Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when it isn't received with flowers and candy. Link to your recruitment diary is OK though.
Standard advertisement: Wreck List is the Daily Kos World of Warcraft guild. We are Horde-side on the Garrosh server. To join, read this diary ,visit the Guild web site, roll up a character on Garrosh and when you log in type
/who wreck list
and contact (via in-game mail or /whisper) any of our members - who can direct you to someone with /ginvite privileges and get you a guild invite. Yes, you have to be Horde. No, you don't have to be hardcore - casuals, PvPers, and people that just want to hang out on guild chat are all welcome.
More below the fold:
Here's our Guild Leader, Dkosmama, with her last update of the year:
What a year! One year ago, we had one 10 man raid group working on ToC and another just starting on the first wing of Naxx. We had just cracked 100 members, I think, including multiple alts.
In January, the first of the people from Elune transferred to Garrosh to join us. As our ranks grew, I asked Snuffy to take over as our raid leader so we could finally start doing 25 person raids. We tried ToC 25 a couple times, and then started in on ICC 25.
As we settled into spring a group started working seriously on ICC10. They cleared most of wings in one night. Then they got Sindy down and started working on the Lich King. Night after night, week after week, they worked together learning the fight, trying new strategies, and finally we had our first Lich King kill on June 14th.
The summer saw regular ICC raiding. But it also saw some heated political discussions on the guild forums. So many new people had joined the guild that we were beginning to lose touch with why we had come into being in the first place. We were not only to be a place of acceptance where no one had to see the word “gay” used as a slur, but a haven where political liberals could feel free to express their views publicly without fear of being attacked and where we could escape from the dreck of Glenn Beck and the Teabag Wingnuts of Fox News.
I asked two lawyers, a cultural anthropologist, our founder (Moody), and two other original members of the guild, one a long time raider and the other someone who never raids, to put together a rough draft of a declaration of our purpose and principles. And while they were working on this project, I organized a two week event of quest chains, PvP, clues, codes, Monty Python, and general goofiness. The goals were many, everything from learning the history of the guild to meeting new people to opening up the Declaration so that everyone in the guild would have a chance to have input.
This was an interesting event, to say the least. The first quest was to collect 10 small clam and turn them into the Guild Lorekeeper. One guy got very upset that he had to go collect clams and ragequit. Or, as it came to be known, clamquit. There was a bit of a buzz about it on the internets, and the current Orgrimmar cooking daily now in the game is suspiciously similar to our guild quest.
We also had our first mass exodus over this document. Even though I had strived to insure that the process would be as inclusive and democratic as possible, there were misunderstandings and some decided to leave. But oddly, as they left, almost immediately new members joined us. So even with the attrition, this was a period of rapid growth. This time also marked the return of Gregarth, Tanah and Baelzbeef.
As the wait for the release of the Cataclysm expansion dragged on through the fall, the guild Easily Amused, with whom we had partnered for much of 2009, disbanded and many of its members joined us. With the help of these old friends we had a number of people get their Kingslayer titles and others got their Reins of the Frosty Undead Drake mount.
Here we are a year later sitting at around 670 members, our guild vault flush with gold, working on heroics for Cataclysm and dreaming of starting raiding in the new year.
Thanks for a wonderful year, Wreckies!
Taymatt adds:
And last night, we got our first Cataclysm raid boss down: The Conclave of Wind in the Throne of the Four Winds raid. Woot!
Thanks to Mahuae we have our Tab 3 and Tab 7 report:
Tab 3, Leveling:
There is a ton of leveling gear in the leveling tab, mostly ranging from the 30s up through 70s. Please take for yourself or an alt if you can use something.
There are two higher-level items in this tab:
Leggings of Dubious Charms, lvl 80 mail
Lord Rottington's Pressed Wisp Book, lvl 81 off-hand
Tab 7 (80ish blues/purples):
Volatile Thunderstick, lvl 83 gun (five of these)
Stormforged Legguards lvl 82 plate
Manual of the Planes, lvl 81 relic (two of these)
Hardened Obsidium Helm, lvl 80 plate
Cloak of Beasts, lvl 83 (three of these)
Zulian Swirling Shield, lvl 85
Book of Origination, lvl 83 off-hand (two of these)
Stormforged Helm, lvl 83 plate (two of these)
Redsteel Helm, lvl 81 plate (two of these)
Cloak of War, lvl 83
Unquenchable Flame, lvl 80 trinket
Decapitator's Razor, lvl 81 1H axe
Berto's Staff, lvl 78
Bramblescar Greaves, of the Stormblast (+198 Stamina, +132 Agility, +88 Hit Rating), lvl 80 mail
Camelhide Treads, lvl 83 leather
Alpheus Legguards, lvl 78 plate
Bloodied Scale Bracers, lvl 85 mail
Fireweave Bracers, lvl 85 cloth (three of these)
Temple Band, lvl 83
Bloodied Scale Shoulders, lvl 85 mail
Ben-Son's Royal Crown, lvl 83 plate
Heartbinder Ring, lvl 83 (two of these, I think)
A note about flasks: what used to be raiding flasks are now second-tier flasks. Suluca's been making a ton of them for a guild achievement, and she says it's okay to take a stack for leveling purposes. These can be used at level 75 and up. A lot of these flasks are in the bank alt guild, so ask if you need some.
And that's it for me, I'm going to bed. Will see y'all tomorrow.