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	0. TSO+ Loot Policy 3. Looting Policy 4. Gearing Up 5. Raid Participation 6. Selection Policy 7. Organising Raids 8. Ventrilo 9. Guild Tree

	News

	News: RSS Xebnok is no more... Ogrestomper, Nov 5, 09 7:17 AM NRA Kills Tythus Tinzok in PoAO Haamu, Oct 4, 09 5:30 PM NRA Clears Veeshan's Peak Haamu, Dec 14, 08 4:58 PM Druushk dies at the hands of the NRA Haamu, Oct 21, 08 7:48 AM NRA toasts Leviathan on the first attempt! Haamu, Sep 1, 08 10:58 AM

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	Welcome
	Welcome to the Nektulos Raid Alliance Website. The Nektulos Raid Alliance is an alliance of people on the Everquest II Nektulos server that have joined together to Raid. Raiding is both exciting and rewarding and there are some Heritage Quests and other Quests in Everquest II that cannot be completed without a Raid. The Alliance was created with the sole purpose of giving people who are members of small guilds (or who might not even be a member of a guild at all) the opportunity to join one of these Raids that they might not otherwise ever have the chance to attend. Members of larger guilds may also join the Raid Alliance in order to raid more and to offer their assistance on raids. Being a member of Nektulos Raid Alliance is a little different from being a member of a Raiding Guild. Raiding Guilds normally have a very limited membership consisting of exactly the right combination of classes to form a raid (with possibly a small number of extras). They will normally raid at least 4 or 5 nights per week and expect their members to attend the majority of raids. Non attendance is often penalised in some way, and persistant non attendance on raids can result in a member being kicked from the guild. The Nektulos Raid Alliance on the other hand has a large membership consisting of a varied mixture of people of different classes and levels from many different guilds. Members are not required to attend any minimum number of Raids with the Raid Alliance and you certainly won't get kicked out simply for non attendance. Joining the Raid Alliance Before you can join Nektulos Raid Alliance, you must first create an account on the Guildportal web site. This is done by clicking (New User) at the top of this page. You will have to select a username and password and enter an email address. If you already have a Guildportal account, you can log in and then click Join Nektulos Raid Alliance at the top of this page. You will be asked a few questions. Please also use the Characters / Settings link at the top of this page to enter full details of all of the characters that you would like to bring to raids. This will help raid leaders select people for a raid if there are any requirements in terms of classes and levels. Participating Most Raid Alliance raids are listed as Open. This means you can sign up for a raid on the Calendar page even if you are not a member of Nektulos Raid Alliance. You do still need to have a Guildportal account though. Raids are usually planned ahead of time and you need to sign up early to increase your chances of being selected to participate. If you are unable to attend a raid that you have signed up for, please remove your name from the sign up list and add a comment to say that you cannot attend. This will enable raid leaders to select someone else to fill your spot. If you would like to Raid a particular zone and it is not listed on the Calendar, please post a suggestion in the forums. If enough other people are interested in the same raid, a Raid can probably be organised. What to read next Please read the NRA Looting Policy, information on Gearing Up and Raid Participation, and the Selection Policy before signing up for any Raids.

	Shout!
	Recent Shouts kimilie: "Happy New Year all....." - 1/1/2010 4:18 AM GrefTek: "Merry Christmas to all!" - 12/25/2009 7:24 PM Ortahr: "Merry Xmas everyone!" - 12/25/2009 6:27 AM GrefTek: "Awesome raid last night. Nice to be on the regular list now :)" - 12/24/2009 7:55 PM Luthin: "Have a very merry Xmas one and all" - 12/24/2009 1:28 AM Straycat: "T O M C Cleared.. Well done guys :-)" - 12/16/2009 11:38 PM Ortahr: "YAY that realy was a nice raid!! and happy birthday again Ogre ;-)" - 11/5/2009 9:32 AM Ortahr: "Yay" - 11/5/2009 9:31 AM DavidMEQ2: "Three Cheers for the Wednesday crew that took Xebnok in the second pull!" - 11/5/2009 8:30 AM Lordhigh: "That is the System of a Down on electric violin's that i was talking about" - 10/31/2009 9:19 PM

	News
	News: Archives \| RSS \| Xebnok is no more... Ogrestomper, Nov 5, 09 7:17 AM. NRA Xebnok With little power left and a little cursing from people still "YET" to have been salt cured... Xebnok's head hit the granite and everyone cheered as a job well done. This was succesfully done last weekend, with another Xebnok scalp taken last night by the wednesday raid force. Great job everyone, we are progressing once more. NRA Kills Tythus Tinzok in PoAO Haamu, Oct 4, 09 5:30 PM. NRA Kills Tythus Tinzok In a hectic fight lasting just over 8 minutes, the NRA took down Tythus Tinzok in the Palace of the Ancient on on Sunday 4th October. Congratulations all those who were present for the kill. We Rock! NRA Clears Veeshan's Peak Haamu, Dec 14, 08 4:58 PM. NRA Clears Veeshan's Peak In a two day raid on Veeshan's Peak, the NRA has now completed its first complete clearance of VP, with yet more mythical weapons handed out along with many more fabled items. Congratulations to those that participated:- Saturday (killing Kluzen the Protector, Elder Ekron, Druushk, Nexona, and Xygoz) Aeriel, Ajikis, Anouke, Bubbel, Ciggy, Eowyna, Flicka, Haamu, Kagi, Kallous, Luthin, Maartin, Myrinna, Nilagethem, Nopants, Oakmist, Ogreslayer, Olfin, Rhap, Sleepyowl, Stigmartyr, Szaltax, Tauvinius, Trinny. Sunday (killing Taskmaster Nichok, Milyex Vioren, Qunard Ashenclaw, Hoshkar, Travenro the Skygazer, Silvering, and Phara Dar) Aeriel, Ajikis, Anouke, Bubbel, Eowyna, Haamu, Kagi, Kallous, Luthin, Miriell, Myrinna, Nilagethem, Oakmist, Ogreslayer, Olfin, Oxford, Shadowmists, Sleepyowl, Strigmartyr, Stray, Szaltax, Tauvinius, Thromm, Trinny, Umaximus. Druushk dies at the hands of the NRA Haamu, Oct 21, 08 7:48 AM. Druushk dies at the hands of the NRA! Well done everyone who was present on Sunday nights NRA raid in VP. Finally we have killed Druushk and gotten our first Mythical weapons and pattern gear. It took us 13 attempts in total and we had a few hiccops along the way (such as Ogreslayer going LD on one attempt, and the whole MT group getting FD'd on another attempt), but in the end we were successfull. The final fight lasted 24m 43s. Those present where: Aeriel, Ajikis, Bubbel, Ciggy, Eowyna, Haamu, Kaelorian, Kagi, Kallous, Kiam, Luthin, Malaak, Miriell, Myrinna, Nilagethem, Oakmist, Ogreslayer, Sleepyowl, Stray, Szaltax, Tauvinius, Thromm, Trinny, Umaximus. NRA toasts Leviathan on the first attempt! Haamu, Sep 1, 08 10:58 AM. Leviathan is no more (until next time)! Gratz to everyone who was present on Sunday's Chamber of Destiny Raid, you all Rock! After last weeks Overking Kill we were feeling confident, and having killed him again this week expectations were high, and we went into the CoD confident of victory! Well, that is what we got. After spending some time with Malaak, Anouke, Stray, Sleepyowl, Eowyna, and Thromm diving repeatedly into Levi's stomach to collect the vials, we gathered enough for the kill. Then, Bubbel, Arulia, and Eowyna dived in repeatendly to use them and take him down. The victorious raid force were: Aeriel, Anouke, Arulia, Bubbel, Envile, Eowyna, Haamu, Kaelorian, Luthin, Malaak, Miriel, Myrinna, Nilagethem, Oakmist, Ogreslayer, Olfin, Rooyin, Sleepyowl, Stigmartyr, Stray, Szaltax, Thromm, Treanna, Umaximus. Congratulations everyone of you on obtaining access to Veeshans Peak. NRA Takes down The Overking Haamu, Aug 26, 08 9:36 AM. Well, the Overking is finally dead! Congratulations everybody who was present at his demise. Onwards and upwards we go, there is no stopping the NRA! :-) The only unusual thing is that it took us a lot less attempts to kill Venril Sathir than it did to kill The Overking. NRA takes down Venril Sathir Haamu, Aug 3, 08 3:57 PM. Last weekend we worked out the strategy, this weekend we implemented it. It may have taken us 15 pulls, but when he went down, it was smooth as silk. Well done everybody, awesome job. Now we just need to take down the overking, and its onwards to tier 3 :-) Protectors, Thuuga, and Throne Room cleared in one go Haamu, Aug 3, 08 3:55 PM. The NRA raid on Saturday 2nd August went very smoothly indeed. 3 zones, 3 hours and 20 minutes, and all cleared. Well done everyone who attended. Protector's Realm cleared in 50 minutes Haamu, Jun 3, 08 12:08 AM. Wow, on Sunday (1st June) we hardly stopped for breath once we reached Protector's Realm. 50 minutes after entering the zone it was clear! Well done everybody. Makes up for the earlier failures of the evening :-) Master P'Tasa takes a dive Haamu, May 1, 08 12:08 AM. NRA Kills P'Tasa in the Shard of Hate Congratulations to everyone on last nights raid to the Shard of Hate. Three names were killed including Master P'Tasa. Only two other raid forces on Nektulos have killed this awesome named. But, with everyone on their toes and reacting appropriatly during the fight, we took him down!

	GuildPortal News
	GuildPortal Updates : More \| RSS February 15th Maintenance GuildPortal Change Log Entry 2/9/2010 2:34 PM Due to rampant zombie infestation of the current data center, there will be an 8 hour service window beginning February 15th at 11:00 PM EST, during which there will be a data center migration of servers, switchgear, and associated IT equipment from the current facility to a new data center. All attempts were made to fight off the zombies, including liberal use of fire, shotguns, Ving Rhames, and just about everything you can find inside a sporting goods store. Downtime will likely not take the full 8 hours. Estimated downtime is calculated as follows: 10 minutes - fit armored vehicle with weaponry 30 minutes - shutdown of servers and un-rack 15 minutes - load time 30 minutes - transport 15 minutes - unload time 60 minutes - re-rack of servers 15 minutes - buffer time for overruns 4.9 minutes - check for zombie bites .1 minutes - whack any zombie bite victims The migration has been planned extensively over the past 6 months and we anticipate a limited amount of downtime. This procedure has been rehearsed with test equipment and live ammunition in a wide array of scenarios, such as: Zombie attacks on the armored convoy while en-route. Zombie ambush at new facility. Zombie development of the ability to run (usually only the UK versions do this, but one can never be too careful). Zombie conversion (via bite) of IT personnel while servers are being handled (IT personnel are expendable and will be sacrificed). In order to avoid encountering yet more zombies, we have planned our route to steer clear of the following types of areas: malls, farm houses, high schools, colleges, places of work, places with people, military installations, amusement parks, golf courses, highways, and London. CSS Additions now Live! GuildPortal Change Log Entry 2/2/2010 4:26 PM Prior to today's push, you had two options: 1) go with the stylesheet output that was based upon the settings in the control panel, or 2) supply a complete CSS replacement of your own. Now, you have a third option; you can specify CSS Additions. These take the standard output from option 1 above, and add new rules you supply. They can be entirely new, perhaps for custom elements you use in something like a free-form HTML widget, or they can be used to override only specific elements from the default output. The interface for working with CSS Additions is in your Control Panel, under Custom HTML and Script. Click Custom CSS, and then select the "CSS Additions to Standard" tab. Further information is provided there. Last week, we ninja-patched in a new feature that can be accessed from the Custom HTML and Custom CSS sections of the Control Panel. A link is available that lists the current, standard GuildPortal CSS classes. It provides a pop-up window that you can keep open while you're working with your custom CSS or HTML, and clicking on most of the listed CSS classes provides a brief explanation of what they are used for. It's there to make custom CSS authoring a little easier. Some may have noticed that the editor has also had an update. Many issues with the previous version are ironed out with the new one. Finally, aside from bug fixes (in response to support tickets) in this update, the Control Panel's left pane is now collapsible -- using the slider bar's arrow -- so that whatever section of the Control Panel you're working in can be expanded further, giving you more room. New Silverlight Gallery and Future Plans Revealed! GuildPortal Change Log Entry 1/27/2010 5:52 PM There's a new Silverlight-based gallery for your guild images available. You can get to it from any gallery widget on your sites by clicking Open Gallery. This opens the existing gallery, but in the top, right-hand corner is a new link to open the Silverlight version. If you don't have the Silverlight plug-in, you'll be prompted to install it. It's in "beta" for the moment. One notable feature is missing -- the ability to comment on images. We wanted to get it out there in order to get some feedback on how people feel about taking a more RIA approach when it comes to future features and enhancements. While RIA (rich internet applications) can be, at the lowest level, simply Ajax-based (as GuildPortal is now), the frontier "Web 3.0" world looks to be populated with technologies like Silverlight and Adobe AIR/Flex. If this is received well, we can put more emphasis on developing these kinds of richer (even occasionally disconnected!) features for your guild sites, moving from web sites to richer, more fully-featured guild management applications with more responsive and attractive interfaces. Of course, our stamp on the world of guild hosting has always been customizability, and that would move to the new platform, too! It's important to emphasize that we've no plans to abandon the web-page side of things. All of this would be complimentary and fully integrated. Nor is building bigger and better always the way to go. For example, we also have plans for a fully-featured mobile client (based on standards, not for any specific device). So if you've got a moment, pay a visit to the GuildPortal Admin Community and let us know what you think. Guild Chat and Control Panel Goodies GuildPortal Change Log Entry 1/21/2010 8:48 PM Because it was being a pesky, quirky thing, Guild Chat has been completely rewritten. Aside from everything working the way it should, it has had some niceties added: Notification by "System" when a user enters or leaves the room. Sound Effects (which can be disabled using the checkbox to the lower right) when new chat comes across. No longer brings itself to the front of all other browser windows. We had a long talk with it, gently explaining that it might not be the most important thing you're doing on the web at any given moment. Allows the playing of a (currently) small list of available sound effects using the /sound sound_name_here command. Current list includes things like machine_gun, kiss, phone_ringing, rifle_shot, baby_cry_1, baby_laugh (to cheer up the kid from baby_cry_1), and, of course, flushing_toilet. Some sort of listing system for available commands and sounds will be coming. Also, the Control Panel has had some issues addressed, informally, with a crowbar to the back of the neck. 3 weeks, 6 days ago GuildPortal Change Log Entry 1/13/2010 7:42 PM New domains going live with tonight's code push, along with some tweaking for text alignment bugs introduced in the last patch. New guilds are now able to select a sub-domain to start with, so that inviting people to your site will no longer require that you rattle off (or remember) a long string of numbers. In addition, new primary domains are available to all. We've gathered up quite a few to get started with, so you will have more options when it comes to the full addresses of your site (and maybe get around some of those pesky firewall restrictions "The Man" is imposing on you during your lunch break). For new guilds, the list of available primary domains is displayed when you create your site. For existing guilds, you are able to change your existing sub-domains and primary domains through the Control Panel, under Subscription Services. 4 weeks ago GuildPortal Change Log Entry 1/12/2010 12:33 PM Links now show underlining by default, but it can be disabled in the Control Panel under Style Tools > General Style Settings > Text > Disable Link Underlining. Tooltips have been removed from certain site elements where they were only serving to clutter, and where the purpose of the item they were "tipping" the function of was obvious. For example, "Click to visit the Forums page" would previously appear over the tab for "Forums." Member links -- instead of showing an ever-growing collection of icons before them for interacting with the member -- now simply display a link that opens a profile viewer. From there, you can visit the member's blog, wall, send a message, and view other details. 4 weeks, 4 days ago GuildPortal Change Log Entry 1/7/2010 8:48 PM The World of Warcraft Add-On (GPHelper) has had a couple of changes made: 1) the add-on itself has been marked for the latest version of WoW, and 2) guild bank item imports now work. To get the latest version, open your Control Panel, click WoW Integration, and then click the download link. Instructions for installation are also on that page, in case you haven't done it before. Instructions are also given on how to use the add-on in-game, and finally, on how to upload the data the add-on collects to your site. Now, as functionality such as blogging, walls, mail and one-on-one chat have been added to GuildPortal, you've probably noticed the icons stacking up next to user names on your sites. Though they can be disabled, once you do, the functionality that goes along with them is lost to you. We're almost ready to push a change in how that works. Basically, user names will appear on the site as simple links, with no icons next to them (except in the forums). When clicked, a window will open up where you will be able to view the person's most recent blog entries, memberships and titles, and characters. It's there where you will have the ability to send them web-based mail, visit their blog/wall, or open up a one-on-one chat. This will significantly de-clutter you guild pages, without sacrificing features. Expect that sometime next week, and as always, thank you for choosing GuildPortal! 4 weeks, 8 days ago GuildPortal Change Log Entry 1/4/2010 6:18 PM Members viewing the calendar using IE8 would sometimes need to hit the next/previous arrows in order for the list to show up. This has been fixed. In addition, admins can now find previous events more easily in the control panel by using the new search box. Aside from these items, other bug fixes addressing support tickets have been pushed.

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