Perpetual Dragon Soul Heroic Progression Announcements

The Mists of Pandaria expansion will be coming soon this fall and Patch 5.0.4 will be released in the next couple of months to prepare us for the drastic changes to come. If you haven't yet read the new patch notes, here they are:

Patch Notes: 5.0.4 

Many of the guildies have been anticipating DS heroic mode progression, and I urge it as well but in order for us to progress successfully I need to ensure that everyone is geared and well-informed on the strategies.  I will be posting video guides as well as links to the text-based guides on our guild blog.  You can find all the posts on the left-hand side of the guild blog as "heroic raid guides" under the "Label" section.  If I find on a raid night that not everyone in the team has set aside some time to inform themselves of the strategies for the heroic bosses we will take on that night, then I will dismiss the heroic attempt and we will stick to regular mode for that night.  Since we are all willing to tackle heroic mode, it is only fair that everyone is open to taking up a little more responsibility and individual effort.  We strive to maintain a team-oriented environment and the best way to do that is to make sure everyone is contributing to the team.  We will do away with boss intel because it deprives us of so much time on raid nights.

Be sure that you meet all DS raiding requirements for our guild.  They can be found under the label "raiding requirements" on the left-hand side of the guild blog.  You must have at least an average item level of 393+ to join us for heroic mode DS.

Perpetual Raid Teams

We are currently recruiting so that we can have two separate raid teams.  As of today, we still need more deepsers and healers.  On the left-hand side of the guild blog at the top, you will see a poll I've created to see what the raid times will be like for the second raid team, Team B.  For now, while we may not have enough people for the second team, we can resort to having people in Team A join Team B on their separate raid nights with their geared alts.  Once we have enough people to fill the second raid team, we could offer the option to change the raid times and days so that both teams could raid on the same nights.  If everyone is fine with the two raid teams raiding on separate nights and times then we can stick with that option.  I set the poll to end on Saturday, August 11th at 11:59 PM.  You can only choose one option, so choose wisely.  The two raid nights for each team (Thurs & Sat/Fri & Sun) does not necessarily mean that you must show up both nights.  It only means that the latter night is an open option to continue raiding if needed and if everyone on the team is available to do so.  

Heroic Dragon Soul Progression Path


The path we will take toward progression is as follows: 

Morchok > Yorsahj > Ultraxion > Zon'ozz > Hagara > Warmaster

Please note difficulty ramps up from Morchok and depending on your raid strengths and weaknesses or your guilds strengths and weaknesses, you have the option of several bosses after Morchok. Read below for more information. All bosses must be killed on heroic to reach Deathwing Heroic so you don't have a choice there. Most of these bosses are inter-changeable, read the description under each boss and you can decide for yourself.


This is taken directly from MMO-Champion's website and I will include a link to the complete thread:


MMO-Champion's Heroic DS Progression Thread


I suggest we attempt at least one or two heroic modes every week from now on until Mists of Pandaria launch.  Remember, this will go smoother if everyone does their fair share and informs themselves well on the strategies for each encounter.

Ultraxion: 10-Man Heroic

To join our guild for heroic DS raids, you must meet all our requirements for normal DS raids as well as have an average item level of at least 393+. Raiding requirements can be found through the "raiding requirements" label on the left-hand side of the guild blog. I am providing you with two options to inform yourself on the strategy for heroic Ultraxion: by the video posted below or the notes included in the link below. If you opt to watch the video guide, be sure to take notes. If you'd rather read the strategy, here is the link:

Scroll down to read the heroic difficulty strategy for Ultraxion

Since we are starting to do the heroic modes of DS, I will start to ensure that everyone does their fair share and informs themselves well on the strategy.  We are in a guild that promotes a team-oriented raiding atmosphere and it is only fair that everyone is well-informed.  Having to explain boss intel before fights takes up too much time.  If I find that people are not able to set aside some time and inform themselves on the strategies for heroic mode, then we will skip heroic mode for that night and just do regular version.  Please do your best to not let the team down; if we are all aiming at heroic progression then we need to be open to a little more responsibility and effort.

FatbossTV's Heroic Ultraxion 10-Man Guide:

Yor'sahj Guide: 10-Man Heroic

To join our guild for heroic DS raids, you must meet all our requirements for normal DS raids as well as have an average item level of at least 393+. Raiding requirements can be found through the "raiding requirements" label on the left-hand side of the guild blog. I am providing you with two options to inform yourself on the strategy for heroic Yor'sahj: by the video posted below or the notes included in the link below. If you opt to watch the video guide, be sure to take notes. If you'd rather read the strategy, here is the link:

Scroll down to read the heroic difficulty strategy for Yor'sahj

Since we are starting to do the heroic modes of DS, I will start to ensure that everyone does their fair share and informs themselves well on the strategy.  We are in a guild that promotes a team-oriented raiding atmosphere and it is only fair that everyone is well-informed.  Having to explain boss intel before fights takes up too much time.  If I find that people are not able to set aside some time and inform themselves on the strategies for heroic mode, then we will skip heroic mode for that night and just do regular version.  Please do your best to not let the team down; if we are all aiming at heroic progression then we need to be open to a little more responsibility and effort.


RaidPerspective's Heroic Yor'sahj 10-Man Video Guide:

Slimes Kill Order for Heroic Yor'sahj

Morchok Guide: 10-man Heroic

To join our guild for heroic DS raids, you must meet all our requirements for normal DS raids as well as have an average item level of at least 393+.  Raiding requirements can be found through the "raiding requirements" label on the left-hand side of the guild blog. 

I am providing you with two options to inform yourself on the strategy for heroic Morchok: by the video posted below or the notes included in the link below.  If you opt to watch the video guide, be sure to take notes.  You only need to watch the first five minutes and forty seconds of this video guide for the actual strategy, the rest is just gameplay commentary that can be skipped.  If you'd rather read the strategy, here is the link:

Scroll down to read the heroic difficulty strategy for Morchok

Since we are starting to do the heroic modes of DS, I will start to ensure that everyone does their fair share and informs themselves well on the strategy.  We are in a guild that promotes a team-oriented raiding atmosphere and it is only fair that everyone is well-informed.  Having to explain boss intel before fights takes up too much time.  If I find that people are not able to set aside some time and inform themselves on the strategies for heroic mode, then we will skip heroic mode for that night and just do regular version.  Please do your best to not let the team down; if we are all aiming at heroic progression then we need to be open to a little more responsibility and effort.


Intent's Heroic Morchok 10-Man Video Guide

Perpetual Officers' Meet July 2012

Calling all officers. You are hereby summoned to offer your input as we discuss future plans for Perpetual.  The more we get accomplished at this officers’ meet, the better prepared we will be for answering questions and making announcements at our town hall meeting scheduled for next Friday, July 20th at 6:30 PM server.  Please come prepared with ideas of your own to offer for our forum at the town hall meeting as well as be ready to offer your own input on the topics to follow.  The items we will discuss consist of the following but is not limited to:

•  heroic DS progression

• recruitment

• officer bios for guild blog

• loot system for heroic raids

• officer positions/specializations

• video guides for guild Youtube channel

• upcoming guild project/event/contest (hint: tr****)

• Chris’ idea for guild contest rewards

• update on Chris’ special project (no worries if now is not the time, I have another suggestion if interested)

• sorting of two raid teams

• 2319!

• officer contact info

• Guild Keep

• X’s promotion/initiation ceremony to be scheduled

When:  An evening before our town hall meeting when the majority of officers can block off one to two hours solely for productivity. ** Respond to this post on the guild website (not blog) underneath the link with what night works best for you, we’ll aim for 6 PM server time.  **

What to bring:  This will be a themed meeting just for kicks.  Come dressed as a misfit––whatever you imagine such a person would present themselves as. However there is a rule.  Please limit your outfit to only garbo gear (anything in white or grey font in the tooltip).  If you must, you may equip just one gear piece that is above common quality (i.e. gear in green, blue or purple font). Bring a smile as well, but it needs to be an awkward one cos we shall be misfits for the night!

See you soon. Cheers.

Respectfully,
Tidesroyale

Announcements 4.8.12

 Today's announcements will cover:

• Highlights of our DS II raid on Saturday 9th, 2012
• Promotions, particularly the Altocumulus rank
• A few methods in how we help guildies get geared, especially through the Guild Keep ticket system
• Perpetual expansion
• A new easy way to get Perpetual denarii
• Perpetual Census

Thanks to all that showed up for our DS raid last night. For those that signed up and couldn't make it, no worries. We understand that real life gets in the way and we will never hold it against you. Also, I want everyone to know that we are willing to wait ten minutes for those that sign up for a raid and aren't present at raid start time. We will then take any extra guildies signed up or ask in guild chat.

Before I go over the highlights of our raid, I will list our raid composition from last night:

Tidesroyale ~ Tank
Hidytwo ~ Tank
Mirandah ~ Tank Heals
Shamoobs ~ Tank Heals
Bumber ~ Raid Heals
Andaph ~ Ranged Deeps
Terrapin ~ Ranged Deeps
Wozzbie ~ Melee Deeps
Tilli ~ Melee Deeps
Ribsandwich ~ Melee Deeps
Xynapses ~ Ranged Deeps (replaced Joe)

Special thanks to Chris for plunking two cauldrons and Bumber for almost 20 Seafood Magnifique Feasts. Also, thank you Wozzbie for being prompt with the much needed battle rezzes. Mira and Mattie, thanks heaps for putting up with your clumsy tanks. Thank you everyone for your great effort in last night's raid.

DS II Raid Highlights:

• Ultraxion downed after 15 goes

This was our first attempt ever at Ultraxion. It's a very unforgiving fight. Many of us (myself included) were having trouble with Heroic Will timing. Either we were too early or too late in activating the ability. No worries. After having been in the encounter and experiencing the pressure, practice will help us improve. I have a team-building idea that will help us practice timing for Heroic Will. I shall schedule it as a guild event sometime this week.

• Funny moment. After finally killing Ultraxion, I turn around and the entire guild is dead! A very sloppy first kill indeed. Oi, who doesn't love sloppy joes? Nom nom. We'll do better next time.

• Drops. Foremost, we decided that in order to help our rouges obtain their legendary daggers faster (each need 300), we will let Ribsandwich collect all 300 Elementium Gem Cluster first, followed by Tilli. If there is a raid where Ribsandwich isn't present, Tilli will take priority over any other rogues in raid. Bumber won new intellect mail shoulders: Imperfect Specimens 27 and 28, after which he gave to Shamoobs. Nice! I won the Chest of Corrupted Conquerer token and Mira won an Essence of Destruction.

• No raid lock extension for next week. We decided together that it would help to get more gear for our guildies if we allow Dragon Soul to reset so we can take on all bosses we know well already before attempting Warmaster Blackhorn.

• I've scheduled DS and Firelands raids on the guild calendar so be sure to sign up for the raid nights that work for you. If anyone is interested in transmogrification runs, let an officer know or ask in ventrilo and we can schedule one in the calendar or on the spot if there are enough guildies online.

Promotions:

We started ranking up several of the guildies. Thank you all for making an effort to get to know each other. I was stoked to find out you all did an Ulduar transmog run two nights ago without me. It makes me proud knowing you're all starting to foster genuine camaraderie within our guild. A couple of you have been promoted to Altocumulus rank. Congratulations! This is our designated normal progression rank. In the future, we will add a heroic progression rank. You have been promoted to Altocumulus because you show an effort in keeping your gear modifications up to par with askmrrobot.com and you have shown a vested interest in raiding with Perpetual. Along with this rank comes responsibility. No more raid checkups, we expect and trust that you will continue to keep your gear up to date with the the robot. You will also receive a comfortable increase in daily repair allowances. If you have not yet been promoted to Altocumulus rank, it is simply because you were not online a bit after our DS raid and did not get to meet with me. If interested, whisper Tides. We sincerely wish to have more guildies in the Altocumulus rank! It is in no way a core raiding team rank. It is simply our way of knowing who is geared for DS raids and on top of that, people we can trust to keep their gear optimized for raiding on a weekly basis, specifically through the askmrrobot.com tool. For more information on our special guild ranking system and our raiding requirements, please refer to the appropriate blog posts.

 More Ways We Help Gear Guildies

As for enchants and gems, do your best to gather mats and then see a maxed guildie so you don't have to worry about expensive costs at the auction house. Tides is maxed in both jewel crafting and enchanting as well as tailoring and leather working.

One awesome way we like to help our guildies is by means of Justice Points and Valor Points bind-on-equip bracers or boots. If you see something you need, write a message to an officer including your name and the exact name of the gear you need and they will make a copy of your message and deposit it into the Plunder tab of the Guild Keep. Anyone willing to donate JP or VP can then take this ticket and purchase your gear. You can read more about the Guild Keep in the appropriate post.

Perpetual Expansion

You may have noticed already, our guild is growing. We now have slightly more than ten guildies that are geared for DS raids. We will start recruiting more until we can build a second raiding team. We could really use tanks and deepsers (especially melee) for our second raid team. The raid times and days may be different for the second raid team. I understand many of us are two hours ahead of server time. Keep an eye out for people you think would make friendly, mature additions to our family.

 Another Way to Receive Perpetual Denarii

The denarius is our guild's form of currency.  For now, we use it to override the Trade Pass Equivalency Charts that govern all transactions done through the Trade Pass tab in the Guild Keep as well as used to purchase exceptionally rare loot found in the Plunder tab.  I am considering implementing a system in the future in which denarii can be used to bid on/purchase Conqueror's Tokens (chest, shoulders, etc.) that drop in heroic raids.  To find out more about the Perpetual Denarius, please refer to the appropriate blog.  You automatically receive denarii for attending guild meetings, team-building exercises and raids.  However, a new way in which you can earn denarii is by reading the guild blog!  That's right, simply reading the guild blog can earn you an easy denarius.  There is a catch, however.  It won't happen with every blog, but randomly I'll insert a spontaneous, bogus word into the blog somewhere that is completely irrelevant to the blog topic.  I won't highlight it either, so it's hard to catch.  Upon finding this word, you must either email Tides at wowlosties@gmail.com or send him an in-game message within two days of the date the blog was posted.  Any messages after two days will not earn you a denarius.  You can learn more about our guild currency by reading the Perpetual Macella blog post.

 Perpetual Census

We need to do a census right now because many people are putting their alts in our guild.  In order to help us get to know you better and so we can keep track of who's alt belongs to who (this will help greatly especially when you are promoted as well as when we are giving you denarii), please send an in-game message to Tides including your first name/nick name you'd like us to call you in ventrilo and guild chat followed by a list of all your characters in our guild.  Your help in contributing to the organization of our guild is greatly appreciated.

One more important announcement. Our guild transmog contest ends Saturday 12th of May! Refer to the post to find out more. Other than that, we've received a few more new guild recruits. Be sure to check out the resources made available to you on our guild blog, or if you invited your mates into the guild, please remind them to read the guild blog daily for announcements. Thank you all and enjoy your Easter Sunday with your loved ones. Cheers!

Ultraxion: 10-Man Normal Guide

Kupkupkupo's Guide