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The guild’s raid team had a successful kill on heroic Argus this evening (we’re looking at you Coven).
Several raiders were able to get their ‘Argus: Ahead of the Curve’ achievement this evening. 🙂
Thank you to Orektarg for reminding us that the Argus kill is dedicated to one of our guild tanks, Ashkicker, who died this past May from the complications of cancer.
Lunzzul is hosting a random battlegrounds PVP event tomorrow (Tuesday 7/3). You do not need experience with PVP to participate, just a desire to learn. Contact Lunzzul for more details!
So, the raid team successfully downed heroic Aggramar on our real first night of attempts at downing this boss. Congrats to all!
On Monday, there will be a change to the raiding schedule. We will be doing heroic Argus, instead of running Alt Night on Monday. Alt Night will still happen this week, but it will be on Wednesday instead!
As the title states, we are currently looking for someone to host/organize a weekly PVP event. The event can be casual; as in just members of MoD grouping up for random battleground queues or it can be a bit more formal with members grouping up for rated battlegrounds. It will be entirely up to you and the effort you want to put into the event. Scheduling is flexible, however we only have Tuesday and Thursday nights free on the calendar. Also, there is nothing stopping us from hosting it during the day… particularly on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
If you are interested, please get in contact with Urostek. The promotion to guild officer will be forthcoming, provided you continue to host then event each week.
Two minor Quality of Life updates for the website this week!
First, I’ve added a Search Page to the menu. Now if you can’t find a particular post, or don’t remember what it was categorized under, it’s only a click away from being found! Included on the page are a list of recent posts and a list of all categories (with the number of posts within those categories next to it).
Congrats to the following people who are on their way to guild greatness. 🙂
Treeson, Wytenyte, Sym, and Qwaylas were all recently promoted to raider status.
Kamahl and Kase were also promoted to the new guild rank, Guild Champion.
Also, congrats to Khan/Udderlyprot for making it to the rank of Veteran!
Woot! Woot!
Wednesday was rough. We usually treat it as a farm day, but we struggled as a group with basic mechanics on account of a number of new faces to heroic and a number of silly mistakes. We can usually get by basic mistakes on account of sheer ilvl and brute force of will, but it became apparent that we needed more tact to down the bosses.
On Imonar, phase 1 now has a more organized strat for ranged and healers for sleep canister. We will continue to use this strategy in the future. In essence, range and healers will bunch into 2 groups. When you have sleep canister, run to the middle. When you don’t, you run away from the middle – you only need to strafe a little bit for this to be effective. 2-3 seconds is NOT a long period of time to run out of the group, so it’s equally important for the group to run away at the same time. This is especially true when we have 20+ man groups!
In between phases 2 and 3, people continually blow one another up on bridge crossings by not being careful when walking around. You really need to be careful, as this is a primary reason for our wipes.
Kin’Garoth was a struggle as well, mostly because people are screwing up the rolling purple orb mechanics. DPS all need to be standing on the proper side of the adds in the add phase. Healers will need to pay attention as well (unless you are the healer in charge of ball soaking).
When it comes to the add phase, make sure that you are past the add, and facing your camera towards where the balls are coming from (stand at “Blue” side, or the upper-left side of this photo). This will make it much easier to see and dodge mechanics! You can either achieve this by running past the add on your way from “Yellow” (right-hand) side, or run the long way around, passing Blue and then coming around to Skull (where the add is in the above photo). This is to prevent DPS and Heals from getting slammed in the back with rolling balls. The only people who should be towards Yellow side should be the tanks and the ball-soaking healer. Any DPS or non-ball-soaking healers on the red-cicled portion of the above image are standing in the wrong spot and could potentially cause a wipe. This will also help the healers, as people will be more closely grouped together, with nobody spread all the way back at yellow while DPSing adds.
Raid Leader Commentary: We’re going to become more hard-assy about people making mistakes that are basic and causing raid wipes. With 20+ people we need to start coming down hard on time wasters. You still get 3 chances before you’re sat, but we’re keeping a much closer eye on those 3 chances now.
More Kin’Garoth struggles. Some of the struggles of the week were due to an up-and-coming tank who is still getting solid gear (but you’re doing a great job and learning fast, so don’t feel bad!). We swapped tanks and had an easier – albeit not easy – time on Kin’Garoth, again because people are failing basic mechanics like balls avoidance.
After a one-shot on Varimathras, we decided to bang against Coven some more. We’re seeing better mastery of many basic mechanics from some, while others are continuing to get hit by daggers or fire blades.
On account of our colossal screw-ups, we opted to dive into Coven before doing Aggramar. It was disheartening even to see seasoned raiders continually getting hit by daggers and blades in even normal Coven. It’s one thing to get caught out when there’s a Storm on heroic, but there’s no excuse for heroic Raiders to be caught out in normal. Sadly I don’t have logs for Coven as I got a later start before joining the raid than I intended.
Aggramar had a minor “oopsie” moment with tank swaps again, and then was downed easily. Argus was one-shot, too! We then took a quick break and decided to down heroic Garothi and look at some of the other lower heroic bosses as practice and loot chance. Unfortunately, we only took down Garothi due to some gear-checks on heroic Hounds, but that’s ok. Alt Night is all about learning, and we’ve definitely seen progress!
Monday also saw the promotion of Symderella to Raider rank, as well as Treeson fast-tracked to Raider rank (Treeson was formerly on Bloodscalp, but transferred to join the cool kids on Aerie Peak). You can check them out on the Raid Team page! I’ve also added Symderella, Treeson, and Qwaylas to the Wow Audit Spreadsheet to help them track their gear and progress.
In order to make things easier for Zextol, the raid leaders are going to be splitting up more of the chores and tasks that he has been handling previously. Quetzie will be the primary point of contact for Raid invitations and pre-raid questions (think qualifications, rules, confirmations, etc). Telanlan will be the Loot Master in all senses, dealing with not only Master Loot distribution but also personal loot trade rolls – you’ll be whispering him, not Zex, when you have a piece of gear you don’t need. Foxxie will be your general point man for more targeted questions about fight mechanics, class rotation, talent choice, and more.
Of course, none of the raid leads are locked into a particular role. Sometimes Telan may take over invites, Foxxie might have a better grasp on loot needs, and Quetzie is known for routine fight analysis. Overall, this is done to help Zex be able to focus more thoroughly on calling timers and explaining mechanics while also giving him more down-time before raid and in between fights to catch up on Real Life business.
Finally, always remember that if you have a question or a concern, you can contact any of the Raid Leads or officers within the guild to help you resolve the situation.
Also since I didn’t have a relevant meme for raiding this week, please enjoy this gentle reminder from our priests:
Congrats to everyone who participated in Sunday Funday the past couple of weeks. They were rewarded with new mounts, the Grove Defiler, which can be gotten by doing Legion Raid Achievements.
This upcoming Sunday Funday will be devoted to leveling alts to 80 for the eventual Herald of the Titan achievement run. Contact Bulborbish or Orektarg for details.
“Saturday night progression we will be SKIPPING Coven and attempting Aggramar. Aka watch the posted videos in discussion and PM a raid leader if you have any questions.” – Zextol
Can I get a hell yeah?
And congrats to Symderella for making Raider this week! You get to be part of the Raid Team page, have more money to spend on repairs, and access to Raider tabs. There are a number of other potential raiders “on deck” for promotions soon, so be sure to keep your attendance up and you’ll get to be part of the team, too!
Well, not really a ceremony… but we can dream!
Anyways, there is a new guild rank, the ‘Guild Champion’. Think of it as being double the MoD member! Just show up to guild events regularly like Alt Raid Night, Tiv’s Key Night, or Sunday Funday with Bulb, and you are on your way to a new status and guild promotion in game and on Discord! You’ll even get 400G a day repair withdrawal!
