Posts tagged guild
Our Cataclysm Guild Plans
Aug 18th
First of all, I’m going to have to apologise for the mess.. again. Yes, seeing as I’m planning a new header, and that I’ve never been completely crazy about my current theme, I have decided to go with a new theme. I’ve found one which looks a lot tidier and should hopefully clean up my sidebar a bit (3 columns!), so I’ll get on with that soon along with a bunch of things I want to do in order to just tidy the place up, and hopefully this time I’ll stick with it, the theme isn’t too simple or too “complicated”, so I should hopefully be pretty happy with it, without wanted to fiddle with the CSS and then getting frustrated because I’m too bad at CSS. Anyway, back to the post.
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, in fact I probably haven’t, but a few months ago we decided that the best way for us to enjoy the game was to make our own guild for Cataclysm. Especially when they announced the change to 25 man and 10 man raiding, one lockout per raid per week, we knew we’d be able to settle down with a few friends and raid some 10s. So, for months we tried to come up with a guild name, to no avail, everything one of us said we liked, another didn’t.
The plan almost fell apart, which probably would have led to me eventually quitting not too far into Cataclysm, until a few weeks ago when we went to have a bit of lunch before seeing a movie (Inception) at the cinema, we sat and discussed all sorts of Cataclysm based plans and decided in the end to stay on our current server (Vashj, PvP, EU). It’s not an ideal server, by any means, but we all have a bunch of alts here with different professions, and it would have been a lot of effort to move however many people decide to join come the expansion. Plus there are a few people who might be joining who wouldn’t have moved. Finally, we discussed the guild name again, and decided on ‘SlashPat’.
We won’t be doing any raiding until Cataclysm, perhaps a little in 4.0 before the expansion actually hits while we wait around but right now we don’t have the people, and aren’t really interested yet. We still need to sort the ranks out, and the guild websitei, but we are also going to be looking for a few social members. People who aren’t too interested in raiding, perhaps one or two that can fill in for people when they’re away but that’s something to sort another time, who would like somewhere relaxed to be while they play the game they want to play. It would be awfully nice to play Cataclysm with a social aspect to the guild, as well as the raiding aspect.
At the moment we only have 5 members, and we’re not exactly recruiting yet, we might still need one or two raiders as well, it depends on who decides they’re joining and who doesn’t, but if it sounds interesting, keep us in mind. We plan to have fun while we raid, and we’d also like to get the job done, do the hardmodes and achievements, so when we do start looking for raiding members, we want serious raiders who want to have a laugh, basically. Our social members, of course, don’t need to be serious raiders, just be friendly and a bit social!
- which I’m going to be dealing with. Dan’s asked for a simple guildomatic site though I wouldn’t mind using something else, something more customiseable, either way I have plenty of time to sort it and a lot of other things to do in the meantime [↩]
I Applied To A Guild
May 28th
I’ve pugged Icecrown 25 for 2 weeks in a row, and have missed out on plenty of 10 mans, because the only ones I could find were pretty much asking for 5.6k gearscore and an almost full achievement (which I can only SAY I have). At this point there’s not really space for me in friend’s groups, and so I’ve had to pug to be able to raid. Trouble is, these pugs have been pretty horrid. Of course I expected it, but there was ninjaing, arguing, whining, wipes, egoing, gearscore *shudder*, and only the first 4 bosses cleared.
If I seriously want to get a little raiding done before Cataclysm hits, I need to join a guild. So I spent a little bit weighing my options, different guilds I could join, most raid too much with too much strictness, and I know a friend’s guild raids 3 nights a week and isn’t too extreme. I can’t really be bothered with “that point’s wrong, it should be there, why are you using that glyph when that other glyph will net you 3 more dps?!” and that kind of thing, I’ve always read up enough to know my class well enough, but I don’t want it to become like a job. I’d like to be able to just relax a bit.
So, on Wednesday afternoon I put in an application. It’s my TBC guild, I was there for a large part of TBC, cleared Black Temple and Mount Hyjal weekly to death and did a little Sunwell with them too. I went to one of their guild meet ups and I know a fair few people there. It’s the same guild my Hunter was in between leaving her raiding guild and transferring. The closest I’ve ever come to home on Vashj I guess. I’m tired of seeing this, and not being able to join in:
I’m not jealous of them, I’m glad they’ve got raids, but I definitely want to raid a little myself, especially considering when your friends list looks like that, well, people don’t speak much when they’re raiding. Pretty sure my application has been accepted at this point, so let’s see how it goes.
Also popped over to Argent Dawn to say hey to the guys in SAN last night for a while. There were only a few online, but it was definitely fun catching up a bit! After a break from the Rogue, that was fun too. Murdering ogres while discussing the finer points of raiding and why female Trolls could never win a beauty pageant. She was 66 when I logged in, fairly close to 67, almost got her to 68 before I was reminded that ZG was going to reset in a few hours and had to head off. I tell you what though, I was expecting the 3 pugs I did to reconfirm my dislike of the Argent Dawn battlegroup and remind me that Vashj’s isn’t all that bad, but they were all lovely! Damnit, Argent Dawn! I’m planning to get Jaedi up to 80 at some point before Cataclysm, I hope, if I can hit Northrend it should go a fair bit faster. Perhaps one day I’ll actually get around to properly trying some RP, and when I do, I won’t be on a Celestial Steed because I can’t be bothered to RPsplain that.
Wish me luck with the raiding – I’m scared! 
Why I Don’t Raid: Part 2
Mar 16th
Note: For Part 1, click here. I have written up a part 3 as well, as more of a conclusion for this rant.
In the end, I missed Vashj. I had my boyfriend and a few friends over there I really wanted to play with again so I left Terenas to play Fae, my early WotLK main, also a Hunter. I’d realised that Hunter was now my favourite class, not Shadow Priest. I loved the diversity of the different specs, choices to make, and the playstyle of Survival (at the time, I’m now Marksman). I did a few heroics to get myself up to Trial level because I was still in Naxx gear (with the gun from hardmode XT 10 man though, I got lucky with that, and didn’t replace it for months) and applied to Dan’s guild – I had nowhere else to go really and this was where most of my Vashj friends were, Dice.
I got in, raided for a bit, except this guild was a little more hardcore than Respice so I found the change quite difficult. There were some awesome people in the guild, don’t get me wrong, but I wasn’t clicking and there were things I wasn’t happy with that I knew couldn’t change. I asked to be demoted to a social. Casual raiding had spoiled me and I got way too stressed out with the longer, more frequent raiding schedule.
I took a couple of breaks here, tried out Lord of the Rings Online, which had an amazing community and I enjoyed thoroughly. I also tried out Aion, which had a terrible community, though it hadn’t long been released, and some insane lag I couldn’t play through, but it was a beautiful game and the character creation screen and playstyle of the Spiritmaster class won me over nonetheless. I came back to WoW to do the seasonal achievements, having missed out on quite a lot over the year, though I’d kept up with my priest’s achievements (yes, she has the Drake now). One evening I logged in and the GM of Dice started talking to me.. telling me that he was an old guildy of mine from TBC but he’d gender and name changed his character, I clicked, it was. He flirted with me a bit which freaked me out, I don’t deal well with people flirting with me, but he’d always done that. By the end of the week, he begged me to come back, they needed good hunters. I’d like to clarify here, that though flirting creeps me out, and that week did seem a bit odd to me as he didn’t speak to me after I’d rejoined, he was a good guy and he was a popular person in the guild for good reason.
I tried again, but it was worse this time, I was forcing myself and felt really out of place. I quit “for good” after a couple of days, and ended up leaving the guild after an influx of, “Oh man, she’s a girl get her in!” (Not aimed at me, thank God.)
You can’t stay away for long though.. the officers and GM all quit for various reasons, didn’t like the game anymore, had a baby, heavy workload.. so they promoted a friend of ours to GM, who chose his officers: our other friends. I guess he knew he could trust them but in all honesty I never liked the choice. Dan and him both asked if I’d come back, they really needed good hunters and, I hope, liked me being around. I said okay, I’ll come back on a 2 week trial period, but that’s also for me, whether I’m ready to raid or not. After the 2 weeks I didn’t feel stressed enough to quit, I was fine, once I got in a raid I enjoyed it, and reading up on hunters a lot more was fun, I enjoyed improving.
The raiding was good for a couple of months, but after a while the new GM started treating his friends (well I’m not sure about the ones he promoted to officers because by this point none of them cared much to speak to me and no, I hadn’t done anything wrong, I think it was just a case of drifting apart) like avatars. I can specifically remember one raid, I was having a really terrible day, feeling like absolute crap, and I logged in and was instantly invited to a hardmode Trial raid, which I really couldn’t do with, but apparently there was nobody else. Stupidly I went along, told the GM I wasn’t really upto it, and he said, “Don’t worry” and carried on. Replaced 2 other people. Not me. Or Dan, who I think had a killer headache that night. I asked a bit later, if they could “please replace me because I really couldn’t focus anymore,” my day was getting to me in a bad way, I was freaking out and needed to lie down.. I’d told the GM at the start I was bad and I was met with silence, and one of the members saying, “There’s nobody to replace you.” After replacing 2 other guys who had to go because.. what.. they were tired, I can’t remember. That was when I realised he wasn’t a friend anymore. That wasn’t the only case of it, but it was the one that stuck in my mind, and after a while I just left the raid.
It was just after Christmas, I was in the friends 10 man raid to Icecrown 10, with Dan. We had a set group that went every week. This one particular night, I was on my Warlock, as I had been taking a break from 25 man raiding after Christmas and wanted to chill a bit, and Dan told me to relog because they were doing the ICC group. I relogged to my hunter, 2 minutes later I walked over to Dan’s screen and the group was full. I wasn’t in it. “What the fuck, did they just replace me? I’m right here..” Yep. He knew my Warlock’s name. He was still in the same guild as my Hunter. He couldn’t be arsed to look at his friends list, send me a whisper, or even ask anybody else but Dan, who was ignored, he just replaced me. I went absolutely APE SHIT, that was not on. If anybody else in the group wasn’t on their main, they’d have been contacted, I know because it’s happened before. I was sat right next to the other tank in the group! Just because neither of us were on fucking vent, I was replaced. After all of the being treated like just another raider, I exploded. A lot. And yes, this is also why I’m not a fan of voice programmes, if you don’t feel comfortable going on them or can’t go on them, you will inevitably be left out eventually.
He did try to apologise when I was still very much raging, but at this point I was too pissed off.. He didn’t even know what had pissed me off! I left the guild later on. The next day I left my goodbye message on the forum, which he deleted, and shortly after deleted my forum account. To this day he hasn’t explained why he did that, or apologised for it, but that really took the biscuit, it really fucking hurt to be treated like JUST ANOTHER RAIDER, by somebody I though was a friend. Yes, I get there are certain ways he’d have to treat me, but I’ve never asked for special treatment, just an acceptance that this is a game.
Since then I’ve done a couple of 10 man raids, I’ve seen upto Sindragosa in 10 man ICC, but after Dan took a long break I needed to as well and lost my spot, which I’m fine with, I can’t bring myself to raid at the moment. I’ve seen how much drama, and immaturity it causes, first hand and second hand, and I can’t deal with it. This is a game and the way people treat raiding means that I can’t enjoy raids at the moment. I’d like to kill the Lich King, I’d like to see the new dragon boss, and I’d like to raid again in Cataclysm, but I need to find a guild I can feel comfortable with and happy in for that to happen. That won’t be on Vashj, and switching servers will also be difficult unless you know where you’re heading, which I don’t. So I don’t raid for now, and haven’t done since Christmas.
Why I Don’t Raid: Part 1
Mar 15th
People ask me a lot, because the truth is I always loved raiding. Initially, it is what World of Warcraft was designed for, it’s where a lot of the big chunks of lore lies, and it is the best place to play together with people you like.
However, this expansion has really killed my love for raiding. I can’t even blame it on the terrible Trial patch because, truth be told, my love of raiding started dying during Ulduar, and ask anybody I’ve spoken to about Ulduar, I really think that was the highlight of Wrath of the Lich King. A big, beautiful, well designed raid instance, with amazing vehicles, the trains and the teleports, the bosses are insane and fun, the hard modes are enjoyable or at least give you unique ways to activate them.. but I had to quit raiding after my guild downed General Vezax. At this point, it wasn’t even due to guild drama, it had just become too much pressure having to be ‘the best’ at your game, raiding for several hours a night 4 or 5 times a week with 10 mans and alt runs on off nights. I quit raiding then and hung up my Shadow Priest. I’ll be honest, my guild at the time spoke to each other pretending they were all ‘gangsta’ which was quite annoying but realistically they were a fun bunch of guys who I liked playing with and I genuinely felt bad leaving them.
I took that opportunity to play on another server, because I can’t stand my home server honestly. There is way too much “wowcock” flying around, and not so much of the awesome, fun community it had going in Vanilla and to an extent in TBC (I didn’t play much in Vanilla, but I’d seen old forum posts and heard stories). I’d made a silly Night Elf Death Knight with bright pink hair called ‘Soupdragon’, as a response to a guy on my server called ‘Clangers’ (who wasn’t named after the TV show, but I was!) on an old friends’ server, Terenas, back on the day the Ulduar patch hit when my then guild was waiting for the servers to go up and I was bored, so I decided to give that a go, I’d been wanting to level a Death Knight, it was a new place, a PvE server so no ganking, and I knew somebody there.
Somebody I sort of knew from Vashj via Dan jumped at the chance of following me over, “Oh! My first character is on Terenas! A level 60 Night Elf Hunter! We can level together!” Another thing people who know me should know.. I don’t like questing with people. Instances, group quests, PvP.. anything but questing. I’m a solo leveller, it’s how I work best. I go AFK too much, I like to alt tab at my own will as well. I like to gather all quests, pound them out, and hand them all in, wandering off to pick flowers or steal some minerals from the sides of hills. If you add somebody else in there, they get frustrated with me. So, that was a tad annoying, but another friend came over to play around and we had some laughs, that’s what kept me there I suppose. After a while, the first guy revealed himself to be a big selfish whiny emo, which annoyed the crap out of me.. His signature was “Meh >.>” I swear. One day I told him my nanny was in hospital, he went quiet and started whining about PvP. Anyway, I believe I’m going off on a tangent, so I’ll fast forward to Respice Finem.
Soupdragon was 80 and I’d been levelling a Draenei Hunter because I kind of missed the class, Jaedia (the Hunter) was at 74 just doing Jewelcrafting dailies while I quested on Soup to save for her epic flying. During an instance run I bumped into a Retribution Paladin who seemed pretty cool and we did one or two heroics with some guys in his guild after (you might know this Paladin as ‘Zalduun‘ 
). They were fun people! And they were apparently impressed with me, so I applied, they were a social guild raiding Naxx with the occasional Ulduar 10 and I figured I had nothing to lose. If I didn’t like it I didn’t have to stay long that’s what trial periods are for. I offered my hunter as well, hearing they were short on hunters, and they took me to a raid to see how I played and asked if I could join on my hunter if I didn’t mind. So I got levelling.
Respice Finem was a lot of fun for me. I was so used to the be the best you can be and show up to every raid else you miss out on too much DKP attitiude that I’d forgotten what raiding was really like. They struggled in Naxx, and I liked that. I’d facerolled my way through with Supreme and Endure it was nice to meet a challenge again! I got chatting to a few people in the guild, Zalduun of course, and also Elsen. The pair of them were awesome and I’m going to have to blame them for my starting up blogging again. I had an old unused blog which I rarely posted on at the time. The rest of the guild seemed pretty awesome too, though I wasn’t a fan of the other hunter.. I can’t really put my finger on why, perhaps it’s because he shared a name with an ex friend, I don’t know. I also took it upon myself to help out, and do a few basic starter guides for DPS classes on the forums to help out, this was a lot of work and I never finished the job before I left.
Note: This post became so long I’ve had to split it into 2 parts, check back tomorrow for the rest.
Spam Filter For Lich King
Mar 13th
Needless to say, I didn’t pay much attention to the Scarlet Monastery group I was in.
Single Abstract Noun
Mar 4th
A fun, social guild. Single Abstract Noun is a guild made on Argent Dawn EU Horde-side for the blogging community. I would like to add, that the blogging community isn’t purely made up of bloggers, but also readers. This guild was created purely for fun and bringing people together, and I can vouch for both of these things. You can see Tam’s post today about how the first day went, and what you need to do to join (basically, make a character on Argent Dawn EU, log in, /who Single Abstract Noun, and whisper somebody in the guild for an invite), and his post yesterday for guild rules and such, there is no rule 6.
It is an RP server, though nobody is forcing you to RP, you can just pretend you’re really on a PvE server and stick your fingers in your ears and say, “LALALA! I’m not listening!” If you really don’t like the idea of an RP server. It is also a full server, in my opinion the biggest problem with population is finding a name that isn’t taken. I think I must have taken about half an hour before I settled on Jaediele for my cow shaman (thank you Heather) because some mooch stole Jaedia! I did make a hunter with the intention of keeping her BM, but I thought I’d try a different, “Just here to say hello!” alt, I always choose hunters and death knights. My cow shaman was very nearly a cow death knight, Jaedied has a certain ring to it, no? I started off with a blood elf priest called Jaedi, by level 4 decided I should level something I don’t already have at 80. So the cow shaman was born and this is probably the first time I’ve enjoyed a shaman at all, I’ll blame it on good company.
Of course, this is only one chapter of the guild. I believe Miss Medicina is setting up the US version of the same thing, so if you’re on the US servers and you’re sat there thinking, “Well, shit, I wanted to join, damn Europeans!” Don’t worry, you can join in too
One warning though, if you want to get yourself a guild tabard, well.. Tam wanted something to match his hair so, you’ll have to make do with orange. Also, as the icon is based upon a certain pink pigtailed gnome, if you’re a female character, to quote Miss Medicina, “be prepared for “Nice jugs!” comments!” Look forward to seeing you ingame!
Dying Guilds Don’t Have To Die
Dec 1st
Shared Topic courtesy of Windsoar, Jaded Alt.
These days it appears to be very difficult to keep a guild running. People are growing tired of this repetitive horrid content, some quitting the game entirely, some giving up on raiding, at least until Icecrown.
The only way really to tackle this problem is to be nice about it. So, you’ve geared these guys up, and they decide they can’t be bothered to help the guild anymore. Not to worry they’ll be back in Icecrown to take more loot from the guild. Or maybe they want to bring their alts instead. So the rage bubbles away inside while you attempt to keep up a front, “Yes, not to worry, we’ll keep your spot, have fun.” You know full well if you let that out, it will only lead to bad things. Let them go, but tell them you may have to replace them if they plan on coming back because you won’t have the DPS/tanks/healers. Do not try to force them to stay, under any circumstances, this will make matters worse if they really don’t want to stay.
Recruitment
Now you’re down a few players, and you’re struggling to get raids together. This is where you need to step up your recruitment process. Make a recruitment macro and make sure it is well grammared and spelt. For example,
<Guild> is recruiting for Icecrown. Most hardmodes complete in Ulduar, 4/5 TotGC. We’re looking for exceptional applicants, especially: rogues, resto druids and a ret paladin.More info at http://www.guildwebsite.com/
It is important in this macro to make sure you let people know where your progress is at, what you’re aiming for without saying “we’re really struggling at the moment”, what you’re looking for if any classes are specifically needed, and include the guild’s website with the http:// so that potential applicants can copy and paste from ingame if they have the chat mods to do so, which most do.
Post on the forums, let people know what is in the macro, but extend it. What are your guild’s policies? Hardcore or casual? Raiding focus, 10 man, 25 man or both? Is it a fun or serious guild? How old is it? Bits of information which may help to sell your guild to the potential applicants. Don’t think that recruitment posts are a bad idea, a lot of people turn to the forums when looking for a new guild, they might miss the macro in trade, this is where you really sell yourself. Cross-realm applicants, and applicants already on the realm who may not know what the guild is about until you put yourself out there. Use spell check.
Guild Websites
On the website, some potential applicants will want to know raid times, raid days, guild rules, how loot is distributed, and on rare occasions, what the server is like. Some will want to know what the guild is like, perhaps open up the general guild forums to be read only for potential applicants, so they can get a feel for the guild before they apply. When applying to a guild, people want details of what they’ll be getting into, if the details aren’t there, they may give up and try the next guild. Sell yourself, it’s important. I cannot stress this enough.
Applications
When a potential applicant applies, do not shoot them down. If you do you may gain a bad reputation on the server and miss out on some really exceptional applicants who don’t wish to be guilded with dicks. By all means, give bad applicants constructive criticism, but they haven’t applied to your guild to be shot down and insulted, don’t do it! Advice on how to improve themselves, and a polite “I’m sorry we are going to have to decline you at the moment, good luck in your search for a guild.” If drama flares up in a topic, lock it. The one thing you want to avoid most is an air of drama, if there is drama in your guild, don’t let it be shown publicly.
Punishment
The way you handle people in a guild is also very important. If somebody is acting like a douche, whisper them, demote them to a rank with no talking rights until you’ve resolved the issue, invite them to a party, get them on vent, but whatever you do, DON’T address it in guild. It is unecessary to tell them to shut the fuck up in front of everybody else and it’s going to look bad on your part. Maybe include a warning system, if somebody is acting particularly badly, to the point of making people in the guild feel uncomfortable, give them a warning, but use them sparingly. Don’t use them to look big and powerful because you can and they pissed you off, only for the good of the guild. Once they’ve used up their warnings, ban them from raids, using guild chat, remove their loot priveleges, demote them to trialist (or perhaps introduce a rank with less priveleges then trialists, they’d still be allowed to attend raids, but no speaking on vent, loot, etc.), or if it’s a really extreme case, kick them from the guild permanently.
Raid Leading
When leading a raid, it is important to make sure people know the tactics, so go over them, even if it’s only brief. You’ll regret it if you don’t when somebody is hit by Icehowl on heroic mode and claims they forgot they moved that slowly after the crash on this difficulty setting. If somebody makes a mistake, don’t treat them like dirt. On vent and in raid, address the raid in general do not, under any circumstances, single somebody out unless they did something particularly stupid like, pull a boss and wipe the raid on purpose because they think it’s funny. If it’s just a bad try and people make mistakes, just tell the entire raid that things need to improve. If need be, whisper people who seem to be struggling, there may be a reason behind it, especially if they’re in a bad mood, singling them out on vent is going to do no good. Praise the raid when they do well. Tell them to step up when they aren’t. If it turns out to be a bad setup, don’t keep trying it will lower the guild’s morale towards raiding.
Fair Balance
You cannot have a guild without punishment. You may think you can, but if something comes up that really needs to be punished, you’ll regret it. Make sure that people know there are punishments for bad behaviour, it won’t be appreciated if they don’t know it’s there. Equally, you cannot have a guild without praise, most people thrive on being told they are doing well, so tell them, but make sure they keep in mind that they can’t stop trying because the boss has now got to 20%, they have to keep trying. Finally, there needs to be some fun. Organise guild activities, random crap, old instances, achievements, guild 10 mans. The guild needs to talk, get to know each other, and laugh. Otherwise the game becomes pointless, and the guild becomes just another guild.
Guild Stealing..
Nov 22nd
When I logged in yesterday to do my warlock’s jewelcrafting daily, I noticed in /2 that somebody was advertising that my old TBC guild was back and recruiting for 10 mans. After a quick /who on the guy, I noticed that he was indeed in that guild. I’m aware that in Wrath it had some problems and in the end, the members and officers alike decided to part ways. The GM left a message on the guild’s forums letting people know that he’d decided to transfer and if anybody wished to take over and try, by all means they could ask him. One of the core members took guild leadership though almost all of the core had quit the game or left for other guilds by this point.
With it being one of the oldest guilds on the server, being formed fairly early in vanilla WoW, it had formed a strong core of members who had come to call the guild home almost. Though I’d left at around Christmas, I still have a kind of attachment to the guild, I’ve met some decent people in there and have some damn good memories. So, to see some random guy who nobody knew advertising that the guild was “back! And recruiting for Toc 10 man.” Blah blah, with the original guild website and everything, I thought to myself well that just sounds wrong.
I spoke to a couple of friends who’d both had officer positions in the guild, one of which has since moved on and mostly quit WoW. The other didn’t like the way it was advertised either. However, I think everybody agreed that it would be best to leave it.
Anyway, checked the forums today, after all of the “no this guild is the oldest on the server” crap that’s always tossed around but is highly irrelevant, and the “who exactly are you?” from old members, there was a comment which lit up the whole situation for what it really is. A theft.
This guy had, according to the post, been promoted to officer after the guild had stopped raiding and everybody had pretty much left, saying he wanted to invite a few friends. After the GM (the guy who took over after the original GM transferred) had been offline for quite a long time, possibly a month, the guy had contacted a game master to get the guild master position transferred over to him. He kicked many old core members and their alts. He stole the contents of the guild bank, about 24k gold, about 12k golds worth of Ulduar BoEs, nto to mention all of the food, flasks, etc. left in there. Then logging an alt to spam putting in 1g and removing it to cover up what he took.
This caused uproar amongst the old members, who came back over to contact a game master to fix the problem and get back what was stolen from them. Alongside this, the guy responsible has a black mark against his name and was removed from the guild he went on to join. The guild may have been a shell, but stealing everything and threatening to disband really went too far. Luckily, everything is back in place now, somebody else has been given the guild master position. Though it came very close to being all gone.
Relationships Within Azeroth II
Nov 19th
As you may have noticed, but probably haven’t, from my armory profile in the sidebar, I have rejoined my last guild, Dice. I’m going to keep the reasons I originally left between me and a handful of friends, but it’s now under new leadership, and I have a lot of faith in these guys to make Dice a decent guild.
Really though, I miss my friends, and of course I love raiding with Dan. We always used to have our 10 man groups, in TBC we ran Kara on a Friday night, in Wrath we always did Naxx 10, moved onto Ulduar which essentially in the end I lost my place in because I moved over to Terenas to play around a bit, and when I came back we got a Trial 10 group going. The problem with Trial 10 is that just before they released Anub’erak, I needed to take a short break. I can’t remember if this was my Aion break or my LotRO break, but either way, I obviously lost my place in the group which I expected and since about that time I’ve not only been really desperate for a new ranged weapon, but have felt rather dejected in the game, which lead to me mostly farming achievements.
Now, I really really want to give raiding a crack. I’ve rejoined Dice under the premise that there will be changes, and I know the new GM (who is a lovely fluffy cow) and the other officers want to see the same changes as I do. This makes the going back a hell of a lot easier. Already I’m noticing changes and I really think these guys can do a great job with the guild. I’m joining as a trial, I want to make sure I’m upto it, if last night was anything to go by, I think I’ll be able to stick around for a long time.
All I need to do is remember to disable a few mods before raid because 5fps is not good enough for DPSing.. remember to keep farming those mammoths in Storm Peaks next to the Brunnhildar Village, the drop rate on mammoth meat is pretty good, also get a bit of chilled meat and some leather, on top of this their respawn rate is awesome. Oh yeah, there goes my tangent. Basically, I need a little gear and practise to catch up with the other guys again because I’ve been out of the raiding loop for so long, I’m trying to keep up with my reading and I’m very interested in checking out a few of the blog posts on cooldown management, forcing trinket procs and so on, though I have been respeccing, regemming and fixing up bits of gear where I can. I’m getting there, if I can manage 7k on Jaraxxus in a pug, I’m sure I can get there while in a guild raid.
What is the ‘Relationships Within Azeroth’ bit about you ask? Well, having fun with friends is after all what this game is about for me, and I love it when things look to be coming together. So here’s to messing about in Orgimmar at silly hours.
Just An Update
Nov 14th
Guild Stuff
This blog was originally intended to be a hunter blog, but it has grown to be more generic. I prefer it this way, because I don’t feel limited by my blog’s category when I come to write something. Recently I’ve been posting a lot about achievements and alts, but I do still play my hunter a lot.
The problem is that I don’t have a guild. I’m struggling to meet a guild on my server which isn’t full to the brim with hunters, or cocky children (more of the latter), and I’m having a hard time finding somewhere to transfer to. I’m quite attached to this stupid server. I know the ins and outs of most guilds, and people, I have Dan here who I enjoy playing with, and I have a shedload of alts to play and make gold from. I couldn’t transfer without knowing everything about the guild I’d be joining and the server I’d be selling myself to, I’d have to know the population, the economy, the reputation of a guild, the raid times and a full list of rules, so that I know whether to agree or disagree. I want to know what I’d be getting into so that I wouldn’t have to panic about transferring back if it turned out badly. Sadly, I have yet to find a guild website with enough information to make me think, “Yes! That’s the guild and server for me!”
Pug Stuff
For now, I’m pugging. I know a couple of people who run some semi-decent pugs. In fact, I joined one last night which cleared TotC 25 without a single wipe. Nice huh? The funny thing was, there was another hunter in the raid, from one of those cocky guilds. Whilst stood outside waiting for the raid to fill, as you do when you join a pug, you check the other people of your class. All I did was check his weapon because I’m getting quite desperate for a 212 DPS ranged weapon, lucky me he already had the crossbow. Anyway, I carried on nomming my Chinese, and he started talking to his friends, “Oh look that hunter is inspecting me” *Cocky hunter points at me* to which I replied, “I’m eating, and anyway, I’m an AFK stalker, shhh.” After his death on Beasts and low damage on Jaraxxus, I checked his gear a little. He’d put no effort into his gemming at all, fairly decent gear though, I didn’t check his talent spec fully but he had 11 points in Beast Mastery in his Marksman spec. Hm. Nice one.
When we’d killed the Twin Valkyr, I was sat here quite proud of my 9k dps (it’s a new thing for me, be nice) and Twin’s Pact dropped. Wow. I’d wanted this staff since I first saw not only its’ stats but its’ looks, and I’m running round with Edge of Agony. As much as I love my Edge, Twin’s Pact was an upgrade so I rolled. The other hunter rolled too, higher than me. I shrug it off, carry on, but outrage ensues. The raid leader wasn’t giving it to him and carried on rolling for the other gear. One of the paladins started whispering me about how it was a downgrade for him, and he was bad anyway, well true but it turned out he was using Hellion Glaive *facepalm* Not only was he a lazy gemmer but he also didn’t have a clue! In the end the raid leader asked him if he had any arguments over him giving me the staff and the other hunter’s response was along the lines of “Whatever, I don’t care.” I love how I inadvertently caused drama, without actually saying or doing anything. Meanwhile, the shadow priest was whining about not getting a piece of loot while everybody ignored him. Good times.
Life Stuff
At the moment, my mum is in hospital and it has struck me a bit weird.. Those of you who know me will know the situation with us, but even so I am worried, and I am a little freaked out to see somebody I know so weak. I visited her on Thursday, the first time I was told after she was admitted 2 weeks ago.. She will be fine, she’s coming out on Monday, but even so. My blogging may die down a little bit, I don’t want to start making boring filler posts just because I don’t quite have the passion in me right now.
Nice Stuff
Something that cheered me up Friday morning when I woke up. The first thing I do is check for any new emails, there were 2. One of the usual play.com Junk, and one Lil K.T. pet code from a dear friend of mine, you may know her as Elsen the resto druid, I know her as the girl who put a smile on my face after a weird day and a horrid night’s sleep. Thank you Sophie 
I loves him.
Brew of the Year
Isle of Conquest Victory
A-bomb-inable
Stocking Up
40 Exalted Reputations
Master of Arms
Plenty of Pets
Looking For Multitudes
A Void Dance
Lockdown!
