Coirnav - Eastern Coalition (Asian time zone guild). 8 GMT/UTC

Another bump. We are still enjoying content on Coirnav with the recent clearing of PoR (within the week of launch as planned). PoR is the last hurdle before the "trinity" (TSS, TBS and SoF) which certainly brings with it tons of quests, raids and fun. We are lucky to have a strong core of raiders from many parts of Asia (KR, SG, HK, TW, CN, JP and AU) as well as EU and US that have stuck with us through these expansions to enjoy the elusive later expansions many TLP's lack. We've been one of the few guilds successful enough to remain strong and sustain our raiding core whilst helping one another on the server (with the last few expansion clears being the top 2). We don't aim to clear in 48 hours but we set a schedule for every launch and ensure we meet the timelines - which normally allows us to do fairly well on finishing the expansion. I also have to make mention the exp rates on Coirnav which has bumped up considerably since DoDH - not to mention in 3 weeks we will have live exp rates when TSS drops. So grinding is a thing of the past.

While we are here looking forward to TSS and beyond I do want to give a shout out to similar Asia/Oceanic time zone guilds out there as options for players to consider. As usual our prime raid hours revolve around HK time (+8GMT). We try to maximize dz-unlock by raiding between these raid days (Tue, Thu/Fri and Sun). Timing wise we start raids at 7pm HK (8pm KR/JP, 9pm AEST, 1pm GMT or 8am EST US). We are farming DK currently with Demi raids on the side and looking forward to farming TSS shortly. If you prefer a +10GMT schedule revolving around AU start times check out https://spectralshift.enjin.com/ over on Mangler (which will be opening up GoD in a little over a month). And for those keen on live expansions, Wreckers being the longest running oceanic guild still active is certainly worth checking out if you want current content on a +10GMT AU schedule http://wreckers.org/. With Aradune/Rizlona starting soon I'm sure there will be an Asia/Oceanic guild to form up at some stage which hopefully will be equally as successful for long term play. Otherwise for current players looking at later expansions and stability, the options mentioned above are homes you can consider.

One last note. For those that enjoy Twitch TV content we are lucky enough to have a couple of active steamers in our guild feeding live raid streams and random stuff on their channels. Do check them out and support them if you enjoy watching twitch raids!

https://www.twitch.tv/jerdani73
https://www.twitch.tv/drakkit

Last but not least, stay safe out there.

TSS opened a week ago and last night we wrapped up AG north completing the expansion well under our expected launch plan. Phenomenal effort by everyone to grind faction early (aka super telgrith night). Farming now begins with TBS in the horizon 2+ months.

As usual if you play during Asia hours (+8GMT) you can check us out. Also our DKP site is now https://ec.opendkp.com/

TBS opened on Thursday and we cleared it last night. Was fun going back to Solteris again for some and a fresh look at a unique raid zone for others. Great job from everyone completing missions quick and getting down to the raid content as per plan (minus the disruption on Sunday night #centurylink). Farming now begins for 7 weeks before we open up SoF in Coirnav.

As usual if you play during Asia hours (+8GMT) and are interested in TBS+ content, drop us a line.

Another expansion down - this time Secrets of Faydwer has been completed. It took us roughly a month and a couple days but we got here in good time (with a split of tier 2 raids in the first two weeks to speed up MMM access). DPG needs to change the way flag pieces are done on TLP servers; 3 months isn't ideal for the current expansions flag mechanics and it only gets worse from here. In any case we look forward to SoD as we begin farming before another level increase. Well done team.

As usual if you play during Asia hours (+8GMT) and are interested in SoF+ content, drop us a line.

SoD cleared last night with tower raid completed. As usual great job from everyone in completing levels and missions to speed up keying raids (them kora splits). The expansion has been fun so far with mercs now open and old man mckenzie missions to farm on the side. A lot of gearing up options are now available in preparation for underfoot which should be a fun challenge when it rolls around in April.

As usual if you play during Asia hours (+8GMT) and are interested in SoD+ content, drop us a line.

Underfoot cleared. This expansion has truly been a challenging one for us. As much as it was tough it was also one of the most fun so far (difficult raids made the victory all the more sweeter). Chalking this one up as our most difficult clears so far.

Having said that getting it down in era is a great accomplishment. Credit goes to the phenomenal work from everyone in the team. Now we have around 10 days or so before House of Thule opens so a bit of time to relax and farm before we drill through another expansion.

As usual if you play during Asia hours (+8GMT) and are interested in UF+ content, drop us a line.

HoT completed wrapping up another expansion for EC. Some interesting raids (with more unique mechanics - looking at you SS5) but overall not as punishing as Underfoot was for us especially since we had more time to play around with an expansion this time.

Looking forward to VoA next which should bring back the difficulty with another level increase. Well done everyone.

Time for another bump and update! This time we have conquered VoA - was both a challenge and an amazing expansion to go through as a guild. Brought back the same difficulties we saw during Underfoot (Unearthing alra pushes the proverbial envelope). Defeating the pillars raid felt like we won the expansion already, seriously.

In any case we just wrapped up Sepulcher last night - Triunity was an interesting encounter; long and drawn out. Chalking off this expansion next to Underfoot as one of the tough ones the guild has endured thus far. Great job from everyone involved including friends that helped us along the way both presence and in guidance.

We have a little under a month to go before RoF opens up on Coirnav. The adventure continues.

RoF cleared in less than a month. This is so far quite a well balanced expansion (mix of great quests, raid events, tradeskills, collection tasks, etc). Even though the last raid has been won there is still plenty left to do to occupy the time before next expansion - CotF. Certainly great fun thus far.

Once again great job from the team on execution and delivery.

CotF down in the 2nd week of launch. It was a very short expansion (only 2 tiers) and they were also staggered releases with 1st part of Tier 2 on Day 4 (tower of rot access didn't work until Day 8 though) and 2nd part on Day 8 (Argin Hiz etc). Overall the expansion wasn't in depth even though it's EQ's 20th expansion, outside of the introduction of heroic adventures and heroic characters. PoWar is certainly interesting though!

We look forward to TDS in 6 weeks as the journey "home" continues.

We just cleared TDS on the 3rd week of the expansion bringing us one step closer to the live goal. The expansion itself wasn't big (raid wise) but it was certainly challenging. Content in itself isn't too great to warrant 3 months imo but at least we get dino illusions! In any case well done team and looking forward to TBM next with 2 months of farming to go.

As an aside a short PSA. The coirnav server is currently having 2 active guilds clearing content well in era so for anyone interested in the last stretch of expansions from TDS onwards it's certainly a good chance for you to experience it. Heroic characters are a thing on the server so making a char and catching up is easy (plus you get support from the guilds). And guild wise if you are looking for an off hour raiding guild we start raids from US mornings or +8GMT (Asian/Oceanic hours). And if you are interested in US evening raids, TFC is the US guild on the server with raids starting from 7pm EST.

For more information on TFC's raids you can ;tell coirnav.dessek or ;tell coirnav.noirog. And for EC you can drop me a ;tell coirnav.kakashii or you can PM me here.

Stay safe