Who We Are

• Hordeland Security is a raiding guild that centers around World of Warcraft.  Our main goal is to complete AoTC each season.  Afterwards we do a mix of dabbling in Mythic content, transmog runs, and alt runs.  We hit Mythic + multiple days of the week at the beginning of the season and focus on Mythic + on Weekends primarily throughout the season.
• Our main rule is to be excellent to each other.  It means doing the right thing, acting with class, and ensuring that our our guild fosters a friendly atmosphere in any activity that involves the guild.  It creates an atmosphere free from harassment, discrimination, and creates a friendly environment to game together.  It's been our recipe for success over the 15+ years that the guild has been running.
• Each season we engage player interest in each form of content and try to set up guild events weekly/monthly to keep our player base engaged.  This means we sometimes add Rated BG content; other times Mythic + grouping; and in the beginning of a season an optional third raid night on Sunday.
• We sometimes play other games including: D&D online with a guild member running as the DM through Discord; Jackbox games; Final Fantasy 14; and GTA Online.

Our History

• When BC launched, a couple of Guilds merged into HLS - Chaos Contingency, and Horde Elite.  HLS had a sister guild that split off in BC, called Rest in Piece.  Many HLS members raided with them and they raided with us.  We got to Teron Gorefiend in Black Temple before the 3.0 WOTLK prepatch.
• In WOTLK we really gained a solid core of raiders, had a 10 man and 25 man team, and pushed Heroic content each tier as 10 man teams, Normal 25 and then hit Heroic at the end of the tier.  This was probably the largest the guild was in terms of raiding, as we did Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday as in 25 man and picked two days a week on 10 man to progress both at the same time.  We accomplished Normal 25 LK at 20% Buff. 
• In Cataclysm, we had a GM shift, while keeping most of the same player base.  By the End of Cataclysm, we had many original members and former Horde Elite players retire from wow as raiders due to family or other real life obligations.  They became known as the Old Guard of HLS.  Some still play on occasion and usually visit the game with a new expansion, but  generally do not raid.
• In MoP we ended up rebuilding our core from the players retiring in Cata, and ended up remaining a 25 man raiding guild completing AoTC in each raid tier.  We moved to Turalyon from Baelgun in Throne of Thunder due to Baelgun drying up in raiding players.  One of our long-time members, Duerdon, took up the mantle of Raid Leader during this server transition, and lead us to glory for 3 expansions.
• In Warlords of Draenor we ended up missing AoTC with Blackwing Lair, leaving only the final boss on heroic undefeated by us.  We completed the other raids in this expansion with AoTC.
• In Legion we had stable runs with multiple Mythic + teams running daily.  Every tier was completed AoTC and some raids we dabbled in Mythic mode.  We added an events officer in BFA to keep M+ teams moving along together in the guild, based on their performance doing this in an unofficial capacity.
• In BFA we managed AoTC and this marked the first time that we ended up calling raiding off early each tier allowing people to play other games or do other events during raid time.  Uldir marked the last raid that we dabbled in Mythic mode as a full raid team because of interest in the game for that expansion.
• Shadowlands marked the largest increase in active players for a new expansion.  We had multiple teams running Mythic + and managed a third night of raiding near the start for those interested in a normal mode run.  However the player base shrunk a lot in Sanctum of Domination and we found that Turalyon also had dried up in players of all scope, prompting us to move to Zul'jin.
• Our main core remains to raid and continue to get AoTC.  The one thing remains over the years, we only recruit those who are excellent to each other and work together to kill digital internet monsters.  Our officers change from time to time, but the guild core remains throughout all these years and the evolution of the game.