and come have PvP fun with us! Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:57:07 -0500