Wowpedia

We have moved to Warcraft Wiki. Click here for information and the new URL.

READ MORE

Wowpedia
Don't have an account?
Register
Register
Wowpedia
Wowpedia
274,795
pages
in: PvP servers, Central Time Zone servers, Server:Illidan US

Changes: Server:Illidan US

Back to page
Sign in to edit
No edit summary
Line 45: Line 45:
   
 
This video can be viewed on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJVolaC8pw here].
  
This video can be viewed on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJVolaC8pw here].
−  
−
Since this event, Serenity Now has fallen to the wayside in guild progression due in no small part to their inability to raid PvE targets. Several officers and many more members have left to join other, more skilled guilds since Burning Crusade was released.
  
   
 
==== {{Alliance Icon Small}} Illidan's Alliance ====
  
==== {{Alliance Icon Small}} Illidan's Alliance ====

Revision as of 13:29, 17 April 2008

Template:Server


Illidan PvP (The Server)

Illidan, along with a few other notables (Arthas, Archimonde, Stormreaver, and Sargeras), belonged to a batch of "Original Servers," meaning it was one of the few servers that were available the same day that World of Warcraft went live on November 23, 2004.

The server itself has gained fame and infamy through the practice of not allowing black people to roll on Illidan. Many of its guilds are very accomplished. Most succeeded in roaring through Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Ahn Qiraj, and Naxxramas before the expansion, and many have already cleared Hyjal and Black Temple in the Burning Crusade. Some of the more notable guilds that exist today are Blood Legion, Team Ice, Angry & Backrage on Horde as well as Saga and Warpath on Alliance.

The term "Illidown" originated from the horrendous amount of lag the server experienced early in its life during the busiest times of the day, which often resulted in a server crash. The queues during peak playing hours were also abominable, often reaching 500+ or even the 4-digit range; this occurred both immediately after release and later in the server's lifetime. Blizzard decided to open up transfers to specific servers to try and alleviate the high population problem (Stonemaul was one of the first server transfers ever offered, then Ursin more recently). Though this did help with the queue times, Illidan still frequently experienced high queue times during peak evening hours. Many of the smaller guilds evacuated due to the server lag and Illidan's high population. With the advent of paid server transfers, along with a year-overdue hardware upgrade, many of the lag problems have gone away.

Illidan is also the breeding ground for some of the most famous as well as the most notorious players. Most are quite noted to have very big egos, the greatest players, forum trolls, and the most famous players you've seen in warcraft movies. See Famous Alliance or Famous Horde Characters.

Illidan (Information)

Illidrama - An Alternate to the Official World of Warcraft realm forum. The popularity of this board has led to many players coming here before the official forums for information on first kills, etc. A place were all the Illidan "celebs" can make fun of each other and see who has the funniest forum sig.

Famous Illidan Events

As with all servers, Illidan had several momentous occasions that will forever be part of it.

The Blacklist - A list of Alliance individuals and guilds that DIE members and applicants were not permitted to interact with. The three major Alliance guilds on the list were Saga, Serenity Now, and Warpath. Some individuals on the list included the legendary ROAMER Silcroat. Through accusations of 'x-teaming', exploits, or general attitude towards a DIE member, these guilds and individuals were placed on the list. The origin of The Blacklist is in question, but many agree that during a Kazzak incident, DIE would create it to punish those deemed as instrumental in that controversy. Many Illidan players would agree that The Blacklist hurt DIE more than any of the guilds or individuals on it. The three guilds would work together, while DIE would continue its Blacklist policy. Another side-effect was that many DIE members were not able to hit the cap without grouping with Blacklisted individuals. The Blacklist slowly faded from use and by the departure of Grayrage and Lisa, was as useless as Gudran's pvp skills.

The Gong Affair[1] - When the AQ Gate event was introduced by Blizzard, many of the 'top' guilds banded together to work towards it. Blood Legion, Team Ice, Angry, and others on the Horde side lead the way with a lottery system. Individuals who contributed to the AQ gate would receive chances at certain items. Before the patch, a few individuals in the end-game Horde guilds, and some on Alliance, were working towards the necessary reputation required to be the person who would 'ring the gong' to start the whole gate opening sequence. Two notables, Piccalo and Zxtreme of Team Ice and Blood Legion respectively, were both gathering rep required for this. Soon many Horde guilds threw in their support behind Zxtreme of Blood Legion and would assist him, in getting the necessary reputation and such, to get the AQ gate open. Piccalo would also be working hard to get the rep, as he had tirelessly been at it for a while. As more and more time was put into getting the gate open, some hostilities sprung up on both sides. Accusations were made, including that of cross-faction teaming to hinder the progress of the other group. Regardless, cooler heads prevailed and it was agreed that on a certain day and time (February 20, 2006 at 6PM EST to be exact), Zxtreme would 'ring' the AQ gong to begin the event. Though details are to this hazy, Rombus, guild leader of Team Ice has maintained that,

"I'll post what I posted (or tried to) on the official boards here...

I am sorry to the Horde and the Alliance that missed out of this event, I myself was one of them. As far as I knew we were waiting until 6pm EST for the gong to be rung and our plans for AQ reflected this on our forums. I've spoken to Piccalo and from what he tells me both Horde and Alliance members were pushing him to ring it (including members of BL) early due to the "problems" made during the farming process. He decided to ring it.

I can't say I'm thrilled at the moment, nor can I say that I can control everyone's actions and what they decide to do. As guild leader it is my duty to claim responsibility for my member's actions though, and I shall do just that. I am very sorry to all involved that feel as if they were robbed, and like I said - I am one of those people.

Oh and no, this was not pre-meditated in any way, shape or form. I am just as surprised as everyone else."

Whatever the reason or motives, tensions seemed to almost blow into full-blown hostility between several Horde guilds and Team Ice. Over time though, these were mended and relations between the Horde guilds improved, however Bver of Blood Legion still holds a grudge against Team Ice to this day. He currently keeps a blacklist against Team Ice, deeming that any other horde guild he allies with or helps out, such as Murder Inc, must not allow any of their members ever join Team Ice.

The Funeral Bombing

One of the random no name horde guilds faced a devesting blow. An officer from this guild passed away in real life and, out of respect, the horde posted on the forums that they would be holding an in game funeral for her in her favorite spot in the game, the hot springs of Winterspring.

Being on the Illidan realm forums, alliance also had access to view the thread. A guild called Serenity Now secretly organized a funeral crashing, to be video taped and shown across the world. Led by Azchira, all of Serenity Now stormed through the Timbermaw Cave into Winterspring, an fought with approximately 100 horde whom showed up for the funeral service.

This video can be viewed on YouTube here.

Alliance Illidan's Alliance

Horde Illidan's Horde

Community content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted.
More Fandoms