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This article is an information page for the Sargeras US realm (server) 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 information and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.

Sargeras (PvP)

Official Blizzard Sargeras Forum

Contents 1 The Server 2 PvP 2.1 Season One Gladiators 2.1.1 2v2 2.1.2 3v3 2.1.3 5v5 3 PvE 4 The Realm Forums 5 Guild Listing 6 IRC Channel 6.1 Notable Ops 7 Memorable Events in the History of the Sargeras Server 7.1 The Race to Ahn'Qiraj 7.2 David & Goliath

The Server

Sargeras is a PvP server in the Shadowburn Battlegroup. It belongs to the batch of original servers released upon launch (November 23, 2004) and is one of the largest in the Central Time Zone. The server title Sargeras was taken from Sargeras the Destroyer, the Fallen Titan, creator and leader of the Burning Legion. Sargeras was once a Titan, a champion chosen by his fellow members of the Pantheon to defend the worlds they had created.

In the middle of 2005, players began experiencing heavy latency and large queue times due to a large player base. Transfers were opened up to the Detheroc server, which caused several of the original end-game guilds, mostly Horde, to switch. The server still maintains a large population, however, and several original guilds from both factions are still around in 2008, both raid-oriented and casual-oriented guilds. As of late January through February of 2008, the server once again began experiencing login queues, as high as 20 minutes, as a result of open transfers to the server.

Sargeras was and still is primarily known among other realms for its PvP atmosphere. The community has several large groups, from both factions, that enjoy engaging in vigourous battles. World PvP raids are still frequent as well, and typically grow to large numbers, sometimes leading to server crashes. The introduction of the Dishonorable Kills system and Battlegrounds shifted PvP focus away from world PvP. However, world PvP slightly gained strength again once the Dishonorable Kills system was removed and players were allowed to once again engage in real world PvP.

As of 2008, guilds from both factions have completed Black Temple on the server, and most 10 and 25-man instances see heavy progression. The 10-man content of Karazhan and Zul'Aman is extremely popular on the server, and while 25-man content still gets action, many guilds have ended their "raiding days." Some raiding guilds have merged with other guilds in order to sustain enough people, or have broken off to form smaller, tight-knit raiding guilds, composed of members from multilpe other guilds, strictly for the purpose of PvE progression.

PvP

WarcraftRealms.com Census
Season One Hall of Fame

Sticking with server tradition, Player vs. Player is highly active on Sargeras. It was established early on as one of the leaders in intense fighting and remains true to its roots via battlegrounds, arenas, and world PvP. The Alliance:Horde ratio remains relatively even in activity, with brackets of all levels seeing competition.

In Battlegrounds and Arenas, Sargeras is in the Shadowburn battlegroup and has the highest ratio of ranked teams. In the Season One Hall of Fame, five of the top 19 teams were from the Sargeras realm, with similar ratios in the other brackets. Season Two activity is also strong, though the strongest showing for the server is in the 5v5 bracket.

World PvP also remains strong on Sargeras in comparison to most servers with every contested area seeing action throughout the day. As with other servers, the zones of Stranglethorn, Nagrand, and Hellfire Penninsula remain the strongest areas for cross-faction fighting. The term "Red = Dead" has been the mindset for much of the Sargeras lifespan, though transfers and battlegrounds shifted focus to instance raiding somewhat. Grom'Gol is one of many examples of how World PvP is still alive and well on Sargeras. For hours and days on end, Alliance had camped the Zeppelins which disallowed any players to go to Orgrimmar via Zeppelin. To this day, Grom'Gol still gets raided and camped to a certain degree.

Players looking for a server with an excellent history in PvP would find Sargeras to be among the top.

Season One Gladiators

The Sargeras Server had among the highest number of Gladiators in the Shadowburn battlegroup for Season One. Below is a comprehensive list of Gladiators, most of which are still active in PvP with other servers. They are names not to be taken lightly in combat.

PvE

With the launch of The Burning Crusade, and thus many new dungeons, the Sargeras community didn't hesitate to delve into this new content in terms of raid progression. Current 25-man PvE progression includes the completion of Black Temple by multiple guilds, and a handful of other guilds are working their way through other 25-man content such as Gruul's Lair, Serpenshrine Cavern, Tempest Keep - The Eye, and Mount Hyjal. The largest and most well-know raiding-oriented guilds on each faction known for PvE progression emphasis are Mob Mentality (H), The Turks (H), Anonymous (A), and Eminence (A). Some raiding-oriented guilds offer spots in their raids for a fee or charge for the purchasing of epic-quality items from some 25-man dungeons.

Some guilds on the server still have original players from the server launch or within the first couple months of its existance. The server also has original guilds founded in November of 2004 that are still around today. Mob Mentality is an example of an original Horde guild that focuses on being a premier PvE progression guild focused on raiding, whereas Obsidian Spur is an example of an original Horde guild that balances a casual environment that offers a wide range of things, from leveling to PvP to 10-mans. Older guilds such as these have depth to their history, and have watched some of their members literally grow in age over the past four years.

As the audience of Sargeras grows in general, many players that are experiencing transitions in their lives are unable to participate in end-game/25-man raid content due to other commitments and responsibilities. Many members of the Sargeras and WoW community are interested in seeing how the game ages, possibly shifting more towards more flexible content such as new PvP environemnts, more 10-man content, or the possible reduction in raid size of current 25-mans.

The Realm Forums

Guild Listings Thread
Guild Progression Thread
Rare Craftables Thread
The Sargeras WoW-Wiki Thread

Sargeras, due to its size and competitve nature, has an active forum user base with several regulars. The community has always been relatively tightly-knit, with members of both factions often chatting with each other outside of the game via messengers, IRC, etc.

Since the Sargeras server has a high population level, threads asking for transfer information are usually frowned upon.

Guild Listing

Alliance »
Descending Dusk	Web	Armory
Divine Vigilance	Web	Armory
Eminence	Web	Armory
Eternal Dynasty	Web	Armory
Fracture	Web	Armory
Guardians of Dawning Sun	Web	Armory
Malice	Web	Armory
Motley Brew	Web	Armory
Nether Alliance	Web	Armory
Nexus	Web	Armory
Nova	Web	Armory
Order of Inner Light	Web	Armory
ROCKSTAR	Web	Armory
Solrain Navy	Web	Armory
Symmetry	Web	Armory
The Empyreans	--	Armory
The Pretend Heroes	Web	Armory
The Scarlet Knights	Web	Armory
Transcendent Warriors	Web	Armory
Tyr Invictus	Web	Armory
Vital Force	--	Armory

Horde »
Arch Coven	Web	Armory
Bunny Slayers	Web	Armory
Crowd Control	--	Armory
EndGame	Web	Armory
En Sanctus Letum	Web	Armory
Evolution	Web	Armory
Fenrir	--	Armory
Highborne	Web	Armory
Obsidian Spur	Web	Armory
Mob Mentality	Web	Armory
Moëbius	Web	Armory
Mors Mortis	Web	Armory
PCX	Web	Armory
Pirate Cove	Web	Armory
Rise of Imperium	--	Armory
SERIAL KILER	Web	Armory
Barons of Brutality	Web	Armory
The Covenant	Web	Armory
The Mighty Oxen	--	Armory
The Redland Fury	Web	Armory
The Turks	Web	Armory
The Wrecking Crew	Web	Armory
Untamed	Web	Armory
VoS	Web	Armory
Vs	--	Armory

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IRC Channel

#sargeras @ irc.gamesurge.net

Notable Ops

1. Bklyn - Best pally ever. R.I.P Homie stay true to your colors. (banned: fish botting)
2. Shennin
3. Fawna
4. Degrance
5. Creon

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Memorable Events in the History of the Sargeras Server

The Race to Ahn'Qiraj

The server transfers Sargeras experienced over its earlier history deteriorated the state of the server, and some of the most active PvE guilds from both factions had moved to Detheroc in order to find better playing conditions. Although the transfers didn't affect the Alliance factions very much, the Horde lost TKT, Obvious Assassins, and End Guys, three of the premier PvE raiding-oriented guilds on the server. At the release of patch 1.9, a new race started; The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj (AQ).

The Alliance began the race with the two most powerful PvE guilds on the server: Divine Vigilance (DV) and Guardians of Dawning Sun (GoDS), both racing to craft the scepter in order to ring the Scarab Gong. The race consisted of a questline composed of several steps which required the quest-bearer to raise his reputation with the Brood of Norzdomu (Bronze Dragonflight), as well as complete multilpe steps requiring raid groups, traveling around the world searching for shards of the Scepter of the Shifting Sands. Although Narajina of The Wrecking Crew (TWC) was the only player on the Horde faction to obtain Broodlord Lashlayer's head at this point in time, he didn't have the opportunities to proceed further in the quest chain, thus, leaving the Alliance unchallenged.

The race between the few Alliance guilds working on the chain was competitive, and asking for the help of other guilds to help their own efforts took place. However, it was Divine Vigilance who eventually took the lead, completing the scepter third overall on the U.S. server system. It was now up to the members of the Sargeras community to collect all the necessary resources for the war effort. For most of this time, Sargeras remained in the top 100, usually in 70-60th place. However, during the last week, Sargeras started to progress at a formidable pace, and finished at a whopping 18th place (24th on some ISPs).

On Friday, February 17 of 2006, the race ended. Lokor, wielding the scepter for Divine Vigilance, and Lightbringr of the Guardians of Dawning Sun, made an attempt to get up to the gong to open that gates. However, there was a massive amount of both horde and alliance already there. The server couldn't handle the amount of people that came to watch the event. However, some Horde players did everything they could to promote world PvP. Team eXecute (TX) and Obsidian Spur (OS) composed a large portion of the world PvP raid of players who used AoE not only to kill the sceptor-wielders, but lag the server enough to cause crashes. There were about 20 Kalimdor crashes over a period of three hours. At around 3:00 A.M. in the morning, when the server was more stable, Lokor walked up to the gong and used the scepter. The massive guardians of the Ahn'Qiraj gates spawned on top of the Horde and Alliance raids and proceeded to destroy them, further making their way to Cenarion Hold.

David & Goliath

by Mem

One notable event that occurred on the Sargeras server in the months preceding the release of the Burning Crusade expansion was a fight between one of the Horde side's largest raiding guilds, and a lone player who took it upon himself to lead a campaign against them. The fight was over specific actions made by the large guild, and how the lone player saw these actions as exploitation, and an abuse of power.

In the months before the release of the Burning Crusade expansion, many guilds over many servers were scrambling to complete their NAXX runs, and Mob Mentality was no exception. The cost of constant raid was starting to take its toll, and to fix the lack of money needed to raid, Mob Mentality (hereto mentioned as "MM") began hosting BWL Raids that were open to the public - charging the guest players for each item they won at a price determined (hundreds of gold per item) before the raid. It was advertised as MM being good guys in that they were giving a way for players with lesser gear to get a decent boost that would carry them through many of the new levels of the expansion pack. All was fair, and everyone happy, except for one player.

After two weeks of successful BWL raids, advertisements for the BWL runs made in the chat channels of Orgrimmar were attacked, and a post was put on the Sargeras Realm forums, accusing them of abusing their power as a well-to-do raiding guild, as well as exploiting the Horde of Sargeras. Particular members of MM were singled out in the flame war, those being Azile, Icce, Compcase, and Endac. The player attacking them was Vadrick, the head of a small guild called Plays Well With Others, and he claimed that he was taking it upon himself to say to MM what everyone else was thinking: That they were overcharging for Epic Gear that would be replaced with Green and Blue Gear from the Outlands in the early levels of the 60's, and that MM was exploiting players who normally had no means of running BWL. The argument and flame-war were on, and by the end of that week the victors were very happy.

Vadrick was attacked both by MM as a whole, as well as friends of MM and others who disagreed with him. He was accused of everything from being jealous to wanting to gain fame on the backs of MM. He found that when in game he was attacked with /whispers from these people, one of which tried to goad him into swearing so that they could get him banned for 3 days. Even after the fight was over this continued, but he still persisted that he didn't want to run BWL, nor did he wish any fame, and that he only wanted MM to be honest. That is, to run public BWL runs for free if they truly felt the way they made it sound in their advertisements then they should run them for free, and that they'd benefit all the more because the people they're helping would remember the kindness.

Eventually, due to his persistence, MM issued a low-key policy of not speaking with Vadrick, nor acknowledging his postings on the forums. MM was to ignore the situation entirely, as it was causing small amounts of noise within their own ranks. Other players on the server started to side with Vadrick, and while it wasn't many it did give an amount of credit to what he was saying. One ex-member of MM said, "-he [Vadrick] came up and hit the leaders over the head with a hammer, and I was glad. They needed it, because he was right. They bragged a few times about how dumb the people who were paying to go to BWL were-"

By the end of that week MM began running open-to-the-public BWL runs for free, keeping for themselves only the gold and silver dropped to cover repairs. The Horde of Sargeras thanked MM, and many players lined up to go, and MM was able to both line their pockets and help their new Horde friends. Vadrick didn't partake of the BWL runs just as he'd said, and as soon as the free runs were initiated he thanked MM, and then said no more of the situation.

MM continues to raid post-expansion, and is still one of the premier Horde raiding guilds on Sargeras, being the first horde guild to clear through all of Black Temple. Vadrick continued to stay quiet on the subject until the expansion release, when he left the Sargeras server to reroll elsewhere.