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Overview
Template:Infobox BattlegroupNDurotan is an Eastern Timezone PvE (Player versus Environment) server that has been open since launch (Nov 23 2004).
The server has about 22,000 active characters with 65% of them being Alliance. Durotan is often referred to as "Dramatan" in the realm forums due the heated topics that can usually be found there. Durotan is part of Battlegroup Ruin (the 3rd battlegroup).
Burning Crusade Progression
- Karazhan Progress Link
- Gruul/Magtheridon Progress Link
- Serpentshrine Cavern Progress Link
- Tempst Keep Progress Link
- World Boss Progress
Pre-Burning Crusade Progression
- World Bosses Progress Link
- Naxxramas Progress Link
- Temple of Ahn Qiraj Progress Link
- Ruins of Ahn Qiraj Progress Link
- Blackwing Lair Progress Link
- Molten Core Progress Link
Rare Crafting
Buyers are strongly urged to give a tip appropriate to the item crafted, and support the vendors who list themselves here. If you are unsure what constitutes a fair tip, 5-10% of the nominal materials cost should suffice. Crafters are, of course, allowed to refuse to accept a tip.
Rare Mounts
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 Horde
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 [Swift Zulian Tiger] |
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 [Swift Razzashi Raptor] |
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 [Fiery Warhorse's Reins] |
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 [Riding Turtle] |
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 [Deathcharger's Reins] |
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Past Guilds
Violent was one of the most controversial hardcore raiding guilds ever to exist on Durotan: The Nothing and Damage Inc. used this merger as an opportunity to push a large number of players out of the guild, although it has been argued often whether these removals were warranted or not. They were often portrayed as putting progression before their members' well-being, both inside and outside the game--most notably on the realm forums.
In July 2006, due to persistent performance issues on Durotan, Violent and Illumination (formerly known as The Nightcrawlers) guilds transfered to Server:Turalyon_US, a relatively new server with upgraded hardware. Immediately after the transfer, Turalyon was offline for a full day, and within a couple of weeks of the transfer, Durotan received a hardware retrofit.
Durotan realm forum trolls were apparently correct regarding Violent's nature (and the future of some within it): Violent kicked several of its members in the week before The Burning Crusade due to the lowered raid sizes in the new instances. This was billed as a 'necessary' move given TBC's lowered raid sizes. According to Violent, the only ones removed were those who were consistently not performing, or those who did not wish to remain in the guild and/or game, although this rationale has been countered by several former members.
The downfall of Violent and later The Inevitable was perceived to be largely in part to poor leadership strategies espoused by several of its players, including Bubx, Dahaka, Fungus and others.
Major guild history, post-TBC announcement:
- Arisen (GM Synapse) Arisen was reformed as Fallen in September/October 2006. They later transferred to Arygos in the 'great Horde migration', and later disbanded.
- Aspire, an alliance guild that was a year old, disbanded on December 12 2006.
- Eon, an alliance guild, disbanded in December 2006. They reformed into Monolith under new guild leadership.
- The Nightcrawlers (GM Himmelweiss), the 2nd raiding guild on Durotan and always very close to Ebon Order with regards to progression, disbanded before Naxxramas. The guild reformed shortly after as Illumination. Illumination then passed Ebon Order and became the raiding guild on Durotan.
- Ebon Order, the dominant Alliance raiding guild for the majority of their existence disbanded shortly after Naxxramas came out. Atreus, their GM, transfered servers and disbanded the guild, however he did announce his intentions and properly notified his members.
- On Thursday, January 4th, 2007 Durotan was given free character transfers to a new PvE eastern realm, Arygos. 4 other servers (Eonar, Duskwood, Icecrown, Draka) were also allowed to transfer. The transfers were scheduled to close on Tuesday, January 9th. Multiple horde guilds including Last Resort, Fallen, The Grubs, and Elysian left the server, accompanied by a handful of alliance.
- On Friday, April 20th, 2007 Durotan's most progressed guild, Defiant, left the server to merge with another endgame guild on the Ysera server. Ironically Grand Marshal Daddybigbuk (formerly known as Daddybigbuck) Returned to Durotan from Ysera's guild that same day. Defiant's merger left many members stranded on Durotan who then formed the guild Synergy.
- On Saturday, April 21st, 2007 Many members of The Highbourne (an endgame guild on Durotan) Formed a new guild called Unity. Unity is lead by Nomisad and is focused on level 70 end game raiding.
- On Friday, April 27th 2007, Remaining members of The Highbourne merged with Domination to form the new guild Kindred. Kindred is focused on 25 man raiding end game content.
- On Saturday, April 28th 2007, Evos disbanded his guild, Unieashed. (In-game, the "i" was seen as a lower-case "L," as the letters in the game's font are indistinguishable.)
- Remaining members of Ebon Order later reformed into a guild called Meridian, which dissolved into another new guild, Reborn.
- Remaining members of Illumination on Durotan formed Wasted Epics.
- Reborn and Wasted Epics merged to form Hype, meant to be one of the few hardcore guilds on Durotan.
- After internal struggle, members of Hype left to form Dissonance. Hype then merged with Unity and again fell apart.
- War for Territory, one of the smaller guilds, but still powerful guilds of Durotan. Guild progression included Stratholme and Razz in Scholomance. This guild rocked.