Announcements 18 March 2013

"Bring it, Perpetual!" ~ Jin'rokh the Breaker 

 G'day, Perpetualeans.  We've received several new guild recruits these past two weeks since our guild has faction changed and server transferred.  If you are a brand new member to Perpetual, we are glad to have you!  Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions blog post to help you get started.  I've also created a recent blog post just below this one explaining our guild rules just to make sure that everyone knows what we expect from you and what you should expect from our guild.  Now, on to announcements:

Prepping for Throne of Thunder

Next week will be the last week we do Mogu'shan Vaults to help get the new raid team members' feet wet in normal mode raids.  Starting Thursday the 28th and Sunday the 31st of this month (Game of Thrones premiers, plan accordingly!), we will start Heart of Fear progression and we're slated for the end of April to start doing normal modes for Terrace of Endless Springs and the first boss in Throne of Thunder.  What does this mean?  Start farming your valor!  Help each other through heroics and Isle of Thunder dailies and make sure to join the guildies for the weekly guild LFRs that Mirandah schedules (usually Tuesday evenings around 6:30 server, only I think these next two weeks she will be busy with wedding preparations).  I am trying to get our raid teams geared ASAP so we could start Throne of Thunder.  I propose to you the following gear check goals:

• By Thursday, March 28th, we need everyone to be ilvl 475+ for Heart of Fear.  You must know all boss intel for HoF.
• By Thursday, April 4th we need everyone to be ilvl 485+ for Terrace of Endless springs.  You must know all boss intel for ToES.
• By Thursday, April 18th we need everyone to be ilvl 490+ for the first two bosses in Throne of Thunder. You must know boss intel for at least the first two bosses in ToT.

* I post all raid guides for raids we are currently progressing on this blog.  Simply click on the label "raid guides" on the left-hand side of the guild blog.  All boss guides are posted in descending order with the first boss at the very top and the final boss at the very bottom.

In order to help reach these gear check goals, we will utilize a partner system.  I have randomly selected pairs in both raid teams (some of you will go solo until we fill empty raid team slots).  Effective immediately, you will each set aside some time in-game to help each other through heroics or Isle of Thunder dailies.  Even better, multiple pairs could team up to fulfill these tasks.  Already as guildies we should be grouping up to do these things, but I'd like you to place special emphasis on your partner.  Every time you meet them, ask them how their gear is looking or if they are improving their tanking, healing or deeps skills.  Help them out with whatever professions you have maxed.  We are a team-building guild after all, so this should not be too much to ask for.  I don't expect you two to get together every night of the week; I only ask that you two get together and plan at least one night where you two could get together and help each other out for a few hours.  At least once a week the two of you will meet with an officer in ventrilo (no mic required but it will make it heaps faster) to report your success: any gear upgrades? did you take the time to learn your rotation and achieve higher deeps? etc.  This meet with an officer should only be around two to three minutes, no more than five, so there should be no excuse to miss it.  Keep in mind I am only requiring this out of everyone because I am aiming for our success as a raiding guild.  I admit that team-building is not particularly easy because you are having to work with people of completely different play styles and personalities but I assure you it will be rewarding for the raid teams in the end.  I intentionally paired you up with someone that you're not very familiar with to make this a challenge worthwhile.  Posted below are the raid team partners.

A Team Partners

• Hidytwo (Ken) and Shegrooves (Paul)
• Mirandah (Mira) and Zhulong (Patrick)
• Thelduin (Murph) and Mathores (Tyler)
• Pigbawg (Julian) and Chenstout (Mattie)
• Tides and X

B Team Partners

•  Bluze (JOe) and Playpenz (Bret)
• Habei (Jared) and Krendistus (Dillon)
• Mormogh *or his warrior Ursid when 90* (George) and Troxus (Tyler)
• Frieria (Eric) and Rinzee (Eli)
• X and X

O Team:  You could either group up with each other because your schedule doesn't allow you to be consistent with meets/raids or you also have the option to join any of the A and B Team partnerships––whatever is optimal for your schedule.

* Also, please refer to our updated raid team rosters.

Tides says we've to be team mates...Here's my flipper. Epic penguin buddies!
 

* One more reminder as far as raiding goes: in order to ensure the success of our raids we will be doing weekly dummy trials (five minute deeps trials on dummies in Orgrimmar), random gear checks (especially modifications like enchants, gems, etc.) and random boss intel checks. I have looked our raid team members up on WoW armory and a couple of you have a few PvP gear pieces equipped.  I understand some of you may be using them because of the higher ilvl or you may have been having trouble gettting better PvE gear to drop –– I understand, I at one point have been rocking a pitiful ilvl 450 crafted PvE helmet and it took me over five months to get an upgrade.  But having any number of PvP gear pieces equipped for raids is very bad and I forbid it in our raids.  PvP gear is completely useless for raiding because you are giving up a very beneficial secondary stat for completely obsolete PvP power stat and resilience––these two stats do nothing for you when fighting dragons.  Please place special emphasis on replacing your PvP gear pieces first before the upcoming gear check deadlines if you wish to progress with our guild.  I aim to get as many of us prepped for Throne of Thunder but every one of us needs to make sure we are meeting raid requirements.

Player verse Player

Aside from raiding, we will ease our way into PvP action.  Effective immediately, anyone interested in gearing up for rated battlegrounds and arenas can join together on Saturdays starting at 6:30 PM server to help each other farm honor and gain experience on the battle field. Be sure to sign up through the in-game calendar.  For Sparta!