Monday

Thank you, Thyra, for Your Service...

We regret to announce that Thyra can no longer serve as a Guildmaster of Spirit Templars and as the Director of the Guild Crafting Program.

We are most appreciative of all the hard work she has done for both guilds.  Because of her efforts, our members have been outfitted quickly and well.  Because of her work, our guild has become a mighty fighting machine.

On behalf of all the Templars, we thank you, Thyra, for your service and wish you many more enjoyable gaming days :)

Fennik, GT
Haelirin, ST
Mrs Toons, ST
Xerxes , GT & ST


Sunday

Monthly Meeting of the Council of Templars' Minutes

Meeting of the Council of Templars Meeting
July 14, 2017
On Teamspeak

The meeting was called to order at 2PM EDT by Xerxes.

Xerxes reported for Stronghold Director Fennik that the Stronghold development is going ahead as planned. In order to reach our goal of having a rank 16 goal by the end of the year, we will not upgrade the barracks further but instead build an animal pen and upgrade it to rank 7.

We will complete our contract with Tornado of Souls for an exchange of Influence for strongboxes of power within two weeks.

John reported that recruiting has been excellent with GT having 148 members. Xerxes will clean out the roster soon to make room for more transfers from ST.

Xerxes noted that Mrs. Toons was not able to attend for personal reasons.  He reported that Fennik has been selling off bank items to raise AD for the stronghold progression.  He further noted the gracious donations by guildies to the guild bank, coffer and for TeamSpeak.

Xerxes reported that Thyra was unable to attend for family reasons. The guildmasters have decided to suspend the Crafting program for six months or until Thyra is able to begin her work once again.  All the items in the ST and GT banks will be sold on the AH; the AD being used for VIP, strongbox keys and strongboxes of power.

Xerxes reported that the Alliance is sponsoring seminars twice per month.  The Tanking seminar was a great success. The seminar schedule thus far is: August: Healing; September: Stronghold Progression; October: Hunter Ranger.  He noted that the Alliance is now complete with the addition of 3 new guilds to the Alliance. Ghost Templars is committed to developing strong ties between member guilds.

Haelirin, an ST Guildmaster, was asked to report on Spirit Templars.  He noted that the morale is good. He encouraged better communication between GT and ST and suggested the GTST game chat channel be promoted further.  Therefore, in the upcoming weeks, a member who signs up for the channel will receive a rank 7 enchantment.  Haelirin noted that he'd like to have ST sponsor a dragonflight during the open 11:30AM EDT time slot occasionally.

John suggested that ST members be taken on Experience Bear Runs in the stronghold.  He will make a video on how to run such an encounter.  Perseus volunteered to run some of these events.

The meeting ended at 3PM EDT.

Respectfully,
Xerxes

Saturday

Sahha Balls

Summer Festival offers some pretty awesome rewards, and the key to the best of it is getting yourself some Sahha Balls.  Through Sahha you can gain copper, silver, and mitheral tickets.  Note that there are many highly valued items beyond the legendary mounts, there are strongboxes to help your stronghold development, preservation wards, and many hard to get enchants only offered through events, e.g. Brutal enchantment.  Here is a video of how to start obtaining Sahha Balls.  It is unedited at the moment (will edit and speed it up soon), but it walks you through the process that is not explained well in Neverwinter.  The first time you do this on your character you must play in a Sahha match, but after that you don't need to that.  You get three balls the first time you complete the tasks, then you get one per day and only have to collect the flax seed and run the profession to get your ball.  So this means the first day it takes a little time, but after that it is pretty quick.  Enjoy!

After you have created a truckload of sahha balls, party up some friends so that everyone will reap the rewards.  Go to any enclosed space in the game, e.g. under the bridge (in the corner wedge) in the summer festival map, inside a tent at the main campground in Volosk, and start kicking your ball as fast as you can.  The ball is on a timer, so the more you kick it the more the rewards drop.  This is why you want a confined space, so the ball doesn't get away from you.  Don't pick up any rewards until the timer on the ball expires, otherwise you won't kick it as much and you won't get as many rewards to drop.  It is fairly easy to create 800-1000 balls during the event with five characters on your account.  You are looking for the mitheral tickets to drop.  Take them to the vendor by the soccer field and trade them in.  This is how you can get a chance for awesome drops, like a tensor disc.


Click the square brackets in the lower right corner to go FULL SCREEN.

Mithral Tickets
Midsummer Legendary Mount Raffle
Chance at Emperor Beetle, Black Ice Warhorse, Tenser's Floating Disk, Imperial Rage Drake, or Skeleton Steed
Midsummer Epic Mount Raffle
Chance at Heavy Inferno Nightmare, Sylvan Stag, Owlbear, Apparatus of Kwalish, Gorgon, Rage Drake, or Giant Beetle
Midsummer Artifact Raffle
Chance at Forgehammer of Gond, Token of Chromatic Storm, Thayan Book of the Dead, Kessell's Spheres of Annihiliation, Horn of Valhalla, or Sphere of Black Ice

Silver Tickets
Amnian Jadeite
Preservation Ward
Azure Enchantment, Rank 7
Silvery Enchantment, Rank 7
Radiant Enchantment, Rank 7
Dark Enchantment, Rank 7
Draconic Enchantment, Rank 7
Brutal Enchantment, Rank 7
Cruel Enchantment, Rank 7
Vicious Enchantment, Rank 7
Savage Enchantment, Rank 7
Black Ice Enchantment, Rank 7
Every Type of Insignia!
Golden Bell
Strongbox of Influence
Strongbox of Surplus Equipment
Strongbox of Gems

Copper Tickets
Flowers for everyone
Favor of Sune
Enchiridion of the Volley
Codex of the Check
Fundamentals of the Spike
Compendium of the Set
Body Paint "Dancing Clouds"
Body Paint "Barbed Flames"
Body Paint "Gilded Wire"
South Sea Coutrements
South Sea Sarong
Ornate Sahha Ball
Brown Boo Sahha Ball
Red Dragon Sahha Ball
Blue Beholder Sahha Ball
Relaxing Summer Chair

by El Sacerdote@John#5811 aka John on TS

Friday

Fennik, Perseus, Jantas, Dude & Serena at Tomb of the Nine

Click to see the Developer Blog for Tomb of the Nine
with assistance from Sugar Daddy Feygorn :)
First Boss done!

Right infront of the 2nd Boss.

Second Boss done.

Yes, that is the Arena with the final Boss.

Last challenge has yet to be completed.



Wednesday

Stronghold Update

Dear Templar,

Time for a new stronghold update to inform you about our latest achievements and future plans for the Guild!

Finished upgrades in the May and June 2017:

- Guildhall to rank 14
- Stable to rank 7
- Wizard Workshop to rank 7
- Market Place to rank 7
- Lumberyard to rank 7
- Quarry to rank 7
- Barracks to rank 5
- Smelters Yard to rank 2

Requirements for the upgrade to Guildhall 15:

Warehouse, Mine, Farm and Barracks to rank 7

Our biggest roadblock is and always will be the Conqueror‘s Shards of Power (CSoP) for the Barracks and the POWER BOON.

Aside from winning in PvP, those CSoP can only be aquired from the Maze Engine- and Elemental Evil Campaign as well as from the Stronghold Chest of Power (300 Zen/150.000 AD).

Farming the dailies of both campaigns for 5 days will yield 20 CSoP. Kind of MEH!

1 Stronghold Chest of Power will give 100 of each Heroic- /Adventurer- /Dungeneer- /Conqueror Shards of Power (Total 400).

Opening those Stronghold Chests of Power during a 2x Shards Event will result in a total of 800 Shards of Power per Chest.

That is what we are currently preparing for.

So far we have gathered 80 Stronghold Chests of Power and keep buying them from the AD we receive through your generous Donations! Thank you very much and please keep it coming ;)

Total number of Stronghold Chests of Power required to upgrade the Barracks:

Barracks       Total number of Chests
      6                       42
      7                       91
      8                     145
      9                     204
    10                     270

Right now there is no 2x Shards Event scheduled in the calendar that means we have over 2 months time to gather as many Stronghold Chests of Power as we can.
You can help by donating Items to the Guild Bank which we will sell to make AD or by directly buying Stronghold Chests of Power and sending them to GTBank@gtbank#2424 where we will store them until the 2x Shards Event.

All the Best,
Xerxes & Fennik

Saturday

4 Dragon Run

We hope you enjoy this four dragon run.  It even has an exciting finish with the timer winding down!  Thank you to Not Worth Killing for sharing this awesome piece of fun!


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Cast of Characters:

Mildly Offensive
Not Half A Doctor
Fennik
Jantas
Sharyah