With current content clear it is now time for us to turn our attention to the future and prepare ourselves to face the wrath of the lich king.

In order to do that we are opening recruitment in the majority of classes to worthy applicants. We are receiving applications now and are looking to have people in guild a week prior to launch to enable you to get to know us a little. We have been fortunate to have several older members return to us and boost the guild with their devastating insight and critical questions…..

Think you can do better?

Umbrage was formed on the first day of Arathor’s life and has remained at the forefront of horde raiding from that time forwards. The guild has a proud raiding tradition stemming from our server first of Azuregos all those years ago to our horde first of Kil’jaedan. You will find our frontpage updates date right back to that first raid kill and we like to think offers an amusing insight into our raiding and guild life.

The guild is primarily a PvE raid guild and it (almost) goes without saying that you are expected to maintain PvE specs during raid times and be driven to succeed in that field. While the guild does PvP it is very much a secondary pursuit.

Raiders are expected to maintain at least 60% attendance, although 80% is preferable. We use a modified zero sum dkp system which benefits regular raiders (dkp is issued to all those available to raid regardless of whether or not you are in the raid). The guild’s raiding hours are 1915-0000 from Sunday to Thursday. There is the occasional early start (1700) on Sundays. Friday and Saturday remain free days for whatever fun people choose to have alt runs/pvp/5 mans/drunkenness.

Before applying you should read the guidelines and if you desire please feel free to talk to one of the officers or myself (Kätyri or Mera). The wotlk application form is a chance for you to sell yourself and while gear is not important you do need to let us know why you should be granted a trial.

Umbrage will start to raid shortly after Wotlk is launched and I expect all members (including trials) to work towards being ready to hit Naxx. This doesn’t simply mean being level 80 but also working through 5 mans to gear up. If you are aiming to ding 80 at Christmas this is not the guild for you.

Good luck!

(Please note we do have some loot issues with decent items - see below)

Kil’jaeden Tamed

One thing which was certainly clear is that KJ was an awesome and challenging fight, that much is clear from the leftover shell which now inhabits sunwell. It is disappointing that defeating the un-nerfed version eluded us but the current one is still entertaining, albeit not overly challenging. While I can understand Blizzard’s need to make the content more accessible this change has sadly turned SWP into a bit of a joke with only Felmyst retaining any real level of difficulty. Poor Muru has been hardest hit with the heart ripped out of the whole fight.

KJ was clearly a fight Blizzard put a lot of effort into, from his gradual emergence from the sunwell to Kalegcos’ efforts to aid the raid. It is perhaps a shame that the nerf has been so complete. In any case people enjoy the pictures of his demise.

With content clear we now have a new aim! Achievements!! We’d like to congratulate Blizzard on such an obvious time sink that is at the same time so addictive. Suddenly re-rolling for TBC looks to be a horrific mistake as the neutral rep with Zandalar, Cenarion Circle and Hydraxian Waterlords looks less than fun. I am not even going to contemplate Brood of Nozdormu.

Elsewhere people’s focus had fallen on abusing the new talents including our holy paladins who have spent there weekends ret specced running round AV killing people with their talentless new abilities. While I am prepared to accept Blizzard has an overall plan I am at a loss to understand quite how allowing Paladins to use Avenging Wrath and Divine Shield at the same time is part of it. It’s probably not that overpowered I mean how much damage can an avenging wrathed ret paladin do in 10 seconds…….

While battling with M’uru in the shadow of WOTLK.

Raiders have found a new toy.

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