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Standard advertisement: Wreck List is the Daily Kos World of Warcraft guild. We are Horde-side on the Garrosh server. To join, 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:
With the completion of our two-week guild event, we have a new Declaration of Principles affirming our purpose and culture as a guild. With it, we have a guaranteed 100% loyalty-oath-free application process.
Here's our guild leader, Dkosmama, to tell you about it:
Wow, what an awesome guild we have! I just wanted to get that out there. I want to thank everyone for their enthusiastic support of our two week long guild event.Those members of the guild that served as NPC quest givers did an awesome job. If anyone missed the quests and wants to give them a shot, start by whispering Kikuchiyo about clams. It a great way to learn the history of the guild, have some great fun, meet new people, and do some of the best quests ever conceived. All those that do the guild quests will get promoted to Defender. One thing that I learned is that people love doing new quests.
We have lots of brand new ranks, now: Questers, Seekers, Defenders, Champions, Protectors, Heroes, and Elders. We have a lovely new guild Declaration of Purpose and Principles. We have reorganized guild forums with new categories. We have two (yes two) guild vaults stuffed full of stuff for leveling, professions, raiding, and a whole tab of gear for brand new level 80s. And we have enough gold in our account to cover guild repairs for everyone for a long long time.
We are working on a simple admissions process to get new members oriented to the guild quickly. We have close to 500 member toons on 189 accounts, with about 130 people playing actively everyday. That’s a lot of people. Being a member of the Wreck List is no longer a simple thing. We’ve discovered that signing up on the guild website to access the guild forums isn’t intuitively obvious. We are also learning that sometimes new members have gotten lost in the shuffle. Well no more.
So let me talk a minute about admissions to the guild. Virtually every other guild has some kind of admissions process. Some have applications to fill in and interviews to go through. To join us, all anyone has to do is whisper someone in the guild with the ability to invite or apply on the website.
Once a member of the guild, find a Champion or Protector Suluca or Protector Senta (Papagenia). They will walk new members through the reading of our guild Declaration. Our Declaration, to which every member had the opportunity to contribute, is an introduction to who we are, an explanation of our traditions, a roadmap of our expectations, and has some really fun surprises hidden in some of the links. By reading this first, we hope new members will feel more confident. I’ve already had feedback from one person who recently joined who really found It helpful. He told me that he was much more likely to play his new toon with us because of It.
After the reading of the Declaration, the Champion or Protector will help the new member figure out how to register on the guild website. Together they will discover our banking guild (TooBigToFail), get alts and mains sorted out in the guild notes, get bags for brand new low level toons, confirm the possession of an authenticator and start meeting people in the guild right away.
We are still working on the specifics of the process, so feel free Wreckies, to jump in with suggestions. With the coming of the new expansions, Cataclysm, and all of its goodies for guilds, big social guilds like ours are going to become very popular as people return to the game to do new quests, level new toons and explore a remade world. And we will be ready. I wonder if there will be world first for guild leveling?
Let's all congratulate Hoodat on hitting level 80!
Here's our raiding report from Snufalupagus:
Musical chair raiding!
Last night we decided to reset the instance because our roster was a little short and we didn’t want to head-bang from the start against Blood Queen or Putricide. We did manage to scrape together enough guildies to clear the first wing in good time before doing several roster adjustments. I’m thinking we should have a roster manager during the raid to handle all that stuff so I can focus explanations.
Our newest raid member Hoodat the hunter got a nice belt and a 1H-er. We one-shotted both Fester and Rot, giving Darkredarrow his acidic bloods. Some nice folk from Easily Amused came in to help us down the Princes and almost down Putricide (damn 35% transition timing!). Many thanks to those who stepped out voluntarily so we could keep an optimal group.
Maybe it’s the school year starting again or because we’re all pretty well used to ICC by now, but I don’t see our attendance shooting up any time soon. As of raid time only 19 people had accepted. We may ask our EA friends to join us more often for 25man runs in the near future, or until we get our raiding strength back again. Which does NOT of course mean we will start preferring PUGs over guildies who want to raid. However, ICC25 is the toughest non-heroic raid in the game and requires gear and experience. Invitations to ICC25 have to be contingent on our expected ability to down the higher-level bosses if we’re going to make the raid progression most of us are interested in at the moment. With the current lockout we have four more bosses before Arthas, two of which we have already killed as a guild. Reset decisions will be based on available groups for next week.
In 10-man news, Pinutos has started a new group for lesser-geared raiders and alts, tentatively running on Sundays and Mondays. Healers are most welcome, but so is anyone else. Rep farming and a laid-back atmosphere are great for getting gear and learning the basics of the fights.
We should probably go back to Ruby Sanctum at some point because the unfinished quest still feels like a poke in the eye to me. Boy you’ve never seen real raid damage and nasty mechanics until you’ve done the twilight phase in there. Further bulletins as events warrant.
Yes, Hoodat dinged 80 and went right to ICC 25. And did a damn good job, too.
That's all for this week - for the Horde!