An Introduction to our guild and looking forward

Well, almost 3 Kara clears a week, Gruul on semi-farm (snigger), and now, our suicide squad is preparing to wipe on mag trash.

Well, what's gonna happen next? Well, our focus now is on bringing mag down. Why mag, and not void reaver or go into SSC?

Well, for SSC, it's to give us time to craft the tank resist gear for some fights, those are expensive, and ddbb is kinda poor. We'll probably need donations for mats soonish. More details on this to come.

How about void reaver? To be totally honest, our DPS is not there to down void reaver before the enrage timer. When we can reliably down gruul within 11-12 grows, we'll start thinking about void reaver. We're close, gruul died in 13 grows this week.

So anyway, the guild's future = Mag, then Void Reaver, then SSC.

Besides that, we're recruiting still. We need:

1) Shammies of any sort (need lots).
2) Dps casters (need a couple)
3) Heelers (need a few)
4) Someone who is willing to buy me an epic flying mount (needs lots of these)

If you see any of those lying around, do let an officer know (especially #4)

So, for now, focus on Mag, get him down asap, and get the 5 epics a week he drops.

Any bets on who becomes the first full T4 in the guild?

Oh, and we've been toying with the idea of a new website, one more pro than blogspot, but in the end, we decided not to, for the same reason why we moved from our old guild site. We were worried about hacking again, that if you have accounts with a new website, you could be potentially hacked again, (undeadspy and merlinn and protector got hacked from the last website).

This blog seems to work fine, we'll be using this for now. I hope to see more of our guildies posting stuff on the chatbox, or comments. If you want stuff posted up, like a strat, a pic etc, just let an officer know, we'd be happy to do it.

Assume our guild forums just died a natural death. (in reality, it just sucked, yeah, gg spy!)


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Intermisssion
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Ok, now an introduction to our guild, since we had some new guildies join us.

DD in the April of 2006, making us one of the older guilds on frostmourne. Merlinn was our original GM, but he passed over leadership to littleangle in the Littleangle is our tyrannical GM who rules us with an iron fist, while the benelovent Romano, Mllpk and Undeadspy and Nolann (Merlinn's new dps machine) try to counter that (heh, she is gonna kill me for this).

Besides that, our officers, we keep Femme (no, he's not a girl. Just very effiminate), Fhamos (teh fat dorf), and Liliandra keep the peons in check. Beermee, Silvercool, Zekelor and Serhsien help out as well (i.e. the officers can throw stuff for them to do when we're too lazy to do it).

Most of us are from server time -2, in the South East Asia region, though we have some aussies with us as well. A lot of us are old farts and lao aunties, average age, I'm gessing, is mid-late 20s. Hence, we raid late, at 10-11 server time to whenever. And raid days are Wed, Thurs, Sun and Mon. We try not to raid TOO much, as DD is a more casual guild, and we have a philosophy that real life is > wow.

DD doesn't have class leaders, but if you do need help with your class, here's who you should ask:

Warriors - Silvercool, Zekelor and Finns (who just so happens to be our main meatshields)
Warlocks - Sabrinaa (he is so leet, his dots can crit!)
Shammies - Tox
Priests - Holywhite, Cardinalsin and Fhamos (All our priests love to heal)
Huntards - Romano, Manueels and Bluewind
Paladins - Sershien, Beermee and Leviathian, and Reynold (<---- pally tank)
Mages - Liliandra, Floise and Undeadspy (guess which one is the nub)
Droods - Mllpk (healbot) and Femme (oomkin wannabe)
Rogues - Littleangle and Ilesere

The guys below have the following professions and will make stuff for you for free if you provide mats.
Engineer: Littleangle
Blacksmith: Valdimir, Beermee
Alch: Holywhite, Liliandra
Tailor: Undeadspy
Enchanting: Mllpk
Jewelcrafting: Undeadspy
Leatherworking: I have no idea (someone tell me in game)

For raiding, and how to attend raids:

For 10 mans (these happen on wed, sun and mon, usually):
1) If you have a rank of raider or above, you don't have to sign up, just appear. We assume you will come. If you can't come, put a comment in the sign up post

2) If you don't have a rank of raider, you need to sign up. There will be a post in the guild blog, late every week for the raid next week. Just put a comment, signing up. Then the officers and raid leaders start to have a big argument about which raid gets who, blackmail, drama etc ensures, as we try to balance the kara groups every week (trust me, NOT FUN!) and the loser ends up with Illistra in their group. (i.e., usually me who loses)

For 25 mans (these happen thurs and mon, usually):
We will usually post a list of raiders who should come for raids, but everyone should show up anyhoo, there's wait dkp to be gotten, and there's always a chance there might be a raid spot as the regular raiders don't show up.

For 10 mans, we go by a class based rolling system, though certain loots can get assigned to people if the raid leader feels like it, or if people bribe the raid leader enough.

Coming prepared to raids is expected, that means having your reagents, your pots, your elixirs your flasks, your food, your wizard or mana oil/sharpening stones/runes of whatever etc. And be ready to get buffed out to the max, push your character to the limit.

For 25 mans, we have a dkp system, go search below for the dkp system, it's there in another post.

Other guild policies:

Loot whoring is frowned upon. Loot will always drop again. Making drama about loot usually lowers your chances of getting said loot.

Going to other guild's Kara/Gruul/Mag is frowned upon. If you wanna go, ask first.

SSC/TK etc, if you do get an invite to go, by all means, we don't mind until we start doing it.

Giving the guild a bad name is also obviously frowned upon. That means no begging, no ninjaing etc, we do get complaints about our guildies, and we do treat it seriously.

Giving stuff you don't need to the guild bank is encouraged. Cash donations too. Giving crap is not encouraged, and will incur the wrath of littleangle (very very scary, I still have nightmares). Make sure stuff you pass over to the guild bank is usable or can be sold. FYI, the guild bank provides pots/flasks to healers and tanks so the raid doesn't wipe as fast, and it's an expensive business keeping our tanks and healers supplied.

Be nice to guildies. Craft stuff for free. Help in instances. Help out in quests. Give spy money, etc etc.

Ok, that's it for super wall of text. Time for bed.