Friday, July 28, 2006
DKP system explained.
For Molten Core, we use a DKP system for distributing loot. This is a short explanation for those not familiar with our system, and DKP in general.
What DKP does is basicaly award you for participating in the raid with a certain amount of points, and also awarding things like killing bosses with aditional points. You can later use those points you earned, to bid on loot that has dropped. It is there to ensure the more or less equal distribution of the loot. When you draw the line, everyone gets his share of the loot after he has invested his share of the work. Take it as a paycheck - you work - you get payed - you can spend the amount you earned on sweet stuff. If someone has more points than you and has been on more raids, of course he will have more points, then something drops, and he overbids you, he gets the thing you wantes also, but now he spent his points, and he has the item, so the next time it drops, he is out of the picture. Everyone gets his share AFTER he invested some work into the process.
Every time we go to a raid, you have to check the amount of your own DKP and remember it, so you know how much you can bid - its like going into a store - you have to know how much cash you have on your account or in your wallet. You can check your standings at http://dance.rper.org/eqdkp
Cheers!
Perun
What DKP does is basicaly award you for participating in the raid with a certain amount of points, and also awarding things like killing bosses with aditional points. You can later use those points you earned, to bid on loot that has dropped. It is there to ensure the more or less equal distribution of the loot. When you draw the line, everyone gets his share of the loot after he has invested his share of the work. Take it as a paycheck - you work - you get payed - you can spend the amount you earned on sweet stuff. If someone has more points than you and has been on more raids, of course he will have more points, then something drops, and he overbids you, he gets the thing you wantes also, but now he spent his points, and he has the item, so the next time it drops, he is out of the picture. Everyone gets his share AFTER he invested some work into the process.
Every time we go to a raid, you have to check the amount of your own DKP and remember it, so you know how much you can bid - its like going into a store - you have to know how much cash you have on your account or in your wallet. You can check your standings at http://dance.rper.org/eqdkp
Cheers!
Perun
Molten Core de-briefing #4
Alright! ... update from the front.
We managed to maintain a quite satisfying level of discipline yesterday, as we proceeded to Lucifron. Our fried Lucifron went down on a second try, with only one or two members of the raid being dead. We skippend Magmadar, due to our lack of Tranquilising shots - one dropped yesterday, we need at least one more to be able to handle magmadar. We tried to get to Gehennas, but due to Magmadar bein still alive, those patrolling dogs respawned extremely fast, so we were constantly in peril from those dogs jumping on us from nowhere while we were killing something else. That was also the reason for ending the raid, as we wiped in a spot that was impossible to resurrect safely, and we had bad equipment and it was late.
All in all, the raid was very successfull, we were more organised than ever before, we got quite a few epic drops from the trash mobs, and warlock t1 gloves dropped from Luci.
Congratulations to everyone that was there.
Cheers!
Perun
We managed to maintain a quite satisfying level of discipline yesterday, as we proceeded to Lucifron. Our fried Lucifron went down on a second try, with only one or two members of the raid being dead. We skippend Magmadar, due to our lack of Tranquilising shots - one dropped yesterday, we need at least one more to be able to handle magmadar. We tried to get to Gehennas, but due to Magmadar bein still alive, those patrolling dogs respawned extremely fast, so we were constantly in peril from those dogs jumping on us from nowhere while we were killing something else. That was also the reason for ending the raid, as we wiped in a spot that was impossible to resurrect safely, and we had bad equipment and it was late.
All in all, the raid was very successfull, we were more organised than ever before, we got quite a few epic drops from the trash mobs, and warlock t1 gloves dropped from Luci.
Congratulations to everyone that was there.
Cheers!
Perun
Thursday, July 20, 2006
State of love and trust ...
I woke up in a beautiful morning, sun is shining, its fresh and the smell of coffe is just starting to spread arround the office. I hope everyone just leaves me to finish my work in peace and enjoy the day being easy.
Alright!
In the past week our guild got bigger for quite a few members, I will use this opportunity to welcome all of you under our roof again. By now some of you probably figured out to some extent what kind of guild we are and what kind of atmosphere we have inside our ranks an I hope you like it. If you like soloing, solo, but team as much as you feeel comfortable with your guild mates, because that is how friendships are formed - by doing things together, by relying on eqach other, by sharing the joy of victory and weight of defeat - and finaly share the spoils of war together. If you do that throughout your leveling, by the time you reach the top, you will have developed bonds that will not be easy to break. That is what we need and what we strive for - bonds. It is more valuable than any epic drop out there. Be calm, be patient when the time and situation demands it and be tolerant to other peoples whishes and points of view.
When you have time, browse through the archives of this page and read the old posts. You will find many useful things, and you will get the feeling how the guild developed, what we have done so far, and what goals we will strive to reach in the future. Initiative is highly appreciated. If you want something done, do it. If you want something organised, organise it. You are not limited by your level or your rank. The only limit you have is the level of commitment you want to invest.
Learn to use and rely on the group calendar. It is easier for all of us if we know what is going to happen a few days in advance, and we can decide wether we have time to do it or not. Sometimes your events and instance groups will not get filled, sometimes they will. Basicaly it goes like this - if you start putting things into calendar, and people join your groups, after a while they will figure out if you are serious, if you make things happen, and you will get more constant attendance to the things you plan.
Learn to use teamspeak - its a nice tool and you will see that it will only get you connected more. It doesnt matter if your english is not perfect or if you have a funny accent, or if you miss every second word - it really doesnt. Very few of our members are british, and we all have funny accents and non-perfect english :). If you still don't feel comfortable, or if you don't have a microphone, you can still join and be able to listen to the leader of the group organising and giving out orders.
That much for now. See you ingame.
Cheers!
Perun
Alright!
In the past week our guild got bigger for quite a few members, I will use this opportunity to welcome all of you under our roof again. By now some of you probably figured out to some extent what kind of guild we are and what kind of atmosphere we have inside our ranks an I hope you like it. If you like soloing, solo, but team as much as you feeel comfortable with your guild mates, because that is how friendships are formed - by doing things together, by relying on eqach other, by sharing the joy of victory and weight of defeat - and finaly share the spoils of war together. If you do that throughout your leveling, by the time you reach the top, you will have developed bonds that will not be easy to break. That is what we need and what we strive for - bonds. It is more valuable than any epic drop out there. Be calm, be patient when the time and situation demands it and be tolerant to other peoples whishes and points of view.
When you have time, browse through the archives of this page and read the old posts. You will find many useful things, and you will get the feeling how the guild developed, what we have done so far, and what goals we will strive to reach in the future. Initiative is highly appreciated. If you want something done, do it. If you want something organised, organise it. You are not limited by your level or your rank. The only limit you have is the level of commitment you want to invest.
Learn to use and rely on the group calendar. It is easier for all of us if we know what is going to happen a few days in advance, and we can decide wether we have time to do it or not. Sometimes your events and instance groups will not get filled, sometimes they will. Basicaly it goes like this - if you start putting things into calendar, and people join your groups, after a while they will figure out if you are serious, if you make things happen, and you will get more constant attendance to the things you plan.
Learn to use teamspeak - its a nice tool and you will see that it will only get you connected more. It doesnt matter if your english is not perfect or if you have a funny accent, or if you miss every second word - it really doesnt. Very few of our members are british, and we all have funny accents and non-perfect english :). If you still don't feel comfortable, or if you don't have a microphone, you can still join and be able to listen to the leader of the group organising and giving out orders.
That much for now. See you ingame.
Cheers!
Perun
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Rules and regulations revised.
We have updated the rules and regulations under Number 3 concerning Alts
http://wowtiger.blogspot.com/2006/03/rules-and-regulations.html
Cheers!
Perun
http://wowtiger.blogspot.com/2006/03/rules-and-regulations.html
Cheers!
Perun
So you think you have what it takes?!
Short and stocky orc walks up and down the line of new recruits. Heat is distorting the air above the cracked red Durotar soil. This land haven't seen a drop of water for months. Huge scar across the orc's face starting at his ear and traveling across the cheekbone to his mouth is crooking his face to one side making him constantly having this twisted, crooked grin. But the orc isn't smiling.
Line of recruits are staring at him as he passes. Streak of grey is going through his hair. He appeared past his prime, but his eyes were more than alive. His entire appearance emmited a hidden bestial strength, like a sleeping lion you don't want to wake up.
He stopped in the middle of the line and eyed the recruits up and down. They were all shapes, sizes and races. Volounteers coming to this tough place from different reasons, but a single goal. Their appearance was the worst he has ever seen - month after month we get worse and worse - he thought for himself. Their armor was all shapes and sizes, sometimes too big, sometimes too small - for now this will just have to do. He knew he had to teach them everything he knows, and do it fast.
"Alright maggots! ... Take a good look at the land beneath your feet. Take a good look at it. See how cracked it is? - Well this land is thirsty, and it is thirsty of your blood. It hasn't been drinking anything but blood for as far as I can remember and it will drink blood of a fresh stubborn people unwilling to learn long after it swallows my bones. You will learn - or you will die - death is just a matter of time here."
"In the following weeks I will teach you everything you need to know to survive and work as a part of the horde. I will bash it into your heads if I have to. There are only two options, you learn and live or you are stubborn and you die. That is all. Now go to your quarters, get some sleep because that will be the last sleep you will enjoy for a while - tomorrow, you will curse the day you have been born."
OOC: We will organise "training days". Once per week, under supervision of me or one of the officers, we will go to any instance depending on the level of the players and we will finish it. Focus will be on working in a team, filling certain roles, giving and taking orders, also indirrectly we will practice the secret skills of "being there on time" "being prepared". Make note that we will not waste time on getting quests and such, if you want them finished at that time, make sure you gather all the quests you want finished. You have to show up 15 minutes earlier, at the given place with your gear in order and repaired and potions/water/food/bandages and whatever else you think you need ready in your inventory. You HAVE to have teamspeak installed even if you don't have a microphone or you don't want to speak, you need to be able to listen. If you don't know how to do it, come to one of us and we will talk you through the process of setting it up.
Cheers!
Perun
Line of recruits are staring at him as he passes. Streak of grey is going through his hair. He appeared past his prime, but his eyes were more than alive. His entire appearance emmited a hidden bestial strength, like a sleeping lion you don't want to wake up.
He stopped in the middle of the line and eyed the recruits up and down. They were all shapes, sizes and races. Volounteers coming to this tough place from different reasons, but a single goal. Their appearance was the worst he has ever seen - month after month we get worse and worse - he thought for himself. Their armor was all shapes and sizes, sometimes too big, sometimes too small - for now this will just have to do. He knew he had to teach them everything he knows, and do it fast.
"Alright maggots! ... Take a good look at the land beneath your feet. Take a good look at it. See how cracked it is? - Well this land is thirsty, and it is thirsty of your blood. It hasn't been drinking anything but blood for as far as I can remember and it will drink blood of a fresh stubborn people unwilling to learn long after it swallows my bones. You will learn - or you will die - death is just a matter of time here."
"In the following weeks I will teach you everything you need to know to survive and work as a part of the horde. I will bash it into your heads if I have to. There are only two options, you learn and live or you are stubborn and you die. That is all. Now go to your quarters, get some sleep because that will be the last sleep you will enjoy for a while - tomorrow, you will curse the day you have been born."
OOC: We will organise "training days". Once per week, under supervision of me or one of the officers, we will go to any instance depending on the level of the players and we will finish it. Focus will be on working in a team, filling certain roles, giving and taking orders, also indirrectly we will practice the secret skills of "being there on time" "being prepared". Make note that we will not waste time on getting quests and such, if you want them finished at that time, make sure you gather all the quests you want finished. You have to show up 15 minutes earlier, at the given place with your gear in order and repaired and potions/water/food/bandages and whatever else you think you need ready in your inventory. You HAVE to have teamspeak installed even if you don't have a microphone or you don't want to speak, you need to be able to listen. If you don't know how to do it, come to one of us and we will talk you through the process of setting it up.
Cheers!
Perun
Looking forward
... whats just beneath the horizon.
First I am going to feed you some facts about our current situation.
- Summer is blowing full right now, and we have plenty of inactive people on the roster at this moment, who have not been playing for a while. They are taking a break, are on vacation and so forth and they will be back. We are not cleaning the roster because of that, and we will have a big house cleaning in autumn.
- Roughly 30% of our guild is made out of alts. Alts are fun to play, especially when there is no one arround and you want to have some low level fun BUT we have alot of alts in the guild that have been not loged in in ages. Two alts per player rule still stands. We can make an exception to this if you really are playing ACTIVELY on more than 2 of them and I know some people in our guild that do so, but most of us don't - but that depends on the individual case. When the big september cleaning starts, alts will have the same treatment as regular players. Those that have NOT been logged on for ower a month will be kicked from the guild, with the player being able to bring it back at any time if he decides to play it actively. We can not have our guild roster cluttered with level 15 alts that have not been loged in for ages. Also, we will employ a new rule, starting today, which will hold for any new players we recruit is that you need to be level 40 for one alt, and level 50 for having 2 alts in the guild. I hate rules that restrict people, but we can not afford anymore to go and recruit for example priests because we need them in the guild, and in 3 days time the person decides to stop playing a priest and start playing a warrior for example. Getting to level 40 is not hard, its reasonable, it can be done under a month or two with a very casual approach. Once you are 40, you have invested something into your character and you won't dump it just like that. Also if you are really unhappy about playing a certain class and you absolutely don't want to stick with it, you should talk with me or one of the officers and see what can be done, but for the good of the guild, try sticking with the class we recruited for a while, as each and every one of them has bumps in the road that you get stuck on, but you just need to work it through.
- Some of us have been venturing into Molten Core and Zul'Gurub alot recently, getting some gear and grabbing some expirience and knowledge in how to do things. If you want to experience endgame content I urge you to join us up here and learn the tricks of the trade together with us. Sometimes its frustrating, sometimes it is fun. I'm looking forward to doing things with more of you guys, all you need to do is work your way up here.
- Some of our members - Grimey comes into mind, have been experiencing total lag which makes the game unplayable and that really makes me sad and frustrated. Its like if you buy a ferarri and figure out you can't drive it faster than 60 km/h. It is a problem that happens to ALL servers, so I guess blizzard should start feeding their hampsters or something. I hope it gets resolved really fast.
What is infront of us :
- We have a recruiting spree infront of us - we will be getting alot of new people if the luck serves us. Our officers and me will be more strict and dirrect in impowering our rules. We will not tolerate intolerance, irresponcibility and being a jerk in general.
- As much as I hate do do it, we will request from our future members to be able to communicate effectively in english. It can be as crooked and twisted version of english as you like, but we need to be able to understand our members, and our membwers need to be able to understand us. We have had some bad expiriences just because of the language barrier.
- Getting you all on Teamspeak at least when we do stuff. You don't have to speak, but you need to at least listen.
So in short, we will get more people, we will boot the bad seeds, we will get more of you up to 60 and hopefully we will not lose any or many of our current 60s to other guilds, and we can look forward to a really active autumn. Getting more people to participate in and organise things on ALL levels and in the end kicking WoW's backside bigtime :D
Cheers!
Perun
First I am going to feed you some facts about our current situation.
- Summer is blowing full right now, and we have plenty of inactive people on the roster at this moment, who have not been playing for a while. They are taking a break, are on vacation and so forth and they will be back. We are not cleaning the roster because of that, and we will have a big house cleaning in autumn.
- Roughly 30% of our guild is made out of alts. Alts are fun to play, especially when there is no one arround and you want to have some low level fun BUT we have alot of alts in the guild that have been not loged in in ages. Two alts per player rule still stands. We can make an exception to this if you really are playing ACTIVELY on more than 2 of them and I know some people in our guild that do so, but most of us don't - but that depends on the individual case. When the big september cleaning starts, alts will have the same treatment as regular players. Those that have NOT been logged on for ower a month will be kicked from the guild, with the player being able to bring it back at any time if he decides to play it actively. We can not have our guild roster cluttered with level 15 alts that have not been loged in for ages. Also, we will employ a new rule, starting today, which will hold for any new players we recruit is that you need to be level 40 for one alt, and level 50 for having 2 alts in the guild. I hate rules that restrict people, but we can not afford anymore to go and recruit for example priests because we need them in the guild, and in 3 days time the person decides to stop playing a priest and start playing a warrior for example. Getting to level 40 is not hard, its reasonable, it can be done under a month or two with a very casual approach. Once you are 40, you have invested something into your character and you won't dump it just like that. Also if you are really unhappy about playing a certain class and you absolutely don't want to stick with it, you should talk with me or one of the officers and see what can be done, but for the good of the guild, try sticking with the class we recruited for a while, as each and every one of them has bumps in the road that you get stuck on, but you just need to work it through.
- Some of us have been venturing into Molten Core and Zul'Gurub alot recently, getting some gear and grabbing some expirience and knowledge in how to do things. If you want to experience endgame content I urge you to join us up here and learn the tricks of the trade together with us. Sometimes its frustrating, sometimes it is fun. I'm looking forward to doing things with more of you guys, all you need to do is work your way up here.
- Some of our members - Grimey comes into mind, have been experiencing total lag which makes the game unplayable and that really makes me sad and frustrated. Its like if you buy a ferarri and figure out you can't drive it faster than 60 km/h. It is a problem that happens to ALL servers, so I guess blizzard should start feeding their hampsters or something. I hope it gets resolved really fast.
What is infront of us :
- We have a recruiting spree infront of us - we will be getting alot of new people if the luck serves us. Our officers and me will be more strict and dirrect in impowering our rules. We will not tolerate intolerance, irresponcibility and being a jerk in general.
- As much as I hate do do it, we will request from our future members to be able to communicate effectively in english. It can be as crooked and twisted version of english as you like, but we need to be able to understand our members, and our membwers need to be able to understand us. We have had some bad expiriences just because of the language barrier.
- Getting you all on Teamspeak at least when we do stuff. You don't have to speak, but you need to at least listen.
So in short, we will get more people, we will boot the bad seeds, we will get more of you up to 60 and hopefully we will not lose any or many of our current 60s to other guilds, and we can look forward to a really active autumn. Getting more people to participate in and organise things on ALL levels and in the end kicking WoW's backside bigtime :D
Cheers!
Perun
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Molten Core de-briefing #3
Ok guys - good things first - Lucifron is down. He's dead big time. We got al the way in to magmadar and poked him twice just to get a feeling for what he does before ending the raid, but we killed our first MC boss and thats important. It felt good, it got our spirits up AND ... now that we killed our first boss, we can say we really started MC.
Second good thing is that despite some stupid things, if we look at the entire raid, now that I'm thinking with a cool head went better than the last one, organisation-wise, and that is one step in the right dirrection. That is what we talked about - we won't be able to make it work at once but steb by step it will get better. One step at the time. We cleared the trash mobs pretty smooth, we learned to kill those core hound packs rather smooth and efficient. Except one incident when one of us got feared into the previous room, nobody went close to the left side - so that was much better then before. As long as we are making progress step by step, things will get more clear and smooth.
Now the criticisms - we need to cut those. 39 people waiting because one guy is not acceptable and something we need to cut on. This is team play, and there is no place for individual whims in a team if we want to succeed. We need to be on time, and work on time and stick to the schedule. Entire raid has to have TS, and next time anyone that doesn't have will not go. You can clear trash mobs by getting orders in the chat, but once we get to the bosses where tactics have to be discussed, it is bad if 1/4 of the raid is unable to hear what they need to do at any given moment.
All in all I congratulate you on a job well done, and on our first boss kill in MC. I got some screens, which I will post once i get home.
You guys are one hell of a reliable, disciplined and dependable crowd and playing with you, leading you and fighting beside you is a great thing, and anyone thinking different will feel my boot up his arse :P
Cheers!
Perun
Second good thing is that despite some stupid things, if we look at the entire raid, now that I'm thinking with a cool head went better than the last one, organisation-wise, and that is one step in the right dirrection. That is what we talked about - we won't be able to make it work at once but steb by step it will get better. One step at the time. We cleared the trash mobs pretty smooth, we learned to kill those core hound packs rather smooth and efficient. Except one incident when one of us got feared into the previous room, nobody went close to the left side - so that was much better then before. As long as we are making progress step by step, things will get more clear and smooth.
Now the criticisms - we need to cut those. 39 people waiting because one guy is not acceptable and something we need to cut on. This is team play, and there is no place for individual whims in a team if we want to succeed. We need to be on time, and work on time and stick to the schedule. Entire raid has to have TS, and next time anyone that doesn't have will not go. You can clear trash mobs by getting orders in the chat, but once we get to the bosses where tactics have to be discussed, it is bad if 1/4 of the raid is unable to hear what they need to do at any given moment.
All in all I congratulate you on a job well done, and on our first boss kill in MC. I got some screens, which I will post once i get home.
You guys are one hell of a reliable, disciplined and dependable crowd and playing with you, leading you and fighting beside you is a great thing, and anyone thinking different will feel my boot up his arse :P
Cheers!
Perun
Monday, July 03, 2006
Perun missing in action
... or rather - missing THE action.
Yesterday something really weird happened, I was playing wow in the morning, talking with some of you guys, chatting with Xecodus discussing the evening's MC raid, and working on the Onyxia prequest, when everything stopped. I thought WoW went nuts and rebooted, but it didn't help. I could log in, but then everything stopped dead. Opened my browser and it loads so slowly that pages time out. Tried fixing it yesterday, called my phone company, and ISP provider, but none of them had any reports of having anything physicaly wrong with the network. Weird thing is that nothing changed in my computer, it just worked perfectly, and all of the sudden it started working terribly slowly. I decided to wait for today if there is anything wrong with the local network anyway, and they just did not realise it untill they get more reports on monday maybe, before I take out my trusty screwdriver and go through the bowels of my machine. I hope f anything died, its the modem. I hope i get it fixed today. Nurgs if you are reading it, please notify Xecodus and Eru. Also if there is anything being discussed or arranged between our guilds, take my place while I'm away - thanks.
Cheers!
Perun.
Yesterday something really weird happened, I was playing wow in the morning, talking with some of you guys, chatting with Xecodus discussing the evening's MC raid, and working on the Onyxia prequest, when everything stopped. I thought WoW went nuts and rebooted, but it didn't help. I could log in, but then everything stopped dead. Opened my browser and it loads so slowly that pages time out. Tried fixing it yesterday, called my phone company, and ISP provider, but none of them had any reports of having anything physicaly wrong with the network. Weird thing is that nothing changed in my computer, it just worked perfectly, and all of the sudden it started working terribly slowly. I decided to wait for today if there is anything wrong with the local network anyway, and they just did not realise it untill they get more reports on monday maybe, before I take out my trusty screwdriver and go through the bowels of my machine. I hope f anything died, its the modem. I hope i get it fixed today. Nurgs if you are reading it, please notify Xecodus and Eru. Also if there is anything being discussed or arranged between our guilds, take my place while I'm away - thanks.
Cheers!
Perun.
