First, the news from our intrepid reporter deep in the frozen wastes of Frostcrypt...

live report from Bonkh deep in enemy territory

Errrrr thank you Bonkh, most informative though I'll put an official spin on the proceedings now...



On only our 3rd venture into Frostcrypt 2, NC defeated the whole zone in one fun-packed night, taking down for the first time on only 2nd attempt Harfange the Black, and finishing the night on a superb first attempt kill of Beltron the Shade King.



And in time-honoured tradition, the raid leader of the night reluctantly bowed to pressure and will be sporting different colours for a while...




NC START RAIDING SOF, WITH PREDICTABLE RESULTS



NC also decided to mix things up a bit and try out some SoF raiding, with a first attempt on Bloodmoon Keep raid #1 - The Fanged Moon. The result I think you can guess... a win on the first night, and much fun had by all on a very interesting event. We will be going back there soon to farm it and to progress further into BMK.

On a final note, there's not much love lost between our rogues and our bards....



And lastly.... Solteris - your time is approaching fast!

Looking for new challenges after conquering most of Ashengate (Lethar 2 your time is approaching!), NC headed into the cold and frosty realm of the ice giants in Frostcrypt.

First on the menu was the three brothers aug event.



Yes it was double the fun coz we managed to kill the bards!



Aug events duly smushed, we moved onto the main events of the evening, Hearol the Tactician and Lorekeeper Grenwald, neither of which posed much of a problem, and along with the other events cleared, NC made short order of FC1 and moved onto FC2.



The Sleepless Guard was a really fun event with multiple fights going on and ice walls to break down, and following that the fun continued with Wulfnor the Gladiator and his 8 buddies. Taking things calmly, NC kept Wulfnor entertained while we killed his 8 buddies, then finished him off for the win.

Last up so far in FC2 was Fridleif, Master Warcraft, another amazingly fun event with masses of adds to control and synchronised dps. The FC events are proving to be the most fun ones we've seen in a long time, we can't wait to go back there and finish off the whole of Frostcrypt.


Fabled Mayhem
In between our Frostcrypt fun NC also found time to explore some of this year's Fabled events. First up we tried Fabled Plane of Time which proved to be a great nostalgia hit for our older members, and tier 4 also saw some quality loot dropping from our old adversaries Terris Thule, Saryn and the Zek brothers.

Pick of the Time loot went to Tanith...


and Hissa...
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Grabbing what other fabled mobs we could find and get to before all the other guilds with similar ideas, we also took down some of the Plane of Fire minis (gratz monks on uber new staffs), Plane of Air minis, Saryn in Torment and ended this year's fabled fun with good old Rallos Zek in Tactics.



A hugely fun event for everyone, so much so we went back and did him three times! The loot had nothing to do with it honest... ;-)

Gratz Gonaden, Siaka, Llia and Ruga on the mega Fabled Blade of War.



Gratz Lilloco and Agatha on the Fabled War Charm of Crossed Blades.



And gratz Pleasura, Jobill and Scintillating on the Fabled Red Eye Mask of Rage.



Some top quality events, some top quality loot, and we even killed some bards! Luvely jubbly!

Solteris....
Yes, now AG and FC are more or less on farm status, our next big challenge will be moving into Solteris, with first raid date already announced and the timer now ticking down. NC are looking forward to the challenge!

On a final note, welcome Lomion to the NC news team, specialising in graphics and responsible for the pictures in this month's update.

NC started off the new year with a whole new target zone before us - Ashengate. It didn't take us long to zoom down to Sothgar's room and work out how to kill his attendants, and then say hello to the big red dragon himself.



A few goes at tweaking the strat later, he inevitably fell before us and we helped ourselves to his booty. AG West down, East next.

The next week, we headed down the east wing and despite Stitch's best efforts to ambush us, we were soon in his room and giving him a pasting NC style.



Second night of visiting his room, with his spider guards well under control, he gave up the ghost and the bitter taste of spider stew was softened by the quality of nice loot he left us. AG East down, North to go.

Towards the back end of January, NC turned their sites to AG north, and we soon made short work of Dyn'Leth's armies, after which we despatched the aug dropper and squared off against Dyn'Leth himself.





Harsh words to poor Powaah, who took it personally and proceeded to slam his axe deep into Dyn`Leth's kneecaps!

But despite his best reflections, Dyn`Leth ended up reflecting on his own death, and the NC steamroller trundled on towards Lethar 1.





We'll take all 3 please with a side order of fries.

The DPS BURN call was sounded and even Mistress Lilloco brought her sharpest pointer with which to poke the beastie, who soon decided to leg it into the shadows and leave some loot behind for us to pick over.



And finally in the first week of Feb, NC came up against the recently revamped Lethar 2, an event generally acknowledged to be harder than most Solteris events! At last a fight worthy of NC, a fight to test our mettle and really see if we have what it takes to beat TSS and march on into Solteris.

Playing with the script for one night saw us get him down to 53% best attempt, and really fired us up for more! Lethar 2 may be smiling now, but his doom is approaching, watch this space....