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;Awake: ''Drama goes both ways. Guys can be drama too, females can be drama, whatever. Anyone can be drama so, I just want to state obviously, that we have nothing against whatever gender you are. You can be an alien so long as you kick ass, you have a good personality and have good gear, we don't care.'' |
;Awake: ''Drama goes both ways. Guys can be drama too, females can be drama, whatever. Anyone can be drama so, I just want to state obviously, that we have nothing against whatever gender you are. You can be an alien so long as you kick ass, you have a good personality and have good gear, we don't care.'' |
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| − | Nihilum gained the first major World of Warcraft team partnership with Mousesports,<ref>http://nihilum.mousesports.com/en/news/55,partnership_with_mousesports/</ref> as well as product sponsorship from Steel Series, a pro-gamer accessory manufacturer.<br /> |
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| − | Nihilum also added GeIL<ref>http://nihilum.mousesports.com/en/infotime/partner/</ref>, a Taiwanese memory chip producer to their list of sponsors. |
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| − | Swedish eSport news site FragBite, released two videos about Nihilum, one showing their 5vs5 stage show match against French guild Millenium at ESWC, a video<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q90-_4-IVg&eurl=http://fragbite.se/?fileID=2666</ref> that generated almost 250.000 hits on YouTube. Their second video<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdOuUlXKvCM&eurl=http://fragbite.se/?fileID=2703</ref> was a Swedish interview with Ghorok and Kungen from Nihilum. |
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| − | July 2007, Official Blizzard website WoW-Europe proclaimed Nihilum to be the best PVE guild wordwide: "...you will be able to witness a World of Warcraft Arena exhibition game between France's best arena team, Millenium, and the best PvE guild worldwide, Nihilum, on Friday 6 July at 14:00 on the main stage. |
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| − | Among the attention they have received, they were interviewed by [[WoW Radio]] the day after their world first kill of Kel'Thuzad.<ref>http://mirrors.devworld.org/wowirc/wow-nihi.zip</ref> WoW Radio then interviewed Nihilum a second time on the 25th of March 2007, covering a wide range of topics.<ref>ftp://ftp.multiplay.co.uk/pub/games/mmo/worldofwarcraft/movies/Nihilum/nihiinterviewhq.mp3</ref> [[WoW Insider]] has had the opportunity to interview Awake, now a former member,<ref>http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/06/19/awake-from-nihilum-speaks-with-wow-insider/</ref> and [http://wow.stratics.com/ World of Warcraft Stratics] also interviewed the members on 6/26/07.<ref>http://wow.stratics.com/content/features/Interviews/Nihilum.php</ref> |
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| − | Among other things, Nihilum is one of the few guilds that have earned a spot on Wikipedia.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilum</ref> This is in accordance with the fact that Mousesports is a pro-gaming organization and that Nihilum has more notable accomplishments than any two guilds combined. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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Revision as of 03:22, 5 August 2008
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This article is a guild information page. The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. Guild pages must comply with the personal article policy. Page last modified: 2008-08-05 |
Nihilum is a murloc guild on Magtheridon EU, most notable for being considered the number 1 World of Warcraft PvE guild in the world (However Eternal Reign disputes this and argues that they made many of the first boss kills that Nihilum has claimed).[1][2] Their website can be found at www.nihilum.eu, and their IRC channel is located at #nihilum.wow on irc.quakenet.org. Nihilum is mostly made up of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and German members. A large proportion of the members are playing WoW as their first MMORPG. Others are EQ1 and Lineage 2 veterans, and a few are ex-Counter-Strike players. At the end of Summer 2006, a large proportion of Nihilum members travelled to Gamers Paradise in Malmö, Sweden for a 5-day LAN event to promote World of Warcraft. They also attended a second such event in the beginning of July, 2007, called "The Electronic Sports World Cup", which was located in Paris, France. Their third, and last meet up were shortly after their partnership with German organization Mousesports, in Berlin. Their gathering lasted from the 25th July to the 31st July. Numerous blogs and pictures are featured on their website[3].
On 31st March, 2008, they announced the end of the guild, due to the new system implemented in patch 2.4, which they believe to have ruined the end-game guilds fun. [4] However, it turned out to be an April Fool's joke. The joke was well played since guild leader Kungen and other members left the guild and joined others. [5]
Raiding history
World firsts
| Date | Boss | Screenshot | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Apr. 2006 | C'Thun (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | C'thun | Approx. 22:30 CEST |
| 7 Sep. 2006 | Kel'Thuzad | KT | Movie |
| 28 Jan. 2007 | Doom Lord Kazzak | Kazzak | |
| 3 Feb. 2007 | Gruul the Dragonkiller (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | Gruul | |
| 16 Feb. 2007 | Hydross the Unstable | Hydross | |
| 24 Feb. 2007 | Magtheridon | Mag | Movie |
| 11 Mar. 2007 | Void Reaver (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | Void | Movie |
| 29 Mar. 2007 | Lady Vashj (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | Vashj | |
| 13 Apr. 2007 | Al'ar | Al'ar | Movie |
| 25 May 2007 | Kael'thas Sunstrider | Kael'thas | Movie |
| 25 May 2007 | Rage Winterchill | Winterchill | |
| 26 May 2007 | High Warlord Naj'entus (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | Najentus | |
| 26 May 2007 | Supremus | Supremus | Movie |
| 26 May 2007 | Shade of Akama | Akama | Movie |
| 26 May 2007 | Gurtogg Bloodboil (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | Bloodboil | |
| 26 May 2007 | Teron Gorefiend | Gorefiend | Movie |
| 2 Jun. 2007 | Reliquary of Souls | EoS | Movie |
| 4 Jun. 2007 | Mother Shahraz | Mother | Movie |
| 4 Jun. 2007 | Illidari Council | Council | |
| 5 Jun. 2007 | Illidan Stormrage | Illidan | Movie |
| 10 Jun. 2007 | Archimonde the Defiler (Disputed by Eternal Reign) | Archimonde | Movie |
| 10 Apr. 2008 | Eredar Twins | Eredar Twins | Movie |
EU firsts
- Nihilum achieved the EU-first kill of Viscidus[6]
- On 5 March 2007, Nihilum achieved the EU-first kill of Leotheras the Blind
- On 6 March 2007, Nihilum achieved the EU-first kill of Fathom-Lord Karathress
- On 8 March 2007, Nihilum achieved the EU-first kill of Morogrim Tidewalker
- On 14 March 2007, Nihilum achieved the EU-first kill of The Lurker Below
- On 25 April 2007, Nihilum achieved the EU-first kill of High Astromancer Solarian[7]
Other notable achievements
Nihilum also achieved the world first kills for every final boss of every 25-man raid from Gruul's Lair to The Black Temple, as well as Ahn'Qiraj and Naxxramas. The guild can also claim that it made all the world first kills within the raid dungeon of The Black Temple. Nihilum's spree of defeating every final boss ended exactly two years and one month since its beginning, with SK Gaming defeating Kil'jaeden from the Sunwell Plateau.
Focus and recruitment
Nihilum is generally a PVE-focused guild. Nihilum's aim as a World of Warcraft guild is to be world first guild on all important kills. For more info, please see their profile on their website.
Female member controversy
Nihilum has been the subject of controversy due to a comment on their website, a recruitment post on 17th March 2007, which said "girls need not apply".
On a WoWRadio interview with Nihilum, Awake and Ekke explained:[8]
- Awake
- It was an internal joke really, within the guild. There is nothing really to it, to say, because we don't mind female players. We don't mind females at all, it was just a mix-up with a php file.
- Awake
- We accidentally uploaded the wrong file, and we didn't really notice it until later, because as you can see female was still an option and because we already have a female member in our guild before that.
- Ekke
- We have one female currently, and there's no problem with her.
- Awake
- Drama goes both ways. Guys can be drama too, females can be drama, whatever. Anyone can be drama so, I just want to state obviously, that we have nothing against whatever gender you are. You can be an alien so long as you kick ass, you have a good personality and have good gear, we don't care.
See also
- Kungen
References
- ^ Quote from http://wow-europe.com/: "...you will be able to witness a World of Warcraft Arena exhibition game between France's best arena team, Millenium, and the best PvE guild worldwide, Nihilum, on Friday 6 July at 14:00 on the main stage.
- ^ http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild/index.cgi?action=guildpage&guildid=173&sid=g4UZXiRMkD
- ^ http://www.nihilum.eu
- ^ http://nihilum.mousesports.com/en/news/536,xxxx/
- ^ http://nihilum.mousesports.com/en/news/542,nihilum_remains__aprils_fool_/
- ^ http://nihilum.mousesports.com/en/image/44/
- ^ http://nihilum.mousesports.com/en/image/1910/
- ^ http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/03/27/wow-radio-interviews-nihilum/