Crux of Gundrak: February 2011

Guild Mistress: Alexandra
Back-Up Guild Mistress / Guild Relations: Farolyn
Raid Leaders: Inshamniac, Lusignan (and respective alts)
Officers: Gallius & Mathilde

General Raid Rules.

Raiders are expected to have a talent spec and gear set suitable for raiding, and have their raid gear gemmed and enchanted correctly. The guild bank can help with materials for gems and enchants.

Raiders are expected to be on their main toons and ready to start raiding 15 minutes BEFORE raid time.
Flasks and feasts will be provided. An officer will place feasts, and hand out flasks before the first boss.
Breaks: There will be NO afking, brbing etc before the scheduled break time set by the days raid leader unless you have pre-arranged a break for children / medical reasons (this includes urgent toilet breaks etc)
Constant afking/brbing without a valid reason will result in your suspension from the current week's raiding - please remember that you should be fed/watered/coffee'd BEFORE raid starts. You know what days are raid days and should be available if you have signed up.
Signups: Members who have signed up for raid BEFORE the actual raid day will get preference over those who are late on signing up. If you are keen to go but are unsure if you can attend, please accept the raid with a tentative signup.
Most importantly, please make sure you are repaired BEFORE you start raiding.

PLEASE DO NOT GET YOURSELF SAVED TO THE WEEKLY RAID OR CURRENT RAID THAT THE GUILD IS PROGRESSING ON

Guild Bank

Crux Guild Bank is available for ALL guild members. However, to reduce the impact of when someone's account gets hacked, most tabs are marked for deposit-only.
If you don't have access to certain tabs, please contact an officer for items you need. We will be happy to help.
Items on the "Important" or "Raid" tab can be bought at 50% of the auctionhouse price, please contact an officer.
ALL gathered materials from raids are expected to be placed into the guild bank. This includes mining/skinning/herbalism/engineering/etc. drops, and disenchanted materials.
Herbalists - please remember to donate your herbs to the guild bank so we can make flasks - these will be purchased from you. Let an officer know.

Guild Chat

We are all adults. Please remember that. We're not going to get all silly about swearing etc in guild chat, but please try and be courteous. This carries over to Vent as well - some members may have children / parents listening in the background.

Ventrilo

You are welcome to let your friends / instance party members join our ventrill server for instances etc. Please don't abuse this - we don't want every random and his dog on there being stupid.
Vent During Raid - PLEASE don't talk over other people while we are raiding! If you are not raiding, please go to a seperate channel to talk to your friends. This goes for music playing over vent as well. Dont be silly with it. It can be very distracting for players / raid leaders while the raid is happening.
If you insist on arguing over vent, please take it to another channel. Abuse will not be tolerated.

Raiding Loot Rules
Our loot rules are designed to spread the loot out fairly amongst the regular raiders, so that we all gear up together.
The following common-sense rules apply:

Main spec is preferred to offspec (where main spec is the spec that the toon normally takes to our progression raids)
If you already have an item of the same iLvl as the drop, you don't get it unless nobody else wants it for main spec. (There is no 'biggest upgrade' rule though; if one person has a 346 and another has a 333, then neither of them is preferred over the other).
Gear should go to a class/spec it is appropriate for; e.g. +agility gear doesn't go to a warrior , and +hit rating doesn't go to a healer; unless nobody else wants the item for main spec. (Note: spirit is a DPS stat for some specs)

As of 1 May 2011, we are using the EP/GP points system for loot distribution in the progression rands. There is another post on this blog explaining in more detail; the EP/GP settings that we use are currently:

+100 EP for being signed up and online 15 minutes before the raid
+100 EP for each half-hour of raiding or standby
+500 EP for the guild first kill of a boss
MinEP threshold of 1000
Decay of 10% per week.

Baradin Hold PvE drops incur GP , but not EP.

Progression Raid Selection
If we have more than 10 people on for a progression raid, then the officers will make a decision as to which 10 go. The criteria will be (in this order):

The right number of tanks, healers and dps (usually 2, 3, 5) and an appropriate mix of melee and ranged and class/specs
People signed up and online 15 minutes before the raid start time
Reliable players (high DPS/HPS, doesnt stand in fire, correct spec/enchants/gems, etc.)
Best attendance record

If more than 10 people are available, then those not selected can go on “standby”, meaning that they stay online ready to fill a spot if one of the raid group has to go. Standby players will earn EP (see the Loot Rules section).

Trialling New Members: if we have a new member who is already appropriately geared and experienced, we may ask somebody to sit out a week in order to trial the new member.

Guild Invites

Please direct people to our blog so they can apply to join the guild. Alternatively, they can apply via the in-game Guild Finder.

Okay, so that's your rules and regulations.
We have tried to keep it as simple as possible - some rules have been carried over from past raiding guilds that some guild members have been part of. Please remember that even though we are relaxed about most things, if we dont have rules in place, it will become a massive mess. Please remember to show a little respect for your Guild Mistress and Officers - they do outrank you and have the rights to remove you from guild should you choose to ignore the basic rules in place.

If you have any questions, please send an ingame mail to your Guild Mistress, she will be able to help you out.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Recruitment

Raid Rules and General Information