Magmaw? check

Omotron Defense System? quadruple check

Thanks for everyone who attended.  A good  time was had by all.

Left-to-Right: Qat, Pheam, Teq, Lyn, Jert, Em, Kimdreg, Nodor, Nocht, Gil

Grats DF, our first Cata raid kill.  One down, many to go!  This is a great start, dps was good (Argaloth is a dps race), tanks managed to have enough health to not get instagibbed, and healers kept us alive!  It took us 3 attempts and Nodor was the only one of us who had seen this fight before.  Looking forward to actually having him drop some loot we can use!

Pick me up and grind me

Thanks to the participants yesterday.  We got some good flowers picked, but we’re going to wait until 4.0.6 hits to actually start turning them into flasks.  Currently we have about enough herbs for 80-ish flasks.  We need to do another 700 or so after that so expect another flower picking event soon.  Next time I’m going to make the contest a little longer and put up an attractive prize or two.   We got some more fish fished as well and we are ticking up toward our fish feast.  Final results below.

Flower Picking

Tanzzi – 83 stormvine, 91 azsharas veil, 74 volatile life
Teq – 116 heartblossm, 66 cinderbloom, 59 volatile life
Jert – 24 cinderbloom, 20 volatile life, 43 whiptail, 53 stormvine, 45 azsharas veil
Outgrabe – 64 twilight jsasmine, 3 cinderbloom, 17 volatile life

Fishing

Lyn – 43 highland guppy, 9 algaefin rockfish
Nocht – 43 fathom eel, 39 blackbelly mudfish, 2 murglesnout
BF – I never saw a count from you but I seem to recall you mentioned you were going to do some fishing.

Thank you for not smoking (these herbs).

Calling all herbalists (and everyone else as well)!  I put up a Monday event for filling up our guild bank with herbs for flasking.  We’ll start @7p server time and go for an hour.  At the end of the hour you put whatever herbs you farmed (along with [volatile life]) into the guild bank herb tab.  Then we’ll have an elixir specialist turn those mats into flasks we can eventually turn into cauldrons!  Each flask we make (including elixir procs) counts towards our Mix Master goal.

Glad I could help!

If you’re not able to herb with us I encourage you to spend this time fishing!  We still have a long way to go to get our 10,000 fishing pools fished.  It doesn’t matter what level your character is, what your fishing skill is, or where you fish, you just have to find a fishing pool and fish it (it doesn’t even have to have fish in it).  This could be a great time to work on your fishing achievements, as I believe fishing out of different types of pools is part of  several different achievements.

I’ll record our achievement goal numbers before we start so that we can see how much progress we made.  Hope to see many of you there!

Fishing Competition

In order to help us achieve That’s A Lot of Bait and obtain Seafood Magnifique Feast for raiding as soon as possible, I’ve scheduled a fishing competition this Thursday 27th at 7pm server. The plan is for us to fish up as many fish as we can in an hour, with monetary prizes awarded to the top three and a ‘special’ prize for the best dressed. As well as fishing our asses off, expect general vent hilarity and mocking of mages. To best put to use our efforts, all fish proceeds will go to the guild bank, with cata-level fish being particularly encouraged.

Please sign-up on the in-game calendar if you can attend, and direct any questions/comments/love to BF (i.e: “BF, thats a crap time, reschedule it”, “BF, I love you, be my fishing valentine”) .

Normal Dungeon Runs

As part of our plans to begin raiding in Cataclysm, we need a number of healers geared and confident that we currently do not have. To combat this, I’ve begun a campaign  to give some of our healers the normal dungeon experiences they require to start doing heroic guild runs.

This involves creating a list of those who would like these runs (not just healers, anyone is welcome) and a list of helpers (particularly tanks, but again, not only) who are willing to help them do so. I am aware that if someone asks for a run and people are available they will get lots of volunteers, which is why I’m trying to cater the list towards tanks who will help, as we have a smaller number of these available and at the moment a few tanks are doing all the helping. If you would like to be put on either side of this list, please contact me through whatever means and I will do so.

List link

I’ll make a more personal blog post soon. Remember to keep referring to the awesome post Teq made below this one on the front page for what you need to do to gear up!

Backfire

Ding!

You can now buy [Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape] [Inherited Cape of the Black Baron] [Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak] from the guild vendor for 1200g apiece.  Grats everyone, and good job!

• Figure out your primary spec and get a gearset that is average item level 341 or greater.
  • Gear from normal dungeons is item level 333 so you will need to pick up some heroic gear or buy some JP gear
  • If you’re a crafter you probably have an epic piece or two you can make.  Those will require Chaos Orbs from heroics.
  • Greens are a no-no for raids. Get that stuff upgraded, there are a lot of BoE blues and crafting blues if you can’t get it any other way.
  • Many reputations have access to 359 epic gear.
• Until we get access to Seafood Magnifique Feast (which requires us to do a lot of fishing) you will need to make sure you have access to another food buff.  If you don’t fish/cook then you might want to find someone in the guild who’s happy to do a little extra to cover, or find out what you’re going to need to buy.
• Keep doing dailies and we’ll get a nice little buff that we’ll be able to use while raiding.
• Flasks are going to be important, and until we get cauldrons you’re going to need to need to fend for yourself a lot.
  • I know Outgrabe has a chance to proc extra flasks, and every time someone in the guild makes a flask we get closer to Cauldron of Battle.
• Gems and enchants are going to be important, so develop a rapport with your favorite guild enchanter/jewelcrafter.  (if you’re not familiar with the professions tab I suggest reading this article).
  • Head enchants require revered with one of the new factions, you need to get access to the appropriate faction.
  • Shoulder enchants are the domain of Therazane.  You need at least honored with them (just do the Deepholm quests).  Exalted totally optional (nice, yet small bonus).
• Head over to Tankspot videos or your favorite place for raid videos and start getting familiar with the fights.  We’ll be hitting them all sooner or later, I would really like to not hear that people haven’t at least watched a video when we get to these fights.
• We are almost to Guild Level 9 which gives us 20% less durability loss while raiding.  Keep questing and leveling and doing guild runs.
• Get together with other people who are the same class as you and talk about skills, specs, and rotations a bit.  Either you’ll learn something or you teach something.  Either way we all win.
• Keep an eye on the raiding forum (must be signed in to view).  Post what you know and listen to what you don’t.  Also feel encouraged to post in the Damage Specialists, Healing, and Tankingforums.
• You can go to your activity feed here, and click “Favorite” on this post, then when you want to come back to reference it it will show up in your favorites so that you can easily reference it later.