Raider Meeting Fails etc

Right, so trying to organize everyone at this time of the year is nearly impossible. That's totally cool.
I've decided instead of trying to do that, I'd make a blog post and then you can all give me your feedback.
This goes for the officers as well - I need good constructive feedback.

Just putting this out there in the wind: If we moved the guild from Gundrak, would you follow?

Reasons: Gundrak is CRAP. Its nearly impossible to find GOOD people to pug with - all the good ones are in guilds or have transferred off server. No smaller guilds are interested in doing a partnership and I am unwilling to join another guild in order to progress my raiding.

At this stage (and this is after much research over the last few weeks), we're looking at either Barthilas or Frostmourne. These two realms have a really good base of people, progression is great and the AH seems to be a lot cheaper as well (not that it really matters haha).

Now I understand that changing realms can be a little pricey - $32.08NZD per toon and $24.40AUD (you bastards), so I'd be happy if you were to perhaps just shift one raiding toon to start with to see how it goes. I personally have 3x 85's to move as the professions all compliment each other, so I'd move my Priest to begin with.
The entire guild structure and bank etc would move with me as well. And it will cost me more to do it than it will to you, because Blizzard like money etc.
To read up about how the actual process works, theres a link here: link

So anyhoo, hopefully I havent baffled you all too much - please not that this change will NOT happen until I have heard from all of my raiders/officers. PLEASE let me know what you think - I do value your opinions, I really do. I just want us all to be happy and to progress etc.
Oh and remember that these servers are high population, so start thinking of new names for your toons if you have an ordinary one like myself, go chuck a place holder toon on each server just in case!

xox

December Raiding

This month we are doing:

• Thursday - Firelands (currently 6/7)
• Sunday - Dragon Soul (currently 2/8)

Also, we have optional Wednesday where we do something we all want to do. If that happens to be Firelands it means we will have time for Rag attempts on the Thursday.

We have reset EP/GP points for Dragon Soul. For firelands, gear is just rolled on , except for T12 Shoulder, where the order is the order that points were in before Dragon Soul came out:

• Mathilde > Lusignan > Pallyative
• Cornflakes > Gallius > Crepuscula
• Farolyn > Arguk

Mains and Alts

We don't have a "main" toon and "alt" toon system; if your toon is ready for raiding then you can raid on it. Play the toon you enjoy the most.

Of course, we have got to have the right number of tanks, dps, and healers for the fights -- so we may have to ask people to play a particular toon or spec in order to make up the numbers, and we appreciate people like Gallius who are willing to swap to what is needed.

Our loot system applies to the person, not the toon; so each person gets their fair share of the loot.

November Raiding

Hi all

Just an update on where we are at. The following players have left over the last few weeks: Goboroy, Quintala, Kyrios, Oriion, Scouris, Egelis, Jellibean, Inshamniac, Dent, Mortifer. So, we have downsized from two groups to one.

However, the rest of us are sticking out the end of this very naff patch, until Dragon Soul opens, and we are currently working on Ragnaros. We killed Majordomo within about an hour of first attempting it, and we are under 50% on Rag, so I'm pretty optimistic of a kill this week.

The schedule is:

Thurs 6.30ST - kill all bosses except Rag

Sun 6.30 ST - kill rag.

On Wednesdays we have BH plus optional content; sometimes it will be a FL trash farm for alts or trials (+shannox), or sometimes H T11, or even pre-cata raid achievements. Something fun that everyone is keen for.

The current core players are:

Pallyative, Lusignan/Autumni, Arguk, Cornflakes, Gallius/Whimpie, Farolyn, Mathilde, Nightmarezz, Alexandra.

If anyone is reading and would like to join the guild, or even join the raid group , drop us a line.

We need another two DPS, or someone who can both tank and DPS.

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.

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. :)

Group One roster

Two of our Group One healers, Tuskmehard and Ludyfe, cheerfully decided to gquit a few hours before the first Firelands raid. I guess they weren't really interested after all.

We cleared Shannox with a couple of pugs, but we are currently trying to recruit a raid healer , and one more person (either another healer, or a DPS of some variety).