[Ravencrest EU, since 2005]

Twenty-one years. One guild. The Norwegian raiders who put Molten Core on a stopwatch, back when we marched for the Alliance.

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[Origin]

One of the oldest continuously active guilds in World of Warcraft. Norwegian-speaking, formed on the Alliance side when Ravencrest EU went live, and still here. We put raids on a stopwatch, fought for Blackrock Mountain in open world PvP, and outlasted nearly everyone we ever fought.

  • 458,358

    views on one Molten Core run, in 2005

  • 13/13

    Mythic Hellfire Citadel, ten years in

  • 3 hrs

    a week. That’s the whole commitment now

Wehold

the realmRavencrest

Stillstanding

after21 years

  1. [2005, February]

    Ravencrest goes live

    The European realm opens and The Axemen form on day one, under the Alliance banner. A strictly Norwegian-speaking roster in a server already full of people who want to own it.

    • Alliance
    • PvP realm
    • Norwegian only

  2. [2005, April]

    Molten Core falls

    Co-raiding with an allied guild, nine Molten Core bosses go down as server firsts between April 3 and April 18. Then both guilds split into independent forty-man forces.

    • Lucifron, April 3
    • Majordomo, April 18
    • Two-guild coalition

  3. [2005, Blackwing Lair]

    First through the lag

    Server first on Razorgore, with the server itself as part of the fight. Later the same year, Nefarian falls and it goes on film.

    • Razorgore server first
    • Nefarian on video
    • 40 clients, one bad server

  4. [2006, Ahn’Qiraj]

    The gong and the gate

    Server first on The Prophet Skeram. The gong rings and The Axemen have a Scarab Lord. And in February the speedrun war gets its sequel: “Ooops, we did it again!”

    • Skeram server first
    • Scarab Lord
    • Feb 12: the rematch

  5. [2007, The Burning Crusade]

    Forty become twenty-five

    Vanilla guilds fracture everywhere. The Axemen compress and keep going: Gruul, Magtheridon, Serpentshrine, then Kael’thas, the guild breaker, on tape.

    • Gruul, March 19
    • Magtheridon, May 8
    • Twin Blades of Azzinoth

  6. [2008, Wrath to Cataclysm]

    Hard modes

    Sartharion with three drakes up on ten-man. Deep into Icecrown Citadel. Blackwing Descent and Firelands in the Cataclysm years.

    • Sartharion 3D
    • Icecrown Citadel
    • Firelands

  7. [2015, Warlords of Draenor]

    13 of 13 Mythic

    Ten years in, a full Mythic clear of Hellfire Citadel in the strict twenty-player format, all the way to Archimonde.

    • 13/13 Mythic
    • Archimonde dead
    • Year ten

  8. [2019, Legion to Battle for Azeroth]

    Still on the board

    Nighthold on film, Ahead of the Curve in Tomb of Sargeras, and Dazar’alor against the old names on the realm leaderboards. The cost of Mythic was starting to show.

    • Tomb of Sargeras 9/9 H
    • Battle of Dazar’alor
    • Old rivals, still there

  9. [2026, Midnight]

    One raid a week

    The kids who ground out forty-man raids have careers, mortgages and families. So the guild chose to change rather than end: three hours on Wednesdays, Ahead of the Curve, no drama.

    • Wednesdays 20:30
    • Heroic, AOTC
    • Et guild for livet

[November 29, 2005]

The run that started the clock

01:35:42

From first trash pull to a dead Ragnaros. Forty players, no modern add-ons, and a video by Deetee that passed 458,358 views.

  1. Lucifron
  2. Magmadar
  3. Gehennas
  4. Garr
  5. Baron Geddon
  6. Shazzrah
  7. Sulfuron Harbinger
  8. Golemagg
  9. Majordomo
  10. Ragnaros
Dead before
the Sons of Flame Ragnaros submerges at three minutes. He never got there.

[Server firsts, April 2005]

Fifteen days. A coalition of two sovereign guilds sharing loot, threat and healing assignments across forty slots.

  1. /001 Lucifron APR 03
  2. /002 Magmadar APR 09
  3. /003 Gehennas APR 11
  4. /004 Garr APR 14
  5. /005 Baron Geddon APR 16
  6. /006 Shazzrah APR 16
  7. /007 Sulfuron Harbinger APR 17
  8. /008 Golemagg the Incinerator APR 17
  9. /009 Majordomo Executus APR 18

[Honours]

What we
brought
home

Before armory sites and cross-realm phasing, a reputation was local. These carried.

  1. Server first

    Blades of Azzinoth

    First on Ravencrest.

    /001

  2. Server first

    Thunderfury

    First on Ravencrest.

    /002

  3. Ahn’Qiraj

    Scarab Lord

    One of ours holds the title.

    /003

  4. PvP

    Rank 14

    More than one of us got there.

    /004

[Now]

For the Horde

Blizzard opened the door with cross-faction guilds, and an orc called Winfjury walked through it. For WoW Forever, the rest of us followed.

[Then]

The Alliance’s axe

For years we were what stood between the Horde and the road into Blackrock Mountain.

“Er du en dyktig raider som ikke lenger er interessert i mythic progress raiding, men vil progresse AOTC i en hyggelig ramme med kun ett raid i uka?”

Are you a skilled raider who’s done with Mythic progress, but wants Ahead of the Curve in good company with just one raid a week?

  • [01]

    One night

    Wednesdays, 20:30 to 23:30. Three hours a week and no more.

  • [02]

    Performance over hours

    You could get Cutting Edge. You just no longer want to spend the time it takes.

  • [03]

    Zero drama

    No arguing over loot. No yelling over mistakes.

  • [04]

    A guild for life

    Clear Heroic a few times, take Ahead of the Curve, then raids pause for the season and we go play other things.