Guild:Defiance (Hellfire EU)

Defiance is a PvE progression guild that is focused exclusively on 10-man raids. The guild is based on the Hellfire-EU realm. They are dedicated towards end-game raiding with an experienced team of raiders. Since february 2011, we decided to quit raiding after alot of guildmembers got bored with Cataclysm and played casual or quit playing WoW altogether.

Guild progress
Cataclysm
 * Blackwing Descent (5/6)- Lastest kill Chimaeron on January 20, 2011
 * Bastion of Twilight - cleared on February 13, 2011
 * Throne of the Four Winds - cleared on January 30, 2011

Wrath of the Lich King
 * Heroic Icecrown Citadel - cleared on November 11, 2010
 * Heroic Ruby Sanctum - cleared on November 4, 2010

History
Defiance was originally formed by Arrowsong and Midnight in February 2009. Their goal was to make Defiance a competative raiding guild that would become one of the top progression guilds on the server. Ridly became co-Guild Leader after Midnight left due to time limitation. By organising Naxxramas pugs they recruited people on the spot who showed good raiding potential. In the following weeks the guild grew considerably and started running 25-man raids. The first boss killed as a 25-man raid was Sartharion in Obsidian Sanctum on March 22nd 2009. At this time Defiance also started progression in Naxxramas 25-man, quickly clearing the instance and moving on to Malygos in The Eye of Eternity.

When Ulduar was released, Defiance continued their strong raid progression, moving up to be one of the top twenty guilds on Hellfire and also maintaining a strong 10-man presence working on the hard mode bosses. On November 8, 2009, they earned their Reins of the Rusted Proto-Drakes after completing the Glory of the Ulduar Raider meta-achievement.

By the time Trial of the Crusader was opened in August 2009, they had moved up into the top 10, and was one of the first guilds to clear the new raid instance.

By the end of April 2010, after a slow period where Defiance had to deal with attendancy problems, the decision was made to merge with Flinter Spaction in the hope to respark 25-man progression. After 4 weeks the merge proved to be unsuccessful due to differences between the culture of both guilds.

On May 22, 2010, Summoning, Turande, Darknight, Argator and Kookookachoo (all core members from back in 2009), decided to reboot Defiance as a 10-man progressive raiding guild. Blueskìn, Woodworm, Etron, Darkmind, Moonstruck and Castallia got asked to join to complete their 10-man team.

They managed to clear 9/12 heroic Icecrown Citadel and kill the Lich King on normal in the first week after reforming the guild.

Weekly raid schedule
Since february 2011, we have quit raiding and most have quit playing World of Warcraft altogether after getting bored with Cataclysm. Therefore we no longer raid.

Officers

 * Turande, Guildmaster : Responsible for maintaining the guild website.


 * Jägershots, Officer and Raidleader : Responsible for making raid setups and raidleading.


 * Dethklok, Officer : Part of officer team to discuss tactics.

History of Notable Guildmembers

 * Lydie, Holy Priest : Loved for placing Fish Feasts during the raids in the most unusual and inconvenient places, while yelling "FRESH FISSSHHH". Also carried a Dragon Kite on every raid.
 * Antshamben, Resto Shaman : Had a very distinct type of echo on Ventrilo and was known as "God of Vent".
 * Gothrik, Holy Paladin : Known as a healing god. Proved invaluable during early Ulduar progression for immense healing throughput.
 * Nyot, Mage: Often got one-shotted early in the fight due to high burst damage, spending most of the fight dead on the floor. Known as the "Guild Carpet".