I has been awhile since my last update, twenty days in fact. Since my last post we have all survived the holidays for better or worse. Hoping everyone had a good time, and we all seemed to come back in one piece. The guild has definately been hopping with activity in that time period. I could tell we were extremly active when we would cap out our daily guild experience by 9 am on most of the holiday days. As a result of this activity we have knocked down a whole bunch of achievements that I want to brag on my guildies for.

Going to start off with the big one. As of posting this we are a rank 10 guild, with all the perks that it entails. As of last night we were bearing down on rank 11 with fury. I am so proud of us, because since the release of cataclysm we have easily capped out our guild experience each and every day. This puts us in the top tier of guilds as far as activity goes on our server. Based on wowcensus we are the 5th biggest guild on Argent Dawn, but I would be surprised if anyone could match our levels of activity.
I want to take a moment to congratulate all the folks who have leveled one or more characters to 85. Can you believe that we have 98 characters at maximum level? I know we have been seeing almost daily achievements as folks reach level 85, but when I took the time to count them up I was honestly shocked. It is taking some time for me to get adjusted to the notion that somehow we have transitioned from "the little engine that could" to a veritable powerhouse.

Another big achievement that feels good to get behind us is Critter Killer. I know each of us has been going out of our way to whack the little fellows as we run dungeons, quest, and tradeskill. We have known about a way to cheat our way to this achievement, due to a bug, but I am proud to say that we managed to get this one 100% legitimately. Now maybe the cute little critters can get a break from our mass slaughter.... naaaaah. One thing is certain, once we start hitting exalted with the guild we will be able to purchase the adorable
Armadillo Pup
As an additional result of all the activity we managed to get the profit sharing achievement and unlock the
Guild Herald. This is an upgraded version of the existing
Guild Page we have had for awhile, with the key difference of being able to summon it twice as often (4 hour timer instead of

. This is yet another reason to faction up to exalted with the guild.

Thanks to all our resident faction whores, we managed to get the United Nations achievement as soon as our player base started to reach revered with the guild. This unlocks the very desired
Dark Phoenix Hatchling pet as soon as a player reaches exalted. Nice to see the OCD of our faction conscious players has paid off yet again!

This one is a bit dated now, but still worth mentioning. Thanks to all our players for pushing up those tradeskills quickly to 525 and unlocking this achievement. This got us another battle standard, the
Banner of Cooperation that is purchasable at friendly with the guild. This will help players push through those levels, and honor grinds a bit faster. In the next patch they will be adding rep gains to these battle standards, which will start to benefit all those 85s that got us the achievement.

More specifically within the tradeskill community, our cooks have been slaving over those hot stoves all hours of the night to get us this achievement. This is a follow on to the achievement that earned the guild cooks the excellent
Broiled Dragon Feast. Our fishers are feverishly working on fishing those pools to earn our guild
That's A Lot of Bait which will unlock the upgrade pattern
Seafood Magnifique Feast. At last count we were well over halfway to the 10,000 fish from pools.
RaidingOur raid teams are starting to pull things together, and some beginning to raid or at least do heroics as a team on their scheduled nights. Within the next few weeks we should start to see a large volume of activity surrounding this. As said before the various guild 10 man teams are autonomous units and if you are interested in joining a forming team, or filling in please talk to the individual captains. Currently the teams that are formed or forming are.
Team........................
Schedule................................
CaptainsHillamorah..................Friday 9pm-Midnight...................Hilldelver, Elnore
Littlerock...................Tues/Thurs 9pm-Midnight Server.....Steakknife, Thalen
Melybelnore...............Tues/Thurs 9pm-Midnight Server......Melyloss, Elnore, Belgrave
Oldschool Aggression.....Friday/Sunday 8pm-11pm Server......Tamien

Last update I mentioned that several guild members had participated in our first Baradin Hold run. However due to the kill happening at like 4 am, we were unable to get a full guild group together. Since then we have fielded numerous all guild, and mostly guild Baradin Hold raids. These are always quickly thrown together, and form from guildchat, so congrats to those who have been lucky enough to be online while we have held the illusive Tol Barad.

Some of our raiders have start to make progress in the Blackwing Descent dungeon. Hopefully we will start to see more of those names crossed off that achievement along with other zones as well. Magmaw is a relatively tough encounter, with alot of situational awareness and volumes of furious healing. Gratz to our folks for pushing through it.

A tradition we are carrying over from Duranub is the Artists Recreation. It started from us downing a new boss in Icecrown, that no one remembered to take a screenshot of. After weeks of listening to folks asking me to post a screenshot of the kill, I resorted to creating my own. I thought maybe the tradition would die with our previous raid group, but through much begging I have agreed to keep doing them. So here is the artists recreation for Magmaw.
Thank You AllI just wanted to take a quick few moments to thank each and every one of you for making House Stalwart the success it is today. It could never have existed all these 6+ years were it not for the hardwork and dilligence of it's members. Bravo to you all.