“C o n v e r g e” WoW Guild

Converge is an Alliance PVE raiding guild for players of World of Warcraft who are based on the Silvermoon-EU realm.

The guild was originally formed in September 2006 on the Doomhammer-EU realm by a small group of in-game friends who had played together previously with some success. The essential mission statement of the guild from day one was to pursue end-game raiding with a disciplined and mature approach.

This approach brought early success which saw the guild clear AQ20, Onyxia, Molten Core and Blackwing Lair all before Christmas 2006 as well as taking down three bosses in AQ40 and having an early peek into Naxxramas.

Patch 2.0 and the new "honor points" PVP system kept our members distracted over the (now traditional) Christmas break of 2006 and our brief return to raiding in the New Year saw the guild achieve its first kill in Naxxramas just before the release of WoW's first expansion, "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" in mid January, 2007.


Doomhammer proved highly unstable as a realm shortly after the release of 'TBC' and recognising this, Blizzard offered all players on the server a free transfer to the brand-new Anachronos realm. After holding an internal membership vote that passed with 98% in-favour, Converge subsequently moved from Doomhammer to Anachronos in late January of 2007.

The new realm proved more stable than Doomhammer and less crowded which was a welcome change whilst the levelling and questing to reach level 70 took place. Raiding resumed early in 2007 once the majority of our members had hit the new end-game level-cap and were ready to proceed.

Towards the early summer months of 2007, new real-life commitments and other external priorities saw several members of the guild's management team having to step-down to focus their attentions elsewhere and this provided opportunity for several fresh new additions to the team.

After the normal lull over the summer of 2007, proper 25-man raiding began in earnest as the summer months came to a close and the guild was soon making good progress through the 'TBC' content.

Difficulties were encountered however in the process of recruitment. The relatively 'fresh' state of the Anachronos realm meant there was a severe shortage of experienced and capable raiders playing on the server and this had an effect on the guild's rate of progress.

However, the solidity and quality of the guild's core was such that Converge was one of a tiny handful of guilds that were able to weather the harder times that all guilds on Anachronos faced and one of the few that were able to continue raiding across the summer of 2008.

By the time that patch 3.0 was released as a precursor to the second WoW expansion "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King" the guild was the third most advanced Alliance guild on Anachronos despite having not completed Black Temple fully.


Following the release of patch 3.0 (aka: the big patch of nerf!), Converge quickly completed Black Temple and poked a nose inside the Sunwell Plateau as well.

With three weeks left until 'WotLK,' the guild's management then publicly released its plans to migrate away from Anachronos upon the release of the expansion.

This decision was reached as the result of a six month discussion regarding the difficulties caused by the lack of experienced and capable raiders on the realm and a general sense of dissatisfaction at the rate of progress made.

All of which brings the guild now to its current home on Silvermoon-EU, one of the preferred realms within the EU for Alliance PVE raiding guilds. And our players are now exploring the proper 25-man raid encounters of the Wrath era on this realm with much relish and enthusiasm.

Recruitment is generally always open subject to availability of places although there is often room for an extra player of any class where the applicant is truly exceptional.


For those interested in potentially joining the guild, the following points of information may help in the process of making a decision on whether or not to apply:

* All applicants should be 18+ years old and interested primarily in PVE end-game raiding. Occasional exceptions are made but only in cases where the candidate is 'exceptional.'

* Official guild raids are run from 20:30 to 23:30 on Wed, Thu, Sun, Mon and Tue evenings. During official raiding hours, raiding takes priority over all other activities. Fri. and Sat. are granted as "Official Nights Off" although raids have commonly been run on these nights to 'lesser' venues according to interest.

* The official language of the guild, used in guild chat and over Ventrilo during raids is English. All applicants should have good command of the language and be able to read, write, listen and speak with fluency.


Good luck and maybe we'll see you on a raid sometime!