Sunday, October 2, 2011

On a Side Note

Alex has decided that due to family commitments, to stop raiding. The Officers were informed of this during the last Officer meeting, but the rest of the guild needs to be informed. She will be available for general day to day running of the guild / dungeons / to fill in raid spots if needed, but full time raiding is not possible anymore.

Alex will be back on WoW after the 10th of October so in the meantime, please direct any questions or problems to your Officers or Raid Leaders. Messages will of course be passed on and any important guild decisions will be made by her and implemented through Officers. Alex is also reachable via the Guild's Facebook page - Crux of Gundrak.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

New Raid Grouping - October

Hi everyone. We have had a few players from both groups become unavailable for raiding, so we need to have a reshuffle. We are going to trial a new system this week , which is described below.

I believe the current core players are (people who can show up on time on both raid days):
G1: Lusignan, Gallius, Mathilde, Kyrios, Mystery Shaman #1
G2: Inshamniac, Teiripeoir, Farolyn, Nightmarezz, Pallyative, Dent, Astraeda, Mystery Shaman #2.

The Mystery Shamans are Arguk and Egelis, we have a healer spot in G1, so one of them can move up if they wish.
Oriion, Scouris and Ellipses can't make the 6.30ST time on Sunday, and are iffy during the week.
Goboroy and Quintala can come at 6.30 ST on Sundays but cannot come during the week, since WA does not have daylight savings.

(if any of this is wrong, please send me a message somewhere).

We currently don't have enough tanks to sustain two groups both doing Firelands each week. So , until more tanks are recruited, we have no choice but to have one Firelands group (G1) and one T11 group (G2).

However, so that everybody (who is sufficiently geared etc.) gets a chance to run some Firelands , we are going to mix groups for the Wednesday and Thursday runs.

On Thursday, we will kill our 4 Firelands farm bosses (hopefully push that up to 6 as time goes on). The core G1 people have preference so that they can continue with progression on Sunday, but the other 5 spots can be filled by G2 people who want to run Firelands. If more than 5 are keen then we can organize a week by week rotation so that everybody gets a go.

Similarly, on Wednesday, the core G2 people get preference for a T11 run (possibly heroic!), and the other spots can then be filled by whoever is online, or G1 people.

On Sunday, G1 will resume Thursday's run, hopefully with a full 3 hours of progression; and G2 (if enough people are on) will do another T11 run.

Final note - we have approximately 11 weeks of raiding before 4.3 comes out, which will come with new 5man instances and a new raid with 8 bosses, so let's see if we can farm Ragnaros a bit until then, and get Mathilde well on the way to her staff, and another caster started on another staff. :)