Guild:Resurrection (Kel'Thuzad US)

General Information
Server: Kel'Thuzad

Faction: Horde

Website: http://www.rez-guild.com (old website, no longer in use)

"We're an older guild with real life commitments, and aggro-generating spouses, that come before any video game. Our philosophy is the real life is always more important than WoW. You can count on us having 8-5 jobs or attending school. We're full of nerds, dorks, dweebs, and geeks; but we do have the occasional girl and wife playing. Like all things in life, we enjoy our time in WoW as well as time outside of WoW. We aren't hardcore players, and have a general feeling that the game is fun cause it's with friends. Most of our foundation is built in Colorado, horray, with most of our officers living there. We must always remember, that any member should have fun with us. And Rez will try and provide the opportunity for everyone to have fun in a guild enviroment." -- Jmantoo, Guild Master, circa pre-WoLT WoW

Guild Progress

 * Karazhan - Prince Malchezaar!
 * Gruul's Lair - High King Maulgar

History
Beginnings - Resurection (originally misspelled with one 'r') got it's start from several members coming from the ashes of a guild, which is not named in the presence of Rez Members, in the springs of 2005. This formation from the broken remnants of another guild is a direct influence on the guild's name. Jmantoo (also Deadmantoo) formed up some of his friends (RL) into a raiding guild aimed at conquering Blackrock Spire, during the days of raids into LBRS and Scholo regularly. The Wenesday night raids into pre-MC instances is largely considered the high-point to much of the original Rez'ers, the venture into MC being a close second.

Founding Officers: Jmantoo (GM), Logar (Warrior), Bullhuf (Druid), Shintry (Hunter), Lucrat (Warlock), Mortem (Warlock) Drominitar (Rogue), Agradar (Priest), no Mage officer was established at that time, neither Paladins nor Death Knights were members of the Horde yet.

Other founding members: Garfeazie, Jur, Kaigor, Chowda, Keane, and others. OceansBottomNightMareBand, a Rogue and Druid only guild, is considered Rez's sister guild and are extended the full benefits of Resurection membership. Chowder, Chowdyr, and however you spell many of their names, were also original founding members of Rez.

Reformation and Raiding - As Molten Core came out and Rez expanded in size, the decision to become a 40 man raiding guild soon followed. Resurrection was reformed (spelled correctly) and an officer promotion was given out to Jur as well. The ranks of the guild expanded rapidly after that, and was known to include Kupkhaque (however you spell it), Stang, and many other WoWers that later on to build some of the best known guilds on the Kel'Thuzad server.

The main tank of the guild became Logar, who earned the trust and dedication of many members. Jmantoo and Stang were the predominant secondary tanks, with Bullhuf and Jur being humored into tanking some MC bosses as well. Healers consisted of Agradar, Deadmantoo, Bullhuf, Jur, Azaleas, and others. Noteworthy high damage dealers were Shintry, Pacex, Atan, Lucrat, Mortem, Drominitar, Lou, Kaigor, Chowders, and others.

First Collapse - Resurrection's first collapse is partly linked to a slow progression into Blackwing Lair and a direct attack from the reformation of the guild not to be said here. The spring of 06 saw many of the best raiders leave the guild, moving onto guilds further in progression. Even though Rez farmed MC, RAQ, Ony and ZG on a weekly basis; it could not stand up to the loss of raiders who desired BWL, TAQ, and ultimately Naxx elsewhere. The summer of 06 saw the first official collapse of Resurrection, which resulted in many of its founding members to take a hiatus from the game. Some of them permanently.

The Burning Crusade Era - In January of 2007, Blizzard launched the first expansion World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. With new lands to explore, weapons to loot, and levels to gain, many Resurrection alumni would return to the game or rejoin from other guilds. Once a sufficient number of members reached the new level cap of 70. Resurrection began its raiding into Karazhan a 10 player raid instance. Before too long Resurrection had mustered up enough to run two groups into Karazhan and even fostered some friendly raiding rivalry between the two teams (Phoenix? and Firebird?) to be the first through the instance. Pretty soon Resurrection moved into raiding the 25 player instance Gruul's Lair. From this point, growth and progression slowed to a point where leadership felt it best Resurrection be merged into a similar sized guild to progress on to harder raiding challenges such as SSC and TK. From here the majority of all active raiding members of Resurrection moved on to the new guild. Resurrection remained in the hands of one of Jman's alts and still was home to the non raiding alt characters of those who moved on and all those who stayed.

Eventually Jman decided to suspend his account for a hiatus and left guild control in the hands of Kaigor. Kaigor eventually disbanded the guild due to lack of interest sometime in 2009 after the release of the second expansion World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

Rebirth - Resurrection could not stand to be dead for long, Jur was allowed by Jmantoo to take the reigns and GM the guild into a reformation.

to be continued...

Weekly Raid Schedule

 * Tues(Group 1)/Weds(Group 2), 7:00-10:00 PM Server - Karazhan - Attumen the Huntsman, Moroes, Maiden of Virtue, Opera event, The Curator, and Shade of Aran
 * Sunday, 3:00-6:00 PM Server - Gruul's Lair
 * Sunday, 8:00-10:00 PM Server - Karazhan - Chess Event on.
 * Thurs(Group 1)/Mon(Group 2), 7:00-10:00 PM Server - Karazhan - New Bosses

Additional schedules TBA.

Guild Rules

 * This is a dedicated (read: not hardcore) raiding guild. We raid every week.
 * We use a DKP system for loot in the 25man instances.
 * We use a need/greed roll system for the 10man instances.