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| From left to right: Reece, Eric, Mattie, Ryann, Caleb, Ken, Tides, Paul, Junior, Ary. Pre-kill shot! |
Congratulations on our first run through Terrace of Endless Springs last night! I should mention that although I made a bold move in having us do the elite kill order on Protectors of the Endless, you all bolstered my faith in you as a raid team. Your efforts were excellent and I am sure when we return next Sunday our eyes shall behold the Sha's booty, both his ilvl booty and his rump roast. I'd like to give a shout out to Reese (Warpower) for being the first in guild to win a loot drop via lottery roll. Tonight's lottery number was 74. Along with the shoulder token drop, he was allotted 1000 gold from the Guild Keep. Also, I missed raid chat to notice, but Eric's (Frieira) birthday just passed. Happy belated birthday to you, Eric!
The raiding announcements for this week are as follows:
Dismissal of B Team
Due to constant absences, I have decided to dissolve B Team. I have issued many warnings via ventrilo, the guild blog and our guild community website and yet a large number have failed to comply with our simple raid attendance protocols. As I am busy with my final quarter as a senior at university as well as a Shakespeare production and work on the side, I do not have sufficient time to deal with recruiting to fill the many empty slots on B Team and spending time with said new recruits to make sure they understand and are serious with committing to a team. At least until I graduate this June, B Team shall remain obsolete. I have updated the team roster on the guild blog and you will notice that there are eleven people listed. Over the course of this last week of April and all of May I will be observing raid attendance and whoever falls short I will have to ask to step down and continue to raid with us as an O Team member at least until June when I reintroduce B Team and start recruiting.
Gear Modification
In order to prevent late raid starts, I require everyone to come to raid night prepared not only through an excellent understanding of boss intel, but to show up with gear fully and properly modified. I shouldn't even have to remind you of this, because these are listed in our raid team rules. If the situation arises where someone is missing proper gems or enchants, I would rather pug someone to replace your slot. This may be strict but in order to alleviate this, we will do as much as we can to help you with the gems and enchants as long as you approach the officers well in advance, not the night of the raid. However, do not take advantage of guildies. I and the officers are keen on who is contributing to the Guild Keep or to other guildies through enchants or gems and if we notice that all you do is take free gems and enchants without repaying through fair trade or contributing Mists of Pandaria trade materials such as herbs, ores, gems, leathers, windwool cloth, items for disenchanting/enchanting, etc, then we will ask you to find another means of obtaining gems or enchants. If we are aiming for progression, then every ounce of damage or healing counts. It is not fair to other team mates if we have to halt our raid start to spend time cutting gems and applying enchants.
Raid Progression Plan
I plan for our guild to progress through Throne of Thunder at a reasonable pace. Before we can focus on just Thunder, I want us to get the Grand Empress Shek'zeer kill in Heart of Fear first, so that we can enter Terrace of Endless Springs without having to rely on Paul (Shegrooves) solely to gain passage because there may come a night when Paul may not be able to raid with us. As we prepare for Thunder progression, I propose to you a three phase plan:
A Phase (aka GES phase): Grand Empress Shek'zeer & Horridon not yet terminated
Thursdays, 7 - 10 PM server ~ First x1 hour to be spent in Thunder on Jin'rokh, Death's Crossing (I've deemed the bridge worthy of its own name), and Horridon. Remaining x2 hours to be spent in Heart of Fear. HoF raid lock to be kept extended as long as possible to hasten our Grand Empress Shek'zeer kill. No raid locks on Thunder to allow us more gear drops.
Sundays, 7 - 9 PM server ~ Unless Paul is not able to raid with us, then we will focus solely on ToES. The raid lock will not be extended because this raid already seems to be very manageable within our two hour frame. If Paul is not able to raid with us, we will focus solely on HoF.
B Phase (aka Perpetual Flings phase): GES terminated but not yet Horridon
Thursdays, 7 - 10 PM server ~ First x2 hours to be spent in Thunder. Remaining x1 hour to be spent on as much of ToES as possible.
Sundays, 7 - 9 PM server ~ ToES alone, continuing from where we leave off on Thursday.
C Phase (aka Thunder Crusade): Horridon dispatched
Thursdays, 7 - 10 PM server ~ Strictly Thunder progression
Sundays, 7 - 9 PM server ~ ToES alone
* A reminder about guild calendar signups - Simply sign up prior to the midnight deadline for BOTH Thursday and Sunday. This means that if you plan to join us for Thursday, sign up the midnight prior to Thursday's raid night if you wish to join us. If you plan to join us for Sunday, sign up the midnight prior to Sunday's raid night. Absolutely no late signups tolerated. Also, if you sign up and don't show up, that still counts as a breach of our three strike raid attendance policy.
Beyond our three phase plan, we will shift our focus to Thunder alone for both Thursdays and Sundays to speed our guild progression. ToES will then be put on farm list along with HoF and MV, which brings me to my next announcement.
Farm Nights
I mentioned in the last announcement post that I would like for us to have another means of raiding beyond our normal raid schedule. This can be employed through farm nights, in which we do the older raids to help gear alts, allow O Team members to raid more often with us, or just an easy way to gain valor points. I will need at least one officer to lead these nights so that access to the Guild Keep is available for flasks and to ensure that the friendly and respectful raid atmosphere that we have grown to love can be preserved even in the midst of pugs. These will be scheduled in the raid calendar as non-progression nights and because they are not required of the raid team members there will be no penalties for late signups.
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I would like to take the time to thank those of you who have remained committed raid team members. I want you to realize that you are what makes our guild strong and your efforts thus far are noteworthy and admirable. Cheers!
Offer me your sword and spells, and I shall bring you victory. Offer your companionship, and I shall give you loyalty. Offer your service, and together we shall gain honour. We are Perpetual.
Respectfully,
Ken, Mattie, Mira and Tides
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| Bonus shot: Tides' UI |
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