- Once signed up, please make a post about what days and times you are available and unavailable to raid. The quicker members do this, the faster we can make raid groups.

- Check your calendars! New schedules will be posted every Tuesday once we know what the weekly raid quest is. Do not get yourself saved to 10-mans at the beginning of the week unless you know you will not be online for the remainder of the week. Remember: If you get yourself saved to 10 Ulduar/Naxx/EoE etc. if we say not to, it may mean you might not be invited to 10 ICC once we enter because it proves you can’t follow directions!

- The guild’s birthday is tomorrow (2/16).  The guild tabard will be changed back to it’s original design to celebrate.

- Congrats on the first guild kill of Ignis in Ulduar. I will be adding the picture eventually, but will wait until I get the downed section redesigned.

2/3/2010 – Ulduar 25man for Raid Weekly to be formed for those who haven’t done the weekly yet but want into the already started Uld 10 group (which has Flame Levy already down.)
- Sartharian 0D badge farm for those who still want that achievement and to help gear up new 80’s.

2/4/2010 – Ulduar 10man Progression Continues from Raid ID#:

2/5/2010 – Naxxramas Badge Farm – to help get people who newly hit 80 Trinkets, Rings, Capes anything that isn’t easily obtained in 5mans or via Badge Gear as well as Raiding practice.

2/6 – 2/8/2010 – finishing up the Raid Weekly and continue-ing Ulduar as far as we can get. Possible raid extension if needed.

*ALSO* Post to the changes to how we’re raiding posted on the Forums HERE

While we will still not be a hardcore raiding guild, we are about to get more serious about the entire raiding experience. We will be forming our first “Core Raiding Team”.

During the week of 2/2/2010 till 2/16/2010, we will be holding a trial for those interested in becoming a member of the Team. During the week, we will schedule various events on the calendar around the same time every day. Players who show up on time, prepared, and with their game faces on will become members of the Team. We will be starting with a 10 man team, and if we end up with less then 10 members, we will recruit new members specifically to fill those raiding roles. While the trial will last two whole weeks, our actual raiding nights will probably end up being 3 to 4 nights a week.

What does this mean for members who want to raid but are unable to make the Team due to job/school restraints? You probably won’t see very many changes then you do now. We will still help you to physically and mentally prepare yourselves for raids, by gearing up and offering advice. We will still run heroics and help guildies on alts or with any raids we are not saved to. If a member of our Team is unable to make it for any particular night, we will select prepared and geared (appropriately geared for whichever raid we select) members to take their place. Of course, if you are not interested in raiding at all, we will still always remain a haven for casual players, those leveling up, or PvP’ers who just want a fun atmosphere to have fun, do heroics, BG’s/Arenas and dailies. :D

If the Team is successful, we may even make a second group!

So if you think you have what it takes, go over the checklist below and sign up to begin the Team trial starting on the raid reset week of 2/2/2010 till 2/16/2010 !

* - Consistancy. Have an 95% or better attendance rate. Make sure you are on at least a half hour before the raid starts, and set aside at least 2-3 hours of major interruptions. Emergencies can happen and we make exceptions for those. If you are going to miss a raid due to a non-emergency (ie: Party, sudden homework overload, going to a movie, scheduled doctor appointment, etc.), you MUST use either the Forum or the Contact page to get a hold of a raid officer to let them know in advance you are not coming. If you miss more then three raids due to non-emergencies without contacting an officer, you will be removed from the Team group. There is no excuse when you can get a hold of at least 2 of us at all times through Forum, E-Mail, In-Game and AIM.

* - Preparedness. Make sure that before showing up, that you are fully repaired (and have money for more!), have at least 5000 stacks of ammo, any regents you may need for buffs and spells, a full soul shard bag, any flasks or buff foods, fish feasts (if you can make them), food and water, pet food, etc. Leatherworkers should bring drums, Engineers should bring repair bots, and any other raid-helpful profession items should be brought.
(Note for ALL members: For Naxxramas & Ulduar, flying mounts are a requirement. No flying mount, no raid. They are cheap and there are no excuses for not being able to afford one. Get off your butt and do the Argent Tournament daily quests for 3 days.)

* - Knowledge. Know your class and your spec. We don’t expect you to memorize spreadsheets about your class, but know it well enough to do your job in the raid efficiently. Also, read up on the fights. I know that a lot of people (including myself) learn better by doing, but at least go to WoW-Wiki or WoW Head and read up so you can get a quick rundown on how not to stand in fire. We will go over basic strategy on the first or second time running a raid, but we don’t want to spend a lot of time on it. So the more you know, the quicker everything will be.

- Signed Moonlight’s Offers
Kiyokko, Unmei & Blessingsrez

:) If anyone can send me an ingame Mail to Unmei. stating what the song of the ending credits was called XD Then I know you guys are looking here.

PS – This is the contest right here :D

The Newest of the new! The Brightest of the Best! IT IS iLVL 264 gear!

Currently one person can get 2 Frost Badges from doing the random Heroics in a pug or just getting guildies together and hitting the “Looking for Random Heroic” option. And that can happen every day. Doing the Quest for the new 5man instances to aid Sylvanas can net you close to 10 Frost Badges which can be completed on Heroic and Normal mode of the dungeon as long as you complete them in order. Lastly there’s 1 more way to get these beautiful badges…..

RAID WEEKLIES …. click the link to the forums for more information about the badges, HERE!

Your still not done getting upgrades. Sucks don’t it?

Currently right now Tier 9 gear, trinkets, rings, and other small pieces as well as the crafted gear of ToC 25man Quality, are at your finger tips with just a few simple clicks of Blizzards own Looking for Dungeon button.  Heck! We even get to go back and do a little time warp to our old favorites such as Patchwerk and other slightly less fun bosses of Naxxramas to go beat up on for Frost Badges!

Naxx isn’t done with you either…

So what should you do?

Simple. Ask yourself the following, “What is my piece that -needs- an upgrade?” and “Where can I get that Piece?” or “What other options do I have if I can’t get xyz within this raid lock out?”

To answer Question 1. “What is my piece that -needs- an upgrade?” It’s as easy as looking at your item Level of each piece of gear and on a scrap paper marking it down like the following….

200
213
219
226
232
245
251
264

For the rest of what to do please click HERE

And knowing is half the battle.

The guild Downed Page has been updated to reflect our recent triumph in 10 ToC! :D

Also gave up on manually updating the roster, so now just has a link to the guild’s armory page. XD

Hope everyone had a Happy New Year!