IMPORTANT: YOU ARE RELEASED FROM GUILD ONLY EVENTS FOR 25 MANS UNTIL WE GET MORE PARTICIPATION. OFFICERS MAY PLAN 25 MAN RAIDS SO LONG AS THE MAJORITY OF PLAYERS ARE EPIC WIPE MEMBERS.

New Ranks will follow gear level. Guild Points will be awarded for participating in events. Lack of guild points will = demotion. If you get demoted to deserter, you will be kicked out of the guild after one month. Alts are safe, make sure they are marked.

THIS IS NOT A PERFECT SYSTEM, but we gotta start somewhere, this will make it easier to pick the right people for the right raids, though some sub levels will still get invited to upper tier raids.

Officer - based on leadership abilities and Elite level. Expected to take the reigns of Raid events should something go wrong with the event creator.

The rest of the ranks are based on gear level. The gear level is derived from your best PVE Gear score.
You can audit your character at http://be.imba.hu.
Choose your Realm (US) Server (Anub'Arak) and enter your name.
This is a great way to see where you should gear up.

Gear Ranks and what you should be raiding are as follows, obviously we are shorthanded at the moment, it would be wise to jump in lower ranked raids and run people for GUild Points once in awhile:

Elite (400+ = Maly 25, Ulduar 10/25)
Berzerker (325-400 = Nax 25, Sarth 25, Arch 25, Maly 10)
Raider (225-325 = Nax 10, Sarth 10, Arch 10)
Hero (below 225 = heroics)
Conscript (Sub 80's not marked as alts please level up ASAP)
Alt (Alts of mains in the guild, mains NOT in the guild may get booted in the future)
Deserter (You have one month to get your participation via Guild Points in order or you get kicked. For the moment Guild Participation of 0 or negative after one month = deserter status)

ALTS ARE SAFE AT THE MOMENT, SO MARK THEM. Anyone offline for more then 3 months = Automatic Kick. If you rank up in gear level, inform an officer to re-audit.

Guild Points - You are given Guild Points for participation in Guild events. If an officer or the guildmaster does not run the event and assign points, it is your duty to mail them the event your guildies participated in, such as running an instance or Heroic and tell them who was a part of it so they can assign them points.

YOU GET NEGATIVE POINTS IF YOU SIGN UP FOR A RAID AND DO NOT SHOW. Special circumstances will be evaluated by officers, so be certain to be available when you sign up. Officers will assign Guild Points even if the Raid collapses if you show up ON TIME. End of the month check with Zero or Negative Points = demotion to deserter. If it does not rise one month after you get kicked from the guild.

Next Up: Automatic Raids will be assigned specific days of the week. More information will follow, stay tuned...

Hi,

since we had several discussions around the looting in raids, i took the time and started to formulate our Rules around Looting

Please read those rules carefully and provide me feedback

Regards
Rhonis

Since several people have difficulties in downloading and configuring Ventrilo for our server, i did a documentation of the installation and configuration procedure.
Please feel free to download this Guide from here

regards
rhonis

Hi Folks,

have u been ever been annoyed by the fact that in Dalaran the traditional Mount Macro's didn't work - here an updated version i found .... enjoy:

/run local z=GetZoneText()if IsFlying()then x=x;elseif IsMounted()then Dismount();else if(z=='Dalaran'or z=='Wintergrasp'or IsFlyableArea()~=1)and 

GetSubZoneText()~="Krasus' Landing"then CallCompanion("MOUNT",1)else 

CallCompanion("MOUNT",8)end;end;

• Replace ("MOUNT",1) with a ground mount, and ("MOUNT",8") with a flying mount. To find your mount number, open your mounts tab and count from left-to0right, top-to-bottom. (eg: The top-left mount on the first page is 1, the bottom-right mount on the first page is 12)
• This macro produces no errors and will not start re-casting a mount if you are already mounted.
  

Hi Folks,

as few of you already i gave up my profession Mining for my new Love Jewelcrafting. During my research i cam to a great site, which allows you to fast query for Jewels, by Stat, Class, Color, etc..... pretty cool tool.

Check out the WoW Gem Finder here

Rhonis

Phase One

You want to be getting his health to below 50% FAST. Assign roughtly 3 minutes for this phase and nuke him hard. The tank must move around the edge of the inner circle to the oposite side to where the sparks appear and float in. The DK then Death Grips any that are not on course to the middle of the platform, they are then fixed in place (Mage frost nova or chains of ice from the DK) and killed in the centre of the platform. You need the 2 buff spark to buff your damage ebnough to get this phase done in enought time.

• Get your warlocks to DOT up the boss and you will get him to about 44% at the start of Phase 2 which helps for the final phase!
  

Phase Two

Again, you want to be passing this phase in around 3 minutes also. It's simple, Just get everyone to stay onside the magis domes as they mitigate the damage received. There will be riders on disks and you need to kill the ones near the ground fast. As they die they drop disks and these are to be used by your melee. We had the retribution paladin, fury Warrior and DK take the disks and once all the ground adds were dead the Prot paladin also went on a disk. Fly around and focus nuke the other 3 guys on the disks. Once dead Phase 3 starts!

• The raid continues to run around under the magic zones through out this fight and pop mana gems/potions / inervate if needed as in Phase 3 you will fly a drake and mana is not required.
  

The ground collapses and you all fall onto a drake and then you have to finish Malygos off. We had everyone doing these rotations on the drakes.

• 8 people dpsing pressing 1,1,1,1,1,5 and repeat (never press 5 unless you have 50 energy as if you are targeted by Malygos you must press 5 and shield yourself from the attack. You must also have 1 damaging attack on Malygos for the shield to work.) If he targets you press 5 and don't get killed!
• 2 people healing casting 3 on the drakes that need healing (It's the same as Rejuvenation that resto druids cast) but will stack up to 5 times healing more each time. If you need to heal more people press 4 which is Life burst. This is an arcane explosion but it heals as apposed to do damage. So find somone needing a heal and stack 5 heals on them and then press 4 IF the raid need heals. Again, same as the dps'ers, keep your energy up over 50 if you press 4 (life Burst) so you always have the shield available if Malygos targets you.
  

If all goes well malygose dies and you can loot the chest floating in the sky!

Key points for phase 3!

• Alway fly as a group. EVERYONE must stay together and we managed this by strafing aroung Malygos always to the right. This allows the healers to use Life burst which heals everyone as the whole raid is in range.
• ALWAYS KEEP 50 ebergy before you cast your big attack as this will then leave you with 25 energy - as no energy = dead if targeted.
• You need around 3 minutes to kill him in Phase 3.
• If you use macros, check your UI dosn't change when mounted on a pet! AIf it does ALL your bars disappear which is a pain xD
  

Watch the timer also as although there is flexibility on these 3 minutes per phase its a good marker and its better to wipe and try again if you are taking too long in Phase 1 as its not possible to kill him if you fall too far behind the schedule.

Last night a brave group of 10 Raiders of the EpicWipe tried the impossible - Challenging Malygos in his lair up in the Eye of Eternity.

This is easily the hardest fight, but also fun since a lot of different elements of previous encounters are involved in the 3 Phases of this Battle.

If you are planning to join the conquest of the Eye of Eternity make sure to:

• readup the nastiness of Malygos at WoWHead
• watch this video to get an idea of the fight - thanks to tankspot.com
• consider the right group for the fight - get more information here
  

Enjoy wiping .....
Regards
Rhonis

Hi,

last night the 2nd Naxx group successfully cleared the Spiders Quarter.

Some general comments and observations in regards to raiding:

Upfront before a raid :

• be sure to know the boss-fights - leverage the information on tankspot.com or youtube.com
• be sure to be geared accordingly for the raid, e.g. Tanks should have a defense of 545. Good hint on your Gear and what you can run, you find at Hero Ranking
• maintain your raid-availability in our RaidAvailibilty & Planning
• install Ventrilo and configure the client accordingly.
  

• if you want to be part of the raiding accept the raid request.
• accepting a Raid-request means u accept - be there on time - ideally 15 mins before start time. If people will be not be on time or even absent, we have to exclude them from further raids.
  

During the raid:

• please reduce the overall break times - AFK-Times should be close to 2min max in order to keep the raid going - just remember if you break for 2mins - 18mins of your joint raiders are also waiting....(don't get me to calculate a TCO/Business Case on this )
• Please do not talk on Ventrilo about unrelated topics during or right before Bossfights... it is crucial to make it a success.
  

• Celebrate the the win's and achievements with your raid, the guild and everyone else you like to share this !!!
  

Regards
Rhonis & Officers

Last night, for the first time in Guild History, we cleared Naxx (10-man)

This clearly was Epic and i would really thank everyone who participated in this week long battle.

Killing Kel'Thuzad is clearly one of the hardest fights the guild has done:

• high hitpoints - extreme long fight, took us around 12min
• ugly frost damage, which freezes the target (no escaspe) and can "jump" to nearby targets --> big challenge for a raid with too many Melee DPS
• instant kills by Shadow fissures
• additional adds at 40%, making a Offtank not an option....
  

Now that we have proven, that we can do it, lets get 2 teams setup to raid 10man as well plan for a 25-man. Please update the RaidAvailibilty & Planning with your details so we can plan ahead.

Regards
Rhonis

Hi,

since we get close to have 2 10man Naxx groups and a 25 man, we need to know everyone's availability to raid in order to setup the right teams

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pBPa53wKu5MaMijFVpVy1CQ

Please update it accordingly
regards
Rhonis

Hi Folks,

just found a nice article about the Virtue of Raiding, here the link to the site:
The Virtues of the Effective Raider, Part One

The Virtues of the Effective Raider, Part Two

Enjoy reading !!!
Rhonis

After the sad dramas and split up of most active EW - Members in my absence, we are getting back to a healthy size.
Some old loyal playes came back: Huhugh, Naiman, Littlehoot, Caldak and several others.
But we also get new people into the guild, which is refreshing.
I have the feeling we are getting soon back where we left or even beyond !!!

Rhonis

Hi,

some of you approached me the other day what happened to Caldak.

As I do with all of those cases, i followed up per in-game-mail. This morning i received a reply from Caldak, i would like to share:

Hey I'm fine sorry i left, but i just needed some time and a break from playing the game. The game has beens a part of my daily routine for 2 years and it has taken up much of my time away from my work around the farm. so i'm having a rest for the moment. I'll be back on soon. Thanks for you concern and sorry i left so abruptly

Caldak: we all wish u the needed rest and distance to Wow, but we are also looking forward raiding and playing with you.

Rhonis

Getting note hit is a great state for a paladin and i assume for any other tank....
I got last night a little Macro from Shaun, which measures your Avoidance:

/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Need 102.4 combined avoidance. Currently at:",0.8,0.8,1)
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetDodgeChance() +GetBlockChance()+GetParryChance()+5 +GetCombatRatingBonus(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL)*0.04,1,0.5,0)

I get in normal unbuffed state a value of 65.21 but with my HolyShield it bumps up to 98 ...still a bit to go ....

So Spells and other stuff is still hurting me .....

Hi Folks,

we are still looking for Endgame Healers and Tanks.
Please look around if you find potential guildies.

Also consider respec if possible.

I added another Tank Page to the Links list to the left.
It's called Maintankadin... lots of usefull information... check it out

Rhonis